The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-24
200 ATHLETES IN 4TH MEET HERE.
Seaside Park Carnival Promises to Bring Record Breaking
 Entry List.

stores of the city will participate in the A. A. U. games at Seaside park on July Fourth morning, according to announcement made today. All the city championships will be at
 stake and the committee in charge is l sparing no efforts in obtaining prizes
 that will attract the best that there is an athletic line in this city. Par 1 ticularly pleasing is the manner in which entries from the stores and factories are coming in.
 Entries have already been received
 from the Remington Arms, Bullard American Chain Co.,, Warner Bros,
 Yost Singers and others.
 Charlie Paddock, of the University
 of Southern California, has proven
 himself to be one of the classiest
 sprinters in the country today by his
 fine work in the sprints at the A. E..
 F. try-outs last week. In winning his
 heat in the 10O-meter run he came
 within fifth of a second of the worlds record, and equalled the time of Ralph Craig when the latter won
 the worlds sprint championship at the Olympic games at Stockholm, 1912. The following day he equalled the long standing worlds record for the 2O0-meter run. The record for the event is 21 3-5, made by Archie Hahn at the Olympic games at St. Louis, 1914.
 Although Jimmy Henigan, the Bos- ton cross-country runner, was sea- ! sick from the time the Great North ern passed Sandy Hook until sight of land at Brest, it did not seem to affect his running, as he was able to qualify | vi ,o,V- athletes to compete in the cross country run at the interallied cham pionships the latter part of this week,
 as a result of trials held last Sat urday.
 Lieut. Fred W. Kelly, the Olympic high hurdle champion, who was not l in the very best of condition when he left New York on June f, has evil dently regained his old-tinne form, as he defeated Waldo Ames, last year conference champion over the high
 sticks, and took second place to the
 worlds record holder, Bob Simpson. Pat Coyne, the former Holy Cross Lyceum marathon runner, writes from Marseilles, France, that he is training hard for the modified mara thon race at the inter-allied athletic games. This race takes place on July
 4, and he says he hopes to celebrate Independence Day by winning. Coyne was in the service for twenty-five 0 months at Camp Kearney, Cal, but is abroad now in the capacity of K. of c. athletic director.
 The junior championship commit tee of the Metropolitan Association Is l zIrs., i11 tr clubs purchasing ten or more tickets for the junior track and field cham pionship meet at Stevens Institute
 Field, Hoboken, next Saturday, pro- | vided these tickets are purchased be- fore the day of the games Clubs expecting to have a large delegation of rooters should avail themselves of this offer.
 The physician attending Jack Sel- l Iers, the New York A. C., mid-d1s | lancer, who was operated on last | week, reported that his condition was very satisfactory.
 1 one of the best sprinters in interscho- l lastic circles last year, and credited | with several ten-one performances | for the century, will try for title in the junior Met" 100 at Stevens Field
 in New York next Saturday. He is the son of John F. .Dwyer, former
 New York State boxing commissioner. T. w. Murphys Grand Circuit sta- ble of 32 head are now at the Cleve- l land track.
 The Chestnut gelding. Irwin Aubrey, that has been raced some at the | Charles River speedway. is in the mar ket.
 The Hillgrove (R- I.) Association will hold second race meeting in the third week of August.
 S. A. Fletcher of Indianapolis, who owns Peter the Great, 2:07 IA, ex- poets to win some of the Futurities this season with Brother Peter, 2:16 3-4, a 3-year-old that has trotted in 2:15 in his work this season, covering the last quarter at a 2:07 clip.
 CREE DEFEATS GIBBONS.
 Pittsburgh, June 24-Harry Greb