Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-06-15
Big ATHLETIC MEET
is PROMISEDAT ASTORIA, ORE,
DURING CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION.
Date Most Likely to Be August 90
ALI Amateur Athletic Clubs Can Take
Part-Portland, Seattle, Spokane, All
to Send Participants Kelley to
Try Again and Forrest Smithson.

Astoria, Ore, June 9.-What prom
ises to be the greatest track meet ever
held under the auspices of the Pacific
Northwest Association of the Amateur
Athletic Union, is billed for the AS
toria Centennial celebration, when the
annual championships are decided dur
ing the last week in August, most likely
August 20. At least so of the best
athletes in the northwest will be pres
ent from the various clubs, while a re-
lay race open to every high school in
the state is planned by the Centennial
athletic committee, a handsome silver
cup being given as the prize. Gold and
silver medals will be allotted the win
ners in the various field and track
events in the amateur championships.
Portland Man Aids.
I. Morris Dunno, secretary of the
p. N. A, who resides in Portland. is
doing much to help along the Centen-
NAL meet. Originally it was planned
to hold the annual athletic champion
ships on Multnomah field in Portland,
but that was found impracticable on ac-
count of the recent fire, which destroyed
the club house and grand stand. Multi
nomah very generously turned the meet
ing over to the Astoria Amateur Ath-
letic club, which will be responsible
for its success this year. Secretary A.
Guillume of the Astoria club is CO.
operating with Mr.. Dunno in securing
the best athletes in the northwest to
attend.
The Seattle Athletic club, according
to Captain Bradley Gish, is preparing
to send a team of eight men to the ma
tional championships at Pittsburg in
June, and will return this team to AS.
toria intact for the August meeting.
Gish informed Mr.. Dunno that Seattle
would help make the Astoria celebra-
ton famous.
Spokane Sends Team.
The Spokane Athletic club will send
team of from eight to twelve men,
and the Vancouver, B. c., Athletic
club will be represented by its famous
all-round athlete ellis, and a team
of its best men. ellis competed
against the world champion, Martin
Sheridan of New York, and was barely
beaten out. He alone will be a big
drawing card.
Dan Kelley to Enter.
The Multnomah Amateur Athletic
club will send a full team and in addi-
ton to Dan Kelley, holder of the
worlds 100 and 200 yard champion
ships in the sprints and broad jumper
who represented America at the London
Olympic games in 1908, will also Sc
cure the attendance of the world
famous Forrest Smithson, the only man
who ever topped the 12O-yard hurdles
in less than Is seconds. Captain Jack
Hickson of the Multnomah club is al
ready assured of Kelley in the broad
jump and feels reasonably sure that he
can induce Smith, who is now in Cali
fornia, to return and run for the club
in the hurdles.
High Schools Partake.
The high school relay promises to be
a big hit with four-man team from
each high school in the state of Ore
gon. Athletics in the various high
schools has grown wonderfully in the
past five years and there is not school
of any pretension in the northwest that
does not boast of a school track team.
Each year the big colleges, the State
University at Eugene, and the Oregon
Agricultural College at Corvallis.
sponsor meets at which the state cham
pionships are held for high school bows.
paying the expense Of a six-man team.
This has fostered an athletic spirit
such as no other thing is capable of
doing, and when the crowds gather in
the old baseball grounds in Astoria.
which have been made over into an up-
to-dote athletic field, they win witness
the best efforts of the best type of
Oregon hoy.
While tho date has not been definitely
arranged, it is very likely that Aneust
26 which falls on Saturday, win be
finally selected
SPOKANE BALI,