The Washington times., 1922-09-05

All except three OI tnc dtHictco
who won national championships at
Pasadena a year ago will defend
their titles at Newark. The nine.
teen Junior events will be decided on
Friday afternoon. the same number
OF senior events will be contested on
Saturday, and the five relay cham.
pionships and decsthlon or"'olympic"
ali-around. consisting Of ten events,
to decide the best all-around athlete
in this country, will take place on
Monday.
The battle for points to decide the
team championship is expected to be
between the Los Angeles A. c., pres
ent champions; Illinois Athletic
Club. Meadowbrook Club of Phila.
delphia, Boston Athletic Association,
and Chicago A. A. The Multnomah
A. c., OF Portland, Ore, will be rep.
resented by but three men-Gus
Pope. Johnny Murphy, and Ralph
Spearow, but they are apt to score
as many points as some Of the clubs
which have entered much larger
teams.
Pope has won the national discus
championship for the past three
years and has also placed among
the first three In the shot. Muir.
phys ability as . high jumper Is
well known, and Spearow n q thir.
teen.foot man in the pole vault.
The New York A. C. has entered
he IaN A4A "a
favored to win the team title In
pionships. The Illinois A. c. and
Meadowbrook Club are expected to
furnish the most opposition.
II there 10 any one event on the
program that stands out above all
championship, in which seventeen
OF the greatest quarter-milers in
this country will face the starter.
Five of the field have records of
better than 10 seconds and three Of
them are 4S-second men.
William e.. Stevenson, of the New
York A. c., Allan woodring, the
Olympic :00-meter champion, Jake
Driscoll, of the Boston A. A.; Larry
Brown, the former University Of
Pennsyivania track captain and
present intercollegiate half-mile
championship. and Mississippi A. and
M. College. who defeated the college
hurdlsrs Of the middle West in the
national collegiate meet, in Chicago
last June, are the stars competing.
Other prominent .quarter.miie-s
entered are, George Schiller, of the
Los Angeles A. G. and q representa-.
tive of the United States in the Ant.
werp olympic games: Phil Sphinx, of
the Chicago A. A.: =. 8. Dudley,
Boston A. A.; Douglas Fessenden, OF
the University Of Iowa; Allan Monte,
Of the Meadowbrook Club, and
Harold Ray, Of the Newark Athletic
Club.
A few Of the most prominent
athletes entered In the various
events fellow: Loren Murchison,
: Leonard Paulu, and Harold Jones,
Vf the Illinois A. c.; Eddie Far.
rell, New York A. O.; Bob Meal.
lister, unattached; Alfred Lcconey,
Mesdowbrook Club; william b,
Hayes, Boston A. A., and Sol But.
Ter. unattached. In the hundred.
The same meL. and, In addi.
tion, Allan Woodring, Meadow.
brook Club and Bernie Wefers, New
York A. c.. in the furlong. Allan
Helffrich, New York A. c., present
national champion; Larry Brown,
'Meadowbrook Club; Thomas Camp.
bell, Yale; Mike Devans, Millrose
A. A.; II. N. Yates and A. Gustaf.
son. Chicago A. A. In the half mile.
Joie Ray. Illinois A. c.; Ray wat.
son, Kansas City A. c.; Larry
Shields, Meadowbrook Club; James ].
Connolly. Georgetown University
star, Of Boston A. A. w. M. Thoup.
son and Walter Higgins, New York
A. c.. for the Inc mile. r. Earl Jonn.
son, Pittsburgh; George CornettR.
New York A. c.; William Ritols, FinN
nish-American A. c.; Lloyd Rath-