Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-27
FAIR WEATHER FOR
YOUNGSTERS MEET
Playground Children Hold Sway
at Branch Brook Park
Today.

with smiling skies to favor the oc-
caslon the exhibition games and
dances under the auspices of the Essex
County Park Commission are being
run Off this afternoon at the Branch
Brook Park Playground. For some
time the youngsters have looked for
ward to this day, and excitement is
sure to run high when the events get
under way. AS this will be the crown
ing achievement of the playground
work this year, the members Of the
commission have spared neither ex-
pense nor labor to make 1t a success,
and they feel that the fresh air cause
viii receive q mighty boost from the
results Of this afternoons work.
The events have been divided into
two classes, a senior and Junior
class being for the boys and class
A and class B for the girls. Eight
teams are represented in the senior
boys relay and the junior relay will
have the same number of competing
teams. The 100-yard dash, senior,
has attracted the entries of sixteen
sprinting aspirants, and sixteen boys
will toe the mark in the Junior fifty
yard dash. Each Of the eight parks
will send teams into the class A
girls relay and the class B relay
The fifty-yard dash for the senior
girls division will doubtless furnish
some interesting running, while the
junior fifty-yard dash for girls prom
ises to be not a whit the less inter-
esting. Following the athletic events
there will be drills and folk dances
on the field. The different playground
leaders are quite proud of their
classes and look for perfect perform
Rnces.
Lawson Robertson, coach of the
Irish American Athletic Club, has an
nounced that he will send his cham
pionship team to compete in the
Moose carnival games next Saturday
at Jersey City. This team will repre-
sent the Winged Fists at the Balti-
more championships, and the meet
will be a good tryout for the ma
tionals.'
Athletes have been warned that the
sS0-yard run and the two-mile run,
which are on the program of the
Hasbrouck Heights Business Mems
Association for Labor Day, have not
been sanctioned by the Amateur
athlete will endanger his standing II
he completes in either event.
With the metropolitan champion
ship as his object, Mike Devaney, the
Soho fiier, has started to train for
the one-mile run. The ''mets" are
slated for Celtic Park, Long Island,
on September 10, and as they will at
tract the usual sterling entries, Mike
will have to be in first-class condition
TO have a look-in. At Keansburg the
Jersey hier covered the distance in
l2S, but he is capable Of much better
time.
Bernie Wefers, the New York Ath-
letic Club coach, has obtained the
consent of Freeland Gordon, of Yon-
kers, to compete in future events for
the N. Y. A. c. Gordon is one of
the Three famous Gordon brothers
and twill start in the half-mile at the
natiAnal championships next month
fn<B8itimore. His brother Louis will
Aoubtless be in the same race, while
willie Gordon will compete in the
one-mile run.
Professional athletes will centre
their attentions on the fifty eighth
annual games of the New York Gale
DOMAIN Club. which are scheduled for
Juniper Park, Maspeth. Long Island,
on Labor Day. TWENTY five of the
thirty-one events will be open to all
athletes, and the cash prize list will
amount to 1929. The usual Scottish
competitions will take place at the
close of the track and field events.
Robert NJ Bernard, SAG Seventh ave-
nue., will receive the entries.
1t is rumored that Harold Diblee,
or New York. will be a candidate for
one of the vacancies on the registra~
ton committee of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union. Diblee is well known in
the world of sports, and has been
prominent in local and metropolitan
athletics for many years.