Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
avery BRUNDAGE
VICTORIOUS IN
NATIONAL meet
Wins Highest Amateur AthIet.
iC Hon0rS of Nation at the
Great Lakes Carnival;
Canadian Close.

Great Lakes, Ill.,, Sept. 23.-In a
remarkable test of endurance, Avery
Brundage, a veteran star of the
Chicago Athletic association, won
the highest individual amateur ath-
letic honors of the nation today
when he carried off the all-around
championship, the closing event of
the three-day national Amateur
Athletic union outdoor track and
field carnival at the Great Lakes
naval station. Brundage won the
premier honors in the national
games at Newark in 1916 and in
the meet at Birmingham, Ala, in
1914. And today's victory ended
his unusual athletic career, as he
declared he would never compete
again.
His triumph was achieved by
stamina and wonderful versatility,
for he did not win as many first
places as E. J. Thompson, a cadet
in the royal air force of Toronto,
Canada. The Chicagoan, however,
finished we'll up among the leaders
in the ten events. He won the shot
put and 56-pound and scored a dead
heat in the mile walk.
All Exhausted. ..
Nine men competed in the Cruel
ling seven-hour test and all finish
ed, but they were exhausted at the
finish. Brundage scored total of
of 6708, six points on the basis of
a possible 10000. ]. Hellum, Nor
wegian athlete, representing the
Pastime Athletic club of New York,
was second with 6,149 points, al
though he did not win a single in
dividual contest. Thompson, who
won four individual events of the
ten, was third with 5,152 points.
Earl Gilfllan of Great Lakes, a
former Notre Dame star; Edward
Knourek of Great Lakes, ]. R.
Fritts of New York, Lieut.. Carl
Buck of Kelly Field, Lieut.. N. P.
Bluett of Camp Hancock, Ga, and
w. E. Bartels of the University of
Pennsylvania finished in the order
named.
The men competed in ten events:
The 100-yard dash, shot put, run
ming high jump, half-rile walk,
hammer throw, pole vault, 100 high
hurdles, 56pound weight, running
broad jump and one-mile run.
Thompson accumulated an impos-
ing early lead in the all-around
events, and led the field after the
fir.t four events had been decided,
Brundage counted heavily in the
weight events, however, and he
srrang a surprise by walking a dead
heat with ], R. Fritts, unattached,
former New York Athletic club
competitor in the halfmile "hike."
His well-rounded performance is
shown by his record for the tep
events of two frsts, a dead heat.
two seconds, a triple tie and second,
one third, a quadruple tie for third,
a fifth and victory in one of the
three heats in which the 100-yard
dash was run off.
Great Lakes naval training station
won the 440-yard relay. Pelham
Bay naval training stations fleet
middle distance men carried their
blue colors to victory irf both the
8S0-yard and one-mile events.
Summaries:
44O-yard relay: Won by Great Lakes
dover, Erickson. Cass and Murchinson);
Chicago A. A., second; Pittsburgh Schol-
astic A. A., third. Only three teams
started. Time: IA rs.
Four-mile relay: Won by Illinois A.
C. (Kochanski. Gerald, O'Donnell and
Ray); Pelham Bay, second Great Lakes,
third Only three teams started. Time:
1895.
One-mile relay: Won by Pelham Bay
(Desch Ferrck, Dernell and O'Brien);
Meadowbrook club, Philadelphia, second;
Federal Rendezvous, Brooklyn, third;
Brooklyn Scholastic A. A, fourth. Time:
1925
The Ss0-yard relay: Won by Pelham
Bay (Desch, Smith. Dernell and Clark;
Federal Rendezvous, second; Chicago
A. A., third; Great Lakes, fourth. Time:
1871 s-5.
Two-mile relay: Won by Illinois A
c. johnson, Furerstein, O'Donnel. Ray);
Pelham Bay second; Meadow Brook club
third; Great Lakes, fourth, Time:
SIT 2-5