Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 21 | Stars Ready to Compete in Amateur Championship

STARS READY TO COMPETE IN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP 'T1 HREE athletic stars who hope to win honors in the coming Metropolitan championships. A At the top is George Horine, clearing the bar in the high jump; at the side is "Matt" McGrath in the first stages of a mighty heave with the 16-pound hammer and below is "Ted" Meredith, about to breast the tape in a sprint. 1 . iBl NEW YORK, Aug. 30. With the ox-coption ox-coption of a few society and organization or-ganization games, track athletics in and around Manhattan have not boon particularly lively this summer. sum-mer. Now that the track events at tho New York State fair are over, the largest larg-est event of tho year, tho annual Met ropolitan amateur championships loom into view. Much importance is attached attach-ed to tho Metropolitan championships, because in most cases tho winners in these contests nro usually the national champions as well. Prominent among the many athleiic figures who nre scheduled to appear this coming week in the Metropolitan championships cham-pionships are George Horine, Matt McGrath Mc-Grath and Tod Meredith. . TTorino lb tho California youth who topped tho bar at six foot, seven inches, in the high jump last year. This was done in the west and some of the esternors have r tho old peculiar Missouri quality and wish to be "shown," bo George in tendr. to do tho six feet seven, or bettor, bet-tor, for the eastern doubting Thomnses. "Matt" McGrath. tho husky Irishman, Irish-man, holds the record for a distanco of 1S7 feet and 4 inches upon a memorable memor-able occasion, Pat McDonald and Paddy Ryan think thoy can equal or excoed this mighty heave but "Matt" says thoy will have to "go some" if thoy do, ami anyway, ho will be on hand to protect his title, Homer Baker, who holds some national na-tional championBhina in mnnincr. is aft or tho scnlp of Ted Morcdith, tho University of Pennsylvania phonom, who did valiant sorvico on tho American Ameri-can Olvmnic team last year. ''Tod" has a habit of walking away with tho field when ho is cloaoly pressed by some oppononts who can stop off at a pretty fast pace, and a fow sprints with Meredith and Baker pitted ngainst each other and some other crack runners filling out tho field Rhould provido au exoiting spectacle for tho lovers of traok athletics.