New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
History-Making Contests
r Scheduled for This Week
r.,,o,,s Athletes Entered in
Wanamaker and New
York A. c. Events
Bv A. c. Cavagnaro

u;e,orv making competition is in
&c. this week with the annual
,as of the John Wanamaker Com
~.;al Institute and the New York
.ss,otic Club down for decision. The
''.,;,,te contests will again be held in
m.a;sou Square Garden Wednesday
ming The New York games will be
,..;asd in the spacious 22d Regiment
.s..,rv on Washington Heights, Sat-
u.day evening
although the institute attraction
,.,ders considerably on schoolboy COM
nst;t;on, there will be several cham
a;ooship events, military drills and spe-
s;sI contests to attract great crowd
similar TO that of last wear. In these
r.mss will be seen Joie w. Ray and Ed
S;n H. Fall and other country famous
middle distance runners IN special
,hyee.ouarter- mile run. A new record
Cor the distance is looked for.
Raw has always performed at his best
in this city on the Garden track, dug
..aans;derably to the allowing of spiked
>
vho is anxious to dethrone Ray as the
distance king from the West. Among
the other starters will be Jack R. Sell
OPS. OPS of the New York Athletic Club,
and Mike A. Devaney, now with the
Boston navy yard.
other Stars Coming
Another Western star who may be
,aen in the contests is Dean Letter, of
the Mckinley High School, OF st. Louis,
schoolboy OF great promise as an all
around champion. Letter is eligible
for the 7O-yard scratch event, and is
likely to match his speed with the
many local boys who are to start.
The institute programme, which is an
especially long one, includes five cham
pionships. They are the Intersectiopal
Athletic League road race Of five miles,
ever a course extending north and
around Central Park; the Intersec-
tional Athletic League medley relay
race with five teams starting; one mile
Public Schools Athletic League cham
rionship relay race. five mile senior
indoor run of the Metropolitan Asso-
CATION, an4 the 1,000-yard junior ma
sonal indoor run of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union.
The Pelham Bay Naval Reserve team
which recently meet defeat at the
hands of the 59th Coast Artillery Corps
is determined to gain revenge in re-
Law race at enc mile. Pelham will be
able to use several new sprinters, but
in Leslie, Haskell, Callahan, Shanahan
and Savage face a team of former local
stars that will be hard to beat.
A race that should prove second in
Importance TO the three-quarter-mile
speciality is the 1,000-yard junior run.
Named among the starters are Sellers,
whose belated spurts have just failed
to nick rivals at the -ape; Edward
Garvey, senior two-mile titleholder;
Harry Brown, Baltimore Tech, and R.
r. Sheppard and Charles Shaw, both Of
Columbia University. Sellers appears
to have the edge on his rivals and If
fpvored by turn of good luck should
crown himself champion.
Will Cater to Enlisted Men
The officials of the New York Ath-
men in the service in its programme.
The majority of the races will be of a
military nature, with exhibitions in
hand grenade throwing and an equip
ment>race.
However, contests that should appeal
to the onlookers most interestingly
should be the events for enlisted men
IN large numbers. One of the innova
tions-they will prove SO to the ma
jonty of spectators-will be a medi-
cine ball contest of twenty-man teams,
Who will line up behind each other and
pass the ball between their legs along
lae ground. Others will be one-mile
relay team Of eight men, each running
10 yards; a 10O-yard dash of eight
naa teams and a one-miIe run, handi-
up.
Registered amateur and schoolboy
ashletes will also De given an oppor-
unity to display their speed. The
Amateur Athletic Union events COM
Fise a 75-yard run, handicap; two
nile walk, handicap. and an o80-yard
iuns nshandicap. Schoolboy athletes will
iompete in a 600-yard novice run and
the 22d Regiment soldiers will engage
N loo-yard run open only to its
members
There is certain to be an especially
arge crowd of enlisted men on hand,
and to care for their wants the club
viii throw open the balcony of the
aruory for their convenience. Although
no onicial announcement has yet been
made, it is reported that the Winged
seot organization will add the net
sfohts to the many thousand of dollars
me club has given to purchase athletic
e1U1Dmppt for ho on11iorS