The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-15
Auburn, A. en-, Vandy, Geor-
gia, Clemson And Several
Other Teams From Dixie
Have Entered Meet At
Chicago

CHICAGO, June 14.-(By Associ-
ated Press. )-First rank collegiate
performers from every quarter OF
America will assemble Friday at
Stage field, University of Chicago, for
the country's intercollegiate cham
pionship track and field meet of the
National Collegiate Athletic associ-
colleges. The two days competition
is expected to bring to the fore
many contenders for places on the
American olympic teams for 1924.
More than $50 individual entries,
representing 60 institutions in 81
holders from virtually every collie
giate conference in the United States
will meet in this years games, the
third annual championship of the
Y. c. A. A.
The Is scheduled events, six runs
two hurdles and seven, field contests
will bring together the largest as
semblage of premier college talent
ever pitted on an American field.
preliminaries Friday.
Preliminaries In several events
will be held Friday, with all finals
Saturday afternoon. There Will be
no relays.
Several new collegiate records are
in prospect
All the WESTERN COHleIciiIt SNhOOAss
a majority of the Missouri valley
group and more than two score
other institutions of eastern and Pa
cific coast circuits have entered
teams.
Hopkins. Hamilton, Haverford, Bow
doin, Maryland, New York univer-
sity and Wesleyan will do battle
for the east, and have sent to the
fray some of their chief point makers
from the |. c. A. A. A. meet at
Philadelphia three weeks ago in the
eastern collegiate games,
The east central states will be rep
resented by Albion, Butler, Miami
Kalamazoo, Notre Dame, Michigan
: Michigan, Western State Normal, De-
troit Junior, and Michigan. Ohio
State and Purdue from the big ten.
Many Dixie Representative.
Carrying the banner of Dixie Will
be Alabama Polytechnic, Clemson.
Georgia. Mississippi a. & NJ, Tennes-
see. Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt.
The southwest and middle valley
states will compete through Baylor,
Kansas Hask Southern Methodist
university, Washington university,
Texas, Kansas Aggies, Texas A. and
NJ, Kansas state teachers; and from
the north end of the valley will come
Beloit, Hamline, Minnesota, Wiscon :
sin, Cornell college, University of
Denver, Drake, Iowa, Grinnell, Mon
tant, Des Moines, Nebraska, Chicago,
st. Paul, Lombard, Northwestern
university, Chicago Y. NJ. c. A. ccl-
lege, Northwestern college and Hi
nois.
Pomona college, Leland-Stanford
the University of Southern Califor-
MIA. and the University of Washing
ton will offer the wares of the Pa
cltic slope.
ss,v.,, mn, o o 2. 9G,., 80 sss
The SS0-yard run will bring tC-
gether three of the fleetest half
milers in the country, each the win
ner of the event in his own confer
ence this year. Valley of Wisconsin
who took the big ten event in
1:55 Id; Allen Helffrich. Pennsylva-
MIA State star, and winner OF the
eastern collegiate half-mile IN
1855 $40, and Gardner of Nebraska
who was first in the Missouri valley
meet, in 1850 clio, will take off to-
gether.
Winners from the same three com
petitive groups will line up in the
two-mile run. Booth of johns Hop
kins, by virtue of his win at Frank