The evening world., 1913-09-27
"PHENOM" IRISH 4
RUNNER IN GAMES,
Of new York. A. c.
T. Flynn to Race in Three
Mile Handicap at Travers
Island To-Day.

T. Flynn will appear In the three.mils =
handicap At the games Of the New YORK
A. e. at Travers Island to-day. Flynn
landed here . few days aso and Kept
his arrival very quiet. lie has BEEN
registered unattached. The Irish lad 10
only eighteen years Of age. yet in this.
his first season. he won the Irish four
mile championship. and In the intsrna-
tional match against Scotland over ths
same distance ran clean away from Ill
opposition. In the fret two miles Of
that race he did as. after which his
opponents dropped out and Flynn ran
the last two miles alone. The English
critics say he IL the greatest "phenom''
since Conneff. The Irish youth has done
NE for the three miles
Nine members Of the Harvard Uni
verslty squad are OH the outs with the
college Office. Hardwick and Willetts.
starting the season a. first string backs.
are the most important men hit. T. b.
wilmington Is another. HardWick TOOK
the strength test Thursday. After he
had concluded report was sent to tho
football quarters that his heart action
was weak. but the athlete himself treats
the finding as Joke. Harvard starts
her opening game with Ave substitute
In line.
There was great soy In the CornsH
track camp yesterday when Alva Rich
ards, the Olmpic champion high Jumper.
went to Ithaca and told the veteran
track coach Moaklsy that he had entered
the Cornell College Of Agriculture and
Intended to go In for athletics as well.
When Moakiey recovered from his as
constituent. nobody at the university
knowing that he was coming. he en-
tended a warm greeting to the big Utah
athlete, and In n few minutes the great
| est athletic star who has ever entered
Cornell had donned a track suit. After
limber.ng up q bit Richards cleared the
bar at six feet without much trouble
All three OF the class races. which, with
the finish OF the zoe tro, that was started
on Thursday, comprised the prog amrre
for the G:.h day OF the Columbus Grand
Circuit harness racing were split ~ 30
| that fourteen heats were raced fucng
the afternoon. Compared with that Of
previous days the time was SLOW The
| fields were large.
| needed 70 settle the ZOE trot, the feature
OF the day. Bisnya OF the Proctor
stable from Rcadville. Mars. was IA
vorite In the I'D trot and won after the
| hrst heat had been taken by Marta Boil
iin.. the second choice.
| d. T.. Mcmahon. Chairman Of the
Shooting Committee OF the New York
Athletic Club. lowered the coiors o..
Bart Lewis. the Western champion.
IN the preliminary shoot OF the metro
politon trap shooting championship a.
Long Beach. y. I. In the event for the
Ho,c, Nassau cup the Winged Foot
marksmca lei the field with q total OF IS
out or n possible 100 tarkeu. He then
won the special shoo. at $50 targets. with
a total o. l4a. His strings for the day
were a. -, o, "a, "a and %.
Coach Rice OF the Columbia oarsmsn
has planned to have his candidates foi
the freshman crew on the Hudson with
In a week or two. The call foc thS
youngsters was issued yesterday. and
they report on Wednesday OF next week.
Rice IL at present at Toronto puttinx
the finishing touches on Eddie Durham
for his professional race to-day. but bs
expects 10 reach New York on Monday
and will begin the task Of selecting his
frst-year squad.
Bert Fagin. the Los Angeles middle
weight b. ought here by Scotty Mon.
tleth, succeeded in knocking out Mike
} Dempsey, local fighter. In tho NTH
round OF the main bout OF ten round 3
at the Brown \. \. o: Far Rockaway.
4 heavy right land swing on the Jaw
brought hume thr bacon. Up to the
time %: the Knockout honors were even