New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
News and Gossip Of
the Amateur Athletes
Military Athletic Leagu,
Title Meet Again Post.
poned-Date Now
April 10.
BY ABEL X. kIYIAT.
National One-Mlle Champion.

Tho Military Athletic League IA,
again postponed the annual indos,
championships. this time from April 4
10 April 10. The reason given Is tia,
tho 18th Regiment Armory will be used
on April for a military review. n.
events have not been positively settled
on. The committee Is considering
changing some Of tho events.
The fight will not be only between
the list Infantry and the 18Th Ar.l.
lery. The Cd Battalion. Naval Milltis, o,
Brooklyn, will have to be considered
o factor for the poin: trophy honors.
The latter has recruited very heavily
among the athletes and stands q good
show Of beating out the 18th Regiment.
Those who saw the intercollegiate
games last Saturday in Madison Square
Garden are still trying 10 figure on,
the 1,5O0-yard relay. In the first plaza
there were only three starters-Hsr.
ward, Columbia and Pennsylvania.
Then the committee divided the smsl!
field, so that two heats were necss.
sary. Why? Harvard ran sgsin..
Columbia and was beaten. "Pennsy'
loafed around tho track alone.
The Garden track is large enough %
run more than two relay teams in one
race. In fact, many scratch relays
have been run In which moro than two
teams started, and finished w.thou. sry
trouble.
To top this, the officials permlt..!
Harvard 70 run in the Anal s2ain,.
Columbia and Pennsylvania, atts,
being beaten in the trial heat Why
did they run heats, II the beaten team
was TO be allowed TO run in the final,
Nobody knows. And Harvard cans
within inches Of beating Columbia IA
the final.
At the Barnard meet last Saturday
afternoon In the new 22d Regiment Ar.
mory there were more athletes and Of.
/ ficials than spectators. This always
seems TO follow in schoolboy games
that are held in the afternoons. People
do not seem to take 20 afternoon in
! door games.
/ For the second year, the Hill School,
| of Pottstown, Penn, walked away with
the novice point trophy. Mike Sweeney
certainly produces enough noyices, each
wear. Some Of these noyices are husky
1 youths, weighing 225, 2!O and s5
/ pounds.
One of the surprises of the meet was
! the defeat of Peck, OF the Bloomfeld
II. s., by Smith, of Erasmus Hall.
The Bloomfield boy looked very drawn
when he toed the mark. lie was beaten
in slow time. Previous 20 these games
ne did 4:3s4- for the mile.
/ Another surprise was the defeat o,
/ Bal!eister the Public Schools Athlet,
I League high school half-mile chan.
/ pion and record holder. Ed Garloek,
! a teammate, turned the trick in the
very good time of 2:04. Bloomheld'
! one-mile relay team did not start, ov.
ing 20 the illness Of Cook. the second
best man on the team. Balleister, run
ming anchor on the Morris team, ran a
good quarter. He started about fifteen
yards back Of the leader and just mas'
aged 70 win by an eyelash.
Princeton University ought 20 have
a good one-mle relay team this spring.
With Marty Hayes, indoor national L.
000-yard champion; Billy Moore, the
! junior Metropolitan 440-yard championi
/ Atha, the ex-schoolboy champion, ard
/ Richardson, a 52-second man, their
/ chances are bright.
Hayes has been credited with doins
202 2-5 when he was beaten By John
! Paul Jones in the intercollegiate. and
/ Marty was less than four .rds behind
Jones at the finish. This was in 1912.
i In the same year at the Eastern Olym-
pic tryouts Hayes finished within five
I yards of Sheppard in 1853 2-5. Thls
was done in the first heat.
It looks doubtful about Loughlln Ly'
/ ceum's annual indoor carnival this year,
/ Usually these games have been on tbs
Monday following the University o,
/ Pennsylvania relay. The latter IS Sc:
/ for Friday and Saturday. April % ard
"a. Pete Waters, the Loughlin coseh'
who has been in charge OF the game,
will again be on the Job, II the Loughlin
I people can get together and se,tle.
4 things. The chances are that many OK
the college athletes will appear, espe.
} cially Drew, the worlds grcae'
sprinter, and Kelly, the greatest hur'
dler.
The registration committee Is rw
working along the right lines. AZ rs
last meeting IL suspended one sthl:s
| for false touch-oR and another for
! slugging. The committee deserves
credit for these suspensions. Now, WY
not after bigger gamer
Homer Baker, the English and Amer.
ican half-mile champion, is now DON!
! light training. The chances are tnn
/ he will take a "fyer" In the Mannh'
tan College A. A. games next Tuesdsy
night The Mercury Footer expects 70
start in the 440 and $50 yards Nilitsfy
Athletic League championships on
4. April TO- His foot, which he hurt lss'
summer. appears 10 be in good eonel'
tion. Up 10 this time II has not gwen
him any trouble. A race will positive.
J ly show whether his foot IS o. n. 0'
not
/ The 18th Regiment A. A, for It's a.,
nual spring games, has very sms'
/ programme The games are on sstuI.
/ day evening, March 20, IN II. orn aa
srmory. The events are 100 wards, syV
yards, half mile, one and one-haI, mi,.'
220-yard low hurdles, two-mile bieyeIs
inter-company relay, and wall scar
ing contest, two-man teams.
So far no open event IS on the prO.
I gramme. The athletic committee nsi
tried 10 match Devanny, Leslie az
another runner FOR a two-ml le seIs... sei...