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Show I CLOSING EVENIS ! OF SPORT MEET: I CHICAGO. Sept. 22 Closing events' of the memorable three days' program 1 of the National A. A. U. championship games will be decided tomorrow at the Great Lakes naval training station field. The events are for the all-around, championship, which has attracted a ' field of fourteen entries from all parts j of the country, and the championship relays. The relays will bring together,; the greatest number of teams that ever j competed in an athletic carnival. Five 1 arc on the program the 11 0, SS0, one-! mile, two-mile and four-mile racos. I There will be eight teams in the 1J0- i yard event. j j The Pelham Bay naval training sta- i! j lion team is expected to win tho four- j (mile and two-mile relays, as the team' is composed of stars, including Charles! j Poores, who broke the national five- mile record in the senior championship l yesterday, and Willie Gordon, crack! eastern distance runner. . j The Meadowbroow club of Philadelphia' Philadel-phia' will also send a strong team into, the relays. The Chicago Athletic association ii'um, wnicn uaggeu uie junior ami senior championships, is a favorite to- night to win the -MO-yard and 880-yard 880-yard relays. Earl Thompson, a former Dartmouth star, now a member of tho Royal air force of Toronto; Lieutenant Alva Richards, a former Olympic champion, 1 now stationed at Camp Fremont, Cal- j ifornia, and Avery Brundage and ! Lieutenant Carl Buck, representing j the Chicago Athletic association, are picked to fight it out for tho all-around championship. Lieutenant Buck is In tho aviation service at Kelly field. Ten ovents mako up the competition competi-tion in tho all-around championship. Brundage has won the title twice. |