The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Three Day Carnival Beginning
Friday May Set New High
Water Mark.
KEEN CONTESTS. SURE
Many Star Athletes in Coming
Competition Are Almost
Evenly Matched.
BY TED MEREDITH.

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their honors. the A. A. u. champion
ships to be staged at Weeauahic Park.
Newark, next Friday, Saturday and
Monday promise to be the most sue
ccssful games this body has fostered TO
das-
Only one of last years champions
will be absent. Charles Paddock, the
Los Angeles sprinting star. refuses TO
come East and show his wares. Pad
dock holds two titles, the 100 and 22O
yard dashes.
Another factor which lends TO make
the meet a great one. aside from the
entries of the many title holders. Is
the keen competition which Is sure 10
result in both deciding the Individual
events and the team contests. Each
event can boast of several stars whose
past performances have been 80 equal
as to make the doping mere guess work
AS TO the team competition 1t looks
very much as II the New York A. 9.
will pull the highest score. This Is by
no means a certainty. however since
large. well balanced teams from the
Meadowbrook Club of Philadelphia, Illi-
nois A. C. and the c. a. A. Of Chicago
Los Angeles A. c. and the Boston a. A.
are to be present Each OF these CLUBS
feel they have a chance.
The meet was won last year by the
Los Angeles A. c., with total of "a
points to 80 for the y. Y. A. c.. sec
ond. The latter did not send large
team to the Pacific Coast and due to
leaving many second string athletes at
home missed opportunities to score.
With Newark close by. they will have
their full strength in action this year
and the others will suffer what prob
ably cost the Winged Foot clubmen the
first place year ago.
Los Angeles Strong I'm Field.
There is. 100, the possibility of the
other clubs cutting in on the New York
A. C.'s points so much as to allow one
of the others to nose them out. The
Los Angeles A. c. team for instance, is
exceptionally strong In the field events.
Outside of Schiller. quarter miller. anu
Earl Thompson, former Dartmouth star
and Olympic champion in the hurdles.
their team is made up of field men. The
field events seem to be the n. Y. A. c. IS
strongest department. as well, and the
breaks they get there may decide the
meet for them.
The team or teams which might step
In should the Winged Foot athletes not
come through as expected In the field,
are the MeduONDTOOh Aiab VI NiS a. -.
&. Both are strong In the running end
and have many sure points which they
will score.
The meet, while a three day affair.
will have most interest centered on
Saturday, September 8. On the Sth the
juniors will struggle for titles and on
Monday. the 11th. the Ave relay and all
round titles win be decided. On both
these days the N. Y. A. c. will also be
t,at n
good Junior team and should win this
title. On Monday they defend the FIVE
relay titles won at Pasadena last sum-
mer.
Starting with the 100 yards right
through the senior program the events
are going to be well filed with fine
athletes and the competition of the best
Probably the sprints can be doped as 10
the winner better than any of the other
events. AL Leconey Of Lafayette and
the Meadowbrook Club seems to have
the edge here. Leconey. In coming
through the winner of the Penn relay
100 yards in fast time, later to win the
Eastern intercollegiate sprint titles in
record time, has stamped himself as
one of the best sprinters this country
has ever had.
Great interest has been shown all
summer in the national sprints. because
IL was LnOuBnL anu ilOPtQ tii1t dddoCh
and Leconey would meet for the first
time. Fasteners have formed the idea
that the great Charles is not the man
the California timers would make him.
Leconey was believed to be as fast. II
not faster. Lawson Robertson. the well
known Penn trainer. has come out with
his opinion in favoring the Lafayette
star should he meet Paddock. "Robby,"
by the way, was the one who claimed
AI,-t.. 1.tf tt.,n pAd ut Art
werp. and through his arguments Wood
ring was allowed to run the 200 meters.
1t Is known he took the California fash
into camp.
Leconey will have real class to beat.
and, as good as he seems to be. will
have to be running at his best to win.
Eddie Farrell and Bob McAllister Of the
n. Y. A. c.. Loren Murchison and his
conQuerer, Jones, of the Illinois A. c.:
Billy Hayes OF the Boston A. A. and
former national 100 yards titleholder,
and Pauiu of Grinnell College and now
wearing the I. A. G. colors. are some OF
the bright lights In the sprints.
Quarter Mile Field spnrIxIes.
or all the events. probably the one
that will hold the eyes of the fans the
most will be the 440 yards. This field
10 easily the best ever gathered In a ma
tlonal championship quarter or any
other meet. Five runners entered have
records OF As 2-5 seconds. Billy Steven
son of Princeton and the n. Y. A. c..
present titleholder Jake Driscoll OF the
Boston A. A. and second last year by
inches, Alan Woodring OF Syracuse and
Meadow Brook Club. Larry Brown OF
Penn and Schiller of Los Angeles A. G.
make up this quintet.
The only other field that could be COM
pared to this one Is that which started
tho final 400 meter race in Stockholm
In 1912. Those five runners could claim
4s i-5 seconds as the slowest record
among them.
There have been years when FIVE men
of this caliber have been In competition.
but they never got together at any one
time. To pick favorite in the quarter
this year seems impossible. Among the
fans and experts the opinions differ.
n. Y. A. c. followers favor Stevenson,
due 10 his win last year and to his easy
victory IN the metropolitan champion
ID recently. The Bostonians can only
see Driscoll. due TO his beating Steven
son In the intercollegiate quarter mile
.-sa and elso TO his romping home
winner Of the New England champion
ship In fast time on a muddy trnck.
Alan woodring also has a host OF fol-
lowers. His defeat of Stevenson by two
yards at the Penn relays last April.
after spotting him six TO eight Mt the
start, is the one thing they point to
ana say n viii be cinch for the Salt