Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-29
j. s. ATHLETES WIN
IN NEW ZEALAND
Geo. Parker, California Sprint
Star, Strains Tendon in
Capturing Race.
DOINGS IN SPORT CIRCLES

field. Eustace M. Peixotto, manager
or the team, says 1t will be three
weeks before Parker is able to run
again.
The race was won by Parker In
IL 8-5 seconds.
A strong wind prevented fast time
IN the longer races. Power, the
American distance runner. tired near
the end of the mile race and was
beaten four yards by Hall, Well
ington man, who had a handicap OF
% yards. Powers time for the full
distance was minutes A seconds,
CouEhey. of the United States team
won the shot-put with a throw of Il
feet l inch. Templeton, who wa
third In this event, took second place
IN the pole vault. clearing IL feet
inches.
Newark Y. M. G. A. will be repre-
eented In the Junior Champs on Sat
urday night by Percy Franklin and
Jack LASER. Both OF these athletes
are entered in the standing broad
jump.
The relay races on the program OF
the Tabs games on Wednesday eve
ming, January IL, at the First Reg1-
| ment Armory are attracting great In
terest. There are three team races
scheduled, interscholastic, club and
Essex county, closed. Entries for al
of these events have begun to arrive
and the field is sure to be large one
Billy Queal, the Yale distance
coach, has returned to New Haver
from Amherst, N. s., where he de.
feated a field of crack professional
distance men, including A. u. Woods
of England, the holder of the 15-milt
worlds record of l hour 20 minute,
and IL seconds in a 12-nile race. A
present the town Is watching with
| interest the progress of O. farmland
by the name of McCurdy, who is be.
ing prepared for the Boston mara.
thon. McCurdy has beaten every.
thing in amateur circles around Novs
Scotia town, and Queal joins the ma
tives in vouching for his wonderful
speed. McCurdy is credited with 81
minutes for ten miles.
There was q close finish in the ruI
of the Glencoe A. c., New York, yes
terday, with A. Rosander, wearing
the colors of the Finnish-Americai
A. c.. beating out Fl. Jamison, of tn,
Glencoes, by ten yards. Mike Taub
another Glencoe man, was at the heel
of Jarnison.
II. Nye, of the Mohawk A. c., woi
the run of the Bronxdale A. c., New
York, yesterday. He was 100 yards
in front of j. Mitchell, who beat M
Beaudine, of the Bronx Church House
by sixty yards.
| When the Walkers Club Of Americi
| finished it's jaunt from New York I,
| Coney Island and back yesterday
was found that Jim Hooking was a
the head of these enthusiastic peds
In a years ambling around the street
In the vicinity of New York the vet
eran pacemaker of the club had reelet
| off 1000 miles. This means an aver
age of nearly four miles a day, bu
the walking, of course, is done mostl,
on Sundays.
Al British athletic authority asserts
that the Rhodes scholars are no
necessary competitors for Oxford Uni
versity. None of the Americans has
surpassed the English marks for tract
| ted the Rhodes men have excelled il
the weight events since their adven
in 1904
| Harry J. Smith, of the Bron1
Church House, hung UP q new record
yesterday for the nine-mile course Of
| st. Anslem A. c., Manhattan. In ad
dillon to the long race won by Smith
there was a spin over the short cours,
of three and a quarter miles, and fol
the two runs there were 125 barriers
in the field. Billy Queal, the profes
sional, set the pace for Smith. which
enabled him to wipe out the ole
| figures. Smith was followed home by
| r. -Ruggiero, another Bronx Church
House man. The Greek-Americar
and-a-quarter-m jaunt in N. Giana
| kopulos, who finished about forty
yards before A. Roth, the former
| junior champion.
The New York Athletic Clubs an.
nual election of officers is attracting
great interest among the winged foo
athletes. Many of the members be.
lieve that the nominating committee
has overlooked the name of William
H. Page, the present president, for re.
nomination on the ticket for the IN.
nual election. The committee will an.
nounce its selections tonight, anC
James w. Hyde, a member of thirty
years standing, probably will head
the ticket.
The Xavier Athletic Association an.
nounces its annual games and ex.
hibition at the new ermory of the
Twenty second Regiment, Broadway
and 168th street, New York city, Sat
urday evening, January 10, and the
principal event will be the half-mile
run in which many of the stars of the
Metropolitan district have promised tc
take part.