The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-05
AMATEUR ATHLETES
ENTERED IN MEET
Field and Track Contest to
be Held at New York
Thursday.
POINT TROPHY
Expect Hard Fought Battles
and the Breaking
of Records.
CLUB POINT TROPHY
National News Association

teur Athletic Union Championship s
will be held at Madison Square Car
den tomorrow night. This vii! doubt
less prove to be the mos important
athletic field and track meet of the
year. The best amateur athletics in
America in their respective depart
ments are entered in the competitions
and RECORD crowd is expected 20 turn
out to see a number of records smash
ed
One of tie features of the present
meet will be the presence Of host OF
college athletes who have been sent
by their respective institutions as =
sort of try-out preliminary to the inter
collegiate meets. These numerous
college entries together with the lead
ing athletic stars of the country give
assurance of the most notable meet
that has been held in this city for
many years.
The prizes that will be awarded are
much finer than usual. more beautiful
in design and of greater intrinsic
value.
The contest for the club poin.
hardest fought battles of the meet
The competitors for this much desired
emblem of athletic supremacy will be
the teams of the New York A. c., the
Irish American A. c., and the New
England contingent from Boston,
which is headed by Captain Tom Hal
pin, who is now the National quarter
mile champion but who is expected to
hang up a worlds record during the
present meet
In speaking Of tomorrow nights
meet, Secretary James E. Sullivan Of
the A. A. T., expressed the opinion
that it would prove to be the most
brilliant affair Of it's kind ever held in
New York.
Every Man Star.
"Why shouldn't it be-" he asked
meet is a star-a champion, or at least
is made of championship material
They are all ambitious to excel. In
fact l think they are the most am
bilious athletes in the world today
For the most part they are young,
mere youths, with 1.-THE bodies and
keen minds, in short our American
athletes in my opinion are the most
ideal since the days of the Greek
prised if several worlds records are
not broken tomorrow night
Some of the more celebrated ath-
letes who are here to make the effort
of their careers and who add lustre
to this great meet are, Drew, the Won
derful colored sprinter Meyer, Lippin-
colt and Rice, who will compete in the
75-yard dash; the famous Ted Mere
dith, and the equally famous Mel Shep-
export, who are entered in the 900
yard run; Halpin, Iinberg, Merrihew
and Rosenberger in the 300yard run;
the great Abel Kiviat, the Olympic
champion, the renowned John Paul
Jones, together with Taber and He'd
lund, in the 1,000-yard run; and that
brilliant trio of middle distance rum
ners, Kramer, Scott and Smith, will
compete in the two-mile run against
that Finish whirlwind Hannes Koleh-
mainen. In the 70-yard hurdles such
dell and Eller, while among those en-
tered for the running high jump are
Alma Richards, the Utah wonder, who
won the high jump at Stockholm,
Erickson, Barwise and tombstone. In
the 24-pound shot put the star entries
are Mcdonald, the redoubtable New
York policeman, Bud" Whitney, the
Dartmouth star, who has won laurels
on the gridiron as we'll as in the shot
put, and Russell Beatty, another inter-
collegiate champion and record holder
in the 16-pound shot put. In the 65-
pound weight for height the leading
competitors will be McGrath, another
New York policeman, who won honors
at Stockholm. Ryan and Sherman.
Those wonderful Adams brothers,
Platt and Penn, together with Leo
Goehring, are among the entries in the
standing high and broad jumps. Marc
Wright, Babcock and Dukes will con-
test in the pole vault for distance and
the two mile walk will be fought out
chiefly between Clifford, Plant, Voeli-
mecke and Fitzpatrick