The Alaska Daily Empire

BIG MEET THIS MONTH: WINGED M AGAINST N. Y

Deal Expected to Be Closed with Gothamites Going South.

PORTLAND, Ore., June 15.—The dual track meet between athletes of the New York Athletic Club and the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, which has been hanging fire for some time, will in all probability be staged Saturday, June 25, on Multnomah field.

While the local institution has not definitely closed with the New York Club for the meet, negotiations have reached a point where there is nothing likely to occur which will prevent the holding of the event.

Twenty members of the New York Athletic Club, including many of this country's greatest athletes, are coming to the coast to compete in the National Amateur Athletic Association championships, which will be held in Pasadena, Cal., the first week in July. Local followers of the B. V. D. athletes will be indeed fortunate if the final arrangements for staging the dual meet here are made.

Vere Windnagle, chairman of track and field athletics at Multnomah Club, is confident that he will be able to round up a choice collection of muscle and brawn which will furnish plenty of competition for the Eastern stars. Windnagle is going after several of the crack college and university stars of the Northwest who have been knocking records right and left this year. Gus Pope, Pacific Coast discus throw record holder, and a member of the Olympic games' team last summer, has promised to compete for the Multnomah Club, while Victor Hurley, his team mate on the University of Washington team, who made such a sensational showing in the dashes at the Pacific Coast conference meet held recently at Eugene, has also sent Windnagle word that he will carry the colors of the 'Winged M' Club in the dual meet.

Eldon Jenne, pole vaulter at Washington State College, also will be among those gathered here for the meet, while Ralph Spearrow, of the University of Oregon, has promised to don the spiked shoes again for the Multnomah Club. Chairman Windnagle has not yet received word from Arthur Tuck of the University of Oregon, who recently set a new coast mark for the javelin, regarding his intentions as to the meet, but it is expected that he will line up with the Winged M team.

There are plenty of other athletes of prominence in the Northwest colleges and universities who are eligible to compete for the club team. Windnagle wants it understood that everyone desiring a chance will be given an opportunity to show his class against the New York team.

Multnomah Club is also planning to send a representative team to the national meet at Pasadena and the men for this trip will be selected on their showing in the dual meet with the New York Athletic Club.