The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
C0' GgGs From Texas to North Carolina VIII
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COUNTRIES FASTEST
 SPR|NTERS COMING
President Sturgeon Talks of Prospects and Tells of Great Interest in Meet Which Will Be Held
 May z, 1910

Ipr tue nfSI llIfle III SeN6Tdl yedfS the Southern Amateur Athletic union field meet will be held in Birming- ham, May :. At this, the most central point, will gather all the great ath- letes of the south, coming from Texas, and from North Carolina, as well as all the nearby states.
 It is due to the Birmingham Ath- letic club that this meet was brought from New Orleans to Birmingh am, and all the strength and energy of the club is back of this great May day meet, insuring it's success.
 President s. P. Sturgeon is giving it his personal attention, and is all ready in touch with so many southern colleges and organizations that he felt safe in saying yesterday: We are go- ing to have the greatest meet ever held in the south.
 Every real athlete in the south will be entered and I am expecting to see not only southern records broken but many of the worlds records ap- preached. Heretofore the south has been poor in sprinting, but last year
  pect to bring three college men here who will all three be backed to break the record on 100 yards.
 we need nothing but the hearty support of the people of Birming gh am. From the Greek we have learned the great importance of body development Nothing increases it, or inspires it so much as these meets"
 MT. Sturgeon is supported by an en- thusiastic board of directors who will get out and hustle to make the thing go Physical Director Anderson of the Athletic club and Physical Director Cubbon of the Young Mems Christian association are both herd at work pre- pairing their teams for the meet, and | resented in the finals.
 But MT. Sturgeon is also receiving encouragement from every other direc- tion. From New Orleans comes a let | ter signed by Charles A. Soladi of the Young Mems Gymnasium club, | which states that New Orleans will send large team, prepared to take the heavyweight events before all op- position.
 From. M. J. Donahue at Auburn comes the news that, after some diff
 iculty, sufficient money has been
 aised to send a team, the track team
 already making fine records. and 1 Auburn will be here to hold up her | eolors as in the past.
 l From wavoff Clarpcon E IT II Col
 oun writes that he will send a team
 six men, who are really remark | le athletes. One has already run | he 100-yard dash this year in 94-5 1 aconds, and one other is vaulting II 1 eet inches. Clemson won the South
 m Intercollegiate last year very cas- l ily"
 | c. T. Murcheson of Wake Forest champions of North Carolina last year. says he has a better team this year | than ever and will bring the cream to Birmingham.
 Then John w Stagg of the Annis- ton Predestinarians writes: We are very much interested and will have a good team. If there is anything l can do, I'll get at it..
 From Texas will probably come some freak sprinters who have just broken
 into prominence. Charles L. Snyder of the University of Texas at Austin has | three men making 100 yards in 10 seconds. and one of them is cutting | it down below that. He has another man making 22G yards in. Fl 4-5 sec onds. According to L. di Benedetto. the southern officer of the A. A. U.. 'sprinters are what the south wants" and with such records Birmingham IS to see the fastest running in the coun- try.
 l Douglass Mcqueen and George Stock of Montgomery are working up team and letters are pouring in from all the other southern colleges and institu- tions, asking for information, prepar- atory to filling out the entry blanks.