The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-27
ATHLETICS IN 81.
A Season Notable for Many
Broken Records.
WHATTHE CHAMPIONS HAVE DONE
A. b. George Writes of Some OF the
Most Remarkable Performances Of the
Year-A Great Increase of Interest in
Outdoor Sports in the West.


tically ended 1t has been a remarkable
one in many respects. Several worlds rec
ords have been broken, and there has been
a notable increase in the west of interest
In athletic sports.
The Western Association of Amateur
| Athletics held their first championships on
Sept. g. The championships of the CEN
trial association of the Amateur Athletic
union were decided at Detroit July 4, and
the national championships at st. Louis
on Oct. 8. These three meetings have IN
doubtedly given a great boom to sport in
the west.
At the local championships two men
won national honors, viz, I. Luce, of the
Detroit Athletic club, who won the pole
vault and Reber, of the Pastime Athletic
club of St. Louis, who accounted for the
broad Jump. The club of which MI. Reber
is prominent member is largely response
bic for the interest taken in athletics in
St. Louis.
Owing to the abolition Of the Bailey,
Banks and Biddle trophy, the struggle be-
tween those old rivals, the New York
Athletic club and the Manhattan Athletic
club, for the greatest number of points was
not so keen as in former years, but the
honors were once again carried off by the
NJ A. c. The wearers of the Cherry
Diamond" did splendid work during the
season and carried their emblem to the
front in England, France and Canada as
well as in the United States.
E. L. Sarre, Manhattan Athletic club,
broke the first record of the season by run
ming 40 yards over ten hurdles #. in.
. . sot, L.,
plished Maya Mays, at st. Louis, G.. S. Re-
Der, Pastime Athletic club, jumped % #.
35sin., supplanting A. Z. Copland's record
of % #. 31s in. At the Princeton college
games, May 9, Luther H. Cary broke the
IS yards record doing Z S-5 and supplant-
ing the old record of As seconds. May l6
J. R. Finlay, of Harvard, broke w. L
Coudon's record for the 16 pounds hammer
from standing throw, hurting the missile
10Sft. in. May %, at Cambridge, Mass, j.
p. Lee, of Harvard, broke the 220 yards low
hurdle record of 251 seconds, held by him
self, covering the distance in "a As sec
onds May 80, at Staten Island, H Morrell
and c. S. Busse, in an attempt to beat the
three legged record of 62I seconds for so
yards and 1211 seconds for 100 yards, sue
ceeded in doing 6 3-5 and u 2-5 seconds, re-
spectiyely.
May 30 the intercollegiate champion
ships were decided and many fine per-
formances accomplished. l.. II. Cary, of
Princeton, won the 100 yards in 10 seconds
and the go yards in q As seconds, which
equaled the worlds record held by G. G..
Wood, Of England. Another fine perform
ance was accomplished by Shattuck, of
Amherst college, in the quarter, who es-
tablished a new intercollegiate record of
80 As seconds. H L. Williams, of Yale,
won the 120 yards hurdle race in the ex-
traordinary time of Is As seconds, which
is worlds record. In the broad jump
Victor Mapes, Columbia college, cleared
% fl. 113l in, which is now the intercol-
legiate record. Early in June Luther H.
Cary twice ran 100 yards in 9 As seconds,
once at Lawrenceville on grass and again
on the university grounds at Princeton.
The next important event in the athletic
world was the departure of the Manhattan
Athletic club athletes for Europe. They
won no less than twelve championships
while abroad. Cary and Remington prov
ing themselves inyincible.
June Is, at the New York Athletic club
games, J. S. Mitchell threw the 16 pound
hammer 133 #. 1011 in, supplanting the
former record of 1913 fit. in, made by him
self Oct. 10, 1889. E. Hjertberg won the
mile run from scratch in Am. 27s., and in the
broad jumpF. c. Puffer, New Jersey Ath-
Leslie club; E. Barnes, New Jersey Athletic
club, and Victor Mapes, Columbia college,
all cleared over % feet and A. Nickerson
won the high jump with the fine perform
ance of 6 #. II in. E. Edwards, n. J. A.
c., also cleared over feet. At Detroit,
July4, c. S. Reber broke his own worlds
record for the running broad jump, Great
ing a new one of % fit. 61z in.
Sept. u, at the Manhattan Field, the first
annual championships of the Metropolitan
association were held. j. S. Mitchell,
y. Y. A. c., established new figures for
the 16 pound hammer, his best throw being
I39 fit. 2 in. The same athlete also broke the
record for throwing the Sc pound weight,
supplanting c. A. J. Queck berner's record
of 81 it, 10 in. with 80 #. ej< in. George r.
Grey, n. Y A c., put the Is pound shot 46
it. in, thereby beating the old record Of 46
fl. 21S in. made by himself at the Manhat-
tan Athletic club fall games of 1890. Other
notable performances were the 40 yards
run won by NJ. Remington in 40 As sec
onds. T. p. Connects mile in Am. % 2-5s.,
A F. Copland's 1915 seconds for the high
hurdles and A. Nickerson's high jump of
feet.
The Manhattan Athletic clubs carnival
of sports, which took place Sept. 9, was the
occasion of many fine performances. L. II.
Cary won his heat in the 100 yards in 8 IS
seconds. w. c. Dohm won the half mile
from scratch in I'm. 545zs., thereby beating
the American and coming within Z second
OF the worlds record held by T. J. Cross, of
England. In the mile T. p. Connect equaled
the American record of Am. 81 2-5s., held by
". u. George. II. L. Curtiss, the cham
pion walker of England and the fairest
fast walker ever known, won the mile
walk from scratch in 6Fn. 36s-, his time for
the quarter miie-1m. 23s.-beiDg the best
on record for that distance. In the high
jump H l.. Hallock, NJ A. c., cleared 6
II. = in. q. r. Grey put the Is pound shot
46 IT. = = in, breaking the record made By
himself the week previous. The So pound
weight record was also broken by Mitchell,
his new figures being "a It. 6is in.
Sept. 70 at Baltimore the first champion
ship games of the Atlantic association OF
the A. A. L. were held and some good all
around performances accomplished
Sept. %. at Toronto. the Canadian cham
pionships were decided. In the Do yards
run H Jewett, Detroit A c., broke the
Canadian record, covering the distance on
a loose curved track in - Is seconds,
very fine performance. The writer of this
article won the mile in 4m- y 2-js., which
broke the Canadian record of An. - As.
made by himself at Montreal in 1890. c.
A. J. Queckberner established new
Canadian record OF ISL It. 81 in. with the
10 pound hammer, as also did j. 5 Mitchell
with the Sc pound weight, the new figures
oelng 81 IT, IN. A NIckerson won the