The sun., 1919-09-07
CELEBRITIES GALORE
IN BIG TITLE MEET
Athletic Class Gathering for
National Championships
on Franklin Field.
RECORDS MAY FALL
Banner Entries in Sprints,
Hurdles, Pole Vault, One
and Five Mile Runs.
by sPRINTER.

tional senior track and held champion
ships at Philadelphia show up at Frank
lin Field next Saturday the title meet
will go down in athletic history as one
of the greatest in the annals of sport
From north, east, south and west the
celebrities are heading for Philadelphia
and there is no doubt that the meet will
equal any of the championships staged
before the war and will surpass most
of them.
The 100 yard high hurdle race, for
Instance. will bring together the three
greatest timber toppers the world has
ever seen-Bob Simpson. Earl Thomp-
son and Fred Kelly, Simpson, the king
of fence fiiers and holder of the worlds
records for both low and high hurdles,
will be pushed to the limit by Thompson.
Though Kelly is said to have fallen off
somewhat from the form he displayed
in 1912, when he won the Olympic cham
pionshp, the Californian may occasion j
surprise.
Down Boston way-Thompson now
represents Dartmouth in collegiate COM
petition and the Boston A. A in open
A. A. U. events-ttney go so far as to
say Thompson is going to hand Simp-
son the surprise of his gay young life.
Hub athletic experts think that Earl
certainly will take Bob's measure.
Simpson should win.
In the recent interallied games in
France Lieut.. Simpson showed he was
at top form and we are inclined to
string along with those who believe the
lanky Missourian will lift the champion
ship crown from off the dome of Thomp-
son, who captured the title last year
| When two such evenly matched men as
Simpson and Thompson meet condition
and luck both play prominent parts.
slmpson at his best can beat Thompson
at his best. should Bob be the least bit
off next Saturday Earl will be returned
the winner.
Under right weather and track condi-
tons 1t would not be surprising to see
the winner of the high hurdles next
Saturday equal Simpsons worlds record
of IA 3-5 seconds.
Marc Wright, whose former worlds
record of 10 feet 2A inches, made at
Cambridge in 1912, was beaten fort
night ago by Frank Foss of Chicago,
who cleared the bar at the new record
height OF IS feet 9-16 inches, will try
conclusion with Foss in the pole vault
next Saturday, and the duel may result
in another mark. as Wright himself
recently cleared IS feet and is in his
1912 form.
Foss and Wright will not have all the
jousting to themselves and neither is
certain of winning. Five times this
reason Ralph Spearow of the Multono-
mali A. c. of Portland. Ore, has valuted
" feet incnes or better. and on July
topped the IS foot mark by * of an
inch.
A Dangerous Westerncr.
II would not be at all surprising to see
| Foss and Wright bend the knee to
Spearow, although jumpers and vaulters
say that the climate in Oregon is more
| conducive - good jumping than the
Eastern ozone and athletes invariably
are enabled to show better performances
there.
| Three Chicago vaulters, Buck, Knoureck
and Graham also may upset predictions,
Buck. the present national champion,
and Knoureck, who finished second to
Buck last season, both recently were
beaten by Graham in the Central Asso-
citation championships. The greatest
galaxy of vaulters that ever faced the
crcssbar together will strive for the
laurels at Franklin Field next Saturday.
There will be thrilling struggle ia
! the mile run in which Joie Ray, the
| phenomenal little Illinois A. C. miller
will measure strides with Eddie Fall.
| former Conference champion; Clyde
| Stout, winner OF the 1900 meter race at
| the Interallied meet in France Mike
Devanney. Metropolitan champion Jim
my Connolly, New England champion /;
| Bob Crawford of the New York A. c. (;
Eddie Meehan, of Notre Dame. AMI
others. Ray never will get a better
chance to wreck Norman Taber's world $
figures of 1912 3-5 than he will have
next Saturday.
| Test for Pores.
With Hannes Kolehmainen, Max Bob
land, Pat Flynn, Harold Weeks and
Floyd Payne, who is believed to be un-
beatable by his Multnomah A. c. club
mates, to push him, Charlie Pores, the
national five mile champion and Ameri-
can record holder, will be given grand
opportunity to show whether he is cap
able of Keeling of five miles in "a 80 4-5.
the American figures which were given
him by the A, A. u.
The validity OF the record oft has
been questioned, as 1t is alleged that
| through a mistake of the officials Pores
covered full lap short Of the required
distance. Neither before nor since has
he approached the figures the A. A. u.
| credited him with. Unless he can do
around "a 40 over the splendid Franklin
Field course and under the competition
that will be furnished him next Satur-
| day more doubt will be thrown upon
mis- alleged record.
There never was a fleeter field of
sprintero to face astarter than will meas
ure strides in the 100 and 220 yard
dashes at the coming title meet. Among
| the AS seconds men who are expected
( to toe the mark In the 100" are Charlie
] Paddock, Billy Hayes. Loren Murchlson,
| Harry Williams and NJ. NJ. Kirksey, Joe
Locmis, George Schiller, ]. r. Patter-
son and Pete White. All are good for
"evens." If Sol Butler, the Dubuque
| collegIan, starts another 40 second
man viii be added to the field.
Paddock, the California collegian who
won both sprints at the interallied cham
pionships, never has been beaten. If he
completes next Saturday, however, he
will be up against the stiffest COMPETE
ton he ever has faced and will be lucky
II he energies with his escutcheon I'M
| furnished.
| Dsew's ConGueror Coming.
It will take better than "evens" to beat
Murchison and Hayes. Harry Williams
who twice beat Drew in 1915 but proved
| a oliver" in the nationals that year
twice has done . As seconds this season
and may deliver the goods at the title
meet this time.
The same corps of sprinters that will
start In the 100" will have Frank Shea
the former intercollegiate quarter mile
champion, to beat in the 220 yard event
The race, II is expected, will be fought
out among Paddock, Murchison, Hayes
| and Shea II HAYES Is within striking