The morning call., 1891-08-23
ATH UETiC.
Domgs of-sprinters, Jumpers and Weigh
Putters.


Putters.
Should A. S. Henderson enter the 200
yard handicap, he will do the distance in q
seconds, that is If good judges can be relied
upon.
Pete Skillman will have an easy thing of
it in the three-quarter-mile steeplechase, as
there is no material on this Coast TO give
him warmer.
No athlete can compete in the Coast
Championship unless he is member of a
club. belonging to the Pacific Association of
the Amateur Athletic Union.
HE Clan Frazer Society Will hold its first
outing ut Shell Mound GU September 9th.
- TWO amateur events will be on the pro-
gramme of games, viz: $50 wards and
LhTse-quarter-mlle race.
Roy Gailagheris getting in good condition
and the new Handicapped viii have 20 keen
ms eyes open or Roy will have u walkover
in the next sprint.
:. Y. Cassidy has not vet mt in an an
rearance at the Olympic Club ground since
he was beaten by Mays and Henderson at
the Championship games. RumOr has it that
ne Is now working tile wires for captain Of
the club.
Handsome Bob Macarthur is under the
weather, having injured his knee some time
ago. He Will not enter the field day on Sep
TENDER 9th, and this will be a dlsappoint-
ment TO his many lady friends.
Charley Jellinek has returned from his
vacation in the mountains and has gone into
active training for future events. lie has
put on ten pounds OF flesh and will have to
90 considerable work to be in running form.
+. +. Foster %. c. VIII have the hand
some gold watch for winning the most
points for his club in open competition for
the year ending September 1st Besides
winning the above lie holds two Coast rec
ords-l2O and 220 yard hurdles.
Peter Mcintyre, whose scalp Mr.. Leighton
IS after. IS becoming too old and stiff to run
last put II Leighton wants race .ie might
give old Pete" handicap-say fifty yards
Then Nc would give the matter serious con-
Horace Coffin %. c. is the best one-mile
Hgsiker on The Coast; record, 6:4S Next to
Linn comes James Jarvis %. c.; time 6: j1
JARVIS holds the two and three miles record,
ne former l4:56 and the latter % 81. c.
NJ. ates Jr. and Folkes of the University
are al about the same mark, and can do a
mile probably i'll 7:l5
The Olympic management has decided to
charge an admission of 30 cents for gentle
men, with ladies free. Ii will be only
matter OF a couple Of months, 1t is thought.
before the talght-street cars will run out TO
lie olympic Club grounds and one fare
will be charged for the entire distance
Hanq-OaH is beginning TO revive at the
Olympic courts. On Sunday the alleys
Were occupied for four or five hours j.
MeLlToy made his appearance after long
absence and played game that was not up
10 ms usual form. de needs little practice
TO show his former style.
Although Bob Macarthur has the best
hali-mile and one-lEie records on the coast,
VIZ: 2:O3 SO and 40 40, it is thought by
the best judges that T. ID. Skillman can cut
loot him $50 yards and upward. Skill
mans record on the coast for 1000 yards is
~ and the two miles in 10 minutes and 10
seconds. 1t is thought that W. Fl. Toomy,
II IN proper condition, can run half mile
very close to minutes, but he is altogether
too lazy to train.
The next important event in athletes will
be the Olympic field day on Wednesday,
September 9Th. The programme will be:
12-yaId, 200-yard and S60-yard fiat, 100
yard hurdle, three-quarter-mile steeple-
chase, one-slXtl-mlle eelbarrow race
(partnershIp throwing 56-pound weight
running broad jump, all open handicaps,
also a 22Oyard handicap for Juveniles.
Handsome gold aud silver medals will be
given to nrst and second in each event.
In reply TO a correspondent: V. E.
Southeastern %. c. is the best 100 and
20 yard runner on the Coast. His record is
. - seconds for the former and IS Is seconds
Tor the latter. Next to him comes L. Mays
u. e., a. 5. Henderson %. c. and S. Y.
Cassady %. c.. The two former are con-
sdered about equal, with Cassidy close up.
Mays and Henderson have records for the
100 yards Of 10 %. Mays beat Henderson
IN lie championship inches in 10 2-5 sec
ondS, while Henderson beat Mays and
Cassidy soma yards in the 220-yard in % %
seconds. Mays, Henderson and Cassidy
have reco Tds IN tho $40 yards of 81 u seconds,
yet their positions in this event are respect-
lively Mays, Henderson and Cassidy.
V. y. Bakulich %. c. must have been in
extra good form on Sunday, as lie was sue
cessful in throwing the 55-pound weight
further than any amateur on the Coast in
the previous Saturdays games. While in.
structlnR some novices, ne Invested himself
OF his coat and sent the weight % feet
Inches thereby beating his previous record
leet inches. Bakulich has begun to
throw the hammer. and Mcintyre says that
as Tue GROUNDS are not wide enough, he is
now completing a circle in a sand lot ad-
joining, where he thinks there will be ample
space Tor the giant to exercise his muscles
Concerning some great athletic perform
ances which recently took plaza in ireland,
Dublin Sport publishes the following:
Maliow sports will long be remembered for the
display made by USulllVan and shanahan In the
long Jump aud hop step aud jump. Shauahan III
Tue latter event covered the enormous distance
oil Of feet inches. II is to be regretted that the
ground was slightly downhill; had it been per
Ieetly level, there Is no doubt but that Shanahan
would have broken his own worlds record
made in 1883, by several inches. This form
must have been couIa gious. as Z. j. O'SulIfyau
did q feet l134 inches ia the long Jump and NJ
OCOnnOr Of BallyGough accomplished feet In
the high Jump. LELAND is rich IN jumpers just
From all that could be learned In England by
our representative last summer not much de-
pendence Is put By the BritOns in Irish records
on account OF most OF the games the Emerald
Isle resembling what in America would be called
picnic shalfs." Take, for instance, OCouuor's
high jump; II Is quite LIKELY that the compel tors
looked around Tie held for favorable place to
jump. and put the upright so that a mound or
raised portion oil lie ground would make fay
Orable Iake-Off.
Few writer's on athletic sports are familiar
with or notice such little things as these, and
simply because the measures announce certain
distance do they Immediately put 1t In type; but
this, probably, Is all That should be expected
from most OF them. Sport mentions that the
ground Tor The running hop, step aud jump.
which in this case was undoubtedly running
TWO hops and a jump, for Shanahan jumps only
that way, was down hill. but 1t may lie that
UConnOr's high jump was perfectly fair. This
athlete won the n. a. A. A. A. championship in
America in 1883 at feet 912 inches.
The athletic correspondent Of the New
York World, speaking of the effect tobacco
has on an athlete, truthfully remarks:
"Athletes who expect to win should use but
An incident which Happened in my career
recalls itself to me. l expected to win
race. The night before l INDUCED in five
cigars. On the day of the race | got on the
mark. When the starter said get set l
began swayiug to and fro like drunken
man. | ran and WAS defeated, finishing
with splitting pain in my head and dis
tTessed feeling in my throat, as If it were
bleeding. These are the results tobacco has
on me, and i don't think | am very much
different from anybody else"
a New York paper says: There is de-
cidcd feeling among amateur athletes IN
favor OF returning, If not TO the old system
Of allowing clubs to give whatever appro-
pirate prizes they choose, at least 10 one
Nhich allows greater latitude in the matter
than now. A first-class man will easily win
twenty prizes in a season. Is he 10 be
blamed II lie favors receiving something
else than q cup or medal each time?
Great things are expected of Harry
Jewett OF the Detroit A. c. this fall. The
Westerners declare that John Ovens man
tie has fallen on Jewett's shoulders. and
mat the latter will surely beat Luther Cary
D. ilp Snrinfs