Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-06

NOnLEA bAChWAtD LEAF ONEh A dOIsSE.
 resigned to its fate, and the horse does not
 object for the reason that William never
 even touches it's back as he makes his phe-
 nomenal leap. Curley lives in San Fran
 cisco and Is called ''The Bounding Wonder
 of the Mission" because he lives in the
 mission section of Frisco
 Curley is 2S years old, 5 feet Il inches
 tall and weighs 190 pounds. He has pos sessed vaulting ambition-not of the kind, however, that takes a Humpty Dumpty fall on the other side-ever since he can remember. The result is that he
 has about as much spring in his heels as
 the kangaroo of the antipodes. He thinks
 nothing whatever of standing with his
 back to table feet high and jumping to
 the top of it, and he claims that he made a
 backward leap over a hurdle feet 3S[ inches high.
 If Curley is not as successful in drawing the long bow as he is in jumping, his leap of feet 3s1 inches is a most phenomenal one. In the ordinary standing high jump an athlete always faces the hurdle, and the worlds record in this speciality is held by A. P. Schwaner of New York, who not long ago cleared a hurdle feet s5< inches high, which, as will be noted, is half an inch lower than the far more difficult backward jump Curley declares he has made.
 W. Byrd Page, the world famous ex- champion running high jumper of Phila- delphia, whose great record of feet 31i inches made in 1887 was only broken a short
 time ago, when NJ F. Sweeney of New York cleared feet AZ inches, still holds the rec ord for running high jump over horses while facing them. At Cedarhurst, N r., in 1888 Page performed the remarkable feat of jumping over two horses IT hands high and standing side by side. The same year Page cleared two 16-hand horses at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia Cur ley has never attempted to make a formal record in competition, but it is probable that if he should do so he would compel Champion Sweeney, ex-Champion Alvah Nickerson, E. B. Bloss and George R. Fear ing to look to their laurels
 E. W. Golf of New York, who has just
 won the amateur all round championship of America, has been endeavoring to secure the honor for several years. Five competi- tors were entered: E. w. Golf, New Jersey A. C.; O. Pulvermiller, Pastime A. C.; J. Larkin, Xavier A. A; F. Schaefer, Pastime A. C., and H. Friedrichs, Passaic A. C. Golf was rather an easy winner, outclass- ing his men, Golf won the 100 yards run in Il Is seconds, the running high jump with the remarkable leap of feet x of an inch, the high hurdle race in r 3-5 seconds, the pole vault with 8 feet II inches and the running broad jump with 21 feet inches He was third in the 16-pound shot contest,
 fourth in the half mile walk, throwing the 16pound hammer and throwing the 5S- pound weight and unplaced in the mile
 run. The list of all round champions now
 reads: 1885, M. W. Ford; 1886, M. W. Ford;
 1887, A. A. Jordan; 1888. M. w. Ford; 1883,
 M. W. Ford; 1890, A A. Jordan; 1891, A. A.
 Jordan; 1892, M. O'Sullivan, and 1893 E. w. Golf.
 There is another remarkable athlete in l the Golden State, and his name is Thomas | Carroll. Giants are usually very poor ath- letes, but although Carroll is 6 feet inches l tall he Is an all round athlete of decided