Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
ADAMS WILL PASS
Up SENIOR MEET
Business Keeps Plat from
Training for National Indoor
Championship in Garden.

For the first time in years Plat
Adams, the local Olympic games hero,
will not compete in the senior ma
tional indoor Championship which are
scheduled for March 2 at Madison
Square Garden. Adams said recently
that he thought it would be impos-
slble for him to enter the senior ma
tionals, as he had other business at
hand which would prevent him from
deyoting the necessary time to his
training. Adams's absence at the ma
tional games will rob the standing
high jump of much of its interest.
Platt stepped into the shoes Of Ray
Ewrey as Americas foremost stand
ing jumper when the lanky Ray re-
tired several years ago. He and his
brother Ben gathered first and sec
ond and second and third places, re-
spectively. in the standing jumps at
the Stockholm Olympic games. Until
this year the Adamses have been su-
preme in the standing jump field.
Goulding, of the Mohawk a. c., how
ever, has encroached considerably of
late, having beaten Ray Ewrey's rec
ord for the standing high jump. The
meeting Of he and the senior Adams
at the senior champs was antici-
pated with great interest.
The First Regiment A. A found the
interest in the bicycle event of the
Tabs games so great that it was an
nounced that two-nlile handicap
bicycle race has been added to the
card for the indoor games of the
regiment which are scheduled for
Wednesday evening, February II. In
all proba bility Goodwin, Lake, Van
| Zant, Van Den Dries and other stars
nf 10 90 nil 8
at that time.
The members Of the Long Island
A. c. Club will be out strong at Madi-
son Square Garden, New York, on
January IS, having entered their en-
tire track team in the Millrose A. A.
games. William j. Kramer. who has
won nearly every distance race from
scratch this winter, will start in the
Rodman Wanamaker two-mile spe-
cial handicap in an effort to dupli-
cate his victory of last year, when
he defeated Louis Scott in the splen-
did time of 9:32 As Sid Leslie, who
I finished third, is also entered and
the chances of the Long Island A. c.
boys to annex another leg on the
valuable trophy look very bright.
With Louis Scott running unattached
in this event, a close finish Is as
sured.
! Swimming is to be divided into
/ classes according to the latest &C
! ton of the Amateur Athletic Union.
! Hereafter the rules will provide for
| junior and senior competition similar
to the arrangement in the athletic
field of the A. A. u, if the recon-
meadations made public yesterday
are adopted.
Amateur athletes of the New Eng
land district will have an opportun-
| ity this year for the first time to
win indoor championships the ex-
ecutive committee of the New Eng
land Amateur Athletic Union hay-
ing voted last night to hold a cham
pionship tournament in Boston on
February %. 1t was voted also to
send Francis Jouannett, of Brook
| line, to the national diving cham
pionships In New York and to or
ganize a club of officials to take
charge of athletic meets.
Dick Jones, a member Of the Cen
I trail High School American scholasti.
cross country team. has Joined tbs
ranks of the New York A. c. Jones
was one of the most brilliant distance
runners ever developed at Contra
High School. :.
Eugene Giannini. retiring coach OF
the New York Athletic Club, who is
going to New Haven to help train
the Yale crews, was given a farewell
dinner at the n. Y. A. c. clubhouse
last night. Supreme Court Justice
Barlow s. Weeks and other promi.
nent members of the club praised
the work Giannini had done with tht
local organization and predicted sue.
| cess for him at Yale