The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-07
BIG TRACK MEET TOMORROW
Crack Athletes in Olympia Trials in
City of Boston.

Boston, Mass, June All ar
Eastern tryouts for the selection Of
the American Olympia team. The
trials will take place tomorrow at
the Harvard Stadium and will be par
ticipated in by nearly 200 athletes
who are ambitious to become mem
bers of the American aggregation
that is expected to grail off a plenti-
tude of firsts, seconds and thirds in
the great contests -tEis summer in
Stockholm
The competitors tomorrow will rep
resent the cream of the amateur ath-
letic talent of the United States The
best of the college men and the pick
of the club athletes will be included.
In many of the contests it will be
champion against champion. The
sprint race, for instance, has among
it's entries three men who have rec
ords of 9 4-5 seconds for the 100
yards, while title holders also will
be seen in the quarter, half and mile
races.
Gissing, Sheppard and Riley of the
lrish-American A. A. of New York
will try for the 500 meters. There
is no question that they will qualify
for the team as they are recorded as
the greatest half milers in the eoun-
try. Sheppard especially is consid-
cred the peer of any one in the world
at that distance. He figures that the
Stadium track will be the fastest in
the world and he and Gissing are 60
ing to try to break the worlds half
mile record tomorrow.
Representatives of the New York
Athletic club in the tryouts will in
clude such noted performers as L. C.
Carey, the old Annapolis sprtnter,
and G.. E. Minds, formerly of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, in, the
sprints; r. r. Edwards and E. c. Nc
Arthur, formerly of Cornell, in the
4-meter run; Eddie Prick in the 500
meter event, Havens in the 11O-met-
er hurdles, Willie Fitzgerald in the
5000-meter run, Fred Dellairs and
H. H. Hallowell in the 1O,OOO-meter
run, H. j. Grumpelt, Wesley c., Diner
and w. c. Fielding in the high jump,
Plat Andrews in the running broad
jump, the running hop, step and
jump and the javelin throw, Pen
Adams and Ray c. Ewry in the stand
ing high and standing broad jumps,
Gillies and Childs in the hammer
throw, Beatty, in the shotput and
Bob Edgren in the discus. Ewry won
the standing jump at the Olympiads
held at st. Louis, Paris, Athens and
London.
The Cornell University entries are
headed by John Paul Jones, the crack
miller; "Tell" Berna, the two-mile
champion, and Capt. Putnam of the
varsity track team. . /
Other crack athletes who will be
seen in the tryouts are Matt Nc.
Grath, the New York policeman, in
the hammer throw; Pat Mcdonald,
another New York policeman, in the
shotput; G. A. Chisholm, intercol-
legiate champion hurdler, formerly of
Yale, but now wearing the colors of
the Boston A. A.; P. Maxson and M.
S. Wright, of Dartmouth, in the pole
vault; Robert Micknas. of the Mo-
hawk A. c., New York. in the stand
ing broad jump; A. H. Tilley of Dart
mouth, in the hammer throw: Dan |
OConnell of Pittston, Fa., in the 100 !
meter race; Wendall of Wesleyan,
who won the hurdles in the New
England Intercollegiate this spring;
George HORNE, the wonderful high |
jumper of California; w. S. 'Taber of
Brown, winner of the mile event in !
the New England intercollegiates;
R. G. Gooch of the University of Vir-
ginia, who is credited with doing
more than .23 feet in the running
broad jump; G. D. Reidpath, captain
of the University of Syracuse track
team and one of the best collegiate
quarter-milers in the country; Roy
Mercer of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, in the running broad jump,
and James H. Duncan of New York,
who recently established new
worlds record for the discuss throw.