The morning call., 1891-08-09
ATHLETIC.
Sprinters Who Are Coming to the Front.


ATHLETIC.
sprinters Who Are Coming to the Front.
Ancient Jumpers.
John Blackwell Jr. u. c. is a very prom
isiug Splinter. and if lie continues to i'm
grove Oiympians can look out for another
champion from the University Club
What has become of speedy Charley Jelli-
mex %. e.? Report says he is camping on
Mount Tanialpais, and that he takes a spin
every morning before breakfast to Ross
Station for his mail-a distance Of four
miles.
It wculd be a good race between P. Nc
Iutyre and A. Leighton if the latter would
conCede fifty yards to Pete in a One-mile
run. Pete has never been the same since
he caught fire in the Central Park dressing
room Good Judges think that lie cannot
DO better now than / As for mile.
Clinton Il. Morse ~. c. is one of the
most popular ard best all-round athletes on
the Coast. He can always be depended on
to enter games, no matter whether prizes
are given or not. He has made a host of
friends, who are always pleased when lie
proves successful.
Although f. f. Foster cannot run fat
RACES, there is possibility that he Will
lower MS records in tile 120-yard hurdle of
IGi5 sec udS and in the 22O-yard hurdle
- - SECONDS DeIbTb many NtehS. TUSItI
is in splendid condition and he is expected
to take I, second from the 120-yard and l
second OF the coward events.
Honest" John Purcell has been seen
often Of late at the 0iymii lie Club grounds
playing hand-ball and putting the spot
Those who think lie is faded card will be
sadly disappointed when they see him in
The next eame5. There is no one who works
harder for his club than Purcell.
1t is considered unfortunate that Phil
Ward could not stalt in the last games, as
lie is rounding into good form. In the last
two months lie has displayed wonderful
speed. his style has very much changed
for The better. and 1t will only be very
short time when he will not require hand
leap from any one on the Coast in the
sprints.
The Athletic Committee of the Olympic
CLUB is using every effort to pOpulariZe out
door athletic sports and il will not be its
fault if the fall meeting on Thanksgiving
day is not a success financially. The club
has given number oil invitation field days
this summer. and II intends 10 give another
on Sertrn her 9th, at which gold and silver
medals viii be given to first and second in
each event.
There will be two events open TO the
Pacific Association of the Amateur Athletic
Union at The Clan Frazer picnic at Shell
Mound Park on September 9th. The dis
tances will he $50 and $50 yaIdS haEdlcaps.
The first III each event will receive a gold
medal; The second, gold and silver medal;
and the third, 4 silver medal These events
will take place late in the afternoon 10
enable The athletes in the Olympic games
TN the same day to take part.
Not much is known about Justice n.
Haley %. CO as runner, but report says
that some years ago he was beaten only
few inches in an SS0-yard race, the time being
2.07. Haley has not entered any event OF
this distance since he returned from the
East. Int cid athletes remember we'll his
first appearance in the Merton Club games
On the Bay District Track. The event was
one mile and Haley got 200 yards from Tom
Jennings on a scratch, Bob Gibson 90 yards
". 4. Scott lbs yards, c. Hill $50 yards, P.
{. Kelly 10 yards, Luttlnger 1I5 yards.
Haley wen the race in i % % seconds. 1t
was great effort al handcapping, consider
ing that Jennings, at his best, cannot do
better than 40 seconds.
Qnick berner's throw OF 13i feet Pa inches
with tie 16-pound hammer at Manchester
does not break J. S. MitchelPs worlds
record Of 1913 feet 1OA inches, as was re-
ported. Quickherner threw from a 9-foot
circle, while the big lrishman's cast was
under American rules from 7-foot ring.
The New York Sun says: The perform
anres Of Mortimer Remington have lifted
him into 4 premier position as a sprint
runner. Remington has demonstrated very
cleveIiy that lie is capable of running all
distances, from 1Co to 400 yards, al worlds
champion gait
Mortimer Remington's quarter mile in
80 - seconds on July 18th was made on the
famous trark of the London Athletic Club.
on which II. c. l.. 1indaIl of Cambridge
University broke Lon" Myers English
record of IS So seconds. The start is 200
yard straightaway; then comes 100 yards on
an easy curve and then another straight of
60 yards.
The jumping and pole-vaulting feats of
athletes OF the day seem but the work of
babies and pygmies, when compared with
the extraordinary dolngS OF the Old-time
acr0bats: If history can be believed, Phayl-
lus of Crotona could stand and make a 3D.
foot jump on the dead level. He was one
OF the main athletes at the old Olympic
games. his enormous jump forming part of
tie course of the Pentathon. Strut, the
noted English authority on games and
amusements, speaks Of a Yorkshire jumper
named Ireland whose powers were some
thing marvellous. He was six feet tall at
the age Of IT, at which time, without the aid
of springs or spring board, he leaped over
nine horses arranged side by side, and at
another time lightly cleared heavy wagon
which was covered with an awning
Colonel Ironsidas, who made voyage from
England TO India early in the present cen
tury, relates that he met in his travels an
old white-halred man, who with a single
bound cleared the back of an enormous
elephant flanked on either side with six
camels OF the largest breed. A book entitled
History of Wonders Performed at Fairs
mentions an Engli shman who, at the Fair
of St German, in 1924. leaped over the
heads OF forty people without touching one
of them.
Regarding the split which recently took
place in Western amateur athletics Medtor,
III the New York World recently observed /:
AS was 10 he expected In The event of ths ac-
tion OF the Central Division OF the \. A. L. hay
ing ignol ed The appeal made by the ST. Louis
clubs TO remove the restriction placed upon hold
, "a FHn Ill
OF amateur athletic clubs was held at the Mound
Ciiy on July 12ih, at which the Western Asso-
Gallon OF Amateur Athletes was organized with
j. A. 81. John a. President II seems 10 me that
this sliit IN amateur athletics could be amcably
adjusted il A. G. Mills would carry out The spirit
Of li, original scheme more deliberately; That H.
10 use bis Influence 10 have The A. A. Z. appoint
committee 10 meet committee 10 be appointed
by the Western Association of Amateur Atll-
ie.es, lhese TWO committees TO agree OH an
amendment 10 the A. A U. c0nsti uiiOu, which,
when adopted by the A A. u, would admit of
The western Association OF Amateur Athletes
being allowed 10 enter The a. A U. as the w 81.
eIu District Association. This action, II taken,
would add only one more district to the A. A u .
and would only Increase the representation on
tile National Board OF Governors by Two, and
would solve lie whole problem, which, In inv
judgment, cannet be amcably solved in any
Other way. III this proposition for compromise
DO carried OUT tie Western District Association
would, Of cour-e. have a light 10 hold Sunday
games II II saw fit and proper, and 1t is perfectly
ftgbj that each district association should carry
out The prevail III Ideas OF the section OF the
country over which the association holds iurls
dlction.
The above ideas are good, as they form q
basis on which a settlement satisfactory to
both the A. A. U. and the w. A. A. A.
should be founded. Sunday games in ST
Louis ARE thought no more of in that place
than are In the East certain customs which
a dozen years ago we've frowned upon.
There IS no justice in men endeayoriDg to
make laws in amateur srort for others who
NAV be thousands of miles aNay and when
the customs are. as varying as they are be.
tween the East aud the West regarding the
observance OF Sunday.