The morning call., 1892-05-22
ATH LETIC.
A Hot Race Between the University and
Olympic Boys Predicted.


well, the University games are over,
aud the next feature of importance will be
the championships on the 3oth inst"
This was the remark of prominent
Olympic athlete last evening to friend
who had just returned to the club from his
spin at the Olympic grounds.
A reporter who was sitting within ear
shot of the speakers passed etiquette TO
the breeze purposely to bag few points
considerably to the success OF the club at
this great meeting OF athletes.
The conversation ran in this line: well,
Foster. old boy, these University fellows
are pretty hot stuff. and | think we will
need every man we can dig up OF any ac-
count to defeat them.
ron, pshaW you're talking through your
hat. Why, can't you see that our BOYS were
only drawing them fellows on last WedDes-
day, Why, that fellow who broke my rec
ord couldn't exercise me on warm day.
He got the best of the gun and the track
had such an incline that he was lucky that
he did not fall on his spikes and ruin his
complexion"
What! the running long jump? Well.
YES, they have few good youngsters. but
then they viii play about third fiddle in that
game.
''Yes, Chick is pretty good sprinter, but
you will find that IL seconds will stop him
on our ciDderS.
"Tne Jumping, well. now you've got me.
Oar field men are behind the times, and 1t
would not surprise me to see the u. Z.
boys get away with the flying O.'s. To even
up with them cur boys Will have 20 run all
over and around the vast records. II will
never do for us to give them point IN the
track events. | think John Purcell and
Schlfferstein should come TO our assistance.
Pete Mcintyre was an attentive witness
to Fosters remarks, but never opened his
mouth until the young athlete had finished
his budget OF athletic opinions, then Pete
said:
Now let me tell yOu boys that it's no use
in being too sure of anything. These Uni
verslty fellows have been training hard for
n long time, and | tell you that il wont do
fer our boys to fool their time away talking
instead of training. OF course, too much
exercise is bad, but then there fs a lot of
the boys who are not sick from Oyertraining
hope we will do them fellows up, anyway.
May be my cid clock will run faster on
Decoration day than it did last Wednesday,
Good boy, Pete" shouted Macarthur, as
be came flying up the big stairs leading to
the clubs gymnasium. Oh, my; how
healthy YOU look. Has Ben Bogner been
using his knockout paint on your face?"
Pete blushed and retired to some secreted
corner away from the champion joShers of
the club, only to find Mcmillan and Pro-
fess0r Meihling in hot pursuit The last
that was seen of Pete was his c0at-tails
luttering from the end OF streetcar that
was going in the direction or the Golden
Gate Park.
A grand testimonial benefit will be ten
dered TO Professor TrOnchet Of the Olympic
Club, by his pupils, at Irving Hall, on the
evening of the oath inst There will be
fencing. tumbling wrestling, etc.
Regarding the great performance made
recently in England by c. B. Fry, ST.
L. uis exchange nas the following to say:
Our English cousins are a trife behind the
times or else they place lutte credence IN record
performances made on this side OF the pond. On
July 4, 1891, Z. 5. Reber oil the PasIlme Aih-
letic Cub OF 81. Louis covered % feet Ga
inches in a running broad jump al the champion
ship meeting OF the Genital Association OF the
A. A o., held at Detroit, suppantlnR bis own
worlds record OF 23 feet 3 ~ inches, made few
weeks before. AT the late annual Oxford-Cam-
bridge athletic meeting Z. b. Try, wearing the
blue OF oxford, won the long jump with 23
feet inches and Ihis has been hailed as the
worlds record jump. Ii looks as II the English
men intended 10 ignore Reber's great perform.
as likely to stand for many long day, and
puts In The shade all the old bogus performances
Of Yankee pro-anateurs ana Old-tlme d0wn-hlll
tumbeTs."
Ii. Curtis, the English champion walker,
VINO came TO this country last fall to COM
pete for the Manhattan Athletic Club but
soon went back disguised, made his first ap-
pearance since his American experience at
the spring games of the South London Har-
riers at the Surrey Cricket Ground, Ken
sington Oval, on April 9. Curtis walked in
good style, but only finished fourth in the
twO-miie event. lie was 1l0 yards behind
the winner, who crossed the distance in IA
min. % 1-5 sec.
The feature Of the meeting was the three
mile match between those great runners,
H. A. Heath, cross country champion, and
J. Kibblewhite, one-mie champion. The
men ran tapped for two and a quarter miles,
when kibblewhite went to the front
Heath took the lead at two and a hall
miles and held IL to the end, winning after a
stirring finish by three yards in - min. e
teur record, II min. % 3-5 sec, for the dis
tance.