Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-26
SPRINT STARS TO
MEASURE STRIDES
Sheppard, Meyer, Holland and
Kelly Will Meet in Tabs
Games.
LIVE ATHLETIC GOSSIP

A special S0O-yard match race is
being arranged as one of the features
of the Tabs games on the evening
Of January IA at the First Regiment
Arrnory. William Kelly. the crack
sprinter of the Tabs, is to be given
an opportunity to measure strides
with the cream of the metropolitan
district in the event which is to be a
handicap affair, with twelve yards as
the limit mark. Mel Sheppard and
Alvah Meyer, the Irish American
Athletic Club stars, and Hal Holland,
of the Xavier Club, comprise the re-
mainder of the field in the special.
Sheppard has been travelling fast
in his preliminary workouts, and by
the date of the local games should
be going at the clip that earned him
the title of Peerless Nell" Holland,
who is local runner, is a prominent
contender for a sprint title at the
junior championships, and Is at his
best at the 300 distance. He cap
tured a similar race few weeks
ago at the Bronx Church House
games from the best in Manhattan.
Holland holds the Military Athletic
League indoor record for 100 yards at
10 seconds flat, a mark which Is
liable to stand for some time. Meyer
is a Splinter of note, and is junior
champ" This will be his initial
appeara nee IN Newark. Kelly, the
Tabs representative, Is credited with
the Junior quarter-nile championship
of Northern New Jersey. If he is
given the limit mErk Kelly should
make the going fast for the other
starters.
The Greek Olympic games. which
were to have been held next spring at
Athens, Greece, have been Indefinitely
postponed. The committee in charge
of the arrangements found 1t too diff
cult to make adequate preparations
so soon after the war.
Jack Eller the Irish American tim
Der topper, will be the scratch man in
the sixtyyard hurdle race handicap
which is to be a feature of the Pater-
son Elks' diamond meet on Wednes-
day evening, January 81, at the Fifth
Regiment Armory Paterson. Amer
lean Champion Eddie Pritchard, the
local hurdler, is expected to be among
the starters.
In addition to the road race, the
Mill use aLliGllC 10 OilSI
ing an attractive program for Wednes-
day evening, January %, at Madison
Square Garden, New York. The A.
A. u. Military Athletic League and
National Cycling Association rules are
to govern the competition. There are
thirteen open and four closed events
on the program. The open events are
as follows: Seventy ye-a dash, handi-
cap: 300-yard dash, handicap: 600
yard, novice; 1,000-yard, handicap;
12-pound shot put, handicap; running
high jump, handicap; 2-nile, handi-
cap; 2-mile walk, handicap; 1-mile
relay, handicap; Emile bicycle race,
handicap; 2,400-yard relay, Military
Athletic League, handicap; 1-mile
Catholic Athletic League relay han
dicap; 1-mile interscholastic relay,
scratch.
Joe Myers and Frank Lagay, the
Dartmouth freshmen track stars, are
to make their appearance at the in
door games of Central High School.
They will have finished their mid
year examinations by the time of the
games, and Harry Hillman, the Green
coach, has granted them permission
to come home for the event. Lagay
will start in the quarter-mile handi-
cap probably from the same mark as
Hal Holland, who Is q great rival of
the former Central Star. Myers will
enter the one-mile handicap.