Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1890, Page 10

~ 10 ‘OBER’11, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. born in Butlend, Vt., October 2, 1961, and as| in point of experience. In 1896 he won the twenty of and is improving every | winn’ the championship of IN r a lad was a leader in sport. After several un- af tenet eh championship at walking. He stands & feet 634 inches and weigh Tuten’ Btates for meee and 20 yards. He A i « | Successful trials as a runner and all-round | At the games of the Seventh Begiment Athletic y Bg pounds. He made bis initial perform- | is now champion of the United Btates for 100 athlete he turned his attention wholly to poie ance at Malden, Mass., November 26, 1887, and | and 220 yards, western champion for 220 yards _——-— vaulting end im this he bas excelled. His first end 440 yards. He has been twice beaten this inished second season in 100-yard rans by his club mate, Athletes Who Contest on Analostan yards dah nt Melroe, Mam. Ov July © 480. Sevens Onca's friend, Island Today. ing 100 yards in 9 4.5 seconds last year caused much comment and some ridicule when re- - ' same place, he was rted in the All there thought it THE ATHLETIC UNION MEET. \ f in hop, step and jump. On’ July 4, at the | wild story from the “woolly wort” snd. when ’ j Trimount games, Boston, he was first in | Owen came to the national championship not a cece running broad, with 19 feet 73 inches. | single prophet mentioned his name as having a Augost & be made the American amsteur | chance to win. When he easily took first place record at running hop, step and jump, clearing | some stock was then taken im the 9 4-5 story. 44 feet 5 inches against the wind. The fact is Owen did fairly cover that day 100 Ag Gprteasiceang yards in 94-5seconds, The timing was acca- runs in the 880 yard race. He has been ran-| "ate 80d doue by experienced men. There was, - however, a strong wind at his back. and so no ning for two years with good success. His | record was claimed. At the same games he first important victory was at the N.Y.A.C. | won the 220-vard handicap from scratch in 22 Record Breakers From New York—Bos- ton Flyers— Wolverine HBepresenta- tivee—The Home Contingeut—A Gain Day on the Isiand. ——._—_ NALOSTAN Island to- , j : game May 31, when he won the Noviee 880 in | second, and the 440 yards in 52 2-5 seconds. ‘day becomes the most im- iS y P 4 af 2.07: ; rd Somes Cla May — BARRY JEWETT, SPRINTER. portant spot in the universe . in third in the steeplechase. | Harry Jewett was one of those selected to —as far as can be reliably i F 4 é \ Aig ppd peng be finished fourth | come to Washington as a representative of the ascertsined—to the eye of j > aon i Pee young s/alete. wis a *°!D. AG, but he recently fell ill of typhoid] 7®T8URG, LONG DISTANCE BUKKER, an athlete. It holds the best if , iene ¢ fever and is now in bed. He is twenty years | N¢w Jersey Athletic Clab, ope of the fastest talent of America, it con- J, 4 f = . Sag aoe old, 6 feet 1 inch high and weighs 164 pounds. | long distance raneers in the country. The cut idnis akan dik thas saa dak J a ae Sey He is « good ball player and oarstann and takes | shows him in position for his famous start tbusiastic crowds that ever F Association be bas won about twenty-five pecan Abe pring Diet gpl 8 pode ZIMMERMAN, THE JERSEY FLYER. gathered in Washington to wituess the feats of 4 " prizes in the lastsix years, He holds the making his first appearance et Aun Arbor this | Arthur A. Zimmerman, the famous bicyclist human skill. The Columbia Ciub is doing armory record for the half and one-mile walk, of the New Jersey Athletic Club, who recently J . en race, where he was beaten in x ~ the latter being 7 minutes 10 seconds, His in- | pole vault, 10 feet; shot put (16 pounds), 96 . a in an open ri wi tself is ’ . . - 100-yards race by Owen. At those games, a so hapee a bes manner of rece’ ~ = door record fur, the mile run is 4 minutes 56 | feet inches. | He is prem coh e however. he showed great cbility. winning the | races at Peoria, lil., was born at Camden, N.J., pore bopessage iat poniicn bors ce a sont siapa Toke, eG Parte During eee oe ranning hop-sicp-and-jump, the broad ranning | in 186%, and was educated at the Freehold In- een arran, m e a = ros ~~ a jondition 145 pednds, ; F gumes. At no time in its history has thie local | YiCHory was won at the Scottish games in Jer- | tho last twelve years he hus competel in. cont jumop and taking the second prize in the ran- Freehold, N.J, He is about 6 feet im organization been so prominent in athletic cir- lowered Willie Windie’s colors im two important sey City, May 31, 1881, where he cleared 8 feet | tests at walking, running, rowing, swimming, ning high jump. He next appeared at the | height, slenderly but powerfully bulit, and has B inches. After that for several months he was | bicycling. jumiiae Murdiiug end ketone dA : western championship of the A-A.U., June 18. sles, and although its men are not hopeful of | forced to be content with second places, but he | pocsomes wearie M6 tephn se ee ue 4, in Detroit. “At those gamos he met azain and capturing many, if any, prizes, the showing | persevered, until he begaa to win from the best | browese ut these games” At the Seventh Regi } , beat the present champion of the United Sates, they are making is very creditable indeed. of the men who ape rh bay Logon He | ment games, hel recently, Mr. Ware broke the Rr ¥. . The track was poor and the sprinters ran Washington is to be congratulated upon the placed the record for the vault in this country | armory record (3.40 2-5) for the half-mile pos tthe games of the New York Club in 1887, ict he uated by 18 aecesie nec ~~ against a strong cast wind. At the western opportunity of seeing such sport as is going on | when he cleared the bar at 11 feot 5 inches, en | pletiag the drotunce so wiaviee so tO Bi , sayenns ternal, gerne minds ee epee across the river, aud it is to be hoped that the | tirely without precedent, yy p rent aire 4 rey Gbics than ten bas cae example thus set of the heights to which man 100-yard races from the scratch in 10 1-5 sec- can develop himself will prove a healthy stim- “ > ulus to the ambition of the local aspirants for . \ houors on the track and field, so that the next time that the championship games of the A.A. U. are held on Analostan Island, which it isnot at all improbable will not be very far off, the Washington athletes will demand and receive . aS edn a represents the club in the running bigh jump. recognition as being in the first class of medal 4 q " He is twenty-two years of age, stands 6 feet winners, 7 7 and pee at 142 pounds. He has been en- ister hrs ; i og i a ESE. ne won a fret prize in ‘pole vault and rei ‘There are competitors for honors here from f g oe , in hop, stop and jump at Boston. Vebruary 22, almost everywhere, but the majority of the : - q se 1889, he won firstin the running high jump people who take part in the games are from atthe Roxbury Latin School games, Boston, Mew York, which is douktlees the most exthu- é and 10 April won same event at Waltham, Mass. made his mark as a placky and hardy rider in in June at Neponset he was in the running many adash, His work at Peoria was some- siastic city om the continent, having no less broad aap aay 4, Lake Walden, he won what of a surprise, when he defeated Windle than sixteen regularly organized clubs in the : ¢ fret ps esin both running high and runni: et by about two feetin the quarter-mile dash, metropolis alone. Most of these clubs are well oe a broa Franklin Park, Labor day, secon: time 36 seconds, and in the 10-mile Awerican established, having been in organization for y £ + be prizes went to him in both standing broad and championship, time $2m. 1 3-5e. Goulden Ulla ate ae csesed caian <a " running hop, step and jump. November. at Wo- ; He also won the one mile ord handicap aad 6 nipped pop : | " ©. B GEORGE, CHAMPION RUNNER. burn, ho finished firet in running high and second 1 in 2m. 82 $-5s. at Syracuse, N.Y. Zimmerman e n example of this is to be found in “San, L ©. B, George was born at Calne Hills. Epg- | ia polo vault; February 15, 1890, second in run- f ¢ recently brought the time for # half mile down the Potomac Club of this city, which, though it 4 2 , k a Ji sg tands 5 feet 9 inches in | 2™¢ high at B.A.A. games, jumping 6 feet 834 “eB '38., which now stands as the amateur has beeu in the field of general athletics for land, January 9, 1968, stan: se ches 10 | inches; March 8. at Yale games, first in runnin immerman’s father is an enthusiast about a couple of years, has only been a mem- thletic costume 135) high, 6834. In Harvard open games, Marc z. and accompanies his talented son ber of the A.A.U. for a few montha, s ounds. ‘unning in July, 1884. | 29, he beat Fearing, jumping 5 feet 1034 inches on nearly allof his important engagements. ¥ a a October, 1888, he sailed for New York and | off boards with rubber-soled shoes; May 10, at “ ‘The fiver rides a Star wheel, and in so doing is CLUBS AND THEIR DEVICES. 2 ig ae meen Satie. first race in America at the A.A.U. | the Manhattan games he was second in running ‘& wonder on the track. The clubs have exercised » wide diversity of | arexaNDER JORDAN, JUMPER, RUNNER AND HUR- , : 2 5 : indoor championship meeting November 15, | high § 73¢; May 17, he was tied with Sherman : taste in the selection of emblematic devices to DLEB. pr L — hes ni daorbpei Serie rising which he won. Duriog the season of 1889 Mr. for econd place at Berkeloy games 5834. At] onds at Chicago, Detroit and Syracuse, x, ba fy their ch: te cation, yelar | 89 & Star when he entere: ish-Ameri- | George was very successful at the games pro-| eastern ehampionships, June @ won the | At the Jast games of the Detroit Athletic Clu! po cam fonrenbieseceaprlieyr gga ieee] (OC mimmannpe apie alga aratact tons’ OS games at Jersey City in the fall of 1886, | moted by the Adelphia A.C. during June and} ronning high with 511%. He is steadily im- | he was advertised to make an attempt to break these emblems are often the only means of | athletes in the country, and in his character as z a he +} 5 “ where he won tho half-mile walk from the | July. He won the 3, 34 and 3-mile races and | proving and hopes to do 6 fect before retire-| the American running hop-step-and-jamp identifying their wearers with their clubs, a {an all-round man he bas won some handsome | 7here he won tho half-mile walls from. the | Tuy. | Rewwon the 24+ 76 and S-mile races ond | pro record, He sueceed at the firet trial, covering few of the most important have been repro- | victories. Ho started as a walker in the Scot- | ¥on the half-mile scratch race at the Capo May | the Prospect Harriers’ games, August 17, he won 44 feet 8% inches. His other records are as duced aud are used as the initial letters of | tish games Thanksgiving day in 1879 and he was | (iq) games, defeating several cracks, Ou Labor | the open mile; at the American A.C. games, follows: Running high jump, 5 feet*i0 inches; some of the following short articles descriptive | then beate —_ this hompraprs was re — day, in 1888, he easily won the six-hundred- Angest 24, he won the open mile from ei 100-yard dash, 10 1-5 seconds; reed prey r N 4 i. 6- of the men who are taking part in the games, | £0 often af the begining of his career tha ard mark | at the New Jersey A.C. games, August 30, ; jump, 21 feet 43/ inches; putting 16-pound shot, was on the point of giving up when he gave ae % f the | won the !¢-mile Handicap; at the Staten Island 35 feet 10 inches; 1-mile race, 5 minutes 2-5 The one at the head of this tatroduetion is that | himself one more try. This was at the games | 15,1115. At the championship games of the | Ven (Ne /d-mivy games be won the tymile seconde. of the Acorn Club of Brooklyn. The large “KR” | of the Irish-American Club in 1880, and the | "Trey of Nova Scotin aud C. M. Smith of New | handicap; at the Caledonian gamee, September to be found elsewhere on this page belongs to | Victory he then achieved—winning a mile walk | yory’ athletic Club. At the farewell meeting of | 7, be won the scratch mile reco; at Travas the Ridgefield Club of Albany, while the | ‘2 &52—gave him new hope. Then. for @ pe-| ii. Gaelic A.A. at Madison Square Garden, | Island, September 14, he won the A.A.U, 1-mile ” tarth : riod. he kept fimishing second. and finally he | unger the auspices of the N.A.A.A.A., he won | Championship; at the M.A,C, gamer unique “M" farther down the columns is the | decided to pay attention strictly to the field | {0° quarter mile handicap race, defeating | ber 21, he won the 2-mile steeplecha: device of the Yonkers Ciub. events, particularly hurdle racing. His first Mahoney, the Irish champion, who had just | Pionship; at Toronto, Ont., September 28, he Below will be found a few sketches intended | record work was done in June, 1856, when he | Von the N.A.A.A.A.’s half-mile championship, | Won the 1 and 2-mile championship of Canada; to give the readers of Tuz Stax an idea of |" sgainst time over the 120-yard hurdle | 1, pecember of ’d3he met with an accident | at the New York A.C, games, October 5, he won : e by fin~ : wih om sen : , what mannér of men the athletes composing | {que ‘in 1618 seconde te Landon Stns, | tbat kept him out of active competition in | tho land 3-mile scratch reces; at the Allerton “ A.C. games, October 19, he won the 4-mile the union happen to be. The examples chosen | 1849, he won at the long jump as the repre. | **letics until about e month azo. scratch race; at the Staten Island A.C. game: are thoroughly representative, and show the | sentative of the N. Y. A. C. in the English gam e October 26, he won the open ‘4-mile run. His men, except in afew cases, in their athletic | making 21 feet 5inches, and at later games first race this season was et the indoor sham: costumes. For invaluable aid rendered in the | WD sgtin in Simehes longer. At the meeting pionship meeting held at Boston, April 12, * in Détroit last year he won the hurdle cham- when he was defeated by G. Fearing in the coliection and preparation of the information pionship for the fourth consecutive time— 1,000-yards run by 1 yard, in record time for a and portraits that appear here and have ap- | 16 1-6—and in Canada later won the long-jump board floor, 222%. At the M.A,C spring peared elsewhere in these articles the thanks | championship. He is in the field as a contest- games he won the 1,000-yards run from scratch; E of Tae Scan are due to Messrs. J. E. Sullivan, | ®t for the honor of the all-round champion- ; atthe N.Y.A.C, spring games he won the tsa et YW ke ht AW. * | ship of the A.A.U., and taking into considers- scratch mil it the Sons of St. George games, ¥. B PETERS igh maese ge ; A. “are. | tion the fact that he holds seven records at in- = August 11, he won the 2-mile race from scratch; | ig captain of the foot ball team. He won nu- H. E. Cornish, B.A.A.; F. W. Eddy, D. | termediate distances in various events, he may 5 » = at Syracuse, August 21, he won the scratch ri tthe 8. P hool and hi George W. Carr, M.A.C.; W. B. Curtis, | be regarded as a good man to watch. mile; t fhe American A.C. games, August 23, pesca ness od wh Marista = all, “<8 NY. Walter G. Schuyler, N.Y.A.C.. 4 : ; e won the }¢-mile run from scratch; at. the {notablo race er Bos- bebe Banks & Beds pours por, 4 , New Jersey A.C. games, August 30, he won the | ton, February 15, when he beat Downes for ¥. T. DUCHARME, WESTERN HURDLER. ML Millan, A.C. H. Stinemetz, : ee the }¢-mile run trom 5-yard mark; in the }¢- | first place in the 880 yards handicap. After] Fred T. Ducharme of the Detroit Athletic N., aud Howard Perry and 8. - 7 mile seratch race at the Staten Island games, | Downes had passed him on the last lap Peters | cinb has been identified with that club since Ac Soptember 1, he was beaten 18 inches by W, C. | made a brilliant finish and beat him at the tape. | C™! i ionshi; its orgsnization, over three years ago. Ha 1s ” Downs in 1.584-5; at the M.A.C. members | At the in-door championship he won second in | 5 i high and ARCHIE BROWS, MEDAL WISNER, THE NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB. ; . 4 the 600 yards run, beating Devereaux and five | twenty-two years old, 5 feet 9 inches high an , . . : Hoe milo wove from weet es ae; "XO | Othera He ran the 00 farde'in Lb 16 ctuxe | Weighs about 162 poands, Ho bas doubtices| Another man who was expected to chow up Men Who Wear the Winged Foot Upon ap?) open games, September 20, he ‘ran sebond in| N. ¥. A. C. games May 30, which was remark- | Won more first prizes than any other western | well at the meet, but who has not been able to Their Breasts. the 3¢-mile run from 6-yard mark, able time considering the field of starters he | athlete and his collection embraces over sixty | come down, is Archie Brown, whose breast - | first medals, won during the last three or four 1. F. CONNEFF, LONG DISTANCE RUNNER, was obliged to pass, On May 17, at the Coun- | first medal rn J i ws the trophies of many victory won in ears. He holds today the western champion- | Shows the trop! , HE greatest number of ath- T. F. Conneff is ranked as one of th t a, “aa Brool ee = wig = Phe for both the high and low hurdles. ae —— His absence will be letes come frow the east, and likely men who have made long distance run- | same day he won second in the 440 and first in| | Last fall at Travers Island he led in the high | *everely f — in fact @ majority of them hail from the metropolis—at least as far as the purposes of this meet go. New York is, ning their specialty. He is an Irishman by|4 potato race. He is club champion light-| hurdle race for the United States championship HE COMES ALO! birth ana die oop) ithletic performances said ight boxer, stands 5 feet 83¢ inches and runs | by a clear yard, but greets a <d in ind —— on the soil of the Emerald Isle. Asin the case 145 pounds. He is | game runner anda] ground at the ninth hurdle, ani ppiee | Mr. Burkhardt to Represent the Pas- of many another man in this ling his success | strong finisher. aes kek Ss be eee eee time Club. i f ‘i 20-yard ‘hurdles, 17 has been achieved after many a discour: OXG, ATELET! records are as follows: 120-yar JOHN T. NORTON, QUARTER-MILE RUNNEB. “ ouraging DANIEL Lé }) ALL-HOUND = he bi bee: prc eorcirceny Sporn John T. Norton, quarter-mile runner, ia| defeat He first achieved « roputation a ©! Dantol Long represents the B.A. A. in the | conde Dut in, this reco ho bes mever boon ANY of the clubs that are i twenty-three years old, 5 fect 7 inches high | ising distance tad ger on the Trish | FUOning high jump and 66-pound weight. He|{n 162-5 seconds: 220-yards hurdles, Topresented bere today matters, as in many other things, and it is not y ing distance runner. Jn 1887 he won the Irish | * hes high, 26 1-5 though classed in compar- strange that ber delogation should be so large and weighs 140 pounds, He began work on | championship houors in two events, and at |i# without doubt one of the best all-round ath-| feet 6 | inches high, 26 | 1-5 seconds; thongh cleaved The Manhattan aud New York clubs are in } the track as member of the Brooklyn A. A., ime he defeated Carter, the then distance meee ae pirat dese Eyre h aay feng ny mad Sachs pamebe son — — themselves almost as larze, as regards mem- g and soon after joined the M. A.C. Since 1886 : jump, 21 feet 234 inches; 100-yard dash, 10 2-5 — ct! ‘ 2 hundred es, His first . { % oe C. as minor clubs, are, in bership, as half a dozen of some of the smaller . totrealihen oe Maan ise et ike cleuae seconds. He is also a fine pole vaulter, fair i i ; ‘ i shot putter and hammer thrower and for his reality, strong eombina- ones, and this year each is putting forth an an- : regiment games, winning the quarter-mile run, pionships threw the 56-pound weight for ight slings the 56-pound weight well. He is | tions of skillfal men. It is by no means sure usual amount of energy for the purpose of get- ae a nore cess tor Dor — ae L cae Ce siti ight, winning nd place with 14 feet 1 rat-class standing high, jumper. He is 8] ches bar ihaes eek Oak on in ting poss: GEORGE BR GRA’ TTER wen tho 320 Burdie from x { i te of Aun Arbor University and ex- # , ’ shwspiousip plage. With stow exceptions | Gnotge Grain eaocr ot Roe Tok | tots tH secuin le hue'run le | ioe toe Scat rte ete | Eee pope waererer te" dows” Ho | Weevente abend of the cracks on whom he it may be stated fearlessly, the winners are rene Pe Setar. Ane dosecres'® pisos A) 97 feet, jumped 5 feet | now holds the all-round championship of the und 10 Club's record-holding members, being the | among the top-notch people. ‘ 4 Paatpepoarpin aly 66-pound weight 29 | D.A.C. He is the most modest of winners and | certain, just before any meot, that some dark champion shot putter of the world. He is a . aig feet 434 inches, winning second in each of the | a cheerful loser, and is said by bis friends to | horses will be developed, and no surprise is holding records bear upou their breasts the Canadian of Scotch parentage and is twenty- Ex last two events. This was a remarkable per- | be a remarkable athlete of the finest feelings | over manifested by the older men if certain winged foot of the New Yorks or the elerry four years old. His youthful performances Le, formance one that has equals. He has | and a very consistent performer. oth ts won bi iment of Cho Mankettons, These owe ome | COk fhe chon ah the Colodentam come In te meen BZ | jumped over six feet in practice and will nines Yor or Aen mie any “4 beegecpeicrlan how bam, caretal train- | neighborhood gave him a local’ reputation, o- ) doubtless develop into « first-class all-round a yee Oe novice, Vuln gait Young enough ing end a determination to win, and whenever i i i ¢ ; ep hyip — part in the same race | % prmp ny Oy poorest regen Seta may mn ©. B. BARDEEN to be salted 8 pew seman ob he Hee nee: jerce it L - ‘ i “The New York Athletic Club has won the | ZoFonte Club in 1885. On this oceasion he put represents the club in the walks. He is also . the shot (sixteen pounds) » sufficient distance CONNEFP'S FINISH. great plaque ever since its donation and the member of the Harvard Athletic Association men put forth by it today are of the best sort, | earn the vietory, and thenceforth he went j in bi H v champion of America, who was abroad to rep- alking but one season. He has They are trained to win and to make points for | UP i@ his career as an athiete. His wonderful ‘ resent the N.Y.A.C. at the international gamea me bes been oe in dase and at the the club, and in no orgen'zation is there a bet- | Work with the shot excited curiosity, and in After this the Manhattan Club induced fim to | ¢ ein A ogasee maligenseaiyedia ter discipline among its members, ‘Ihe club | 1887 he was invited by the New York Club to y 3 come to this country, and ho has einoe been | the iochos im the last 220 pordseahen be we Rasehsigtens cottian ing Ota club | take part ina scratch contest in New York. Wry Siamsing porate Tor het cine ners maiteke | the loaders in the yards, when 7 o orem He was out of trim, and though he had entered i], i ie keen captain of tbe Man Hey, | disqualified. the game with @ determination to break the \\ Tiers. Last year he went back across — water| FROM THE WOLVERINE STATE. macerd, Se bed So be constas wilh 6 base vic- \ as a member of the M.A.C, and won the cham- | - —- Graaases hse canal ds thoteia eee / pionships in both England and Troland. Contestants Who Come All the Way Pepresgpet yy eg em ate pan re (i Wm. M. Jack, the famoue Scotch harrier, is Brose Detroit. een ae Ken tae ee ee ‘ now a member of the Manhattan Club, and — ay vin anager incre Mgrs He competes today in the 1and 5-mile runs, He N all-round ability none of that organization. His bert distazce'eith the 7 is twenty-three years of age end 5 feet 816 the competitors in the MeN = inches in height, "Ho has won over fifty pri pe sl from these two clubs. and most of the men in all, amounting to about $900 is eee ec S55 — THE CHERRY DI ON first important engagement was in an inter- from the land o! ‘olver- ni patie 3. 8, RODDY, RUNNER AND JUMPER. Gogh peters Edinburgh varie Lyon ines, who bear on their vd x listance we il Some of the Manhattan Club’s Crack] 3.8, Roddy has been in athletics sinco Octo-| Which he was second, Between 1685 and 1887 sweaters the Greck letter Men. ber, 1887, winning his first race in the Prince- | he won a great many events the most noticea- Delta, signifying the De- ton College fall handicap from seratch in the | bie being the Ferguslie Park cup, in a §-mile troit Athletic Club. There 440-yard run, The time was 59 seconds and | batdicap. The cup was to be won twice, not Pis not s very large delega- made new college record. From that time | Necessarily, in succession. | Hi ‘hat cade tion of them—only four— hattan Athletic Club, which, | until the following March he did no athletic | 7o"r 1987 and seein im 1868, thus, besoming but each represents the although but recently in the union | work, but then went into training for the inte & year ago, he has not been eble to get back highest development in bis ranks, ie now one of the chiat com. | collegiate games, He certainly vas the most | 2. running form on negount, be things, of the wits} own sold. There are Owen, ‘This club has a magnificent prop- O’Brien, each meaning to do his best, an? es, nevertheless, to get there frequently,, At} FAVORITES FROM THE HOB. fi erty in Ne York, owning the handsomest the Princeton College games he found no suc- backed by a record showing that best to bo men in country, — but very good. Fr - years old. fe won the ERE is no more active mem- ber of the A.A.U. than the Man- club house in the country. Its members are | cessful competitor at his distance, the half mile, | Representatives of the Boston Amateur i ted him in Athletic Associatiun. iy Detroit in 1888 from Lange of M. A.C. by men of position, wealth and good standing and | Until this spring, when Dom defea! JOHN OWEN, SPRINTER. 5 i ¥. . DOWM, CHAMPION QUARTER MILE, their clsarmes athletes are most honorable, | 2? hy aes geod arke, oes John Owen, jr., D. A.C., is champion ama- Kes time of 6.541-5. His best time we mate The name of W. C. Dohm, champion quarter- | The club has ninety-cight entries in this meet, | Snr of f munotea sy socooua Tn the indore BOSTON SENDS DOWN A| tour sprinter of the United States for 100 and é = mile runner, is well known all over the country, | including some of the very best talent in the ‘inthaay, 1889, won number of good men to de- | 220 yards. He commenced running in 1689, DF. CRRIRE, BOLE VANIAND. a 5 and when it was reported, « few da , that | eoustry, George, Lang: Roddy, , jumping 5 feet, 2 inches in the fond the honor of the Hub; | making bis first 9) , Dennis F. O'Brien represents the Detroit he had sprained ap ankle and saath i be ter, pilhagtae eee saat Lng re a in tote running bigh amp and inthe intercollegiate ‘men ‘who rear wie Gitta at the tn- Club in the pole vaulting contest, Last year etle teenrah ie man ee well knot games the followlog spring came in fourth ip peel ptr Spor meeting of the ; he was second in this event is the A.A U. THE SCHUYLKILL NAVY. of disappointment among those who wanted to | Pe*pective branches. the half mile, the winner doing 2 minutes 2 sec- ag Phew men | D/4.C,, in January of championship gsmes on Travers’ Island, and — see his style, and as much joy on the part of F. ¥. CARR, BURN onds, and won the half-mile run of the A. C. 8. are members of the Boston | thar year in the nov- P those entered im the same event from other| F. F. Carr first ran a race as a representative | N. Leper gia he O Cat a pepo the Amateur Athletic Association, | ice 45-yards run clabs. | He is « g.aduate of Prineeton College, | of Williams College at a meeting of the N.E. srenty yard wone a 3 mainte, De peste. which he easily won. Ho stants fect dinchos and wengin iss poumaa | EAA. at Worcester, May 28, 1900, where he | 85 won thied prizes both tke bail aud! quarter $ im height and weighs wheu in condition. Having burt his knee play. | ¥® seeond place in the one-mile run and two- | mize run tthe Labor dey games of the in condition ing foot ball at college. he took up running and | mile run, C. O. Wells winning both races, 8. L A.C., when he won the 440-yards rup from pee Asasprinter at once showed a superiority that attracted the os ewe elt gg or seconds, hasp yy ne threevmnile ren, "July's be rans handicap mle vat hae he ng afk > Dene Face was run and won at Princeton, May 9, 1 mileran. July 4 be rans P mile the time being 50%. Three daye later he ran at | Face from scratoh at the Tremont Cedarburst and won in 61 4-5, anda days after that he ran the quarter at the game of 4 the N.Y.A.C. in 52 2-5. He soon became a | in s z THE SAND SPANIARDS. member of the New York Club and was sent ber B. C. POTTER, VAULTER AND JUMPER. _ abroad to represent it in the games of 1889, is ©. Potter, a junior in Dartm : y 4 J Good Men From the Land of bs won _ s re race Zz Huddersfield ¥. &. WARS, 4 OREAT WALKER, Pn coord lair, tp chine me, : } january 23 in from competitors, . F. second lieute: On the 7th of july, ta Goumae poe ee, 7 Soe peed ae $wo races st the international es in Ire- Ignd, one « quarter in 52 4-5, and the other a run in 22 3-5, thus the record fter his return to thi in i i Hs £ | | i liseli a