Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-27
AMERICAN ATHLETES ABROAD.
Gary Lastly Win. the IOO-ysrd Run in Eng
land Tadav

Cary Lastly Wins the 100 yard Run In Eng
land Today.
MANCHESTER, Enc, June 27.-Cary easily
won the first heat for the 1O0yard champion
ship challe nge cupin 10 As seconds at the Man
chester athletic meeting today. In the half-mile
fat race Holmes, an En2lishman. won in 2
minutes and As seconds. Roddy was fifth.
George retired at the quarter mark. Dadmun
was last
CARY WINS The RACE.
Cary won the final heat and race in the 100
yard hat race.
QUTCKBERSER WINS.
In the hammer-throwing event there were
ten contestants. G. A. J. Queckberner. Man
haitian A. C.. won. covering l29 feet 1917 inches.
Robbie. an Englishmsn, was second, covering
l27 feet.
The visiting team Of the Manhattan Athletic
Club Of New York competed this afternoon
with the crack athletes of England at the En-
glish amateur championship meeting here. This
meeting IL the principal athletic event OF Eng
land and Is held under the auspices of the
Amateur Athletic Association Of Great Britain.
The attorney general. SIR Richard Webster,
10 president of the association and the COM
mittee Of arrangements Is made mp OF promi-
neut members of the leading athletic clubs of
England. The prospects fo- making fast time
or breaking records this afternoon were not
very encouraging. Heavy rain had been fall
ing throughout the night and the track was
sCdden with moisture.
Eugene Van setback. the first lieutenant of
the Manhattan Athletic Club. who is in charge
Of the American team. said that he was de-
lighted with England and that he and the other
representatives of the Cherry Diamond had
been royalty treated everywhere. lie added
that the ma jority OF the New York athletes were
in good form. but that the track would prevent
thu.,. .tnfr kIrntr
any stsrtlIngly good time. The track had only
recently been laid and 1T Is not vet entirely
set. Luther Cary. 1.-THE record-hunter.' who
was beaten at Huddersneld on saturday last.
attributes his failure to win the final
in the l2O-yard handicap to the
rough grass track. while Mortimer Remington,
who came in third in the 220- yard scratch race,
which was won by Cary, was not in good
enough trim for the contest.
Cary was in fine condition today and ex-
pect.d 10 win the Toward easily.
A. Is George expected to win the half mile
within two minutes. He was never in better
form.
j. s. Roddy. captain of the Princeton athletic
team. and Henry L. Dadmun. the half mile
champion. both expected to do the half mile in
two minutes.
Mortimer Remington was confident that he
would win the quarter-mile in ffty-one sec
onds.
The American team starts for Paris on Mon
iay next. where. on July 4. they compete with
the French athletes in the games Of the racing
club in the Bois de Boulogne.
On July II the Manhattans sail for home on
the steamship Seryia-
The Field today, commenting on the per-
formances of the Americans at the Hudders-
field meeting. says that Carys style of running
wasn't greatly admired, though il is undeninble
that the pace was fast. The Fed also admits
that the Americans were competing under ad-
verse conditions and before they had thor
oughly recovered from the effects of their trip
across the Atlantic.
The showing made by the Manhattans how
ever. made a decidedly favorable impression
upon the experts in athletics who were present
ut the Huddersield meeting.