The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-27
BIG SPORT MEETING
At SAN FRANCISCO
Worlds Greatest Athletes to
Compete at Panama
Show.
MANY SPORT EVENTS
Twenty-Seven Nations Send
Representatives to
Gathering.
MANY SPORT EVENTS

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.-James
T. Sullivan. athletic director OF the
Panama Pacific Exposition, who re-
Gently attended the international
federation of the Athletic Governing
bodies of the world at Berlin has ex-
tended an invitation to those bodies
assembled to participate in the con-
tests to be held in San Francisco In
1915.
The strongest teams from many for
eign countries have already given as
surance that they will take part. The
Panama-Pacific international EXPOSE
ton sports tournament will be the
greatest in history. The sports events
will include almost every variety or
athletics known to the civilized world.
Athletes from every one OF the TWEEN
ty-seven nations that have already de-
cided to officially participate In the
exposition will take part In the sports
program. ...-
The program for the international
sports has been prepared tentatively
after a conference with the different
governing bodies Of sport In America.
Among the events already scheduled
are the international championships
which will take place in the months
of February, March and April of 1915
and again in the months of October,
November and December of that year.
Among the aquatic events planned
are the college rowing championships
and the championships of the Nation
al Association of Amateur Oarsmen.
Yacht and motor boat races will be
held in San Francisco harbor and
thousands of spectators will gather on
the Esplanade before the Exposition
site to view these events.
Sullivan Is now on the continent.
He will shortly visit England and will
arrange for a number of the leading
English professional golfers and sew
eral amateur teams to take part In
the International golf championship,
which promises to be one of the most
interesting of sporting events in
America.
Days and weeks are to be set aside
for the different countries which de-
sire their particular type of work. A
team of Swedish gymnasts Will &C
company the Swedish athletes that
Ernie Hjertberg will bring to the Elk
position.
The German Turner's will have
week for their mass work and exhi-
bition drills. and 1t is expected that
the strongest gymnastic team that
Germany can produce will come here
to give an exhibition of their national
gymnastic games.
Another week is to be given over
to Irish sports and pastimes, such as
football, hurting, dancing and ath-
letics. e.
Special attention is to be given to
playground development, an invita-
ton having been extended to the Ma
tional Playground Association of
America to hold. its congress at this
exposition, and it Is expected that
every city in the United States that
maintains playground activities will
send a team of boys to demonstrate
the type of work being done for the
boys throughout America.
Director William ]. Lee, of the New
York Fairgrounds, proposes to ask the
Board of Aldermen for an apropria-
ton to pay the expenses of 200 New
York boys to the exposition. The lat
ter hold the national public school
boy championship trophy, which they
gained at the ST. Louis Exposition. A
week will be set aside during 1915
for the schoolboy championships.
The chief International event of the
year will be the modern pentathlon,
for which the Olympic committee has
offered an Olympic medal for the first
time in it's history. 1t is expected that
the four placed men at the Olympic
games in Sweden last summer, name
ly, Asbrink Lillicheck, De Laval and
Gronhagen, will take part in the great
event.
United States army officials are
making special efforts to win the
coveted trophy, and several crack
teams have begun training.
For the first time, soccer football
will receive recognition at an Ameri-
can international exposition. All SOC
ce rfocthall at the exposition will be
under the control of the Federation
Internationale des Football associa-
tions, which is the controlling body
of football throughout the world 1t
it stated by no less authority than
DR.. G. Rudolph Manning, president of
the association, that from the teams
which take part in the exposition Soc
Ger tournament there will be teams
selected to represent America at Ber-
lin in 1915.
Tryouts will be held for all sections
OF the country for the selecting OF
teams to represent the various forts
of the United States Army in the mill
tary competitions to be held during
one week in the year set aside for that
purpose A Navy week will be arrang-
ed according to the time of the arriv-
al of the battleships Of the world in
the San Francisco harbor, where they
will all mobilize in celebration of the
opening of the Panama canal Com
petitions will be conducted between
members of foreign and American nav
les. The presence of battleships in
the harhor, before the Exposition
grounds. will add great brilliancy to
the nava' events.
AN invitation is being extended to
the National Baseball Commission to
have the final games of the world S
series played at the exposition stad.
ium supplementary games Will be
arranged for the winners in the diff.
ferent leagues throughout the coun.
try and an invitation will also be ex.
tended to the major league baseball
teams to use The baseball field at the
exposition grounds for spring train
ing.
A special invitation is extended to