The evening world., 1910-12-29
Crack Brooklyn Team Work
ing Hard for Champion
ships in April Next.

THERE'S going to be something
doing In Military Athletic League
circles before the indoor season
IL over-not a scandal. but something in
tine line Of a surprise slipped over by
the Thirteenth" They've been work
ing for the honors that will go to the
winners Of the NJ. A. l.. championships
In April Of next year. and judging by
the number of good men that have an
swered Trainer lawson Robertson call
the Brooklynites should prove the win
ners in the annual struggle,
Almost any night In phe week you can
go over to the armory n see a tull
hundred athletes going through their
PAGES. 1t is only natural 20 speak OF
the wonderful running done by hs;t a
score OF athletes who are considered
the best In the Thirteenth But We
cannot pick any one OF them as better
han the others. There's Jim Rosen-
berger. VINO won the national hundred
yard championship at New Orleans;
Billy Kramer. fve-mile national cham
plon. a plumber who can 20 the dis
lance with the best OF 'em; Eddie Frey,
WIZ HpluS INV WV y ltNblh lbI lI'
so-yard dash; James sullivan. real es-
tate dealer and ~poet-Jim's some cham
pion any way you look at hlm-he Won
the Canadian three-mile championship;
Schaaf. Gus Eckman. Walter Raleigh.
discovercr OF the fastest way oun a
bike track: old friend Frank Riley
and Abel Kiviat-why. they've got a
galaxy OF stars" as the press agent
would say II he had the job OF exploit
ing the Thirteenth"
All OF the above men are entitled to
he called stars, but there are zone
others-some dozens OF others-who are
athletes worth mentioning.
There's Frank McNally, who has left
the Acorns to become a member OF the
N. Y. A. c.; Boschen. Dewar, Gardner,
| Stearns. Hirshon, House and others.
In the bike line there are some men
wiO can ride OF any floor, no matter
how slippery II may be. owen Devine,
who won the NJ. A. l.. championship
for three years, IL going to compete
for the regiment. while Franklin Fisher,
who IL considered the strongest oppon
ent OF Van Den Dries OF the New Yorks
expects to do some riding that will
astonish every one Of us.
Hillman, Robertson and Cohn wer,
amongst the best OF the athletes whC
represented the Thirteenth" a few
years ago. To-day they are acknowl.
edged to he great trainers and coaches
The Brooklyn regiment has surely pos,
sessed great men In the athletic world
Since 1908 they rave captured the cham.
pionship four times, and only this yea,
they made a great fight against IN,
"Tw%enty-third" for the honors. Tn,
Twenty-second Regiments athletes wer,
supposed to carry oil the ~ lie, put the,
were unfortunately disqualified.
We're working as hard as we car
because we feel that we are stron,
enough TO win the next championships
said Robertson as he watched the mar
training over the Moor last niyht
somehow, we're sure wa will win: ~,
have so many good men that II Wi
take a lot OF work on the part OF m,
other regiments to come any wher,
near u.s."
Ljungstrpm. the pro .nInner from sw.d.n
SAYS that he competed against Atlgr-n bu, M,
on the other aide, and that n was before eithc
u them became really good, Ahlgren VIII ,Wi
on Saturday night at the seyenty-iiTa alignment
games.
The !, A. A. q. have received and approyci IN
spplleation o. Anthony Hisgins, one o. the he,
an. twa.miis Nah AZ thu 4