East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-06-21
PASADENA ALL SET
TO ENTERTAIN ZOO
ATHLETES At MEET
Best Track and Field Men in
Country to Compete July
Q, 4, s for Championships.
BY CHARLES Z. HUGHES

| I}f CHARLES Il. HUGHES
! international News Service Staff Cor
respondent)
! PASADENA, Cal, June 21.-WHh
more than two hundred Of the nations
best athletes already entered, the Ma
tional A. A. L. Championships to be
held here al Paddock Field, Tourna-
ment Park, under the auspices OF the
Tournament OF Roses, July 3. and g.
are expected to attract interest in every
section of the world where athletics
are popular.
The championships will be divided
into the junior track and field events
July 2; senior track and field events.
July and the all-arOund events and
relays on July >. The various contests
will all he held on the afternoons 0;
the days scheduled.
One of the rules Of the A. A. u.
provides: THE annual track and field
CHAMP mpionships OF the Amateur Ath-
letic Union shall consist Of senior
class and Junior class. The senior
class shall be open to all registered
amateur athletes. and the Junior class
teur athlete who has not won first
place at any track and field or cross
country championship meeting of the
= amateur Athletic Union, or of the
International Olympic Committee. or
OF the intercollegiate Association of
Amateur Athletes Of America, or OF
the intercollegiate Conference Ath-
lctic Association, or OF the Pacific
Coast intercollegiate Conference or Of
Canada. Australia, or any foreign
country"
The following will be the junior and
senior events: 100-yard run. 220-yard
run, 440-yard run, SSO-yard run, one
mile run, l2O-yard hurdle race, 220-
yard hurdle race, 44O-yard hurdle
lace, five-mile run, three-mile walk,
pole vault for height. running high
jump, step and jump; throwing So
pound weight. throwing 16-pound
hammer, putting l6-pound shot
throwing the discus, throwing the
javilin.
Entries Close Late in June
The all-around championship COM
prises the following events: I00-yard
run, putting l6-pound shot, running
high jump, SS0-yard walk, throwing
l6-pound hammer, pole vault for
height, 120-vard hurdles Go flights.
3 feet inches hish,D throwing So
pound weight for distance, running
broad jump and one-mile run. Also |
the following relays: 400 yards. teams
of four men, each man TO run 10
t.a-
each man to run 220 yards; one mile 1
teams Of four men, each man to run .
440 yards: two miles, teams of four
men, each man to run $50 yards: four
miles, teams Of four men, each man
to run one mile.
I'VE are already assured of having .
more than two hundred Of the hest
Eastern athletes in Pasadena for the
championships said Mr.. Weaver.
teen stars form the New York Ath-
letic Club: from the Chicago Athletic !
Club there will be eleven stars, and |
the Illinois Athletic Club will have an
equal number of athletes widely !
known in the Middle West participat- /
ing.
Honolulu Represented
THE Olympic Club of San Francis /
co will have thirty highly-trained ath-
letes on hapd. The Los Angeles Ath-
letic Club will have at least fifty of |
its best men on the field. From Homo
lulu will come ten picked athletes |
two of these being Chinese. other |
cities will have representative delesa-
tions entered, and there win be an in !
teresting array of competitions be-
tween all sections Of the country.
Accommodations will he made for |
from $4,000 to 20,O0O spectators. The |
events, in addition to being of great |
interest among athletes, will attract
society notables of California and the
Pacific Coast"