The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-12
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have done the hundred as fast as ten
seconds. 1t will be great three
cornered tilt when they pound their
way toward the tape.
A remarkab BILE array is entered IN tha
middie-distance contests. Jim McEntee.
OF the West Side Y. NJ. c. A., New
york. 10 expected to show his best
FORM FORM ao Is a wonder on board
Harry Gissing. Frick and Bergman.
or the New FORKS; Borland and Ter,
wyi!iiger. OF the Pastimes. and Jim
II Peerless Mol" Sheppard is allowed
to compete he will. OF course, be tho
favorite In these events. but his re.
cent tuS discharge from the
twenty second Regiment is likely to
cause mis- dissatisfaction by the A. A.
u, and u Is even possible that he may
be forbidden to represent America In
the Olympic contests at Sweden.
George 2onhag having retired from
the game. 1t seems certain that the
races oyer mile will be easy for
c.. and John Daily. OF the Irish Ameri
cans. with Louis Scott. of the New
Yorks, as the dark horse.
Ellcr Brothers for Hurdles.
The Eller brothers, Jack and Roll
OF the ish-Americans. seem to have
the hurdles between them. In the
Jumps and pole vaults there are such
Fielding. Porter. Ewry. Aherne and
Plat Adams. all of the New york A.
Z. The Mercury Foot Club seems to
have corner" on the good jumping
Olympic possibility The weigh
events VIII call out men the caltbre Of
MeGrath Sheridan, Duncan. Mcdonald.
Walsh. Elliott and predd. ali strong
nominees for the Olympic team.
Truly great crop of spiked-shoe
arrsts are being conditioned for the
IT Is more than likely that the win
ners in all of the events viii be in
ciuoed in the personnel OF the Ameri-
can athletic army that invades Stock
But there are othcrs. Many college
athletes. who. because OF Their
guides. are unable to make the trip to
have qualified themselves for consid
erhtion BY their recent achievements
Colleges VIII Compete.
s,, ira davenport the Chicago Univer-
certainty for the team. having made
better time in the two furlong event
Dwynne Henry. OF Texas. national out
door champion in the hundred two
years ago. and r. c. Craig, the Mich
igan University flyer. will prove stift
Hayes and Mercer. OF Pennsylvania.
and Hough, of Boston. must be reck
G 1 With In the short distance runs.
families in the mile and two miles
While the Eiicrs are about supreme
as murders in the club class they Will
encounter Titans when they meet tho
collegians, Shaw, of Dartmouth: Smith
son. OF Oregon: Nicholson and Kirk
sey, OF Missouri. and Chisholm, OF
Yale, any one OF whom would be II,
representative for their country
Jumps Bring Out Material
The jumps also present several good
men who VIII not compete In the in
doors. They are Burd!ck. OF Pennsyi-
forn!a: Irons, OF Chicago. and Thorpe.
the Carlisle Indian. In the weights
there are Ralph Rose. the worlds
champion. OF San Francisco; Lee TAI
Michigan. The pole vault will be
monopolized by the coliegians. GARD.
Stanford. and Cook and Wagner. Of
Yale.
The only event left Is the Marathon
and here is where America stands a
the Foreigners. no matter who Is Sc
lected. unless some top-notch new.
conner hobs up. Tewan;uia. the Indian.
seems about the best Just now. but he
twenty-six mile route as he has at
the ten and twclve-mile distance.
Erxleben. Of ST. Louis: Pillivant and
Mar. OF Boston. seem to be the only
others likely TO develop. All OF tina
old-t!me star Marethoners OF this
country nave turned professional. with
the exception OF Joe Forshnw. the St
Louisan, who finished third In tho
London race, and he has retired
Two things that will be Of great i'm
portance in deciding the Personnel
Of the Olympic team are the place and
date OF holding the tryouts 1t is prob
able that there will be separate seta
of tryouts In the Middle West, South
and on the Pacific coast. with a GER
tain number % men to be elected from,
the winners at each. However this
method has It's shortcomings-but also
has every other plan that has been
devised. In fact, II looks impossible
10 select perfect method-one by
which absolutely the best man cotsd
he picked out. But leave * 10 tho
Olympic committee. 1t is Q to that
that can beat the foreigners.