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Show CLOSING EVENTS OF MEET TODAY The Relays and Ail-Around Championship Are Yet to Be DecideL CHICAGO, Sept 2:. Closing events of tho memorable three days' program of the National A. A. U. championship jmc-s will be decided tomorrow at the Great Lakes navai training station field. The events are for the all-around championship, which has attracted a field of fourteen entries from aJl parts of the country, and the championship relays. The relays will brine toeether the greatest great-est number of teams that ever competed in an athletic carnival. Five are on the program the 440, SSO, one-mile, two-mile and four-mile races. There will be eight teams in the 440-yard event. The Pelham Bay naval training station team is expected to win the four-mile and two-mile relays, as the team is composed of stars, including Charles Foorcs, who broke the national five-mile record in the senior championship yesterday. and Willie Gordon, crack eastern distance runner. The Meariowbrock club of Fhiladeip'oia will also send a strong team into the re i ays. The Chicago Athletic association team, which bagged the junior and senior championships, cham-pionships, is a favorite tonight to win tii 440-yard and SSO-yard relays. Earl Thompson, a former Dartmouth tfas. now a member of the Royal air force of Toronto; Lieutenant Alva Richards, Rich-ards, a former Olympic champion, now stationed at Camp Fremont. California, and Aver' Brundage and Lieutenant Carl Rjck. representing the Chicago Athletic association, are picked to ftpht it out for the all-aroond championship. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Buck is in the aviation service a; KeDy field. Ten events make ud the compel i tion in the all-around championship. Brundage hds won the title twice. |