The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-27
CHAMPIONS WILL MEET
All the Crack Athletes to
Compete at the N. ]. A.
C. Games.
BEEHIVE A. CTS LAST SHOW
Gresnville Y: N. C. A. Athletes Go
to Spring Wheeling
and Baseball Notes.

The entry list Of the New Jersey a. G.
games az Bergen Point, Decoration Day.
bristles with the names OF the most
popular champions in training. The
limited high jump handicap in which NJ.
f. Sweeney, Xavier A. A., the greatest
amateur in the world. will try to break
his own record of Gift. 44-in.. Should
be the event of the season. Harvard's
famous jumpers, E. B. Bloss and Q. w.
Shead, have entered against Sweeney,
while the Boston A. A. sends an even
more dangerous candidate in S. A.
Coombs. These New England celebrities
will also compete in the sprints. but the
short event of greatest interest will
undoubtedly be the hurdle race
in which f. G.. Puffer, probably
the greatest man at the game in exist
ence. will try to lower the record. 90
o after the intercollegiate champion.
ships the great unners OF Yale, Harvard
and Princeton will be sat their best, and
their struggle for team houors in the
relay race will be a memorable event. All
the events have been literally patron1zed
by competitors OF the highest class, and
when the last installments are received on
afternoons mail the promoters can COM
pile o programme ecfipsing anything
hitherto presented to patrons of amateur
sport.
INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
To Be Held This Afternoon at Manhattan
Fleld-Good Sport Expected.
The annual championship games OF the
intercollegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes will be held at Manhattan Field
this afternoon. The entry list is large
and contains the names of the best col
lege athletes.
Tine athletes OF Harvard are strong fav
orites for winning first honors. Yale Is
second choice, while Princeton and Col
umbia are booked for third and fourth
places.
If track is in good condition it is
not unlikely that several new records
will be established.
At the meeting of the Executive Com.
mittee of she association at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel last night the University
of Pennsylvania was given, AS n OF the
men put it, a complete throw down."
For more than TWO hour the committee
listened TO arguments on behalf OF the
protested men. The court consisted OF
II. B. Wade. Yale. Chairman: P II.
Davis. Princeton; &. B. Beals, Harvard;
p. q. Pentz, University of New York: n.
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Strathmore.
Many Pennsylvania men anticipated
that Osgood's case was almost hopeless,
since his University had no representa-
tiveson the board. Their calculations
turned out about right. 1t looked like q
sure thing that Osgood would win his
race today, but he Is out Of il row. for
they wall not allow him to ride. A pro-
test was made against G. N. Coates by
the Yale folks, but ne will be per-
united 30 Take part. E. S. Rams
dell, L. BucAoltz and N. T. Leslie. the
other Pennsylvahians objected to, Will be
allowed to compete under protest. The
committee will meet at eleven O'Clock to-
night to decide upon the Gases Of these
protested men in case any of them man.
age TO get placed In the events. These
Yale men. against whom protests were
entered, will have che satisfaction Of
knowing that the objections to those
competing were overruled:-W. NJ. Rob-
erts, w. P. Hickok, A. Brown, F. Par
melee, r. f. Barnett. M. F. Hart, e. II.
Hart, j. B. Roe, ". GIenney, L. Giles
pie and j. B. Morgan.