Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-28
LOCAL ATHLETES IN
JUNIOR TITLE MEET
Kelly, Gardner and Franklin to
Seek Championship HOnors
Tomorrow Night.
COLLEGE STARS ENTERED

Newark will be we'll represented IN
ghe junior indoor national champion
ship games of the Amateur Athletic
ArIAory, Brooklyn, tomorrow night.
Willie Kelly, of the Prudential Insur-
aSce Athletic Association, Is among
the starters in the 1,000-yard race.
while John Brooke Gardner, who for.
nerly represented Central High
School, and who is now competing for
the New York Athletic Club, will palm
the mark in the 60-yard dash. Percy
Franklin, of the Newark Y. NJ. c. A,
who is also booked to start, will be
seen In the dash event. This Will be
Franklin's first attempt at the short
daehes. In previous meets he has
started at g. mile, but Paul Kennedy,
who Ii coaching Franklin, believes
that the 7. NJ. G. A. athlete will make
better Roadway In the short sprints.
franklin has been practicing faith
fully for the event, and Ia in the best
Of condition.
Just how John Brooks Gardner will
Gare is question, as the flerytopped
Sprlnter has been unable to get down
20 real form, having little time to de-
vote to practice. Gardner is casting
longing eyes on a trip to California TO
the exposition, and IL he shows any
thing like the form displayed in the
High School meets ne may be MEM
Der of the team representing the New
York Athletic Club for the Panama
Pacific international exposition. Once
before Gardner had a taste of junior
championship pie. Last year the
6ery-topped sprinter, who was then
under the direction of Carl Anderson
1T the Central High School, came in
third In the 60-yard dash, being nosed
out by a margin less than inches.
Among the crack performers whom
Gardner will have to outsprint are
III. A. Morrissey, of the Boston Ath-
betic Association; Frank Kaufman, of
the University of Pennsylvania, and
A. Van Wrinkle, of the New York Ath-
Letic Club.
Save for the winning of first place
in the Elizabeth Y. NJ. G. A. indoor
athletic meet, Willie Kelly, of the
Prudential, has been unable to show
much in the running line this season.
Kelly apparently has not been extend
ing himself very much In previous
meets, although he has tried his best
earlier in the races he entered. 1t Is
probable that the Newarker is just
saving himself, for the junior
-CnampS. II Kelly gets place III
the 1,000-yard race tomorrow night. 1t
&ill be a big feather in his cap. He
Will have to contend with such runners
9e Matt Gels, Of the Millrose Athletic
association; Martin Hayes, of Prince
ton University; II. r. Mahoney, of the
Boston Athletic Association, and pos
Mbly Mark Thompson, of Colby Coz,
lege, the latter being former Poly
Prep. schoolboy. John F. O'Connor,
OF the New York Athletic Club, Is
also entered.
Athletes from Chicago, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Boston, Washington,
Syracuse and half-dozen other ath-
Ietic centres throughout the East, will
be seen IN action at the champion
ships. Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth,
Pennsylvania, Columbia, Syracuse and
Colby are some of the colleges which
VIII send men to try for champion
.liip title.
The two-Inile run Is expected to
prove the feature event of the games
with such men as La Funa, of Phiia-
delphla; Weeks. OF Boston; Lemberg,
OF Brooklyn, and Fogel and Flynn, OF
New York, in the running.