Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-16
Third Annual Free Athletic Meet.


Third Annual Free Athletic Meet.
Pittsburg, Pa, June 11.-Out of town
fans are invited to attend the Third
Annual Free Athletic Meet to be given
at Forbes Field, Pittsburg, under the
auspices of the Pittsburg Press next
Saturday, June is. The meet will be
one of the greatest carnivals ever held
in the history of athletics with all the
best men in the country entered. The
railroad companies will make special
arrangements for taking care of the
excess travel to Pittsburg on that day.
The meet is entirely free to the pub
lie, not a cent admission being charged
and the gates of the magnificent Forbes
Field, the home of the Pittsburg base
ball club, being thrown wide open to
the public. Neither are there any res
ervations made for the day, all seats
being free. Young and old, rich and
poor are invited to attend the games
and witness the hair raising battles
for supremacy on track and field
Never has a meet been arranged in
this country which presents as many
feature events and the carnival is pop
ularly considered as a fitting substitute
for the great Olympic games which
are not being held this year.
Over forty Olympic and Eastern
champions whose names are famous all
over the world on account of their
achievements in the cinder path game
and several hundred local and intercity
rivals will clash on that day. The tro-
phies and medals offered to the win
ners by The Press were secured at an
expenditure Of something over Thou
sand Dollars.
One of the stellar features of the
meet will be worlds championship
relay race of two miles between the
New York a. G. and Irish-American A.
@. of New York. The Irish-American
team will be composed of Melvin w.
Sheppard, the peerless distance run
ner; w G. Robbins, Abel Kiviat and
Riley. New York A. Q. will be repre-
sented by team composed of "Billy"
PAUL, the famous University of Penn
sylvania runner, who holds the mile
intercollegiate record at Az As; Harry
Gissing, Sheppard's great rival in the
middle distances, Erick and Bacon.
The race will be without doubt one of
the greatest ever held in the history
of the running game as every entrant
is an athlete Of natinal fame.
Some of the other Olympic stars who
will compete in the meet are Martin
Sheridan, the worlds greatest all
around athlete; John J. Flanagan,
worlds champion hammer thrower;
Matt AlcGrath, Flanagan's greatest ri
val for weight handling honors; Frank
Irons, who won the Olympic broad
jump with leap of "a feet 81 inches at
the London games; Bobby Cloughan,
worlds record sprinter for 130 yards;
Kerr, Canada champion sprinter, who
won the 200 meter race at the London
Olympian; Harry +. Porter, Egan Err
ickson and Burdick, all able to clear
feet inches in the high jump; Hal
peny, winner of Canadian champion
ship pole vault and able to clear better
than ~ feet; Joe Horner, wonderful
University of Michigan athlete; Craig,
winner Of the intercollegiate 220 yard
dash from the great TEX" Ramsdell,
at Philadelphia a few weeks ago, and
a dozen other stars.
Chicago A. c., Cleveland A. c.,
Pittburg 4. a. and Fort Pitt A. O. will
have q four Dorncred fight for club
honors and are signing up all the col
lege atars ia the country to compete
under their cplOrs.
The opening event Of the days pro-
gram will be- a thrilling ~ mi Ia Mara
thon race between Emaworth, Pa, and
Pittsburg, the last mile being run
around the Forbes Field track