New-York tribune., 1918-07-24
Seven Athletes
Likely to Lose
Junior tiles
Protests Filed With Local
Headquarters Over Eligi-
bility of Competitors
Bv A. c. Cavagnaro

Tn. disqualification of seven athletes,
.,.oral Of whom won titles, is expected
- result of protests that have been
s,.d with the local authorities over the
.rsibility of competitors who took part
y .he Junior track and filed champion
.,rs Of the Metropolitan Association
...;.h were held by the Knights Of Co.
,rnbus at Celtic Park last Sunday. 1t
.ooears as if the championship COM
a;.tse of which Gerald Norman is
,h.;rman, is responsible for the mixup.
IN regard to eligibility for champion
hin games the rules state that an
.,hl.te must be a member of club
.,r.s months prior to the title games.
In nrotesting the majority of the ath-
lstes, members of the Mohawk Athletic
r,rh Of the Bronx. contend that the
committee permitted athletes to repre-
..r+ clubs that were not members the
,.reth Of time as stipulated by the
niles. Apparently the blame reverts
tully upon the shoulders of the cham
,;onship committee, as had the ath-
stes' affiliations been investigated as
;ar as the period which the rules state
their ineligibility would have been
ouickly determined.
Athletes Are Protested
According to the protests filed the
a..;sions of the championship COM
u;tt.e will principally affect both the
p.ulist and Glencoe Athletic clubs.
which organizations finished first and
,scond for the team honors. Before
N. starting gun was fired on Sunday
statements were spread by several ath-
lstes that they would protest the run
r;rg Of number of athletes, If they
,ucceeded in winning titles or scoring
nonts. Several protests are now IN
,hs hands of the committee and others
are likely to follow.
Three athletes have been named as
not being members Of the Glencoe ATM
letic Club for three months before the
games They are Eddie Aosmer, ).
Takasch and H. knoesel. Inc three-
months' rule is a boomerang for both
Hosmer Sr and Takasch, for as early as
last Nav they respectively represented
S,u,vesant High School and Fordham
coliere. of which they were students.
Knoesel it is said, has not been attll-
ated With the Glencoe club for three
months.
Should all three athletes be declared
;rol;r;ble the club will lose 10 of the
% points it scored in the meet. Hoe.
mer won the 220-yard title run and
dnished third in the 100yard run.
Takasch finished fourth in the 220-yard
DASH, while Knoescl was third in the
22O-yard low hurdle race.
The Paulist Athletic Club has four
athletes whose relationship with the
club, it is asserted, has not covered a
period of three months. One is A. g..
besch, winner of the 220-yard hurdle
race, who until only about one month
ago was a student at St. Benedict's
Prep. Jersey City. Another is T; n.
Cooke, jr., an oldtime Paulist athlete,
who, it is said, joined the Paulist club
the shot-put event. Then Jimmy
Toohey's star ding with the club is also
questioned, while it is declared that
Eddie Farrell, who was fourth in the
running broad jump. has not been a
Paulst member for three months.
The championship committee will un-
doubtedy call a special session of its
members in order to straighten out the
tangle and dispose of the protests. Ac-
cording to several athletes the expul-
sion Of the questionable runners will
give the Glencoe organization the title
Of team championship by l or points.