Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-24
M. A. A. TROPHY STAKE
IN LABOR DAY EVENTS;
GERMANTOWN'S RECORD
Hustling Club Only Organiza-
tion of Middle Atlantic
Association to Win Prize
Twice-Entries for Meet
CRITICISM OF GALLAGHER

The Germantown Boys Club is the only
athletic organization which has won the
perpetual trophy of the Middle Atlantic
Association twice. This trophy was first
put up for competition in 1910 and was
won that year by Shanahan with
total of "a points. The trophy will be
contested for at the championship games
on Labor Day. Those games will be
under the auspices of the MeadowbrooK
Club, which insures their success.
The games will be conducted on the
Central High School field. In 1911 the
Pittsburgh A. A. won the championship
trophy with "a points; In 1912 the Aquinas
Club won 1t with H points and in l9lo
Germantown Boys Club won it with 30
points. Last year Germantown Boys
Club totaled the enormous number of 81
points and quite naturally they won.
Invitations have been extended to every
good athlete in America to compete In the
special events in these games, but so far
no one has accepted. Taber has notihed
the management that he will not run
and Tied" Meredith has not informed
the club of his intention. Entries FOR
these games must be made this week.
Some unsportsmanlike conduct was
shown at the Shanahan annual games
held on the Pennsylvania Railroad Y. M.
c. A. field. 44th street and Parkside ave-
nue., last Saturday
Johnnie Gallagher, winner of seventh
place IN the last Olympic marathon, and
hero in hundreds of contests In this city
and others was so discouraged that he
could hardly run his race. Gallagher
started In the three-mile open event and
was scratch. When he made the first lap
past the grandstand cries OF Hey, you
yellow" Come on. boys, beat him; he's
a quitter," and other calls made II de-
cidedly unpleasant for the great athlete
and others.
Gallagher may be yellow, he may be
anything the spectators call him, but II is
scarcely fair to give vent TO such harsh
opinions at big open meet II is safe
bet that there was not one OF the hooting
crowd who had thing against him.
Gallagher has had much 10 do with
popularizing sport in Philadelphia, par
ticularly distance running. He has won
the national hVe-mile distance title. He
turned that trick nicely at Pittsburgh sew
eral years ago and against the best field
In the country. That doesn't sound yell
low. He has won hundreds Of other dis
tances.
is there any man living who can finish
a nve-mlle grind and against the pest
and yet be called timiG? Doesn't II take
the most grueling effort-mental and
physical-to come through such a dis
tance, particularly when one hits Il up at
a 25-minute clip7 Win a man who meets
the best runners In the world Ia the full
fiedged Marathon (2e miles sS5 yards) show
the white feather? Gallagher was sew
enth In the Olympic Marathon held at
Stockholm, and but for an unforeseen
accident probably would have won that
race. An athlete Isn't always ht and
certainly he cannot be expected TO finish
II his physical condition is not right A
man who Is out OF training cannot be
asked 20 run q hard, true race. This is
Gallagher's fault, Il Is true, but he should
not be called a gutter simply because he
stops during particularly hard run.