Show WALKING CONTESTS AGAIN A A U Will Throw Out Discus and Add Sport I Ito to Events New York Sept 18 Walking contests are to be revived here Ity by the Amateur i Athletic union There have been no I I i I events of this kind on the champion I Iship ship hip since 1898 1110 It was said saida at a that time they were eliminated to tomake i make way for throwing the discus This substitution was wis caused bv by tm victory of an American Robert Garrett of Prince Princeton ton at the first revival of the Olympic gaines ames in in For a while afterward tie athletes here were discus alan nian and the A A U added j It to the at the expense expanse of the time honored branch of walking It has been bean found to local ath I letes ites that discus Is no po real test teat of strength and that expert handling is a knack which many of the best weight throwers have to master Next fall at the metropolitan and na an nation tion conventions tep p will be taken to have hae the hit inserted In all union and the discos diec may be dr ped |