Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-01
500 ENTRIES FOR
LEGION TRACK MEET
Marathon Race Has 81 Dis
tanoe Runners Listed-Army
Teams in Special Races
lNTERCITY RELAY RACE

With an entry list numbering more
| than 500, the second annual American
Legion track and field meet scheduled
for Saturday afternoon on Franklin
Field promises to give Philadelphiant
a track treat they have been denied this
year, with the exception of the relay
games. DR.. George Orton, who IS man.
aging the meet for the former service
men. stated this morning that he was
surprised to find athletes from all parts
Of the country east Of the Mississippi
anxious to enter the meet.
In the marathon run, which starts at
Villanova and Is completed after a turn
around the track on Franklin Field,
ninety two entries have been received.
Chicago, the Great Lakes Training Sta
ton on the shores Of Lake Michigan.
Buffalo, Detroit, Baltimore and Jack
sonville, Fla. will be represented in
the grind by the best performers in
those cities.
kyronen and Tiviloudas, members of
the Melrose Club, and rated as two of
the best long distance runners in the
East, and Dick Gianskopolus, a veteran
OF many road grind, are three of the
stars entered from New York City.
Philadelphia will be we'll represented IN
tually every club in tho district and
many unattached runners.
Canadians Entered
A race that is causing no end Of com
ment in track circles is the intercity
special mile in which Philadelphia.
Boston, New York and a Canadian
quartet are entered. This city will be
represented by four University Of Penn
sylvania runners. Earl Eby. winner Of
the hal lf-mile In the intercollegiatcs
Larry Brown, second In the mile in
the same meet, and Bob Maxam Sec
ond In both the quarter and two twenty
at cambridge are three of the men So
lected. Either Dewey Rodgers. the coll
ored fash, or Gill will be the fourth
man.
New York will have O'Brien, Sid
Leslie, Hauser and Nelson as its repre-
sentatives. The Boston quartet Wilt in
clude Jake Driscoll, Sullivan and Din
gan, from Boston College, and King from
Harvard. The Canadian team will NOT
be known until they arrive here Friday
morning. Two members of the party OF
athletes who are coming down for the
games we're members of the Canadian
Olympic team. Tresider and Ponton.
The first named has turned a 40 second
vuul lcT anu 100 lalt mile,
The quarter, half and 600 yard spe-
cial races will afford the spectators an
opportunity to see some Of the Eastern
representatives to the A. Z. Y ma
tiona championships to be held the
latter part of this month in Pasadena.
Most of the Eastern college stars who
competed at Cambridge last week are
entered in the races. In the 100 special
Boots Lever, the Penn lad. will de-
fend his title against the best sprinters
in the East principally Farrell. the New
York youngster. who ran so well in the
relay games.
Races for Service Men
In addition to the races for the atb-
letes not now IN the service there will
be several special races for service men,
Including mile relay race. a 500. yard
special and also a 1000. yard race. Lieu
tenant Eugene Vidal. the West Point
star of few years ago, will compete
in four Of the handicap events. He will
run in the 12O- yard high hurdle against
such stars as Thomson, Of Dartmouth
Barron and Hile, of Penn State, and
Smalley. of Penn. In addition to the
hurdles, Vidal will compete in the run.
ming broad jump. the running high Jump
and the pole vault.
The Third Corps area team of the army
Will arrive here this afternoon and start
work for the meet Saturday. Fifteen
officers and men entered in the meet In
charge OF Captain II. q. Potter will
leave Camp Howard, Maryland, this
morning. The Maryland soldiers will be
opposed In the events closed to service
men by the Second Corps team, which
has Don Scott, the quarter and half
mile star, and BY teams from the navy
yard here. the Great Lakes Training
Station and the Marine Corps,