The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
LOCAL. ATHLETES MAY
 ENTER NEW HAVEN MEET

The CSW 6AV0A A. A. VIII run O11 their first athletic meet on Yale field, of which they have been given the use during the season by the Yale au- thorities on Saturday afternoon, July 24. This is preliminary to the Con necticut A. A U. District champion ships, which will be held the follow ing month on August 21st-
 The big feature event of the meet July 24 is a military hike scratch, of five miles on the quarter-lap track, for squads of three men carrying gun, knapsack and blanket. Members of each squad can run or walk pre- ferred- Places will count with finish only of all members of the team The prizes to each member of the win ming team are 14 karat solid gold medals, and for each member of the second team the Coronet jewelry set consisting of fine jewel warcn, thin wafer model, guaranteed to be an ac- curate timepiece, and free from me- chanical defects for five years, gold shell chain and a IA karat gold pen mounted on a beautiful plush and satin lined jewel case. The watch case and chain are solid gold stock guar anteed for ten years. This event is open to any member of the Conneo- ticut militia and others.
 Other events with handsome prizes are handicapped and consist of 5-nen medley relay, each man on each team to run respectively 100 yrads, 22o, 44O, ,8S0, and 1 mile, and a 4-man medley relay of 100 yards, 220, 220, and 440.
 One, of the most interesting events will be a mile relay for handicapped and matched scratch teams. In this run scratch against any mile relay team in New England, or in the ter ritory of the Metropolitan Association of the A. A U., New York, Connecti- cut, and New Jersey The New Ha- ven A. A. relay team is the team that was beaten from scratch at the Moose meet in Hartford at NCharter Oak Park, June 18th, by the relay team of the Boston A. A. in a. mile relay by less than yards. The Boston A A. ran their best mile relay team consisting, of Halpfn, Mahoney, Ryan ance on the mile track at Charter Oak Park of coaching. from an auto mobile by George Brown, their acth- letic manager. Two of these Boston A. A. men, who ran on the relay, ] were chosen at the try-outs last Sat urday in Cambridge to represent the | eastern section of the country at the National Amateur. Track and Field Championships in San Francisco next August.
 These were Tom Ha1pfr, who won second place: in the 40 yards Of the try-outs, and Caldwell, who ran sec ond to Homer Baker in the 380 yards The managers of the New Haven A. A. claim that their relay team has shown such form with little training at the beginning of the season that without question ahe boys will make a fine showing and do something .credita.bIe to Connecticut if matched with any mile relay team in New York or. New England. The team consists of E..W. Stebbins of George town University and captain of the Georgetown team for next year and one of the best quarter mile runners in the country, A J. Howard, James M. Roche, M. F.. O'Connor, Hector Auray. and s. A. Evans. They are members of the New Haven A. A. are matched at scratch in this relay will be handicapped.
 Other events are handicap 100 and 800 yards. 12 10. shot put, throwing the javelfn, running broad and run ming high jump.
 Any Connecticut young fellow can compete in the events in this meet and through handtcaps will be given a fair sin howing and his chances for winning evened up with the other competitors. Entry blanks and full particulars, how to obtain A. A. U. registration cards. which each com petitor must have, may be obtained by addressing John c. Collins, Room 313, No. 69 Church street, or box 745, New Haven, Conn.