Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-15
500 TO MEET IN
U.S.. 'OLYMPICS'
Hundred Colleges To
Compete At Chicago
Saturday
CHICAGO. june 15--Thd lead

N I'll C-ANC, June IO.-l nc ieaQ-
wng college truck and field stars of
the country will gather on Stage
Field Saturday, June 18, to take part
in the American Olympics."
first meet of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association. The contests will
be the first in this country with
really national representation in the
entry lists, according to the spon-
.orlng organization, and eventually
VIII become an annual event in which
The winners Of all sectional events
viii strive for national honors.
The June l8 meet, although it is
the initial effort of the association.
VIII bring into competition a major
ity of the best individual track men
Of the country. Approximately 100
colleges in all sections will be repre-
rented by about 500 athletes.
Eastern entries probably win be
fewer than those from other sections.
but the scarcity in numbers will be
somewhat offset by the calber of the
men who will make the trip west.
Earl thompson, Of Dartmouth hold
en- Of the worlds record Of Ola 3-5i
IN the 100 yard high hurdles and al
contestant in the OIympics, will head
the list of eastern stars. The Bukori
TWINS Of Bates, one and two mile!
runners, are expected to give the dis
lance ruuers Of the Pacific coast, the
south and central west some real com
competition, while Yale, Rochester.
Amherst, Wesleyan of Connecticut4
an dother eastern schools have signi-
tied their intention of sending men
to contest with other sectional cham
pions.
The best men in the Southern In
tcrcOllegiate Athletic Association
and in other southern conferences
have been entered. Clare of Ken
lucky, with mark Of OPS in the 220I
yard low hurdles Coughlin Of the
University of the South, Sewanee,
Tenn, a quarter miller who has beaten
the stars of the south, Skidmore, a
shot putter of the same school, Mel
chel of Georgia Tech, and the stars
Of Louisiana University, Centre Coll
lege of Kentucky and Of the Univer-
Sity of Tennessee will compete.
From the southwest will come the
mainstays of the Texas A. & NJ.
team, champions Of the southwest
conference, national champion jave-
lin thrower; Weir. in the longer
spirits; Saunders, individual point
winner in the southwest conference
meet; Davis in the dashes and Die
= tlich in the javeln throw are some
Aof the Texas A. & NJ. stars who will
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tute and other Texas schools also
are entered.
The Pacific coast, which has swept
everything before it in intersection
al contests this year and has sprungI
to the front nationally in the athletic
world, will send men who promise tol
give the best of the east. middle west
and south the strongest opposition
ever experienced.
The University Of Washington has
entered an unusually strong team
which, through its great all around
ability, should be among the leaders
in team scoring Hurley, an 0.09 As
hundred yard man, and with a mark
Of less than OBS in low hurdles, isl
looked on as one of Washington's
best. Pope, star of the coast in the
weight events, and Pratt and Dough
las, both less than so second men inI
the 440 yard dash, are other Wash
ngtOn entries.
JENNIE, Washington State Col
lege, with a pole vault mark of l2l
feet s inches, an eighth of an inch
under the worlds record; the best
performers from Montana, South Da.
kota, Wyoming and Oregan will round
out the far vests list of competitors.
The central west has entered the
stars of the western conference, the
Missouri Valley conference and Of
numerous n0n-conference schools III
linois. winner of the Big Ten NEE;
with 81 points, will send all of its hes.
point winers. as will Michigan, the
second place finisher and Wisconsin
which ran third.
Notre Dame has entered Hayes in
the dashes. Desch in the hurdles, and
Jimmy Murphy, national high jump
champion, all members of the Amerl-
can Olympic teams.
Brutus Hamilton, national pentha-
lon and decathlon champion and lead
ing individual point winner in the
western conference meet, will repre-
sent Missouri representatives of Ne
braska, Missouri Valley conference
champions; Kansas, the runner up;
Ames, which won two firSts in the
Big Ten meet, Oklahoma, the Kansas
Aggies and of numerous smaller
schools will strive for points.