Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
BIKE RACE TO Be
NEW TABFEATURE
TwO-Mile Cycle Event Added to
Attractive Program for
Annual Games.
OTHER ATHLETIC GOSSIP

A two-mile bicycle race will be one
of the special and new features of
the Father Mathew T. A. b. Society
games to be held at the First Regf-
ment Armory Wednesday night, Jan
uary IA. The attractive prizes are
expected To draw out an unusually
large list of entries.
The events will be as follows: To-
yard handicap, S00-yard handicap:
4-mile handicap, 1-mile novice.
emile handicap, 1-mile walk handi-
cap; Emile bicycle race. 1-mile inter-
scholastic relay, 1-mile club relav
1-mile Essex county CHAMPIONSHIPS
relay; 3O0-yard race, closed to MEM
bers of I. A. B. S.
Gold stop-watches will be given to
winners in each event, sterling silver
medals 10 second man, bronze medals
TO third. To winners of the inter-
scholastic relay race a silver Gun and
sterling silver medals to first team.
bronze medals to team finishing sec
ond. The same prizes will be awarded
TO winners of Essex county cham
pionship. In the 1-mile club relay
gold stop-watches will be given 10
the winning team, sterling silver
medals to the second winning team.
This is the first time that gold stop
watches have been given, and ought
10 attract large list of entries in
this event, which Is also something
new for Newark.
Entries should be filed with Rev.
y; r. Quirk, 80 Wallace place; J. F,
y dara, 1888 Broad street, and n w
Farrell, 80 Newton street
Hannes Kolehmainen has an
nounced definitely that he will not
cpinpete IN the national cross country
championship Saturday at Van Corf.
,ah1t Fark. Willie Kramer, Sidney
Leslie. CASTOR Strobino and Abel
hlViat are expected to fight II ont
now that the Finn is out of il. Koleh,
inainen is suffering from a slight
strain In his right thigh.
Johnny Gallagher, the crack mid
ule distance runner of the George
town University. reported to the
registration committee of the A.
u, that he would arrive in New York
on Saturday morning to compete in
the Bronx Church House games
Cornelius z. Clark, of Bangor Mo
was yesterday elected captain of tha
yale cross-country team for next
year He is junior, and has been a
member Of the team two years.
Harry Smith will have to be al his
best If he intends to carry off the
honors In the f1ve-mile race. Opposed
to Smith will be CASTOR Strobino.
who finished third in the Olympic
marathon; Nicholas Gianicopolis of
the Greek American A. C.. winner ~
the Yonkers marathon on THAMES
giving Day, and r. Ruggiero.
The Second Battalion, Naval Mil
tia, will hold it's annual athletic
meet in the armory, foot of Fifty
second street, Brooklyn, on the eve
ming of Thursday, December II. One
of the features will be the two-miIe
run, in which billy" Kramer, Harry
j. Smith and "Sid" Leslie are ex-
pected to take part.
The advisory committee of the Pas
time A. c. yesterday selected the
events for the clubs thirty-eighth
annual games to be held at the Sew
enty-frst Regiment Armory Satur-
day evening, January IT. The reature
event will be the metropolitan 800"
special invitation. in which lied"
Sheppard and ''Abe" Kiviat have
been invited to compete.
Two former Montclair Academy
athletes have secured positions on
the Princeton freshmen swimming
team They are II. L. Laney and M
Mathiasen. Laney specializes in the
220-yard dash while Mathiasen is at
his best in the shorter dashes. Both
boys represented Montclair Academy
in the water last year. Another New
Jersey boy. c. H. Burchenal has been
selected to captain the 1917 swim
mers. Burchenal comes from Law
renceville In the handicap events
this fall. Burchenal has pushed the
varsity swimmers the limit.