New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Bronze Trophy
ToBeO Offered
In Club Meet
Leading Middle Distane.
Runners Invited to r..
ter St. Antony Games
By A. C. Cavagnaro

Invitations to eight of the mo..
prominent middle distance rupras'
have been extended by the KNIGHTS :.
st. Antony to compete in the bis.us:.
Suburban Quarter, which will fes,n-'
the clubs annual games at the ar,s
Regiment armory, Brooklyn, on q.
evening of April 80. A new $500 b,o,.
trophy will be competed for. as s.e ~
Irish-American Athletic Club cax.:as :as
off one of these trophies in 1917 uh.u
Joe Higgins defeated the field of ssasi asa
This trophy must be won bv S1al
three times and is to become the nrns s'
erty Of the athlete that scores u.
largest number of points while ram.
senting club. 1t has ALWAYS bass
much sought for, as it attracted s.ss
athletes from all parts of the countra
The Knights athletic COMMITTEES hss.
forwarded invitations to Ted Mered;,h
Meadowbrook Club; James J. O'Brisn
Loughlin Lyceum; Jack Sellers. New
York A c.; Loren Murchison, the s.
Louis A. A. double national cham.
pion; Cornelius Shaughnessy, Knights
of st. Antony, and holder of both the
junior and senior 440-yard nationsl
championships; George w. DerneT
who is now affiliated with the Knights
of ST. Antony; Homer Baker, Glencoe
A. c., and Frank Shea, University q;
Pittsburgh, the intercollegiate cham.
pion at quarter of a mile.
The other fixture on the programme
is the Monsignor O'Hare one-mile M.
lay race, in which all the big club and
college teams in the East will be repre.
sented. AS in the suburban quarter
the teams will compete for sim
trophy, which must be won by cluh
three times.
The event is open to Catholic club
and college teams, and the committee
plans to get the best teams to com.
pete for the prize. The Knights
Paulist Athletic Club and Louehlin
Lyceum of this city have already as
sured the committee they will start
their best teams, while invitations
have been sent TO Georgetown Uni
versity, Fordham University and HOLY
Cross College. Efforts are also being
made to obtain the entries of Brook.
lyn College, st. Johns College and
Catholic University of Washington.
The handicap and other races on the
programme promise to furnish keen
competition. Max Bohland, the cross
country champion of last year. will
Millrose A. A, in the two-naiie run
while Carl Erdman and William Mas,
sey, both of Princeton, will measure
strides with Jack Eller in the seventy.
yard high hurdle. The other events
are 75-yard dash, 440-yard run, hand.
cap; 1,000-yard run, handicap; one
mile run, novice and three-mile bicycle
race, handicap.
Entries will be received at the A. A.
U. Office, 290 Broadway, up to April rs
Champions will not be lacking in the
Metropolitan Association boxing cham.
plonshlp tourney, which will be held
at the Madison Square Garden concert
hall next Thursday and Saturday even
lngs. Practically every club in the citv
will be represented
Sam Lagonia, of the Bronxdale Ath
letic Club, will attempt TO emulate
John Gaddi, st. Bartholomew Athletic
Club, who won three titles in 1916
entering in the 1853, ITS and heavy.
weight classes.
The stars IN some of the classes are:
125 Id. Class-Charles Pilkington.
Union Settlement A. c.; Archie Walk
er, Rutgers Gym. Irving Jampol.
Bronxdale A. c.; Jack Hausner, CLARK
House; j. Celler, Pastime A. c., and
Arthur Hirschberger, Union Settle
ment.
1876 lb. Class-Ed. Crozier. Bronx
dale A. c.; Frank Cassidy, Ozanam As
sociation; Jos. Sullivan, Trinity Club:
Frank Varona, Bronxdale A. c.; Abe
Beri. Clark House; Phil Kanowitz,
Pastime A. C.
l45 ID. Class-Dave Rosenberg, Glen
coe A. c.; Herman Epstein, Rut-
gers Gym; Rudolph Bokma, Pastime
A. c.; Louis E. Aldrin, Norwegian
Turn and A. c.; Nick Florio, Paulist
A. c.
158 lb. Class-sam Lagonie, Bronx
dale A. c.; Andy O'Boyle. Bronxdale
A. e.; Chas. Okun, Clark House; John
r. Bradley, Bush Terminal Y. NJ. C..
A.; A. Silverstein, Union Settlement
A. C.
A ten-milc race for the local men
who will start in the Boston A. A,
marathon on April 10 will be held
from the Morningside Athletic Club
at 3 O'Clock this afternoon. Terry
Halpin, Harry Spies, Hans Schuster
Jack Costello and Max Tea, who are
among the twenty men of this city to
start in the Hub event, plan to 60
over the Morningside course this after
noon.