Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC GAMES [ARTICLE]

CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC GAMES

Indiana Athletes In Championship Contests at Indianapolis, Oct. 7. Athletic contests for Indiana championships will make up the Olympic games program of the statehood centennial celebration at Indianapolis, the contests to be held at the state fair grounds on Oct. 7. College and high school, Y. M. C. A., and other athletic organizations, will be represented by their best talent, and the long disputed championships will be determined, the centennial year awards being especially attractive to Hoosier youth in all lines of sport. The indications are that the contestants will be in such large numbers that the day will rival the Olympic games of old Greece in magnitude and quality. The contests are being organized in divisions, the Y. M. C. A. athletic clubs and turner societies holding field sports and the men and women uniting in giving picturesque drills. Q. W. Lipps, of the Independent Tursverein, Indianapolis, is chairman of this division.

The college athletes will be in another division, the chairman of which is A. H. Berndt, of Indiana university. Bloominrton. Public school boys will make up ‘he third division, of which Charles Dyer, Indianapolis, is chairman. Still another division will be for tennis and golf players, the chairman being James Lowery, superintendent of the Indianapolis park board. The Olympic program is in the charge of a general committee, of which Theodore Stempfel, of the Fletcher-American National bank of Indianapolis, is chairman. The con. testants caji make entries through the division chairmen.

One of the day’s features proposed is a Marathon relay race, starting at the four corners of the state and ending at Indianapolis. Another is a schedule of baseball games which will determine the state amateur championship.