Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-27
THE L. A. A. C.
Exhibition of Athletic Games at
Agricultural Park.

Agricultural Park.
No finer day could possibly have beer
selected by the Los Angeles Athleti,
Club for their field day than Thanksgiv
ing day. The weather was delightful
and the Park appeared lovely. From
the grand stand the Sierra Madre was
plainly visible and Old Baldy covered
with snow looked refreshing in the dis
tance.
The l20.yard hurdle race was won by
}. w. Winston, NJ. T. Spencer jumping
well enough till he reached the seventh
hurdle when he failed, and he knocked
down the seventh and ninth hurdles
Time 2lI second.
Putting the shot in three successive
tosses was won by j. w. Winston. His
best throw covered 30 feet and 2l inches
as compared with the other contestant,
spencer's best throw, which covered
only Do feet and 81 inches.
In the I00yard dash Nj. f. Clark beat
G. w. Williamson by five feet in III
seconds.
The mile bicycle race was run by p.
l., Able, who drew the pole; w. C. Cor.
don, second;J. Phil Percival, third; f.
Il. Valiant, fourth; w. w. Downing,
fifth;. r. G. Woodwork, outside. Percival
came in first. Able second and Wood.
worth close third. Time 3:3l4 minutes.
The running high jump, in which was
entered Paul Flameur, A. f. Little, M. T.
Spencer, Geo. w. Wilson and j. w.
Winston, vas cleared by several contest.
ants, but Winston, who did best Of all,
failed to clear the pole when elevated to
5 feet 2;inches. VIM. Daily, of the DAILY
Vacation Company, cleared it, however,
with his walking clothes on.
The l20.yard dash, with Robt. Bett-
ner, M. f. Clark, and j. w. Winston
running, was closely contested, but
Clark came in first
The base ball throw was contested by
J. p. Percival and +. K. Liddell, the
latter winning in three consecutive
throws. The greatest distance covered
was 277.2.feet.
The first heat half.mile bicycle rae
was won by j. Phil. Percival. The con-
testants were P. i. Able, white; j.
Phil. Percival, red, A. Z. Little, black,
red and blue. The second heat, later
on, was again won by Percival, in
1874 minutes.
The mile walk was contested by d }.
Cooper, Ii. j. Fleishnan and j. G. Foy.
Fleishman led from the start, Time,
S.5la minutes.
The quarter.mile run was made by q.
w. Williamson and j. w. Winston, the
former winning easily in l.04 minutes.
The running broad jump, contested by
Spencer and Winston, was won by the
latter. His jumps scored 1880, 1870
and l6 20 feet.
6. w. Williamson and Winston were
the only contestants for the one mile
running race, but as Winston, who had
taken part in nearly every trial before,
was fairly worn out, williamson came
in in l3'at q Jog trot.
The tug of war beiweenthe club and
the Turnverein Germapia was very ex-
citing. The teams of the former con-
sisted of: lst team. w. Winston, C.
w. Morris, 4. L. Jones and J. s. Thay.
er. Team No. 2-M. T. Spencer, r.
Boetcher, j. w. Lancaster and j. w.
Forsyth. The Turner's were represented
by Chas. Steeb, K. Skoellin, Henry
Gerckens and Paul Flaneur. The Tur-
ners came out victorious.
The closing event was an obstacle
race for which several names were en-.
tered, but only S. l.. Burke and +. j.
Cooper started. Burke led from the
start, being first through his barrel and
rolling his second barrel away ahead Of
Cooper. He was overtaken going under
the canvas, but Burke further increased
his lead in the rope.iumping. Getting
into the sacks Cooper caught up with
Burke and they tumbled under the wire
almost together, Burke falling little
ahead. No time was announced for this
event.
No gambling or Objectionable features
of any nature were observable on the
ground and the field day was thoroughly
select and decorously conducted. There
was not very extra large attendance,
but it is not on Thanksgiving Day that
large crowd can be expected at the
Park.