Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-06-07
athletes FOR
OLYMPIC TRIALS
Competitors viii Represent
Cream Of National Amateur
Talent
Selections Will Be Made for
American Team at These
Tryouts

BOSTON, Mass, June ALI ar
rangements are perfected for the east
tern try-outs for the selection of the
American Olympic team. The trials
will take place tomorrow at the Har-
ward stadium and will be participated
in by nearly 200 athletes who are am
bilious to become members of the
American aggregation that is ex'
pected to grab off a plentitude of
firsts, seconds and thirds in the great
contests this summer in Stockholm.
The competitors tomorrow will re-
present the cream Of the amateur ath-
letic talent of the United States. The
best college men and the pick of the
club athletes will be included. In
many Of the contests it will be cham
pion against champion. The sprint
race. for instance, has among it's en-
tries three men who have records Of
94-5 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
Irish-American A. A. Of New York,
will try for the 800 meters. There is
no question that they will qualify for
the team as they are recorded as the
greatest half milers in the country.
Sheppard especially, is considered the
peer of anyone in the world at that
distance. He figures that the stadium
track will be the fastest in the world
and he and Gissing are going to try
to break the worlds half-mile record
tomorrow.
Other notable entries is the 8-meter
race are Abel Kiviat of the Irish
American A. c., Eli B. Parsons, the
old Yale half.miler. and Wylie Cook
of the University Of Virginia.
Representatives of the New York
club in the tryouts will include such
noted performers as L. c. Carey the
old Annapolis sprinter. and G. E.
Minds, formerly of the University Of
Pennsylvania, in the sprints; R. T.
Edwards and E. c. Macarthur, former
ly of Cornell. in the meter run;
Eddie Frick in the 500 meter event,
Havens in the 10 meter hurdles,
Willie Fitzgerald in the 5000 meter
run. Fred Bellairs and H. H. Halo
we'll in the 10000 meter run, H. ].
Grumpelt, Wesley c. Diner and w. G.
Fielding in the high jump. Platt An
drews in the running broad jump, the
hop, step and jump and the
javelin throw; Ben Adams and Ray
c. Ewry in the standing high and
standing broad jumps: Gillies and
Childs in the hammer throw. Beatty
in the shotlput and Bob Edgren in
the discus Ewry won the standing
jump at the Olympiads held in st.
Louis, Paris, Athens and London.
The Cornell University's entries are
headed by John Paul Jones, the crack
miller; "Tell" Berna, the two-mile
champion and Captain Putnam of the
varsity track team.
Other crack athletes who will be
seen in the tryouts are Matt McGrath,
the New York policeman, in the ham,
mer throw; Pat Mcdonald, another
New York policeman, in the shotput;
G.. A. Chisholm, intercollegiate cham
pion hurd1er, 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; Rob-
ert Micknas, of the Mohawk A. c.,
New York, in the standing broad
jump; A. H. Tilley of Dartmouth, in
the hammer throw: Dan O'Connell,
Of Pittston. Pa, in the 100 meter
run; Wendell of Wesleyan, who won
the hurdles in the New England in !
this spring; George Hor-
ine. the wonderful high jumper of
w. S. Taber of the Uni |
versity Of Virginia. who is credited !
with doing more than % feet in the |
broad jump; c. D. Reidpath,
captain of the University Of Syracuse,
track team and one Of the best COL
Iegiate quarter-milers in the coun-
try; Roy Mercer of the University Of !
Pennsylvania, in the running broad
Jump, and James H. Duncan Of New
York, who recently established a
new worlds record for the discus
throw.
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