Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-26
KOHLEMAINEN TO
TRY FOR RECORD
Finnish Star to Have Two
Pacemakers in TwO-Mile
Event.
ATHLETIC NEWS in NOTES

Hannes Kolenmainen will attempt
to lower the two-mile record at the
Thirteenth regiment games in New
York tonight. The effort will be made
under novel conditions. Two men
will oppose Kolehmainen in order to
provide the pace necessary for the
Finn to lower the time of 9:14 is
made by George Bonhag. In the one
and half mile handicap Kiviat,
Kramer and Leslie will meet. Mel
Sheppard will be on scratch in the
Military League quarter-mile handi-
cap.
Events for the junior indoor cham
pionships of the United States, which
will be held in the TIL rteenth regi-
ment armory on January g. were an
nounced yesterday as follows: Sixty
yard, 220-yard, 600-yard, 1,000-yard,
two-mile, putting 12-pound shot, high
jump, standing broad jump, standing
high jump and 60-yard high hurdle.
1t is expected that athletes from all
the Eastern colleges will compete.
Ernie Hjertberg, ir., son of the
trainer who groomed the Swedish
athletes for the Olympiad year ago,
will make his debut tonight at the
Thirteenth regiment games in Brook
lyn.
r. Erlandsen, carrying the colors
of the Glencoe A. c., won the weekly
road race of the st. Vincent Ferrer
A. G. last night in New York over a
course approximately four and one
quarter miles. and part of which was
run around Central Park. Erlandsen
assumed the lead at about the half
mile mark, and from then until the
finish of the race maintained a safe
advantage, never really being forced
TO extend himself. He finished the
distance in A24:57, while e. Long, of
the Salem-Crescent A. c., who was
second was timed in 25:24. Fifteen
athletes faced the starter and all
finished
Entries in the A. A. U. mid West
ern cross-country run, which closed
yesterday, include such a strong team
from the Illinois Athletic Club that it
was made favorite for the event.
William Kennedy, the l. A. C.'s best
distance man, is ill, and not able to
compete, but with Ray, who holds the
junior national A. A. U. champion
ship; Wage, possessor of the Central
A. A. u. one-mile record, and Sidney
Hatch. Coach Charles has a good
.onu nation. The race will be run at
Winnetka, ILL.,, over a six-mile course.
1t is expected that about twenty rum
ners will start tomorrow in the Pru-
Dental Athletic Associations cross
country run over the Weequahic Park
course Entries do not close until to-
morrow morning. The course covers
about three and one-quarter miles.
AS the championship meeting comes
at the end of the holiday vacation, it
is expected that Yale, Harvard,
Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Co
lumbia, Wesleyan and several other
of the important colleges will be rep
resented January in the junior in
door title events.
Harry j. Smith says that the walk
ers in this country should be encour-
aged in order to take part for this
country in the Olympiad in Germany.
in 1916.
Reiser REM and Clifford of New
York, all are good walkers who will
figure prominently in many of the
walking races which will take place
this winter.
Anthony King, the local runner, has
issued a def to Francis hewitt, the
amateur runner who defeated some
of Newark's best runners. hewitt has
accepted this challenge and the race
will be held December Is for a silver
loving cup presented by Jacob L.
Schools