The second annual Open Track and Field Meeting, sponsored by the Shanghai Track and Feld Association (international) which was held over from last Saturday owing to inclement weather will take place this afternoon on the grounds of the Shanghai American School.
The Foreign Y.MC.A,, defending champions, have a small but powerful team in which all the eight men are potential point-getters, with Bob Dixon, the Canadian star, and Pompey Matulis, the former Harbin athlete, forming the nucleus. These two performers are expected to win more than twenty points in field events. With Willie Ward having a chance to win the high jump and Tony Fonseca the hop-step-jump and the long jump, the "Y" should be able to garner the majority of the field prizes.
On the track the running of Lieut. G. C. Funk, formerly one of America's better middle distance runners, should be interesting. He is reported to have run against such stars as Cunningham San Romani, Chapman, Lochner and O'Reilly. His best time for the mile was 4 minutes and 16 seconds, for the 1,000 yards, 1 minute and 13 seconds and for the quarter mile, 50 seconds. He enters in no less than a dozen events, definitely a record in the Far East. Last year, while participating on a smaller Scale, he collapsed at the end of the mile race and had to be taken away on a stretcher to the Marine Hospital where he spent several days. It certainly will be remarkable if he can get through this year's competition without overstraining himself,
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