Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-13
LARGE ENTRY LIST
FOR A. A. j. MEET
National Championship Track
Meet Will Be LodeStone
for Athletes
WEST HAS ABLE ENTRANTS
Rose, PIaW and Scott, Record
Holders in weights and Vault,
Will Be Competitors
WEST HAS ABLE ENTRANTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.- The national
championship meeting of the Amateur
Athletic union to be held in New Or
leans in October promises to surpass
all previous meets. Most OF the prom
inent athletic clubs in the country have
signified their intention of sending
teams.
The Olympic club of San Francisco
will send Rose Plaw, Edwards Miller,
Snedigar, Gerhardt and in all proba-
bility Scott, the Stanford pole vaulter.
Edwards defeated Forrest Smithson at
the Portola festival carnival in san
Francisco last October, winning the
120-yard high hurdles in :15 1-5. Re-
ports from Tom Carroll, the old-time
weight thrower, state that Al Plaw IS
consistently throwing the 16-pound
hammer IT'S feet. Ralph Rose is al
ways good enough to win the shot,
and if necessary will establish new
worlds record to do so. Snedigar is
reliable broad jumper, having occa-
sionally gone over twenty-three feet.
| Miller, the ex-Stanford college half
miller, is capable of 1855 or better.
Scott is the holder of the worlds rec
ord in vaulting. This spring he
cleared nearly thirteen feet, and Ger
hardt, the veteran sprinter, is gener-
ally good for even time in the 100
yards.
The Seattle Athletic club expects to
send a well-balanced team to defend
the Amateur Athletic union title won
| by them last year. Nelsona Courtney
| and Martin are all good sprinters.
Martin won the 100-yard title last
summer Nelson and Courtney finish.
| ing second and third, respectively.
| Gish is capable of running under 80
for the quarter, and Edmundson has
gone better than :54 for the half mile.
At the last championships Edmund
Jor, ~e,i, f1vTS
in 1855 1-5, very good time consider
4 ing the cold and rainy day. Malcom-
son is very promising low hurdler
| and should come close to repeating
his win of last year.
DAVENPORT TO COMPETE
Among the men who will probably
| be selected to represent the Chicago
Athletic association are Davenport,
the college middle distance runner,
who made such wonderful time in the
Western conference meet, winning the
quarter and half-mile titles. Daven-
port is rated better than :49 for the
double furlong and the westerners as
sert that he can lower the half-mile
| figures. E. c. Brown, president of the
Chicago Athletic association, is en-
deavoring to arrange a match half
mile race between Sheppard and Dav-
enport at Chicago on August 13.
Frank Irons, the Olympic broad
jump champion, and Joe Horner the
| University of Michigan star athlete
and candidate for all around cham
pionship honors, will surely be mem
bers of the team. The Cherry Circle
| organization can always be depended
on to have a very strong team, as the
majority of the college athletes in the
vicinity are representatives of the club.
COE MEETS ROSE AGAIN
The Boston Athletic association will
| send at least six men, among them
| being Bill Coe the shot putter, and
| Sherman, the eX-Dartmouth sprinter.
The Montreal Athletic association is
contemplating sending it's best ath-
| letes. The Canadian club rarely misses
sending a few men to the American
| championships.
The Irish-American and the New
| York Athletic clubs will send their full
| teams. The winged fist delegation will
| travel by way of the water route,
having engaged practically an entire
| steamer.
| The games should be real national
meet, the location being so favorably
| situated. When the meet is held in
| the west the easterners cannot send
| large teams, which is the same way
| with western associations wnen the
meet is held in the east. However,
| last year the New York Athletic club
and the Chicago Athletic association
| sent a few men to Seattle, but most
of the athletes were pretty we'll used
up after the long journey. If cham
| pionship meet is held in the far west
a western club generally gets away
| with the laurels New Orleans seems
| to be within reach of nearly all of
| the prominent clubs. The meet should
be closely contested between the New
| York Athletic club and the Irish
American Athletic club from the east.
the Chicago Athletic association from
| the middle west, the Olympic club of
| San francisco and the Seattle Athletic
| club from the Pacific coast. 1t is
| doubtful if the southern athletic clubs
| are strong enough to defeat any Of
| these organizations