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New World Athletics.

New World Athletics.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.-Athletics and
religion are in harmony here this
week, for while the greatest diVini-
ty teachers of the world are eX-
pounding their doctrines, the
worlds athletes are preparing to
pound down a few international
records. They begin their great
carnival of sport today, on one of
the finest grounds in the West,
those ofthe Chicago Athletic asso-
citation.
The track is half-mile oval,
built of clay, with a 22O-yard
straightaway and only one turn to
| the quarter-mile run. 1t is expect
ed to be a recOrd-breaker, as the in
gradients are the same of the re-
nowned old track of the Columbia
Athletic club, of Washington. on
Analostan Island, on which John
Owen ran 100 yards in 9 4-5 seconds.
The inner field for jumping
and weight-thrOwing events is
second to none. The estima-
ted seating capacity of the
grounds is 10000, and the cham
| pionship committee of the AM
ateur Athletic Union expect to see
it tested on each of the three days
of the festival. Not only will the
crack athletes of the United States,
England and Australia meet in
stirring competitions for world
honOrs, but baseball, football,
lacrosse, cricket and other pastimes
will have international represent
tation. So large are the grounds
that the committee expects to
have contests of football, baseball
and lacrosse all going on at the
same time.
The first day, today, will be de-
voted to handicap athletic track
and field games, the program in
Guiding 76-yard, l5O-yard, BOO
] yard, 6OO-yard, 1,OOO-yard and two
mile runs; running high jump,
running broad jump, pole vault,
putting 16-pOund shot, throwing
| 56-pound weight, throwing To-
pound hammer, l0O-yard hurdle
race, 2OO-yard hurdle race, three
uuarter-mile walk, 2-mile walk,
5-mile safety bicycle race, tug-of-
war, (teams of four mem, weight
unlimited; all events handicap,
| except the tug-Of-war.
The American champions at pres
ent are shown in the following
| table:
100 yds. run, II. Jewett, Detroit,
10 seconds.
| furlong run, II. Jewett, Detroit,
| a As seconds.
Quarter-mile run, w. c. Downs,
New York, 80 seconds.
| Half-mile run, I. b. Turner, New
York, | minute 81 So seconds.
One-mile run, G. w. Orion, To-
ronto, 4 minutes y 40 seconds.
l2O-yards hurdles, F. c. Putfer,
New York, 10 % seconds.
22O.yards hurdles, F. c. Pufrer,
| New York, % % seconds.
One mile walk, 7. Sherman,
New York, 6 minutes, II Ii sec
Onds.
Three mile walk s. Diegbold,
New York, - minutes y 10 sec
Onds.
Sixteen pound hammer, J. S.
Mitchell, New York, 40 feet ii
inches.
Running long jump, f. w. Golf,
New York, % feet 6 ID inches.
Running high jump, Nj. F.
Sweeney, New York, 6 feet 4 IA
inches.
Pole vault, Theodore Luce, De-
troit, II feet.
Fifty-six-pound weight, J. S.
Mitchell, New York, 81 feet 8 "a
inches.
Five-mile run, w. w. Day, New
York, % minutes "a % seconds.
Sixteen-pound shot, &. r. Gray,
New York, AZ feet 3 81 inches.
Two-mile bicycle race, A. A.
Zimmerman, New York, min
utes 80 2-5 seconds.
John Owen, Jr., Of Detroit, who
has been worlds champion sprin-
ter since 1890, when he covered 100
wards in the unprecedented time of
9 40 seconds, has been in training
| for the Chicago meeting.
w. Curtis, Howard Perry and
James E. Sullivan compose the
committee on the Worlds fair
championships.