Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-18
A. A. i. ELECTS ILL
AS ITS PRESIDENT
James E. Sullivan Reelected
Secretary-Tr easurer-Ac-
cept 81 New Records.
LATEST ATHLETIC GOSSIP

AHreu j. LII, 1r., OF Boston, was
elected president of the Amateur
Athletic Union yesterday at the TWEEN
ty-sixth annual convention of the ma
tional governing athletic body, at the
Waldorf-Astoria. The Bostonian was
opposed by George F. Pawling, of
Philadelphia, the men having been
for the last year respectively first
and second vice-presidents OF the
body. The vote was % to in favor
of Lii. At the request of Mr..
Pawling the vote was then made
unanimous.
The only man at the top of the
ticket who held over, his selection
being unopposed, was James e. Sui
Ivan, as secretary-treasurer a po-
sition he has held since he surrend-
ered the presidency some years ago.
me Independents chosen were John
Elliott, Pacific Association; Theodore
r. Bland, Western Association:
George ]. Turner, Middle Atlantic
Association, and Fred w. Bauer,
South Atlantic Association
The report OF Mr.. Sullivan showed
most encouraging state of affairs
al thO hhuAOlhi department., net
gain of $3,161,56 being recorded for
the year, with a complete capital in
the. general account of $24,877.53, at
testing the strongest condition the
! union has attained.
The record committee of the A. A.
| u, headed by Frederick w. Ruben,
attested to the acceptance of ninety
two new records. Seventy eight of
these were made on track and field
and fourteen in swimming. OF those
! awarded for track and field excel
lence, forty-three are credited to
Hannes Kolehmainen, who made
thirty-one in outdoor events and
twelve in indoor running, the record
number made by an individual In any
season.
The great interest evidenced by
European nations and others abroad
in American athletics, and the desire
for instruction in the best ways and
means to further the competitive
sides of the foreign teams which have
only until recently taken a seeming
ly passive concern in the Olympic
games, has taken q decided step for
ward with the appearance here of
DR.. Otto Herschman. the emissary
of the Austrian government, who is
studying American methods In track
and field and kindred sports.
w. L. Jones wrote q letter yester-
day to Donald Lippincott, the great
Splinter of the Pennsylvania Univer-
sity, inviting him to compete in the
130-yard special race which will be
one of the features of the diocesan
games to be held at the Thirteenth
Regiment Armory, in Brooklyn, on
Saturday night. Howard Drew has
already sent in his entry for the
sprint.
There were some slight contention
over the 42-pound stone record
awarded Pat Ryan, of the Irish
inches, 1t having been suggested at
the eleventh hour that Ryan had
fouled after his delivery by falling
over on his hands. The game being
essentially an Irish one. 1t developed
that there was no rule on the books
to govern the event, so the commit
tee accepted it.
With the object of meeting the high
cost of living in the proper spirit the
New York Athletic Club proposes to
reduce the initiation fee of resident
members from $3.50 to 800.
The Swedish Olympic committee
has sent two delegates TO Berlin to
protest against the proposal of the
British, American and German COM
mittees to curtail the shooting pro-
gram by eliminating the running deer
and several short range competitions.
The 120-yard special at the Diocesan
Union indoor meet next Saturday VIII
bring out q strong field. Alvah
Meyer, Howard Drew, Jim Rosen-
berger, Hal Holland and Hannes
Kohlemainen will be starters. Han
mes will start from scratch In the
three-mile handicap.
University of Pennsylvania barriers
are favored by some experts to beat
both Cornell and Harvard in the big
Intercollegiate A. A. hill and dale
race at Van Cortlandt Park, New
York, next Saturday. Ted Meredith,
who is a star at a quarter or half
mile, has been good and bad at the
cross-country game , II reports from
Quakertown are true. George orion
has been grooming the Red and Blue
team.
Cornell. always dangerous, may up
set all the dope Saturday, for Jack
Moakley is keenly alive to the situa-
ton, and the Ithacans must keep
up their athletic prestige in this
branch of sport.
Hannes Kohlemainen, who has
been getting lot of notoriety OF
late. has q poor opinion of the crowd
Saturday, which broke through the
ropes, and Kohelmainen in going out
of his course lost several valuable
seconds. He had such big lead his
chances were not injured in the
senior ss-country championship.
Pennington Wipes Up Field
With Rutgers Prep Eleven
Pennington played the Rutgers pre-
paratory school team on the Penning-
ton field yesterday afternoon. The
score resulted 20 to 0 In favor of