Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-02
.HEILAND NOLONGER
AN XAVIER ATHLETE
Local Splinter Has Resigned
from New York Or
ganizatiOn.
MAY JOIN IRISH-AMERICANS

Hal Holland, the local sprinter. has
resigned as a member of the Xavier
Athletic Association of New Yorl,
Newarks hard luck" sprinter has
sported a big 'Xi for number Of
years. Just what club Holland win ,
join is not known, but it is said he
has longing to become a member of
the Irish Ameriean Athletic Club.
Holland is regarded as one of the
best sprint artists in the East. but
somehow or other the Newark boy.
whenever a championship is at stake
slips up at the last minute
Jones in Training.
Dick Jones, the former Central
High School athlete and now a MEM
Der of the Long Island Athletic Club
has started practice for the winter
season. Jones has a lot of weight -
reduce and has been training with
the Bloomfield High School barriers
While at Central, Jones was a men,
Der of the cross-country team which
won the American championship
trophy at Philadelphia, i'm 1913 lie
was one of the foremost runners in
scholastic circles.
Athletic Gossip.
Tom Halpin, of the Boston Athletic
Associa ton. is but twenty-five years
old. He held a national championship
before he was out of his teens"
The Anchor Athletic club of Jersey
City will conduct q fve-mile cross
country race Sunday afternoon, start
ing at 3 o'clock. The club has select
ed, it is said one of the hardest OF
country courses.
The Twenty third Regiment, Of
Brooklyn, will hold its annual fail
athletic meet in the armory at Bed
ford and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn,
December ~. There will be fifteen
regimental events, two feature con-
tests in small club medley relay
championship and two-mie bicycle
event, the latter being open to Ma
tional Cycling Association riders
Pat Babe" Mcdonald. one of the
Irish American Athletic Clubs weight
tossers of note, injured his arm in
tossing the fifty pound weight for
height at the Irish-American Clubs
games Saturday, and was unable to
do himself justice in the fourteen
pound shotput later : in the night.
After the meet the arm did not hurt
the big New York policeman as much
as it did earlier in the night. Pat
is expected to be on hand at the next
event with bells on"
Saturday night will mark a big
event. in amateur circles, when the
fall games of the Fourteenth Regi-
ment, of Brooklyn, will be held in
the armory at Eighth avenue and
Fourteenth street. There will be thres
open A. A. U. events held at this
meeting, these being a 1.200-yard re-
lay race handicap; 70-yard dash,
handicap, and a haif-mile run fos
hovices. The Irish American Ath-
Ietic Club, New York Athletic Club,
Bronx Church House and Milrose
Athletic Association are expected to
have relay teams entered.
In all probability the Irish-Amer.
lean Club will lose the services OF
Pat Ryan, who won the senior ma
tional hammer throwing champion
ships last year. Ryan is thinking Sc
riously of returning to Ireland. He
is not in the best of health and a
trip across the pond is expected to
help him. Ryan will probably wait
until after the senior indoor cham
pionship before making the trip. He
will be gone for an indefinite period,
according to his latest plans.
If present plans go through there
will be a series of big road races
held this winter under the auspices
of the Elmhurst Athletic Club, Of
Long Island. Peter Fl. Maher, one
time champion ice skater of Amer
lea, yesterday consulted with Dan
Ferris, secretary to President Ruben.
of the Metropolitan Association, re-
garding the staging of a ten-mile
contest on Christmas Day. The
course would start on the Long
Island side of the Queensboroueh
bridge and continue along macad-
amized and dirt roads to Elmhurst.