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Show OLYMPIC GAMES TO BE RE-FOUGHT By MONTY Now York, Sept. 14. Many of the great contests of the Olympic games will be fought all over again at Pittsburg Pitts-burg next Saturday In the senior division di-vision of tho annual A. A. U. national championships. Practically all the men who bare the Stars and Stripes to triumph at Stockholm will be In the lists to battle for the supreme honors of their own country, which they helped land at the forefront over the cracks of tho rest of the world. It is to bo regretted that one of the mightiest of them all Ralph Craig, the MIchigander who won both the hundred and 200 meter dashes at the Olympics has not sent In nib name to the committee In charge of the entries. en-tries. Ho has Just a couple moro dayB in which to do so, but it now geomB beyond all likelihood that his friends who have been urging will bo able to prevail upon tho little fllor to abandon aban-don his intention to rotlre from the game for good and rest on his laurels won at Sweden and on many an inter-collegiate battlefield In tho past Howcvor, It la mottor for jubilation that Craig Is about the only "big man" who will be missing when the starter's start-er's pistol goes bang. A perusal of the array Bhows about evory other Olympic star nominated for honors. Moredlth, Sheppard, . Llpplncott. Davenport, Kelly, Meyer, McGrath. Gutterson, Richards take them from the beginning and keep on goln$ to tho end the Adams boyB, Reldpath, Babcock, Horlno, Hose, McDonald, Stroblne, Tweanlma, Wright, Wendell, Mercer, Schollngor. Klviat, tho wonderful won-derful Thorpe almost every point winner in tho classic will be on tho Job to defend tho laurels won across the waters. There are bound to Ik a number of upsets of form. In fact, It looks ag If a good many of the Olympic winners will suffer tho loss of their supremo position In the "champs." The hurdles, middle dlstanco races and JumpB look like sure reversals from this seven dayB distance, with tho weight events appearing the onlyj ones with the odds In favor of their running true to the dope. Half Mile Run. One of tho greatest fights of all will be waged In the half mile run, where the veteran Mel Sheppard, of the Irish-Americans of New York, copes again with his youthful Olympic Olym-pic conqueror, Ted Meredith of Mer-cersburg. Mer-cersburg. Meredith has been doing good running In minor races since tho Stockholm games, but nothing like the kind exhibited by Sheppard The latter lat-ter has been within a couple of seconds sec-onds of record time on several occa-tions occa-tions and not once has he gone as slow as two minutes even To mako a world's record in a race like this half, a man first has, of course, to be of record caliber. But that doos not mean he can break the record every day Far from 1L Such a man may approach within fifths of the mark and yet never quite reach IL He has to bo fortunate enough to strike that lucky one-day wonderful shape that no man can exactly explain Sheppard, running at least three seconds faster consistently than Meredith recently, seems more likely to experience such a streak of form, and If he does, he may wipe Meredith's new record off the boards. Tho high hurdle event Is another that looms up as a tumbler of Olympic Olym-pic results John P. Nicholson, ' the Missouri university timber topper, Is expected by many to defeat Fred Kelly of Los Angeles the Olympic victor. Nicholson, before the Stockholm Stock-holm final, was figured the class of the bunch He got off to a poor start, but caught up to within two feet of tho leader at the next to last hurdle. At that point he was going much speedier than any other man, when he fell In his overanxlety and of course was shut out Wendell, the Massachusetts youngster, also may mako them all go in this event and Jack Ellcr, of the Irish-American A. C. must not be forgotten. The last named seems a certain conqueror In the 220 vard low hurdle event. Better Than Richards. At least flvo men Horlne Erlck-son, Erlck-son, GrumpelL Lawrence and Thorpe loom equal to or better than Alma Richards of Utah, who won the Olympic Olym-pic high Jump, and an one of thorn or all, may defeat him Harry Babcock, Bab-cock, of tho New York A. C , meets a dozen men who may beat him In the pole vaulL Ben Adams may lick his brother Piatt In the standing Jumps. With the little darkey Howard How-ard Drew of Massachusetts entered In tho dashes, ho should defeat Meyer and Llpplncott, Ohmplc point winners, win-ners, in tho absence of Craig. It will be recalled that Drew sprang a tendon ten-don in his heat of the Olympic century cen-tury and was unable to run the final. In the weight events things look differenL Matt McGrath. of the Irish-Americans, should have little trouble boating his opponents in the hammer throw; Jim Duncan, also a Now Yorker, shculd clean up the discus, and If Ralph Rose falls to appear. ap-pear. Babe McDonald, the big New York policeman, ought to walk away with tho chnt nut New York Clubc. However, it is doped out. one can not fail to see ono of the two big Now York clubs on top in the point totalB when the curtain rings do-an. The junior championships on Friday, the day before the seniors, should prove an equally hard battle as kocn as among the cracks of the most Important Im-portant division. Last year tho Irish-American Irish-American A. G . carried off the banners ban-ners in both, classes, with fifty-eight points In the seniors to New York A, C'R 2S, and 37 point in the juniors to the rival club's 27. Other clubs that mav cut a wide Bwath are tho Seattle A. C and Olympic club of San Francisco, wihch acored 12 and 11 points respectively In the seniors, tho Boston A. C, which got 7, and tho Chicago A. C, which got G. In the juniors tho Bostons had 23 last year, tho Chicago 20 and tho Pastime A, C-. of Now York broko In with 11. All of these clubs have strengthened strength-ened for this year'B battlo and there will be some real fur flying before It is all over, unless we aro highly mistaken. |
