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Show BEST RECORDS ARE IN DANGER Track Meet of Irish-American A. C. Brings Great Field Together Tonight. New York, Nov. 28 Track history should be made here tonight in the annual indoor meet of the Irish-American A. C. The main feature, the scratch 1'iOO-yard race for the Arthur McAleenan cup, brings together probably prob-ably the greatest field the world ever Maw in such an event and the indoor record of 2:15. made by Tom Halpin of the Boston A A., in the race last year, is in danger The five cracks who will line up are Ted Meredith of the University of Pennsylvania. 800 meter Olympic champion, and world's half-mile record rec-ord bolder; Home Baker, who humbled hum-bled the best mlddledistancers of England, Eng-land, Sweden and Germany last summer; sum-mer; Abel Kiviat. the smart Irlsh-Amerirnn Irlsh-Amerirnn A C runner; Jimmy Powers, Pow-ers, who beat everything In Australia last year, and Willie Gordon, the remarkable re-markable Yonkers youngster. Tom Halpin was invited to start, but the wearer of the Vlnged Unicorn begged off on account of his being i the anchor man on the flying four of the Boston A A , which will meet the fleet quartet of the Irish-American A. C; In a special one-mile relay duel on the same evening. Baker Picked for Classic. Most of the local experts pick Homer Ho-mer Baker to capture the classic con-test, con-test, but the Mercury Foot marvel will have to move on the wings of the wind to show bis heels to his four rivals Kiviat le running as never before, be-fore, and is confident of his ability to gain a second leg Abel captured the first race for the trophy two years ago for the coveted trophy. Next to the McAleenan thousand, the three-mile special limited handicap, handi-cap, in which Hannes Kolehnriinen, the world's greatest distance runner, will be on scratch, will attract mor1 attention. With the fast field to I !raw him out Hannes will make an i attempt to wreck his own world's Indoor In-door three-mile record of 14. 18 1-5, made over the Thirteenth regiment track two years ago. Kolebmalnen's indoor record Is only three-fifths of a second behind the world's outdoor record which Al Slirubb made over a fast, springy, outdoor track at Norsh-man, Norsh-man, England, in 190.1 Three GreateGt Timber Toppers. Three of the greatest timber toppers top-pers in the country will bo on the short marks in the 70-yard handicap low hurdle race. Jack Eller, the f'.eet-foted cop. who sports the Winged Fist, and who holds the world's record rec-ord of 8 1-6 seconds for tho event, will be on scratch. Ho will have his brother. Bob Eller. almost as wondtr-ful wondtr-ful n hurdler as Jack and Bill Roa-nis, Roa-nis, the Harvard cracks, as bis mvst dangerous rivals. Meanlx Is the present pres-ent quarter-mile national hurdling champion. |
