New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
New York A.C. 4
Makes Sweep
In Senior Meet
More Than $4,000 Watch
Ath letes Perform on
New Pershing Field
BY A. C. CAVAGNARO


The New York Athletic Club team
walked off" with the point prize in
the annual senior Metropolitan Associ-
alton track and feld championships
which were held on the new PershiuS
nothing but field day for the Winged
Foot athletes, as they collected a total
Of 12s points of the 209. The winning
total was the largest ever collected for
the meet.
What honor there was of pulling
down second place went to Loughlin
Lyceum: of Brooklyn, with ~ points,
while the Millrose A. A. and Salem
Crescent A. c. were deadlocked for
third honors, each with II points. More
than two dozen clubs were repre-
sented. but against the invincible New
York aggregation only nine succeeded
IN scoring points.
Besides usurping the majority of
points the victorious Winged Foot team
also carried off the majority of the
individual titles with twelve Of the
. nineteen championships.
NO meet records were smashed but
q new mark was established in attend
snce: Fifteen thousand were on hand
TO ded'cate the new third of mile
playground. In spite of the New York
sweep the finishes in the majority Of
the races were exceptionally close.
Poor Time in Five.Mile
The five-mile race did not bring forth
lts expected thrills through an accident
TO Max bohland, the favorite, and the
fast pace that killed off two of the
other contenders. The unforeseen in
cidents therefore enabled Charles
Pores, the defending champion, to re-
tam his title in the poor time of 26
minutes rs 1-5 seconds Pat Flvnn.
Paulist A. c., who was the only ath-
llcte to race against Pores during tho
latter stages, finished bad second.
Six athletes started, with Kannes
kolehmaincn setting a killing pace Ee
carried the field past the mile mark in
Willie Kyronen gave up the fight.
swinging into the stretch for the end
of the third mile Bohland, who was in
the van. suffered from an old knee
injury that forced him to hobble off
the track. Jack Costello. another Paul
ist man. also quit, thus leaving Koleh-
mainen, Flynn and Pores to fight it out.
1t dwindled down to a two-man strus-
gle. uptil "Koly" ran for half mile
with stitch in his side and then
stopped running
Willie Plant, the Morningside walker.
gave a rare exhibition of gameness in
the three-mile walk. After leading
from the start and going away to
150-yard lead, he collapsed when onlv
half lap from home and had to be-
assisted off the track Eddie REM.
who was trailing back in second place.
then went on to win easily. Dick
Remer was not himself and finished in
third place.
1he best competitive races of the
day came in the 100 and 200 yard races
with Pete White, Salem Crescent A. C.
Il Do
engaging in duels. White managed to
gain the brackets in the century sprint
over PATTERSON in finish that neces-
STATED a consultation between the
Judges before a decision was made
known. However, Patterson more than
evened the score in the 22O when he
sprinted past White in the final
twenty-five yards. to win by two yards.
Homer an Easy Winner
Homer Baker found little opposition
to press him in capturing the half mile
run: The elongated athlete remained
back in contending position until the
my" home winner by eight yards.
Sandy Evans, the dusky Salem Cres-
cent boy, was second
Inc closest approach to record
came in the 440-yard high hurdle, when
Jack Sellers, essaying his first effort
at this speciality, covered the distance
IN So seconds. This was only three
flfths of second behind the present
record. Fred Kelly, the Olympic cham
pion. now New York A. member.
literally played with his opponents in
winning. both the 800 yard high and
220-yard low hurdles
The two best performances among
the field events wound up the activities.
George Bronder, Inter-Allied javelin
champion, tossed the spear ls4 feet 5,s
inches, while E. j. Muller had only
few inches to spare in defeating Nick
YIahnis for the honors in the discus.
Pat Mcdonald was busy little"
athlete for the New York team, retain
ing both his titles in the SIXTEEN
pound shot and afty-six- pound weight
snd taking down third konors in The
hammer and discus events In the
hammer the spectators saw Pat Ryan,
FORMER champion, who only recently re-
turned from France wrest his former
honors from Matt McGrath.