The sun., 1916-02-03
FAST MILE MADE BY
NATIONAL CHAMPION
In Trial for Baxter Event
Here Chicago Man Does
4.20 3-5.
TRACK AND FIELD NOTES

Joie Ray. the great miller OF the ILL.,
nois A. e. and the national mile cham
pion, will compete in the games OF the
New York A. G. In the Twenty second
Regiment arinory next Tuesday despite
a report that he is Ill and unfit for COM
petition. on hearing this report Paul
Pilgrim of the New York 4. G. wired to
Ray and received "A telegram from him
last night saying that he was in good
condition and would run at the Boston
\. \. meet on Saturday Ray stated
that he would arrive In New York on
sunday and Pilgrim made ARRANGEMENTS
for him TO take a couple of spins on the
Twenty-second Regiment floor between
that day and the night OF the games.
Ray recently ran trial mile
IN 4 20 as for the Baxter mile. This is
remarkable going for AN indoor track
and up to the best form shown by the
oonqueror OF Norman Taber 1t is by
no means certain. however. that by re-
peating IL he will win "a leg on the cup.
Willie Gordon OF the New York a, e.
and Mike Devanney Of the Millros. A.
a. are depended upon to make the lln-
uo!s A. q. man hustle to the finish
The other contestants will he Sid Leslie
Of the Long Island y. c. and Mahoney
of the Boston 4. A. Gordon is running
especially well. He ran fast three
quarters Of a mile a, the Save a Home
meet and will h. better suited at "A
mile thar III the mile and half special
at the Millrose gaines where he ran
third to overton and Devanney.
ON account of the many special events
| these games are attracting as much at
tentiou a. the Millross u"et WHICH
jammed Madison square Garden TO the
doors Members of the New York A.
- ,..LA l.... nd Al as.HN
many Of the reserved seats have been
/ sold There is not quite t.rc seating ca
/ pacity in the arnory that there IL In
the Garden. but the New York A. g. Of
/ fc.als are mont TO put up with n
smaller attendant. 90 that tn" men
may compete under more favorable con
ditiuns.
Among tn" PerusN iVania entries Tor
tie games a." =. Howard Berry. wiz
B her of tn. Ieutathlor. and ~. borizas,
/ the strong man. The latter IL entered IN
/ ,he shotpu'. sufficient evidence that the
injury he suffered recently while wres.-
/ ling was mot very serious.
! An international flavor has been given
| to- the race for the Buerieyer trophy at
500 yards by the nomination of Jack
! Tressidsr Of Toronto. Tress.drr. the
, fastest quarter miller on the Canadian
side of the border will meet Meredith.
7 idlpin, 'aIuWtl higgins ana Moole III
the Buermeyer special.
/ Howard /. Drew. holder OF III"
worlds record FOR loo Yards. has en-
tered in the 20 ward dash At the games
p Of the seventy -iirs, Regiment To- be h"ld
/ in the arnury. Park avenue and Thirty
! fourth street. to-night Ray Morse, vi"
! beat n m for second place i'm the Mill
! ruS. special 20. also has entered and
! among the other forty spriut.r> engaged
are Frank l. stephenson Of tho Trinity
| Club and \. l.. E.nge!s Of Brooklyn.
| Mike DcVanney VIII oe the scratch
/ man ~ the 200 yard hand cap. corc"i-
/ ing starts to Willie Kelly, who won the
! junior LOCO championship last Satur-
| day; W. Adams. {. Wal;h.r. j. II
. - D'Ncill and others A. Truchcl Of Buf-
falo. reported to bc on" of IN. fastest
I Nat floor riders In the world, viii com.
! pete TN tho two mile bicycle scratch race
! az tinst E-ldi" Goodwin, ". Van den
| Dries. A. q. Lake. Jerry Nuuziatta aud
: a number Of others Homer Rsker will
start IN AT least two of tho events open
. to members of the regiment