The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
Big Meet at NJ a Olson
Square Garden Will
Begin Tuesday.
REPRESENTATIVES,
FOR OIL Y M P | A d
American Candidates to Stock.
holm Games Will Be Chosen
From Among Successful
competitors-Many Stars
From Many Colleges and
Clubs Entered.

Mig champions and little champions
will pound the boards at Madison
Square Garden. New York. next Tues
day and Wednesday, nights. and be-
fore tho last faint rumbiings have
died away, there will be proclaimed the
national indoor kings of the United
states The juniors will hight IL out
on Tuesday and the seniors OH We'd
ncsday.
III many ways this Will be the most
important athletic event OF tho white,
of" season First. of course. is the
consideration that IT Will decide the
national supremacy OF indoor Htars.
Secondly. st Will provide a reliable
standard for speculation as to the men
who Will represent America Mt Stock
holm next GUNNER in the Olympic
games.
AS was predicted several weeks ago.
when tho program for the indoor
'shamps' wig first announced, this
banner occasion OF the winter season
VIII show IN competition moro first
F, calibre men than ever before FLASHED
beneath roof.
1881 Galaxy of Stars.
IL has generally been tho case with
championships in the past that practi-
cally Ill the entrants were tho members
OF clubs in greater New York. However,
this year there are several top-n notch
Weatcrners entered. and the New Eng
land Suites have large representa-
ton. The Eastern colleges have also
supplied goodly number OF the as
piran,s for indoor honors. and the TIT
between Harvard. Yale and Cornell
shining lights for the precious medals
will DO well worth watching.
Many OF the intercollegiate stars will
BIO eligible for the Junior events, but
the majority OF them will stay out OF
these, so as to be IN prime fettle
for the more strenuous tests on the
following evening.
While the Junior events doubtless
Will produce some excellent contests
and records, some few events possibly
being run in better time than by
tho seniors. the big interest Is nat
urally crystallized in the competitions
that arc unlimited as to eligibility.
Contests TO lie bitterly Fought.
with tho exception OF a few of the
so-called eccentric" field events, in
which there arc only few well known
performers. every contest on the card
Will be bitterly fought, from tho short
est dash all the way UP to tho Ave
mile run.
The sprints will bring together a
remarkable quartet in Alvah Meyer, of
the Irish-American a. c.. of New York;
Jim Rosenbergcr. OF the same OUTFIT:
track captain. and Richard Craig, the
Michigan flyer
The middle distances Will show
wonderful array in Jim McEntcc, IIur-
~ Gissing. Leroy Dorland. Mel Shop
pard. Terwilliger. and Valentine, or
New York. and Oscar Hcdlund. the
Boston stridcr. Sereral OF these will
pit their prowcss against John Paul
Jones, OF Cornell, in ti7e half and mile
It Is almost q certainty that Jones
VIII be extended to smash one or both
OF tho indoor records.
Many Good Hurdlcrs.
In the hurdles there are half a doz-
en- collegiate cracks. as we'll as the
Eller brothers. of New York. The
Jumps will be fought out by Moffatt.
of Harvard. and the Gothamites--
Crumpclt. Adams. Fielding. Erickson.
Ahearn and oler. The> weights viii
be easy for tho New Workers. Me-
Grath, Walsh. Dincan and Sheridan.
Probably the most Significant
event of tho cntir meet will be the
hye- mile senior. In this George Bon
bag. the champion, will meet Berna, OF
Cornell, and Lewis Tewanina, the Carl
Isle Indian. A man who can run a
good five-mile indoors Is Eeneralry
F. tiAlo0A loA Liz AfldEdtnOn r.
This is certain to DO corking race. as
no two of the big three" have ever
FLASHED before.
Speaking Of Tcwanima in tho light
OF Marathon runner recalls his ex-
perience in the last Olympic Marathon
the ono at London. In that race he
was looked upon as the best bet Of
r tho American contingent although he
had been running but a few months.
Accordingly Joe Forshaw, of St. LOUIS,
tho veteran OF the team, who had I'm
lishcd eight In the Olympic classic at
Athens, was given the job 90 acting as
Tewanima's running mate, to pace
him and give him much needed advice
along tho way.
Veteran Saves the Day.
.3333 At tho twelfth mile, when Tewanima
was In sixth place, tho "Achillee"
tendon on his right heel gave way.
Forshaw did tho best he could ito flN
up tho little Indian, but 1t was to no
avail. Finally. after all but three of
the two hundred entrants Ind passed
+ by, Eorahaw decided to- give up his
effort with Tewanima, whom he helped
Into one Of tho emergency automobiles.
Joe then set sail for tho rest Of the
I field, which by this timegwas strung
out for f1vc miles ahead. ,,5s
Ono by ono he cut them down, and.
when he arrived upon the Stadium
SContinued on Second aged 3Ij n u
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