Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-16
rHE ATHLErIo MEETING

Athletic EmtertaInmenf-The City
 Guards Win the Tug of War Contest
 Gus Lang'S Team Secures the Gold
 Medal for Horizontal Bar Exercise
 Many Prizes Won by Yale Men-Pro-
 gramme for Tonight.
 The second annual athletic meeting of the
 Yale Athletic association and the 2d regiment
 opened last evening at the armory. The fol-
 lowing are the officers of the meeting:
 -Jgdgss-Lieu!. Col ,. B. Doherty, sd Regt. Q.
 N !So g. I 1tte @ Rah, G Y "A. AaSa Sa O. F. sherr Yale
 'y judge of af1FEs5e F. as ye Julius Koch liners-W c. Schuyler, N. Y. A. O., W. H. Rob-
 ersssa ssarter-deorge S Or doiGis GSss 4sl9 Judge of Walking-G. M. L. Sacks M. A. O..
 G Ed Ree N. C., Q. H. sherri1l. Yale 's9.
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 ,0d Assistant Clerks Of the CSurssCH Hoadley Yale Scorers and Meagurers-A. Colt, Yale ,s7, F. c. T E. Callahan, Major F. T. Lee Capt T. T. Welles, adit, Capt. G. G. La Barnes, ". c. Dole. The first event on the programme was 8 mile walk for members of the regiment only. c. A. Hunt was given 25 seconds start, J. J. O'Brien 20 seconds, H. Liversidge of Con- pany K. 10 seconds, and W. G. Doherty scratch. The walk was won by Liversidgc, in 8 minutes 30 4-5 seconds. Hunt was sec- ond,
 The horizontal bar contests, which were very interesting, were won by Gus Longstein of the City Guards, and H. Howell of Yale, | '91, second prize. MT. Longstean exhibited the elegant gold medal to his friends. There were fifteen members of Yale who l started in the half mile run. E. Lentilhorn, who was given a handicap of thirty-fve yards, won first prize. Time, 3 minutes IA
 seconds. J. P. Lloyd won second prize. The running high jump was won by N. l.. Deming go s., height 5 feet 4 inches, the prize is valuable cup. A. o. Crehore, Yale | go, was second.
 Putting the pound shot was one of the | final university contests. C.F. Kent 'S9 won | the cup H. A. Elcock won the gold medal, | 34 feet 6 inches The silver medal was awarded to 0. W. Mills. J. G. Shearman of Yale '89 gave an exhi- bition of pole vaulting; his highest vaulting was 10 feet 215 inches. teams was won by the City Guard team, who were matched againt the team from Compa- nv D, The second trial was between the victorious team and the team from Company I of Meriden and was won by the City Guard team, who secured first prize, ,the gold medal. The second prize, 8 silver medal, was award- ed to the team from Company I. I The mile run for members of the regi- ! ment was won by J. Denney of Company K | in minutes 23 seconds. A. B. Smith of Company D. won the second prize, a silver medal.
 The bayonet contest was amusing. Five | muskets without bayonets were placed in barrels and five muskets with bayonets were | in other barrels. There were six contestants | and six sets of muskets and barrels, which were about forty feet apart. The contes- | tants took the bayonets from the guns and l placed them on the other muskets. The l first prize was awarded to F. E. Blake of | Horonanv K tha aaonnd f0 H Booth of | Company D.
 The first prize for fencing was awarded to | W. J. Connor of Yale go. The second prize was secured by E. Lentilhon of Yale '9OS s. The 50 yard race, for officers of the segi- i ment only, was won by Lieutenant Norton
 of the wallingford company. The second prize was captured by Captain La Barnes of the same company.
 There were two contestants in the roller
 skating race, which was won by c. A. Hunt of Company E. L. D. Kappeler of Company | D took the second prize.
 The following is the programme with the 1 number of entries for tonight: l 40 yards handicap, 51 entries. Running high jump, handicap, 25 entries. Potato race, scratch Ii entries Putting the shot, handicap, 16 entries. 200 yards hurdle racs, handicap, r entries. Tug.of.war, scratch, s teams Obstacle race, scratch, 6 entries. | Many athletes who have been victorious in l other contests have entered tor competition tonight. Following is partial list of prom | inent competitors:
 l A yards race-W.C. Dohm of Princeton college, Mir. George of the Manhattan Athletic club of New
 York; J. F. Lee of the Harvard Athletic association | and others.
 \ High jump-J. D. Webster of the Manhattan club ' and Lee of Harvard. \ Mile waIk-E D. Lang of the Manhattan club. | 50 yards race-F. Nesting of the Manhattan club, champion sprinter of America; A. F. Copeland and | Putting the shot-A Schroeder of New York, F, | L. Lambert of the Manhattan club and others. ! Mile run-A. B. George and J. D. Lloyd of the Manhattan club and T. P. Connef champion long distance runner.
 | Tug-of-war-The City Guard team, who recently won so many prizes at the Madison Square Garden, | team, Columbia college team, and teams from the Manhattan Athletic club and West Side club of New York.
 The six men who will create sport in the
 obstacle race will, at the start, have to crawl ! under net on the ground, then over the top ! of wood frame about ten feet high, over l hurdles, through barrels suspended in the l air, over two hurdles, which will complete | the first half of the race. The secoud laI | will be like the first with the addition of 1 low bar which the men must crawl under tc | finish.
 There will be some fast time made in the l 50 yards dash. Charles M. Camp, who was ! recently practicing at the armory, ran the | distance in six seconds, after which he took ! few minutes for rest and started again l making the 50 yards in six and one.quartel l seconds. A large audience will undoubtedly
 witness the games tonight. |