The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-02
Money Chasers Will Compete
in a Big Weekly Meet
Next Summer.
WORLDS BEST TO ENTER
NEXT EVENT WILL BE HELD IN
NEW YORK ON MARCH 14.-AT-
TRAcTivE OFFERS ARE MADE
TO THE STARS.

Things look roseate for the profess
sional foot runners. especially in the
east The fifteen mile race held In
New York recently put the sport on
its feet, and from now on the money
chasers will be kept busy. The recent
contest was only a forerunner OF sew
eral other big events. The next big
race on the program Is at the same
distance as the first one. fifteen miles,
and will be held in Madison Square
Garden, New York, March IA.
This race, with a few others. will
lead up to another $4,000 Marathon
Derby to be held at the Polo grounds.
New York. in April.
The promoters Of the affair are max
ing arrangements to get the worlds
greatest distancers in action. Sport
followers will recall Henri st. Yves
great race to victory in the last Polo
grounds Marathon Derby, when more
than O,OOO persons sat in the rain and
watched the contest. The field then,
however. was not nearly as classy as
the field which will break from the
barrier in the coming Derby.
In the fifteen mile event to be held
March IA all the cracks Of the country
the event q twenty miller. but Shrubb
said that would be too far for him.
and FIVE miles were cut of to please
the little Briton. The rest Of the field
will be practically the same as that
which competed In the recent race won
by Fred Meadows.
In conjunction with the distance at
fair it is possible that Lawson Rob-
ertson and Nat Cartmell will meet in
two match heats at 100 and 900 yards.
Robbie is willing to race Nat at any
distance and is anxiouSly awaiting
Cartmells decision. II the sprint Is
put on, Robertson aud Cartmell will
clash in one heat before the long dis.
lance contest and another heat after
the distance race.
Such progress has been made in the
organization Of the much talked OF
professional athletic league that week
~ meets IN New York or its imme
diate vicinity are practically assured.
The promoters Of the league have
made arrangements to secure the Polo
grounds. American League park and
Washington park in New York when
ever an athletic meet will not inter
fere with a baseball game, and the
same concessions have been secured n
the Eastern league plants in Jersey
City and Newark.
Throughout the east and middle wes
this plan will be followed. The league
expects to make up a circuit compris
ing Boston, New York, Philadelphia
Jersey City. Newark, Pittsburg. Gin
cinnati, New Haven. Hartford, Buf
falo and a number Of the smaller Con
necticut towns. The local league base
ball parks will be used in each city
st. Louis and Chicago will probably
be brought into the scheme.
Nor will the meets be confined t.
the late spring and summer and early
fall months. When 1t becomes tot
cold to hold the meets outdoors they
will be brought in under cover.
The promoters plan to 90 into tn.
thing ON a big scale. Handicap race.
with an occasional match event will b,
the rule in the spirits, but in the dis
lance contests every race will be {
scratch affair. To make this possibl,
the runners win be divided into classes
-four-twenty men. four-twenty-five
four-thirty. four-thirty-fve, four-forty
and so on in the mile, for distance. Al
fast as an athlete becomes too fast TO
one class he will be moved up to tn,
next.
At the close Of the outdoor season
the championships will be held. SOM
idea Of the purses that will be offeret
in these title meets will be gaines
when it IS mentioned that $1,000 II
cold cash will 60 to the winner Of tn
100 yard sprint championship.