Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
FOREIGN RUNNERS
SEEK A. A. i. TITLE
TwO-Mile Junior Championship
Event Will Have Distinct
International Flavor.
TRACK AND FIELD GOSSIP

The two-mile event, which promises
to be the feature of the junior indoor
A. A. U. championship, has taken on
an international flavor by the fact
that several foreigners have entered,
Canada, Finland and Sweden being
represented.
M. w. Pollok, of London. Ont, will
make his first appearance in New
York, and athletic fans are anxious
to see what kind of showing he will
make against John Exc, Willie KY
ronen, Ezra Wenz, Dave Noble. o.
Gibbons, Willie Lindfors and John
Pictiia. All these men have good
records.
John Exc represented Sweden in the
cross-country race at the Olympic
games last year. and finished third to
Hannes Kolehmainen, and last sum-
mer he won the Junior Metropolitan
three-mile championship run. Willie
Kyronen came to this country from
Finland after the Olympic games last
year, and finished third to Kohle-
mainen and Harry Smith in the Amer
lean ten-rnile championship run this
year.
Ezra wenz is the former Roselle
High School champion distancer, who
now represents Colby College Dave
Noble, of the New York A. c.. has
always finished well up in every mile
championship race in which he has
run, but has decided to try at two
miles this time. Willie Lindfors and
John Pictila are two more Finnish
athletes who represent the Kaleva
Athletic Club.
The Philadelphia Swimming Club
made clean sweep in the dual match
with the Hygeia Swimming Club. of
Atlantic City, at the Hygeia SWIM
ming pool, Atlantic City, last eve
ming, e. G. Schall, the Middle Allan
tic indoor and outdoor champion, scor-
ing victory in every event in which
he entered.
Contrary to expectations, the nomi-
nation committee elected few weeks
ago to select the candidates for off,
GERS of the New York Athletic Club
to be elected on January 10, did not
announce the ticket they had selected
last night.
The list Regiment Athletic Associa-
ton will conclude the years athletic
activities with monster set of track
and field games on New Years eve in
its armory, Thirtythird street and
Park avenue, New York city. The
dozen events are well filed by many
prominent athletes, some of whom
will compete in the Junior champion
ships a few days later. The extra
heavy entries in the bicycle event will
necessitate many trial heats.
with the comnletiou of the new
stadium In Amsterdam, Holland, ar
athletic series in May under the aus
pices of the Nederlandsche Athletick
Unie, the governing sports body in
Holland. Invitations have been sent
to all the sports organizations on the
continent, and to England as WELL
and it is expected that the tourna-
ment will more than take the place
of the Athens Olympic games, which
have been postponed because of the
inability of the Greeks to prepare
properly for the series.
Billy Rozett, the winner of the mem
orable American League Park mara
thon, showed that he is not yet ready
to hang his shoes in the closet when
he captured the fast time honors from
d. DlB uelQ III Tic HduuiCdp Iodu run
held by the st. Anselm's A. c., New
York, last night. Billy started from
scratch and overlook all but two of
the men who had big handicaps. He
covered the stiff five-mile course in
the good time of 30:15. The race was
won by Dan Hurley, who had a four
minute handicap, and was clicked in
1920.
A championship tug OF war will be
seen under the auspices of the Scan
dinavian-American Athletic League
at Prospect Hall, Brooklyn. January
3. Up to date the following are
among the principal clubs entered:
Finnish American, Swedish American,
rwegian-American, Gjoa, Neptune
and Danish teams. That it will have
an international tinge is evidenced
by the fact that several American
teams are preparing to take Issue with
the foreigners, and q keenly contested
series is anticipated.
The Illinois Athletic Club, of Chi
cago, will start the new year with
the strongest and best balanced wa
ter squad that was ever gathered by
a single organization In this country.
Among the sprinters are Arthur RAJ
thel, the forty-yard record holder;
Perry McGillivray, the fiftyyard
champion; Harry Hebner, the ma
tional hundred-yarder, and p. Foster,
e. w. McGillivray and William Vos-
burgh, who have helped to create
worlds standards in relay racing.
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