The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-12
THE COLLEGE ATHLETES.
IThe Great Amateur Tournament Which,
Takes Place May ~.

New YORK. May 7.-[Special Core
Fpondence of The INDEPENDENT. college
athletes all over the country are looking
forward with great deal of inter
est to the most notable athletic event of the
year which takes place in this city on May
l7. On that day all the crack athletes of
the Intercollegiate association and those
who have distinguished themselves in the
Amateur Athletic Unions will struggle for
the supremacy at the first annual spring
meeting on the Berkeley Oval, above High
Bridge, on the Harlem river. Great records
will probably be made as the contestants
nsetne on May ST. the 1nvtstens Eavs
Club to all the champions in
tEe different games. and it is stated
that the replies, especially from the col
leRes, have been numerous and very graft
Tying. The fact that at the intercollegiate
meeting in May, 1889. eight records were
broken lends additional Importance to the
coming contests. Within tho past three
months the grounds at the Berkeley Oval
have been improved greatly. and the track
s now said by competent judges to be the
fastest ever laid in this country, both as to
ts shape and bed.
This year the games committee of the
Berkeley have arranged a program especial
y designed to test the track athletes. The
rules of the American Athletic union will
govern all the contests. Among the events
will be 1OO-sard dash, scratch; 15O-yard
flash, handicap (limit II yards): 44O- yard
Fun, handicap (limit Is yards); GOO-yard
Fun, scratch; half-nile run, handicap
limit 30 yards); 2-mile run, high jump.
Pcrateh; 120-yard hurdle, scratch; 22O-yard
hurdle, handicap Qimit IL yards); 2-mile
bicycle, handicap; 3-mile bicycle, team
M ffon Of /. ~,
Is pound), handicap: broad jump, scratch,
md tug of war $3.50 pounds limit), teams of
men. Handsome silver cups will be
given to the first, second and third in
bach event, except III the tug of war, in
which contest each member of the winning
awarded to the club scoring the greatest
humber of points during the entire meeting,
md in the team bicycle race q banner will
also be presented to the leading team, in
addition to the other prizes.
Although the entries do not close till May
10, DIR. w. L. Savage, secretary of the
games committee, has already long list of
hoted athletes who have announced their
purpose of competing at the meeting. All
he colleges will be represented, including,
Ind Princeton, and the Manhattan, New
York. New Jersey, StatenIsland and Berke-
ey Athletic clubs. Among the great anna
Eeurs of field and cinder-path who will
pompete are Luther Cary, of Prince
ON, C. H. Sheriff.. of Yale, Her.
pert Shipman, of Columbia, and A. II.
Green, of Harvard. All are famous sprint
prs, and the opinion is general that the con-
lest will be between Gary and Sheriff.. with
he chances slightly in the formers favor.
the quarter and half-mile runs it is ad-
nltted that Downes, of Harvard, and
0ohm, of Princeton, will cut out the pace.
Willie Day. of the N. j. A. c., is likely to
capture the two-mile run prize, but he will
ave to meet the speed and endurance of B.
ieorge, the greatest runner of the Nj. A. e.,
md also Young and Sidney Thomas. DAVIS
ecent teats In running have made him
dreaded opponent on the track. There are
20 entries for the high jump, scratch, thus
ar. but it is understood that j. ID. Webster,
bf Pennsylvania, will compete, and he is
almost sure to be winner.
In the hurdle race Mapes, of Columbia,
ind Copeland, Schwegler, Puffer, Young
md Devereux, of the Manhattan Athletic
association, will be the principal contest
nts. The Columbia college bows
IRE watching this event with deep
interest, and are hoping to see Mapes.
heir champion, come In ahead. Should he
vim, it will send his stock away up as
competitor in the collegiate on the
blst. Puffer has won the indoor HIGH
hurdle championship, and there are some
gho think he will repeat his victory, Cone
and is anxious to beat Schwegler, who ont
an him at Trayers' island last fail.
Willie Windle, the champion tWo-miIe
bicyclist. viii make his last appearance as