Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-29
OLYMPIC TEAM
OUT TO Win
Star Athletes to Compete In
Worlds Championship
Meet July |.


The track team representing tho
Olympic Club of San Francisco lett
for the East on June II. to partici-
pate In the worlds national cham.
pionship meet to be held In Pitts
burg July 1. There arc nine mem
bers on the team, of which number
five left on the seventh, while two
left Saturday, while two others were
at training quarters lin Salisbury, Pa.
The men that are to compete for
the Olympic Club on July are in
charge of Captain Pete Gcrhardt,
who Is acting as manager of the
team. When they arrived at Salts
burg the men were turned over to
Christie for the final stage of train
ing.
II was believed that Ralph w. Rose.
world's champion shot puttcr. would
not make the trip. but at last has
arranged his affairs so that he could
20 along with the bunch.
The olympics lost one star athlete
at the coming annual national cham
pionship games of the a. A. U. in
Eddie Beeson.
Eddie Beeson, the crack Univer-
sity of California high jumper and
hurdler who Is also resident Of
this city, returned last Saturday from
minneapolis. where he took part in
The conference meet, and succeeded
In tieing for first in the high jump
and placing In the hurdles. Beeson
| says that he was seriously handi-
capped In the high jump by ruling
they have In the Conference asso-
citation which entities Jumper 10
only two trials at any height at which
he falls, while II Is customary TO al
low three elsewhere. Beeson was
also slated to go to Pittsburg ana
compete as member of the Olympic
Club, but the University of California
athletes were informed at Mime
apolls that II they did SO they would
be Ineligible to compete in future
Conference meet. - According to a
Conference ruling, an athlete cannot
compete for both his school and
club while attending college. AS the
University of California intends send
ing an exceptionally strong team to
the next Conference meet. II was de-
cided not to go to Pittsburg.
Tho men who are training for the
meet from the Olympic Club are
Captain-M Manager Pete Gerhardt, o.
Snedigar, w. Campbell, w. McAulcy,
H. HORNE. Ralph Rose (tbe champion
of all champions with the shot Bel
lah aud Wyman, and also Morris.
This is one of the strongest teams
that has ever represented the Olym-
pic Club In the championships, and
with the strong aggregation being
sent by the Seattle Athletic Club, the
Pacific Coast In general will he rep
resented by the very pick OF the west
ern athletes
The men will work out twice day
and are expected to be in splendid
condition, on the day of the meet.
During the training for the last few
weeks the men have been in charge
of Al Lean, the clubs trainer, and
he say the team of yesterday from
the ferry, after giving them some
final words of instruction for the Jour
ney east
Gerhardt Is perhaps one of the
best-known athletes In this country
and Tor his age Is one of the most
remarkable men using a spiked shoe
In America today. lie has been rep
resenting the Olympic Club at the
/ national championships for many
years, and no winged o" team Is
considered complete with out Pete"
With Snedigar and Campbell, he will
run In the sprint events. Snedigar Is
also well known In the East, and be-
sides going in the sprints will enter
the broad Jump and the javelin throw.
Al the latter. event he Is special
ist." and II would not be surprising
TO see the former blue and gold ath-
lete win the event, lie should at
any rate place in it, but as he has
/ been doing $50 feet consistently, it
looks as II he might win this event
July I In the broad jump Snedigar
has been doing 20 feet, and this also
should be good enough for place.
Besides these events he does well
with the shot and will probably try
! for this event as well
The one sure bet of the team OUT
side of Rose is HORNE in the high
Jump, The Stanford lad is jumping
in splendid form, and in his last Jump
on Friday he cleared the b7r NJ 6 feet
2 inches without any trouble.