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erty in New York, owning the handsomest
club house in the country. Its members are
men Of position, wealth and good standing and
their records as athletes are most honorable.
The club has ninety eight entries in this meet
including some Of the very best talent in the
country. George, Lange, Ware, Roddy, Pot
ter, Norton and Estes are we'll known in their
respective branches.
F.F. CARR, RUNNER.
y. =. Carr first ran q race as Representative
OF Williams College at Q meeting Of the NE.
LAA at Worcester, May %, 1890, where he
won second place in the one-mile run and two
mile run, C. o. Wells winning both races His
hne in one mile was 4.Ss 40 His next race
vas at the eastern championship at Staten
Island, June IS, where he Was third in the
three mile run. July he ran handicap mile
race from scratch at the games of the fremont
Athletic Clnb at Boston. He started ut the
Staten Island Athletic Club games September /,
IN the two mile steepechase class also at River
side Athletic Club games, September G, but did
not win place in either.
=. a. WARE, 4 GREAT WALKER.
Mr.. p. A. Ware, second lieutenant Of the N.
A.c., Is one Of the most popular athletes in the
metropolis The thanks of TIE Stan are due
TO him for hts cid in the preparation OF this
article. He turned his attention to walking
very early, being now only twenty-five years
old, and though often defeated stuck TO his
work until he d = likely man in any raee.
la 1854 he defeeted .. L Tompkins BY one
zoos a. the New York College, gaHaes in the 40
yards run after desperate race. From 1878
and up to the present time he has competed
with sdeeess a nearly all the athletic mestings
held during that period, and enjoys the dis
tneston OF being The oldest competing athlete
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Geo. L. Estis first appeared in athletic sports
as . star when he entered the Soottish-A meri-
can games at Jersey City in the fall of 1886,
where he won the half-mile walk from tn Q
thirty-fve-yard mark in L591a. In 1883 he
won the half-mile scratch race at the Cape May
Club games, defeating several cracks. On Labor
day, in 1888, he easily won the six-hundred-
yard handicap race from the twelve-yard mark
in LII 2-5. At the championship games of the
union in Detroit that year he ran third to
Tracy of Nova Scotia and @. NJ. Smith of Now
York Athletic Club. At the farewell meeting of
the Gaelic A.A at Madison Square Garden,
under the auspices of the MA. A.A.A.. he won
the quarter mile handicap race, defeating
Mahoney, the Irish champion. who had just
won the N.A.A,A.A.'s half-mile championship.
In December of 'SS he met with an accident
that kept him out Of active competition in
athlatics until about a month auO
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JOHN T. NORTON, QUARTER-MrLE RUNNER.
John T. Norton. quarter -mile runner, is
twenty-three years old, feet 7 inches high
and weighs 14o pounds. He began work on
the track as member Of the Brooklyn A. A.,
and soon after joined the NJ. A. C. Since 1886
he has won over hundred prizes His first
appearance WAS in March. 1856, at the eighth
regiment games, winning the quarter-mile run.
Later Ill the year, at the S. l. A. @. games, he
won the 220 hurdle from the fourteen
yard mark in ~ seconds. He has run his
quarter in So seconds and deserves o place
among the top-notch people.
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is captain Of the foot ball team. He won pu-
merous prizes at the ST. Paul's school and his
first tnotable race was at Mechanics Hall, Bos-
ton, February 10, when he beat Downes for
first place in the $50 yards handicap. After
Downes had passed him on the last lap Peters
made brilliant finish and beat him at the tape.
At the indoor championship he won second in
the 600 yards run, beating Devereaux and five
others. He ran the 600 yards IN l. 10 is at the
N. Y. A. @. games May 80, which was remark
able time considering the field of starters he
was obliged to pass. On May IL, at the Conn
try Club, Brookline, Mass, he won the $50
yards run in EOS over a poor track. On the
same day he won second in the 440 and first in
q potato race. He is club champion light
weight boxer, stands 5 feet So inches and runs
at 145 pounds. He is game runner and q
strong finisher.
DANIEL LONG, ALL-RoUND ATHLETE.
Daniel Long represents the d. A. A. in the
running high jump and 56-pound weight. He
is without doubt one of the best all-round ath-
letes in the country today. He is twenty-three
years Of age, stands feet II inches and weighs
$50 pounds. He has won hundreds of dollars
worth of medals during the past five years in
and around Boston, and at the indoor cham
pionships threw ths 56-pound weight for
height, winning second place with IA feet
inch, although obliged to use strange handle.
At the eastern championships he threw the 16-
pound hammer 81 feet. Jumped feet
l01S inches and threw the 56-pound weight 20
feet AZ inches, winning second in each Of the
last two events. This was remarkable per-
Torrance and one that has few equals. He has
jumped over six feet in practice and will
doubtless develop into frst-class all-round
man.
C. q. BARpEEN
represents the club in the walks. He is also Q
member of the Harvard Athletic Association
and has been walking but one season. He has
done very fast time in practice, and at the
intercollegiate games last spring was among
the leaders in the last 220 yards, when he was
disqualified.
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fHs ecHpYLKlLL EMsLEM.

The president Of the union, Mr.. Harry Ne,
MILAN, IL one of the most prominent mep Of
the navy and occupies the position Of commo>
dore. He il also regarded ss one Of the best
men Of the union. The navy has . delightful
village Of boat houses along the banl1
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mHERE is no more active men,
Der Of the A.A.U. than the Man
haitian Athletic Club, which,
although but recently in the union
ranks, is now one of the chief COM
petitors for the general prize.
This club has a magnificent prop
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FAvORITEs FROM THE HUB
Representatives OF the Boston Amateur
Athletic Association.

BOSTON SENDS DOWN A
number Of good men TO de-
fend the honor OF the Hub;
men who have won on other
tracks and fields. These men
are members Of the Boston
Amateur Athletic Association.
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y. 2. DUCHARME, WESTERN HURDLKR.
Fred T. Ducharme Of the Detroit Athletic
Club has been identified with that club sine
its organization, over three years ago. He Is
twenty-five years old, feet inches high and
weighs about 152 pounds. He has doubtless
won more first prizes than any other western
athlete and his collection embraces over sixty
first medals, won during the last three or four
years. He holds today the western champion
ship for both the high and low hurdles.
Last fall at Travers Island he led in the high
hurdle race for the United States championship
by a clear yard, but struck . soft spot in the
ground at the ninth hurdle, and falling, lost
what locked to be certain victory. His best
records are as follows: 120-yard hurdles, IL
seconds, but in this race he has never been
pushed in the west and has run trials
in l6 as seconds; 220-yards hurdles, q
feet inches high, &c 1-5 seconds;
running high jump, 5 feet inches; standing
broad jump, 10 feet ! inch; running bread
jump, u feet "a inches; l0O-yard dash, 10 2-5
seconds. He is also fine pole vaulter, fair
shot putter and hammer thrower and for his
weight sings the 56-pound weight WELL He is
q frst-clsss standing high jumper. He is a
graduate Of Ann Arbor University and ex-
tremely popular wherever he is known. He
now holds the all-round championship Of the
DAG. He is the most modest of winners and
q cheerful loser. and is said by his friends to
be q remarkable athlete of the finest feelings
and q very consistent performer.
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Association he has won about twenty-five
prizes in the last six years. He holds the
armory record for the half and one mile walk,
the latter being minutes 10 seconds. His in
door record for the mile run is minutes Sc
seconds In 1885 he won first place in the
doubles at the Lake George regatta. During
the last twelve years he has competed in con-
tests at walking, running, rowing swimming,
bicycling, jumping. hurdling and skating, and
possesses nearly 200 trophies to testify to his
proves at these games. At the Seventh Regi-
ment games, held recently, Mr.. Ware broke the
armory record GAO 2-5) for the half-mile
walk, which he reduced hy II seconds, COM
pleting the distance in minutes % 2-5 seconds,
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FROM THE WOLVERINE STATE.
Contestants Who Come All the Way
From Detroit.

IN all-round ability none Of
the competitors in the
games today excel those
from the land Of Wolver-
ines, who bear on their
sweaters the Greek letter
Delta, signifying the De-
troit Athletic Club. There
'is not q very large delega-
ton of them-only four
but each represents the
highest development in hin
own field. There are Owen,
Jewett. Ducharme and
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-4ERsEY afwayS vas lively spot
10 both for mosquitoes and summer
~ boarders, a. we'll - for muscular
MI development The New jersey
ANVAthlstis Club b among the strong
III est Of the smaller elubs around
'AS ths great city. II has beautiful
grounds q Bergen Peiat seid 70
be one Of the best adapted 10 the sport In the
country. The new club house viii DO built
thsRs. The club has On IT, rolls some excellent
msn, and though it, dslegstaoo u not large,
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%. p. o'BRrEN, POLE yAuLrxn

D. p. o'BRfEN, POLE vAULfKA.
Dennis F. O'Brien represents the Detroit
Club IN the pole vaulting contest Last year
he was second in this event In the 4 A. U.
championship games on Travsrs' Island, and
shortly afterward won second in the Canadian
championship games, being beaten on both oc-
casions by Stones Of England, who holds the
worlds championship at this business. He il
. good all-afound field athlete and also b Ane
wrestler. holding the d. A. @. championship
in his class. He is twenty-five years old, stands
feet 1917 inches high. and weighs $50 pounds
when trained. His best records are - follows:
Pole vault 10 feet, high jump 5 feet inches;
hop, step aud jump, Il feet io1f inches Qrish
record, ~ feet inches); putting l6-Pound shot,
80 feet throwing l6-pound hammer, 81 feet
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victory was won at the Scottish games in Jer-
sey City, May 81, 1881, where he cleared feet
3 inches. After that for several months he was
forced to be content with second places. but he
perse vsred, until he began to win from the best
OF the men who handled the long pole. He
placed the record for the vault in this country
at the games OF the New York Club In 1887,
when he cleared the bar at IL feet inches, en-
tirely without precedent
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making his first ap-
pearance at the in
door meeting of the
DAG, in January Of
that year in the nov
ice 45-yards run
which he easily won.
He is 5 feet 8 inches
In height and weighs
in 0 o n dftion i2A
pounds. A. . sprinter
he has Q phenomenal
record, At the open
ing Of the outdoor
season in Detroit in
the spring of 1889 he
drst made his ap-
pearanoe on the elm
der path and easily
won all his races from
scratch until the west
ern championship
meeting Of the A. A.
o., where he was de-
feated by Luthsr
Carey, who won the
l00-yard westsr n
championship in IL
seconds, b. attn g
Owen BY two yards,
also beating him in
the gao yards in very
fast time. During tho
rest Of The season
Oven seemed invinei'
q Pittsburg, Chicago
lDlahd h6 met
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THE CHERRY DIAMOND.

Some Of the Manhattan Clubs Crack
Men.
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THE NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB.
Men Who Wear the Winged Foot Upon
Their Breasts.

II E greatest number Of sth-
letes come from the east, and
in fact a majority of them
hail from the metropolis-at
least as far as the purposes Of
this meet go. New York is,
and will for many years be,
tha main cantar in athlatic
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matters, as in many other things, and it is not
strange that her delegation should be so large.
The Manhattan and New York clubs are in
themselves almost as large, - regards men,
bership, % half dozen of some OF the smaller
ones, and this year each is putting forth an IN
usual amount Of energy for the purpose Of get
ting as near as possible to the winning of the
championship plaque. With a few exceptions,
1t may be stated fearIsssly, the winners are
from these two clubs, and most of the men
holding records bear upon their breasts the
winged foot of the New Yorks or the cherry
diamond Of the Manhsttans. These two en-
biems are the sign Of hard work. careful train
ing and determination to win, and whenever
men wearing them take part In the same race
Q fierce contest is sure TO ensue
The New York Athletic Club has won the
great plaque ever since its donation and the
men put forth by it today are of the best sort.
They are trained to win and to make points for
the club, and in no organization is there bet
ter discipline among its members. The club
has siXty-one entries in the events
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tons Of skillful men 1t is by no means sure
that some Of these men will capture prizes in
the events ahead Of the cracks, on whom the
greatest expectations are conferred 1t is pretty
certain, just before any meet, that some dark
horses will be developed, and no surprise 10
ever manifested by the older men il certain
races or other events are won by comparative
novices. Burkhardt, whose portrait follows, 10
not exactly q novice, but is quite young enough
TO be called q new conner on the track and field
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O'Brien, each meaning to do his best, and
backed by . record showing that best to be
very good
JOHN OWEN, sPnINrEh.
John Owen, jr., d. A. c., is champion ANA
teur Splinter OF the United States for 100 and
220 yards. He commenced running In 1889,
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HE COMES ALONE.
Mr.. Burkhardt to Represent the Pas.
time Club.

ANY Of the clubs that are
represented here today
though classed in compare
ison with such organiza-
tions as the NY. and MA.
c. as minor clubs, are, in
reality, strong combina-
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THE SAND sPANIARDs.

Some Good Men From the Land Of
Mosquitoes and Summer BeardeD.
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some OF the men are quite sure to be in at the
dnish- Among these men IL Jetburg OF ths

JETBURG, LONG DISTANCE RUNNER
New Jersey Athletic Club, one OF the fastest
long distance runners in the country. The cut
shows him in position for his famous start
ZIMMERMAN. THE JERSEY FINER.
Arthur A. Zimmerman, the famous bicyclist
OF the New Jersey Athletic Club, who recently
lowered Willie Windle's colors in two important
races at Peoria. ILL.,. was born at Camden, Nj,
in 1863, and was educated at the Freehold In-
stitute, at Freehold. Nj. He Is about feet in
height, slenderly but powerfully built, and has
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made his mark as o plucky and hardy rider Ia
many dash. His work Of Peoria was some-
what OF a surprise, when he defeated windle
by about two feet in the quarter-mile dash,
time Sc seconds, and in the l0-mile American
championship, time Som. 8-5s.
He also won the one mile ordinary andicsp
In Pm, SO 3-5s at Syracuse, NY. Zimmerman
recently brought the time for q half mile down
to I'm. 49,, which now stands as the amateur
record. Zimmerman's father is an enthusiast
on bicycling, and accompanies his talented SON
on nearly all Of his important engagements,
The flyer rides Star wheel, and in 30 doing 10
Q wonder on the track.
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THE sCHUYLKILL NAVY.

which the greatest harmony and community OF
interest prevail They have banded together
and formed the Athletic Club Of the sehuyikill
Navy, one Of the original thirteen members Of
the A-AA, and now one Of the most stsunoh
of il factors
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In point Of experience. In 1886 he won the
inteIcolisglate championship at Walking
Az the games Of the Seventh Regiment Athletic
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WIN. BURKHARDT, wALkEh.
VIM. Burkhardt represents the Pastime l. o.
Of New York in the walking events. He now
holds the championship in the shorter walkt
and is regarded as one of the best heel-and-toe
men in the country, although but twenty-five
years old. He won the mile championship in
Detroit in 1888 from LANCE Of NJ A. @. by the
time of 81 is. His best time was made in
1888 at the Labor Day games Of the n. J. A. C.,
winning from the scratch against large field
in la As. He is feet 4 inches high and
weighs about 125 pounds when in walking CON-
dition.
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An Accident at school,

Augustus w. Smith, pupil of the high
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Mi.sIonary EntertaInment

A missionary entertainment was given
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day evening and was largely attended.
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scenes with tableaux representing Easter
Dawn" "The Tomb of Jesus" and
ANGELS Visit"
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Swore or For n Year.

Charles Roden had a harrington Monday
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alderman some guarantee to that effect he
swore off for year and paid the cost. He
was then discharged.
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Sent to the House OF Refuge.


Emma Shay was heard by the court this
afternoon and sent to the House of Refuge
for being incorrigible. Detective Barnhold
will take her TO that institution.