Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-10
ATHLETES READY
FOR TITLE MEET
E New Jersey Will Have Ten En-
\ trants in National Cham
pionship.
: LAGAY HAS STIFF TASK

with the best athletic talent in the
United States arrayed against them,
, len brave Jerseymen will try for ma
2 tional championship titles tomorrow
| and Saturday at the Hollywood Field
|, Baltimore. The nationals nave
/ long been recognized as the premier
games of the athletic season, ana
fortunate is the man who, by dint OF
7 superior ability, succeeds in landing
I one of the titles. New Jersey VIII
!, have every reason to be proud OF
+ those sons who viii journey to Bait
/, more. for they have promised to strain
forth every effort to win in their re-
spective events
Newark will send Platt Adams,
Frank Iagay, jr., Eddie Pritehard,
I. Kenneth Curtis, Randolph Granger
and Hal Holland. OF this quintet
! Adams, Curtis and Pritchard look to
be sure point winners, although the
other boys also have good chances 10
annex the honors in their respective
events. OF Platt Adams little need De
said. Adams is the man VINO put
Newark on the map during the Olyh-
&c aames at Stockholm, and local en-
lfhusiasfs have not forgotten the re-
ception that was accorded to the big,
genial Jumper when he returned from
Z The games. Plat will represent the
New York Athletic Club In compeu-
ton. and he viii compete in the run
ming broad jump, the javein throw
and probably i'm the running hop, step
and lump. Curtis and Lagay also
wear the winged foot emblem, cur
lis recently cleared the bar at twelve
feet eight inches. which will surely
place him In the senior nationals, II
he is able to repeat the performance,
Isagay will face some stir OPPOSITION
In the 440-yard run, but ne mas tue
stuff in him to win out If his injured
leg does not go back on nm 1rang-
or and Pritehard will compete for the
Irish American A. c. Prjtchard is
piclSed by the New Workers TO win
the 440-vard hurdle event by reason
of his stamina. Lawson Robertson.
the winged fist coach, predicts that
Pritchard will come close to the rec
ord for the event Granger has done
some splendid work recently al the
half-mile, but whether he will nave
n chance in the national senior $50
ward run is question, for among
those who will face the barrier VIII
be Homer Baker and Ted Meredith,
the worlds record-holder. Hal He'll
and. the Xavier A. A. sprinter, VIII
compete in the i00-yard dash Tor the
Junior title. Hal finished second 10
o. a. Keller last year, and, although
he did not win the junior metropol-
Itan championships last spring, He'll
and viii Undoubtedly be one of the
factors at Baltimore. AS this Is the
third time that the plucky lad has
tried 10 win the honors, his friends
are pulling hard for him to be sue
cessful.
The Elizabeth Young Mems Chris
tan Association will send william
Weber the metropolitan junior half
mile champion, to compete in the ma
tional Junior $780, yard run. Judging
BY his past performances, Weber
will cover the half i'm about one min
ute and fifty-eight seconds, which
ought to give h'm the junior national
title. The consensus of opinion
among the athletic sharps Is that the
ranEey Elizabeth boy Will astonish
the athletic world, beating his field
by at least ten yards.
Mike Devanney, of Soho, will prob
ably compete in the senior one-mile
run. The Millrose A. A., of which
Mike Is a member, has entered him
for the event, but with such cracks
as Kiyiat Gordon and Tabor, De-
vanney will fird tho going terrific II
he completes.
Paterson will be represented by two
sterling athletes. Louis Scott, OF the
Melrose A. a, has his name in for
the senior five-mile run, and Emil
Muller. the discus-throwing chauffeur
of the Irish American A. c., will de-
fend his title of national champion.
lie expects to set a new national rec
ord for the discus. He has thrown
the iron ring 140 feet consistently IN
practice, and the present record is a
trie over 1856 feet. :.
These ten men represent the best OF
New Jersey athletes. Each man has
been in strict training for at least
two months, and lack of condition
will not cause their defeat. The hopes
of this State In the national cham
plonships will rest upon the perfor-
mances of the chosen ten, and the
local athletic fraternity will root hard
for them, IL not in person at least
in spirit.