New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
STAR WORK OF ATHLETES.
Senior Title Meet at Field Day
for IriSh-AmeriCans.
WIN ALL BUT FIVE EVENTS
Eller Equals His Worlds Record
in Low Hurdle-Meyer the
King in Sprints.

senior track and feld championships or
the Metropolitan Association. held at Celtic
Park yesterday afternoon. John j. Eller,
the 1.-THE limbed timbertopper of the VIC
torious Irish-Americen Athletic Club team,
dashed over the low hurdles in the 22O-yard
race over the slow track in the wonderful
time of "a AS seconds. which equals his
own record, established at Travers Island
three years ago. A H. Meyer, also OF the
Irish-American team. hurled himself over
the line barely two inches in front of Jim
Rossnberger. cubmate in the furlong
dash. in % is seconds, equalling the record
for the track.
The brawny sons of the Winged Fist had
an easy time in repeating their recent tri-
umph in the senior national championships
at Pittsburgh. and rolled up the over
whelming total of 93 points The New
York Athletic Club was distant second,
with 81 points to its credit. Honors for
third place rested easy with the South
Paterson Athletic Club and the Mott
Haven Athletic Club, of The Bronx. at =
points, while the Pastime Club, Knights OF
St Anthony and McCaddin Lyceum brought
up the rear. with 4, and l, respectively.
The afternoon was one long continued
chant Of victory for the Irish Americans,
and on track and field they swept all be-
fore them. First honors were theirs IN
every event, with the exception OF 'he
running high and broad jumps, the pole
vault, In which they had no entries Inc
mile walk, where they had only one entry
and the five-mile run. in which John J'
DAILY, after running plucky race was
forced 10 dip his colors TO the fleet rooted
Lewis Scott, of the South Paterson Atm
letic Club In order to make up Tor the
lapses, they swept the field IN the hammer
throw and the 100 and 30 yard dashes
The New York Athletic Club scored hoi-
low victory In the poie vault, in which no
other club had an entry.
The sensation Of the meet was furnished
In the final heat of the l0o-yard DASH ~heh
A. II. Meyer, Of the lrish-AmeT1cah ledin'
and Jim Rosenberger, club mate ran
dead heat in ten seconds fiat To those VINO
stood on the line II seemed as II Meyer han
won by an eyelash, but the judges decldeo
a dead heat. In the run on, however
Never left no chance for doubt He rushed
off 10 a perfect start, and opened up yard
on Rosenberger, and. sprinting desperately
he maintained his advantage 10 the tape IN
ten fiat again. Meyers also won his trlal
heat in the same time making three ten
second lOO-yard sprints in less than an
hour
Meyer and Rosenberger met once more In
the 22O-yard dash, and the battle was again
waged almost as bitterly as in the shorter
sprints After forcing Lauer TO take his
dust In the trial heat, Meyer came UP Tor
the final heat pitted against his club mate
The men battled along, Meyer holding the
lead by two yards until within ten yards oil
the tape, when "Rosey' made his jump.
Meyer answered the challenge and whiried
over the line barely three inches IN front
of his challenging rival.
Jack Eller was one of the individual
heroes of the day. He won the l2O-yard
high hurdle race in the fast time OF 10 20
seconds. and when he trotted over TO the
grass he said 10 a friend, IF my leg VIII
stand the strain I'll show you some run
ming over the lows" lie did. Leaping and
running with the speed and grace of a
Krsenzlein. he crossed the line winner ID
record time as said above Eller also COM
peted in the running broad jump ana car
ried of third honors.
Running his first race under the Winged
Fist insignia, Harry Gissing defeated
speedy field in the quarter-mile run, In
Guiding his former club mate, Eddie Frick,
Jim McEntee, Pepis and others. Gissing
raced along easily until the pack reached
the head Of the stretch, when he cut loose
and ran away from his opponents in 80 2-5
seconds A spirited competition was seen
in the running high jump. when Egon
Erickson, former national champion, Harry
Grumpelt and w. NJ. Oler, jr., tied for first
place at 6 feet IA inches. In the jump off
Erickson repeated his jump. but Oler and
Grumpelt failed TO repeat, the latter win
ing second honors at 8 feet II inches, while
Oler did an inch less.
The track was sticky and slow, and old
timers shook their heads and predicted
that the contests would be SLOW Under the
circumstances the athletes made a most re-
markable showing, and had the track dried
out after the rain OF Friday night and
yesterday morning 1t is probable that a
couple Of new records would have been
established. Melvin Sheppard, whose long
Guest after the worlds record for $50 yards
has been unsuccessful as yet, ran q pretty
race in the Sso-yard run and won hands
down from a speedy field by some seventy
yards, in 1:a After the race Sheppard
said that he could have run the race fully
two seconds faster had the track on the
back stretch been firm.
Sheppard rated along well behind his
field for about four hundred yards, but as
the pack passed the stand Mel poked out
his pouter pigeon chest and let loose
burst OF speed that carried him out OF
the bunch and into the lead. Eddie Frick
held the pace for while, but he was not
NJ to Sheppard and spurning the cinders
with rhythmic stride, the peerless mid-dis-
tancer crossed the line an easy winner
Abel Kiviat that great little schoOlboy
runner who once wore the red and gray Of
Curtis High School, ran a creditable race
ir the mile event, and won in the COM
parativcly slow time Of AS AS. There was
never a moment in the race that Kiviat was
not master OF all he surveyed, and after
half a mile II was easily to be seen that
the only question to be settled was that
OF second and third. Noble, Jack Monu-
ncnt and f. A. Hunger battied along, but
IN the last turn Kiviat spurted out TO win
by twenty yards. while Hunger beat out
Noble
The summaries follow:
sso-yard run-won by. Melvin W. Sheppard.
lrsh-American a. G; Edward Frick New York
American A. C.. third. Time. 1919.
looysrd dssh-Final heat resulted in a dead
and J. NJ. Rosenberger, Irish-American A. g; J.
o.. Archer. Irish American A. c., third. Time.
o.lO. Meyer won the run-on in 10 seconds.
100 yard high hurdle raee-won by j. J e.
american a. G. second; a. MCGOWAN. New York
Athletic Club third. Time, o:15zS.
American A. G.: f. A. Hunger, Irish American
4 g. second: -. v Noble. New York Athletic
club third. Time. S:25%.
Putting sixteen pound shot-Won by Pat Nc
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