New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-22
FOR THE STRONG AND SWIFT.
GAMES OF AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUBS
PROSPECTS OF LIVELY sUMMER-soME WELL
KNOWN CONTESTANTS.

| KNOWN CONTESTANTS.
"There is promise OF an active anu inCelo'O-
ing season for the athletic clubs, said George W. |,
| OF the Manhattan Athletic Club, recently 10 ih ,
reporter. Our grounds at Eighty sixthst and Egntn
ave- will the scene number OF interesting conests
We are intending TO add to our grounds lawn tennis
courts as we have already added baseball field Next
Saturday the intercollegiate games VIII take Piaoe
there. For these games the entries are numerous anu
everybody looks for good work Among the iao'
sprinters who is Wendell Baker OF Harvard
who last made the best amateur record in the ZZ
| yards dash, beating Brooks OF Yale. Brooks won't 10
there this year. but Columbias fast srrinters, G. H.
Mapesan Samuel DerrcksOn, who recently beat FOtu
OF the NewYork Athletic Club, the lOO-yards dash at
Philadelphia will both Then there VIII DO AtNh-
and Fogg high Jumpers both Of whom have cleared
SO Smith. Of Yale the prominent hafmiie ana mile
runner will also compete. Harvard holds the cha
enge cup and she good chance OF Keeping III an
other year. especially in the absence OF Brooks BAKER
will probably In the 22O-yards dash, and the loo
| yards dash in the quarer-mile run and 2ZoyaruS
DASH and II is likely that he will win prizes Ill "hch
| ever races lie enters.
"On May 80, Decoration Day, the Williamsburg Atm
etic Club holds its annual spring meeting, while Oh
our grounds there Ia baseball game between players
from the Dry-Goods League. week later the mammal
tan Club holds it, annual games, which VIII bring to-
geher the amateur athletes from all the various Ms
socations One feature Of this meeting Will be the
prizes We have given up the od-fashioned medals ana
introduced IN their stead pieces OF syerware We nave
handsome set prizes on exhibition atSpaudihg
I'm Broadway Some OF the pieces are valued as hgh as
1856 or $40 The athletes to prefer these prizes TO
the medals and they entering In large numbers IN
the hope of winning them Another important feature
OF this meeting is the mile walk between Nixon OF the
Olympic Club OF this city. and Lang OF the Manhattan
Club Nixon is a of means, but he enjoys tho sport
none the less that account. On Staten Island last
saturday Lang walked mile In az. Among the olher
prominent athletes who will take part IN these games
| are j. b. White W. C. White. Dcrckson, Ford, Adams,
smith. OF the Williamsburg Club. C. Lee Meyers Skill
man and stonebridgc.
"On June 10, week later the tenth annual champion
ships given by the National Association OF Amateur
Athletes will take place on the same grounds. These
games WILL 81 course be contested by all the most
prominent athletes all parts OF the country and
although may strange thing TO say, the TACT
that Meyers. the champ runner will not be here Will
make the contests all the interesting Men Will now
enter who would otherwise have kept out and they VIII
compete with some hopes Of success. WHY, last year
Meyers was allowed TO win the halfmie run In 2:lO
simply because nobody cared to hurry him. knowing
that IL would be In the meantime Meyers Will
compete In the English championship games. and he Is
expected to win the quarier-me and half-mie runs
IMAGINE that Cowie the present English champion. Is
.oncwhat isgustcd at this prospect, he Intends him
self compete. Another American who VIII take part
ia these Eng sh championship games l. l." T. ohItn'
secretary of the Manhattan Athletic Club lie expects
| 10 compete in the lOO-yafds dash. ell, as | SAID
Meyers being .ent tn Will he closely contested
Ia he lOUyard dash there VIII probably run fOrd lne
present champion. Walron. AN e1-champion DeTekson
Mapcs and Baker. In the Vineyards dash we ShAI PROD
ably see Ford, Baker aud Drr,ck'"n Inc pr3ad JUMP
will he contested by voorhees,. BOdlrstOn ana For tue
high jump by PAGE ,nd Rich Snx cleared l&cd
5gi at staten island Saturday For the middle dis,
tanc,s there ten or fifteen men, all OF whom stahI
good chances The mile race VIII prooaoi' 9o
| hy Smith. Of WILLIAMSBURG skillmhn. and MADEIRA, OF
! WEIGHTS. iaimbrcclt, OF the Manhattan and Qnrck
bcrrr are boln pecte to beat their peri ormances
champion, Mcdonald. Lang ANA Nixon In the pole
vnuItilg Baxter, the present champion, VIII compete
ANA probably with success Rich, Of Staten Island, aud
| Hoffman, OF New-IOrk, Will compete IN the
% SSs ASSOCIATION ss and the the n SS Of American
! Whccmcn The same. there VIII probably oe iaige
delegation from the latter organization Formerly these
games have been nrld pury In the morning aud partly
IA tie afternoon. Ghis year however they WIN al lie
nsd I'M the afternoon thar spectator will not be
Obliged to make trips to the grounds In Order 10 see
al ON %ns - the American Athletic Club Will hold It's
meeting the Manhattan Eronnd' AND me season VIII
| NicCrrcry & Co the same grounds ms cNhlbitun
gives an outing. to the hrm's clerks The
some medals are offered as prizes and. tins days
sport forms foot for conversation among the clerks for
| week, before and after it, occurrence"
There is much active pTepaTa5,Gn FOR the opening
the new clubhouse and he increase IN the CLUBS mem
bcrshp nave stimulated Interest ~ all branches OF atl
lrtc-. ANA thr members "l thr tluo p'tlh 10 nt mat
their and exceptional advantages carry with them
obligations for hard work and nigh attainment The
annual games take place AZ Mott Haven on June 20,
and Will comprise ton handicaps hud i've scratch con
|
| ". b. Page. who recently cleared feet i inch,
| aud the running broad jump by several men
of whom each one has cleared over 20 feet In the rum
ming there will he many OF the same competitors as
In the championship games The scratch lOtyafds Will
be entered among others by = Dctckson, G. H. Mapes
! and VI. W Ford Meyers absence Will render the
middle distance attractive than In past years
G. 4. J. Qlcckhcrncr Will compete IN The heavy weight
contests and IN the championship games. great
the beet possible condition and doing better
| and better work every day. M the l2O-yards
duccd. Formerly all contestants have jumped
| the same hurdles. man who trppcd at
hurdle ght. therefore. seriously balk another jump
| ing Immediately AFTER nm. Instead OF single long
hurdle extending the entire width OF the track,
the Athletic club has arranged four separate
hurdes one FOR each contestant, that the mshapOf
OF the Jumpers will not be visited upon others The most
prominent entries for this \. III. Jordan, = A.
Stafford aud NJ ". Ford. Besides these contests which
100 yards dash for tue Iravers Medal open to members
OF tho club only This medal WAS offered by william X.
| Traycrs several years ago. TO be held 10y whoever
] should win 1t three times. VI. W. Ford, II. j..
| Ieus-ant. and j. VI. Carter have each won II
wIce aud the that shall win II this year Will be the
| owner II has been arranged Ia hold other handicap
| two or three weeks throughout the summer. Herman
Oelrichs off, rcd handsome bronze Ia bc the prize
ia the auartsT-nle of this There will also
| be- a mile hali-mc run ana q 22Oyaids daSh.
| Tho race the amateur swimming championship or
America. under the auspices OF the New-Iork Athletic
Cub Will take place on the Harlem IN the middle OF
Yards race aud mile race. H. J.. IOussaint. the 100
| Yards champion and X. T. Magcc, the mile champion,
| arc both expected to take part
on election day the club Will hold Its annual hve-mile
cross country FOR the amateur cham iOnship. d.
d. McTaggcr of Canada, Is the present champion, and
II he completes this year he will probably again carry
| oil the hOnOrs.
ACTIVITY AMONG YACHTsMEN
The smaller yacht clubs have less to excite
but quite rs much to interest them the richer and