Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-01
NOTED ATHLETES To RUN
IN EXPO CHAMPIONSHIPS
Norman Taber. Abel Kiviat and Ted
Meredith Will Represent
East.
WILL BE WONDERFUL MEET
Stars OF American Track to BE Com
petitors for High Honors-Expect
Records to FaIl-Taber and Kiviat
VIII Compete in Mile Race.

! SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.-Tbe
national championships of the ANA
teur Athletic Association. which are
10 be held next month on the track
at the Panama-Pacific Internationa1
Exposition, will bring to San Fran
| CISCO one of the greatest bands of
athletes that ever set n spike in CAL
ifornin soil. From East, South, West.
northwest and Middle West will come
the men who have been filing the
pages OF the record books with their
wonderful performances. And against
them Will be pitted the stars OF the
Pacific Coast
Undoubtedly the most interesting OF
the numerous stars is Norman Taber
the man who ran the fastest mile ever
timed on human being. Taber left
New YORK yesterday, accompanied by
ms trainer and the Eastern star is
apparently anxious to set the mile
mark bit further away from com
| petitors.
Taber has been one of America a
stars for the past five years. AS a
| student OF Brown University he showed
enough class to entitle him to pla ce
| on the team that represented the
United States in the Olympic games at
Stockholm in 1912. He finished second
In Ensiand'S great runner, Jackson, in
the l,S00-meter race finishing ahead
OF his teammates. Abel Kiviat and John
Paul Jones, tho latter the holder of
| the worlds amateur record at that
time.
The Brown runner was second to
Jones when the Cornell man set his
mark OF Ala rs
Taber was selected as one of the
American Rhodes scholars, and spent
couple of years at Oxford University,
where he was n team mate of Jack
son. He was member of the Oxford
relay team that came to this country
last year and won from Pennsylva MIA
In gruelling contest in which the
finish was so close that there was al
most a riot when the judges awarded
the verdict to the English quartet.
This year Taber has been showing
wonderful form. In the try-outs to
select an Eastern team to journey to
the national championships he won the
mile in the phenomenal time Of 4I5l-5
seconds in spite of a soggy ack That
this performance was not flash in
the pan has been demonstrated by
Taber's record-breaking run Of last
Friday. when he broke all records pro-
fessional and amateur, for the mile,
and finished In 4.12 as.
TED MEREDITH is GOING
WEST TO SHOW SPEED
Another athlete OF world wide fame
is on his way to San Francisco. Ted"
Meredith, who runs for the University
OF Pennsylvania during college SEES
sions. and represents the Meadowbrook
Club in vacation times, is with tho
Eastern team that is headed this way.
Meredith is the holder of the world 8
record for 500 meters, made at tho
Olympic games in 1912. He won that
race from as fine n field of half-milers
as ever toed the scratc CHI.
In the intercollegiate games this
spring Meredith won the quarter and
half mile races in fast times. a feat
that has not been accomplished for
twenty years. He has expressed a
desire to make n try for the quarter
mile record, held by MaNley Long, and
the local directors OF athletics are
eager to give him the opportunity.
Longs record of a seconds was made
on race-track straiShtaway, and 1t
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