The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-31
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Although the Crack Runners and Jump
ers Were In the Contests.

Although the Crack Runner and Jump
ers Were In the Contests.
The New Jersey Athletic Clubs carni-
val of sports attracted an audience of
five thousand. The track was soft and
no records were broken. The games
opened with a lacrosse match in which
the team OF the N. Y. A. G. defeated the
Princeton College by 8 goals to nothing.
The other winners were:-
One hundred yard handicap dash-A. j Bo.
land, Nonpariel A. c., 5 yards, q sleeper
won in 10 rs seconds, with William NJ Richards,
Yale A.. A., scratch. second, and e. B.. Bloss,
Harvard A.. A.. and Boston AA., half yard,
third.
One mile handicap run-The winner was L.
Kanfrowitz, Pastime A. c., ITO yard, mis- time
being 4 minutes ~ 35 seconds; E. Herbert stan
ton, Brooklyn, 95 yards, was second, and ME-.
Smith, New Jersey A. G.. 80 yards, was third.
Clarke, New Jersey A. c., 100 yards, and Louis
Hunter, New Jersey A: G., l4J yards, had an
exciting struggle for first place, Clarke WIN
ming by squirting on the homestretch, his time
being 5 minutes 81 4-5 seconds, and his lead
about a dozen feet. William A. Whelplay Green :
WITCH Wheelmen, 100 yards, finished third
Two-hundred and-twenty-yard handicap Hur-
die race-E. W.Goff. New Jersey A. o., 8 yards,
won. His time was &c 10 seconds, and be beat
out at The tape the champion, Frederick Puffer,
New Jersey A. c., scratch, who bad held the
lerd from the fifth hurdle. B. G. Woodruff, St.
George A. c., I0yards, ran third.
one-half mile canter from scratch for
novices-G. I. Potter, Yale A. A. winning in 9
minutes S 4-5 seconds. with Albert Coe, Engle-
wood 4. c., secoud, and Angus White, New
Haven A. c., third.
was only open to residents of Hudson County.
There were three competitors Louis Hunter,
New Jersey A. c., 60 yards, finished first in s
minutes IS 5 seconds, with G. D. .Cpliins, Bay
onnc. so yards, second. and Frederick Shafto,
Hudson County Wheeimen, 60 yards, third. The
latter took a header on the third lap.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Handicap
Cauter-William a. Richards, Yale a. A. IS
yards. made a magnificent squirt at the finish,
and won in 81 rs seconds; Georges NJ. Sands.
New York A. c. 10 yards, was seco nd and
Frederick j. erode, New Jersey A. Y. ~ yards,
Three-mile Handicap Run-william D. Day,
the New Jersey Athletic Clubs long distance
champion WAS on the scratch. He took the
lead on the tenth lap, and then ran strong unit |
the finish, winning in l5-minutes 32-5 seconds;
William Hunter, New Haven A. G. 90 seconds,
who pushed him hard on the homestretch, finish
ing second. ann C. W. Bissel. New Haven A. c.
minute, being third.
One mile team relay race-Teans of four men
each from Harvard, Yale and Princeton Col
leges contested this event. Taey ran the quart
ers in the following o~rder;-Haryard, L. Sayer,
N. w. Bingham, N. F. Garcalon and 8. N,
Merrill; Princeton, G; e. Wintyinger, !.
Yale, F. F. Bennett, j. E. Morgan. SIX.
Wheeler and J. s. Frank. Haryard's msn led
throughout the race. Sayer finished the first
inc half in / minute 43 rs seconds, Garceion
made the third quarter in 2 minutes "a is
seconds aud Merrill spurted the end Of the mile
iu 8 minutes 25 25 seconds. The Princeton
team covered the distance in 8 minutes 81 sec
onds. The time of the Yale team was not
taken.
RHandicap running high jump The Champion,
NJ. F.. Sweeney, Xavier A. c., won this contest
with an actual jump of 6 feet 21sinches. He was
scratch man. E.. W. Golf, New Jersey A.. c.,
f5 inches, was second with an actual jump of
s. feet / inch; II. Herrick, New York A.. G., l
inch was third, with an actual jump of 8 feet.
Sweeney attempted to eclipse his record of i
feet of AZ inches. but only succeeded in equal
ing the feet,
After the conclusion OF the game the
officials and members of the
New Jersey A. C. adjourned to the club
house, where they %agreeably surprised
Vice President James E. Sullivan by
presenting him with a handsome watch
chain and prettlly engraved charm.