Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01
TABS PLANNING FOR
1914 INDOOR MEET
Entry Blanks to Be Distributed
Soon for Big Local
Affair.
JAN. IL DATE OF GAMES

JAN. II DATE OF GAMES
Plans for the fifth annual indoor
meet of the Father Mathew Tab Soci-
ETY. to be held in the First Regiment
armory Wednesday night, January II.
will be discussed at meeting to De
held at the Tab clubhouse tonight.
Rev. Edward F. Quirk will again have
charge of the affair which has come
to be recognized as one of the biggest
athletic events of the indoor season
in this locality.
A program will be decided on to-
night and the list of prizes to be
awarded will also be fixed upon. II
Is expected that the one-mile walk,
which amused so many spectators last
year, will be one of the most popular
events. Entry blanks will be dis
tributed some time during the current
week.
From a field of thirty-two starters
Sidney l.. Leslie, of the Long Island
A, c., metropolitan junior champion,
won the national senior cross-country
championship of the Amateur Athletic
Union over the six-mi1e course at Van
Cortlandt Park Saturday. his time be-
ing 34:42 CASTOR Strobino, of South
Paterson, was second; Arthur Roth,
Mohawk A. c., third and William
Kyronen, of England, unattached, fin
ished fourth. Team honors went TO
the New York A. c., with 26 points;
Long Island A. G. was second, with
4S, and the Mohawk A. c. third, with
81 points.
Immediately after the big event at
Van CortIandt Park there was q dual
race over the same route between La
fayette College and the College OF the
CITY of New York teams. which was
won by the Easton, Pa. runners, LED
from start to finish by II. j.. Otto, Oh
LAFAYETTE, in 36.43. The other mem
beers of the winning team We're Gil
bert. Strebig, Ellis and Hartmann.
The team scores were: Lafayette, 10;
College of the City of New York. 40.
A half mile invitation run is the
feature event on the program OF the
Xavier A. A. diamond meet, which
will be held in the Twenty
Regiment Armory on January III
next. The usual list of events in
cludes a quarter-mile novice for
which q trophy will be given to re-
main in competition for three years,
and which will go to the competitor
making the best time in that period.
Tom Carroll, of the Long Island
Athletic Club, showed his heels to a
big field of distance runners in the
weekly three and quarter-mile
jaunt held by the Brownsville Field
Club, Brooklyn, yesterday. He tri-
umphed in easy fashion, making the
distance in 16 minutes IS seconds. b.
Finkelstein, of Brooklyn Evening
High School, was second, and g.
Hale, of the Kings County A. A,
third.
The Fordham A. c., a newly incor-
porated club in Westchester county,
yesterday held its initial cross-coun-
try run The event brought out a
representative field of barriers, with
close struggle between the first five.
A. Speranza, unattached. won the
race, covering the course Of three
miles in IL minutes 10 seconds. More
than thirty athletes answered the
CALL
H, Kelly, of the Mohawk A. c.,
easily won the three and three-quar-
| ter-mile invitation run of the Pen
nant A. c. yesterday defeating Tom
Harris, of the Salem Crescent Club,
by fifty yards in New York. w. Ro-
zette, of the Irish-American A. c.,
| finished a good third
Running a well-judged race, John
Eke, of the la. A. c., yesterday
won the Sheridan A. C.'s weekly
| four mile chase in New York. At the
| the home club, broke into the lead,
only to be overtaken at the mile post
by Exc, who set out at a fast gait,
coming within nine seconds Of the
course record.
Sidney L. Leslie, of the Long Island
! Athletic Club, won the junior national
| cross-country championship run over
| the six-mile course at Van Cortlandt
| Park yesterday. Leslie, always In the
| van, raced across the line in finish
| ing sprint with an advantage of 25
| yards. His time was "a minutes AZ
seconds. CASTOR Strobino, the hero of
| the last Olympic Marathon run, gave
| futile chase after Leslie throughout
theNrace, and, fighting until the last
yard, finished good second in "a min
| utes 40 seconds.
One of the largest fields of the sea-
son started in the three and a quar-
r-mile road run OF the st. Anselm'
| A. C. yesterday. The fine weather
/ attracted sixty cross-country men
and the race was close all the way
through. A dozen men were punched
when the final mile began, the honor
of first place going to J. Losgar, OF
the College Point Y. M. C.. L., who
beat j. Manning, of the Bronx
Church House, by twenty yards.
|
The individual and team cross-coun
| try handicap of the Church Athletic
League will be held over the A. A. u.
championship course. Van Cortlandi
Park, December 20. Gold C. A. L. die
medals will be presented to the win
ner of the race, fastest time and best
novice with plaque for the team
scoring lowest number of points. En-
tries close with ]. H. Kelly, Bronx
Church House, 1911 Fulton avenue
| Bronx, December Is.