Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-27
ANNOUNCE PLANS
OF COLLEGE MEET
Details of Annual Indoor Attn
Ietic Competition Have
Been Arranged.
COMMITTEE TO CONVENE

nLANs for the second annual indoor
meet Of the intercollegiate As
ISOLATION Of Amateur Athletes Of
America. to be held in Madison Square
Garden on March 4. were announced
yesterday by Romeyn Berry, man
ager OF the meet.
Twelve events will make up the
card. with relay races predominatiny
Profitlng by the experience Of the
first meet, the association has ahau-
doned many of the short-distance
/ races and has substituted therefor
contests of greater length. Further
more. the track will measure ten laps
to the mile. In the 1915 meet it was
twelve laps to the mile. The increase
in size viii cut down to married
extent the sharpness of the corners.
and none OF the sl1idding that marred
the 1915 meet Is expected.
There will be five relay races.
| team race of two and fourteenth
miles. a seventy-five-yar dash ana
seventy -five-yard high hurdles races
in the list of track events. The fed
events will be the shotput, pole vault.
high jump and broad jump.
| All of the relay races will be for
four-man teams. There win be ore
| of eight laps. one of twelve laps, one
of twenty-four laps and one OF forty
eight laps. In addition there viii be
| medley relay, with the first man rum
ming four laps. the second two lapa.
the third six laps and the fourth eight
laps.
The team race will be scored BY the
| same system as that used in fhe
| intercollegiate cross-country chQ14e
pionships. All the field events va
be team competitions, with teams u1
five men taking part.
.ss
Details Of Events Announced BY zian-
sxement.
lin all the relay races a baton must
/ be passed, as required by Olympic
rules. They will all be run on the
oval track. The dash and hurdle
races. however. will be over the
straightaway, down the center Of the
Garden floor. The games viii begin
at o'clock, with the exception of the
pole vault, which viii start half ~
hour earlier.
In the instructions to managers of
teams sent out by Mr.. Berry one
item is of particular interest. y
reads:
Managers are reminded that the
indoor meeting is something q
social event. as well as an atnletlf
contest, and that the audience and
the athletes are closer together and
on a bit more intimate terms than :
the case in outdoor competition- tf
is consequently urged that particular
pains be taken TO see that the con
testants were clean and adeqnate CO
| Tunes
4 All prizes will be In the form q ;
bronze statnette--a reproduction q
the Bcrhese gladiator. One OF fhe4z,
suitably inscribed. viii be given -
each member of the teams fiulNnst1H
first, second or third in each event
At the close OF the meeting an en-
tertainment will be held, to whtch
the association invites the contest
ants, managers and coaches togethez
with its former athletes and officers
Supper viii be served, and there will
be shown motion pictures Of the
fortieth annual field meeting al
FRANKLIN Field. Philadelphia, iast
May.
Penn and Cornell Meet on the Be1rds
To-day.
i CORNELL and the University of
M Pennsylvania win try conclusions
in the Triangular College Chess
League tournament. beginning At the
rooms of the Progressive Chess Ci1n
today at New York; 1t VIII not pc
lfhree-cornered affair. as heretofoFe,
as Brown University sent word TO the
managers in New York that team
would not be sent this year. city
College is prepared to substftute
team for that of Brown, but Feuusyl-
vania raised objections and the an
nual contest viii resolve itself Into
duel between Cornell and FennsTi~
vauia whose teams divided all or the
points a year ago. Pennsylvalila VIII
have three of her last years team o5
| four in line whereas Cornell VIII
have only one veteran. The two lists
filed include the following players:
Corneii--J Grossman, 1915, Az -
Warshow, 1915, Arts: ]. H Barke-
Chem; H. Berman. 1917. c. z.
| Pennsylvania-H. Kline, Vet, lslk
b. winkelman. Law, 1915 j. Davis
Law, 1916; z. S. jackson. Law, lslf.
of the Pennsylvania team Harry
Kline has held the New England
championship and 81 Wnkeliaesz -
formerly played for Harvard. Davis
J won ali of his games last year, and
Jackson, the new member OF the
team. defeated Kosfic, the Serbian
champion. in a recent Simultaneous
exhibition in Philadelphia.
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Conference to Agree ON Universsi De1ni-
tion to Meet Today.
BEGINNING today and coutinuink
} ID throughout the week. sevcral
meetings, having bearing on the
future conduct OF all branches @
| amateur athletics. national and col
legiate. will be held in New York city