Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-06-12
Exciting Contests at Maine In
terschoIastic Field Day.
Down casters Just Beat the Boy.
From Brunswick.


eallege town put all their trust in thni,
doughty champion, y. ID. Dunnipg, whose
magnificent Individual work had been the
f,atnre Of the LAY. Should he win frs,
.nd Bangor fail to score, the two schools
were tied. Should one other Brunswi ick
man score, the victory would be with the
boy. in the orange and black.
But X was not to be. Dunning did all
that va. expected of him, winning four.l,
ar.s, AMI breaking fourth record with a
limp Of IT,, B. in. The strain was too
much 10, him. and when the result was an
nounccd he tainted away. He wa. the
onlJ one from his school TO get a place.
Jack Of Gardner took second place with
IT., ami two Bangor boys tied for third
la,, saving the cup for their school by one
point. Bangor then had 35 points TO
Brnnssick, 81. Cony came third with II
and Gardiner fourth with six. Wateryillc
scored but one. Hebron did not compete.
In every way the games were the best on
record IN the history Of athletics in Maine.
The management was perfect and it seemed
AZ though President Chas. +. Valentine
and Secretary Francis Woodbridge had not
neglected single detail.
in this respect the meeting was in strik
ing contrast to the previous ones and it is
to be regretted that this fact could not have
been known in advance, for 1t cannot be
denied that the practical failure of the other
meetings kept people away and more schools
from entering As it was the nearly 1000
people present enjoyed an interesting
Struggle between the s1 schools repre-
sentod.
owing to the running of the track and
field events at the same time the whole pro-
gramme was finished in three hours No
delay was allowed and the meeting actually
started on time.
Referee Russell b. Beals of the Harvard
Athletic association was just the man to
have in charge and gave general satisfac-
ton He had call to make only two close
decisions and they dill not effect
the championship rs both were
in favor of Brunswick. The first was when
he gave the final heat of the l20 yards high
hurdles to nunning, although w. Chase of
tony reached the tape first, on the ground
that the latter had made no attempt to Jump
the last hur die.
Tina .arnuI ;ns al haf, tbs,
decisive event. Through mistake in the
official entry blanks, Capt. s. w. Furbisb
of the Brunswick team had received the i'm
preston that the standing high Jump was
to be thrown out and had entered no men
in that event When he found that the
jump would take place he obtained the
right to enter his men then and there. In
der the laws of the association the referee
had the right to allow this, anl so three
Brunssick men were entered, Bangor with
drawing protest.
The first track events were the trials in
10" yarls lash. Six men ran in each event
anil the first three were to go into the
'"ff'ef fphh AhtA0 Hftt tiDSt anu tAIlklbk
and the time made in each, II seconds,
lowers the NJ. |. =. a. A. record quarter
of second punning of Brunswick beat out
W. thasc Of tony. and he Brown of Ban
gor IN the first hcat. Lord Of Bangor won
the second heat and Riggs from the same
Just managed to pass Holmes of Cony.
But four men started in the bicycle race
Neafle of Bangor. j. Stetson of Bruins
wick Hunt of Bangor and Maher of Cony
lining up in the order named. Veazie, the
pole man, was given wrctched start and
ran INTO the fence. his wheel going over.
He was soon on it again, but was too much
handicapped to win first as was expected.
He gave Hunt IA great race though. Maher
OF Cony led 10 the quarter. and was then
passed by Hunt, who was never headed,
and by Veszie. Stetson was bad fourth.
Hunts record of 2.57 smashes the best
previous time by - - seconds.
Meanwhile the running high jump had
taken place In the field. This was also a
Bangor victory, Lawrence, graceful
Young athlete, wearing purple and gold
being the last to give out. He jumped 4
IT,, ~ in. Gould of brunswick wa,
second and wellman of Cony third.
Th, gave Bangor eight points to star,
with. to two each for brunswick and Cony
and how the ownessters' friends did cheer
The l20 yards high hurdles trial heats
which followed set them to thinking for Il
showed that brunswick was still in it. W
Chase of Cony won the first in 81 seconds
lockwood of Waterville following twt
seconds later. Then Dunning of Bruns
wick broke another record, winning thu
second heat in 10 IL seconds. .three-fourth
of a second lower than his best previous
made in H2. II. Sawyer Of Bangor finished
behind him in 81 IA seconds, giving thu
latter place in the finals.
The half mile walk was the bitteres
event of the day to the Brunswicks, VIII
saw their favorite, Stevens, the last year
champion, easily beaten by Pettingill o
'ony IN S.fl- This just reversed last year
experience when the latter was easil.
beaten by Stevens. S. Sawyer OF Bango
scored another point for his school. thougl
coming in bad third.
Experts present say that Pethngil
walked the cleanest and prettiest race o
the kind ever seen in Maine. His victor.
put the Bangor bows in a happy frame o
mind and for time it seemed as thous