New Britain herald., 1917-08-18
ST. JOSEPH'S A. A.
 BIG TRACK MEET
National Champion Athletes to Compete in Berlin on Sept. 15

The St. Joseph Athletic association of this city is engineering one of the largest track meets ever held in New England on the 18th of September. The meet will be conducted at the Berlin Fair grounds on the final day of the fair which falls on Saturday. This athletic society is trying it's best to put athletics on a healthy basis in this city and this supreme effort
 which takes the form of monster meet should be crowned with glorious success
 The events, which are open to any amateur registered by the American Athletic union, will be numerous. There will be 100 and 22O yard dashes; the quarter mile, half mile and mile runs; a five mile run; hun ming high jump; running broad
 jump; an open relay race of 8S0 yards; 12 pound shot put; 75 yard
 dash for local boys under 75 pounds,
 100 yard dash for local boys under 16 years of age, and 100 yard dash
 open to all local amateur athletes and
 lastly a relay race between the clubs
 of St. Joseph's and the Independent A. c. and the Stafford Springs A. A.
 The prizes for the events will be very costly and ornate. Quadruple plate
 silver cups will be given to the Win- i ners of first, second and third places in the open events and in the city ] championships Gold medals will be 1 awarded to the winner of the boys 1 races, silver medals will be given to all second place men and bronze 1 medals will be given for third place.
 Four gold medals will be given to the members of the winning relay team in the open relay and in the l special relay cups will be given to the
 winning team. The entries for the
 meet will close on Wednesday, sep-
 tember and all desiring to com
 pete should communicate with Fran
 cis J. Kiernan of 1O5 Bassett street. There will be a galaxy of the fast
 est men in this part of the country l competing in this meet Bernie Wei
 CTS of the N. Y A. c. and a 10 second
 man, who competed in the last meet held under the auspices of the St.
 Joseph's club last fall, has promised to put in an appearance. Roy Morse l of the Salem A. c. of New York city | and another 10 second man will also
 be in the sprints. At the present
 time he is conditioning himself for the
 national championships to be held in
 St. Louis shortly. Andy Kelly, the l famous Holy Cross sprinter, is ex- 1 pected. Sandy Evans of the Salem
 Crescents of New York city and who 1 has a record of I minute 59 seconds
 for the half mile will be started in l this event against Joe Higgins of l Holy Cross who is widely known for | the excellent showing he made during | the past winter track season in New | York city In the mile run James A. 1 O'Sullivan of the l. A. A. c. will be l among the stars. He is already in | town and is in training. James | Plant of the Long Island A. c. who l holds a record fo 27 minutes and 1 32 seconds for the five mile stretch l and who competed at the fair grounds l last year will be seen again this year. 1 Jimmy Roche of Yale, the state 1 champion at the quarter and William | Stills the half miller of the New Ha- ven A. A. and George Holmquest the ] star shot butter of the New Haven