Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-09-26
DIDN'T WIN An EVENT
London Athletes Completely over
shadowed In New York.

Nearly fqualled.
New York, Sept. 90. England has
again lost This time in athletics,
The international meeting between the
London A. G. and tho n. Y. A. G.
resulted in sweeping victory for the
Americans, for not an Englishman got
In first in any of the IL contests
Records were smashed and hair raising
finishes were in order.
In the $50 yards run, with which the
games began, Fitzpatrick and Lyons were
selected to meet Horan and Levin, the
English representatives. Lyons set the
pace for The first lap with Levin.
Lyons instructions were TO run the lap
at good gait, making the pace for
Fitzpatrick. In the second lap Xii.
patrick shot out and. Horan went after
him, but the pace was a killing one,
and the Englishman was unable to get
up, Fitzpatrick, after a beautiful race,
winning by 10 yards. levin dropped
out on the far side, while Lyons slowed
up and loped in across the tape third.
When the numbers went up and the
time was announced, beating the worlds
record by second, the spectators
cheered wildly
The 100 yards dash was the second
event, II was Crum and Wefers against
Bradley and Stevenson. Wefers was
seen to BIZ in front from the start, with
Bradley second, Crum third and Stev-
enson last. There was no change
throughout the race, Waters maintain.
ing his lead to the tape by 9 feet, with
Bradley second, about 12 inches ahead
of Crum. When the time, o AS sec
onds, was put up the audience again
got to cheering, for the worlds record
had been equaled.
The running high jump then inter
ested the onlookers, and while the
Englishmen confessed that they could
not come anywhere near Sweeney the
latter had bit of surprise UP his
sleeve. Baltazzi, the youthful jumper,
was selected as second string to the
champion, while Williams Of the Edin-
burgh University, and Johnston of
Cambridge, were pitted against them.
The bar was placed at feet and gradu-
ally raised TO > feet 8 inches, which
they cleared. johnson failed at feet
10 inches and retired, while his club
mate. and Baltazzi succeeded, and
Sweeney went over it with ease. With
the bar at 6 feet Sweeney cleared ii,
but Williams and Baltazzi failed.
1t was then announced that the bar
would be placed at 6 feet 516 inches,
in order to give Sweeney an opportunity
to beat his own worlds record of 6
feet 51s inches. With superhuman
effort, he made his spring and cleared
the bar. Thus he established new
record of 6 feet 515 inches, which was
increased to 6 feet 56s inches when the
height was remeasured. Baltazzi was
awarded second place,
The mile run, with Connect and
Orton, of the New York A. c., and
William L. Lutyens, the only repre-
sentative of the London A. C., as tho
starters was then in order. Orion cut
out the work for the first lap, which
was run in 65 seconds. Connect then
took the lead, followed by Lutyens,
while Orton kept falling back. On the
third lap Connect increased his lead to
about 10 yards, while in the begin
ming of the last lap he increased his
speed and simply ran away from the
Englishman, who was in turn passed
by Orton. The Englishman fell out
and lay upon the grass, about 100 yards
from the tape. Connef finished so
yards before 0rton in A. 18 1-5
The 22O yards run brought together
Jordan and Downre Of England, and
Wefers and Crum of New York. Wefers
led all the way, with Crum second and
Jordan third. Wefers won by fully 3
yards from Crum, who was about one
yard before Jordan. Again the worlds
record had been broken, as the time
was 2l 80 seconds
The nearest approach to defeat for
the Americans came in the hurdle and
quarter mile events. In the hurdles
Captain Godfrey Shaw and Oakley
were pitted against Chase and Cady
Chase took the lead, but unfortunately
turned his first hurdle over. Shaw
followed him closely, and at the eighth
hurdle was almost abreast of him, but
Chase, taking the last two hurdles
very prettily, managed to Leat out the
English captain by about feet, with
tripped over his third hurdle, did not
tintsh Once moro worlds record
was lowered, as the time, 10 % sec
onds, beat Chaae's worlds record by a
fifth Of "A second.
The record was not allowed to stand,
however, and the worlds champion
hurdler had to be satisfied with his
own record owing to his having knock.
ed down the first hurdle.
The prettiest race of the day was the
quarter milo run. Fitzherbert, the
Cambridge University man, with
record Of .4S So, was partnercd by
Gilbert Jordan, in behalf of the Eng
lishmcn, while Burke and Sands did
battle for the Mercury foot. About 100
yards from home Jordan apurted and
took the lead while Burke shot out
from third place and went after the Eng
lishman, who led him by about 3 yards.
magnificent race to the tape en-
sued, with Burke gaining in every
stride. Burke finally caught his man
yard from the tape and won by
couple OF inches in a supreme effort.
The time was 40 seconds, which was only
a half second behind the world S record
In the field events the Americans had
a walkover, Gray winning the putting
OF the lG-pound shot. Mitchell won
the hammer contest, with throw of
l3I feet 5la inches Gross was SECOND
and Robertson, the only English com
petitor, away off, he having perpetrat
ed six fouls.
In the broad jump Bloss and Sheldon
won first and second honors. with lumps
of % feet 6 inches and 21 feet IL in
ches, respectively, beating Oakley and
Mendcison, the English representa-
tives.
In the 3-mile run Connect won in a
spurt, beating Horan by 100 yards in
15 1926.
A Centennial Souvenir.
The National Bank of Delaware has
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venir OF its centennial. 1t contains
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