New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-15
ATHLETIC CARNIVAL
FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Soccer Game and Track
Meet for tuberculosis
SanatOrium Fund.

The Polo Grounds on Saturday af
ternoon, October 81, will be the Mecca
OF thousands of soccer football en-
thuslasts, as well as followers of other
athletic sports.
The grounds for that day have been
turned over by President Hampstead
of the New York Baseball Club to
citizens committee composed of well
known men in this city, who have ar
ranged a national soccer and athletic
carnival in aid of the building fund of
the Urania tuberculosis Preventorium
Society of Otisville, n. Y, and New
York City.
There will be championship soccer
game between the Bronx United, of the
National Association Football League,
and the Columbia Ovals, of the New
York State Association Football
League, two Of the strongest teams in
greater New York. The winners will
each receive gold medals and the losers
silver medals. This game will be in
charge of committee composed of
three of the best known men in soccer
football in the country, DR.. G.. Ran
dolph Manning, president of che United
States Football Association; T. W,
Cahill, secretary United States Foot
ball Association, and Thomas Bagnall,
president New York State Association
Football League.
The members of the committee in
charge of the athletic end of the meet
are composed of =. ]. Conway. presi-
dent American Athletic Club; f.
w. Ruben, president Metropolitan As
ISOLATION; Terence Farley, lrish-Amer-
lean Athletic Club; Barlow $. Weeks,
J. J. Mahoney. J. J. O'Brien and NJ. a.
Halpin, of the New York Athletic
Club; Colonel W. b. Hotchkin, presi-
dent Military Athletic League; Cap
tain Charles J. Dieges, Herman Ober-
tubessine, Metropolitan Association.
and others.
The following events have been ar
ranged: 150-yard run, handicap and
6O0-yard run, handicap, in which many
of the American and Olympic cham
pions will compete; one-mile novice
race. and a 360-yard relay race, open
to the members of the Public School
Athletic League elementary, with
weight limit of eighty-ive pounds.
Officials on the field will be John J.
McHugh, of the p. 5. A. L., starter;
Robert w. Kennedy, clerk of course,
and William Rossbach, announcer, who
have volunteered their services for the
day.
Music will be furnished by the Cath
Ole Protectory Boys Band of seventy
pieces.
Among the citizens who have volun-
teered on the committee are William
b. Ellison. John Whalen, Herman A.
Metz, Thomas F. McAvoy, George w.
Loft. w. A. Coakley, General Henry
Dewitt Hamilton, Lieutenant Richard b.
Enright, Edward Leach, Past Grand
Exalted Ruler of Elks; William p. Lar
kin. state deputy Knights Of Columbus;
Judge George Freifeld, Grand Master
and the Rev. Dr. W. r. Watson, Grand
Chaplain, +. and A. NJ; Colonel Charles
J. Crowley, Irish Volunteer Regiments;
Thomas F. F,ley and Senator James j.
Frawley.
The proceeds Of the day will be de-
voted to the building fund Of the
Urania tuberculosis Preventorium So
Cety for the purpose of erecting build
ings on its famous camp grounds at
Otisville. n. Y. DR.. Thomas Darling
ton. former Health Commissioner OF
greater New York. and now member
cf the State Workmen's Compensation
Commission, is president