Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — HALF A THOUSAND ATHLETES [ARTICLE]

HALF A THOUSAND ATHLETES

Country’s Best Will Compete In New York Athletic Club’s Games Tonight. New York. March 16.—More than 500 of the country’s best athletes will contend at the annual indoor meet of the New York Athletic club tonight In addition to all the prominent dub amateurs, a host of the best college track men will be seen from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and other colleges. The program contains four relay races, ten handicap events and four scratch races, the latter being Invitation events, and a 440 yard run and a mile walk for novices.