The evening world., 1895-09-18
LONOONERS IN FORM.
The Visiting Athletes Working
Hard at Berkeley Oval.
How the English Team Trains for
the International Games.
hPee and . Half Hours Hard Ex-
srcise on the Track Each Day.

ID team which came over here to
ide the question OF superiority be-
zen American and English amateur
,letes are down to hard work at
ir quarters at Berkeley oval. with
contest only three days away.
his morning an Evening World"
'orter went to the training grounds
len the sky was just tinted with the
Ay OF dawn, but there was no out
oor training this morning AS little
inc as the athletes have before the
great event. and as much as they want
to be In splendid condition. they would
not go through their PAGES on a day
when the thermometer was beneath the
fifties and a cold wind swept over the
deld.
Capt. Shaw. Of the team, the man
who hopes to carry away the gold
medal for the one-mile run. told the
reporter all about the training.
The athletes must rise at 7.3O o'clock,
and then. after a cold bath. they rest
for a short while and eat breakfast at
$50 o'clock. Breakfast consists of
steak or some other plain meat. fried
potatoes. English breakfast tea and
fruits.
hc 1IIIcttb tHeH nave an nOuT 10
lie around and smoke. The allowance
for smoking is one pipe after each meal,
but very few of the men smoke up to
the limit. A pint of beer is also al
lowed with each meal. but most of
the athletes prefer ginger ale or other
soft drinks.
At II O'Clock. Capt Shaw calls the
men out on the track, and then the
work commences.
The sprinters who are entered for the
100 and go yard and quarter-mile dashes
first do a few forty or fifty yard dashes
in slow time. to make their limbs and
sinews supple. and then they run three
sixty-yard dashes at top speed from a
pistol start.
1t is usual, but not compulsory, for
the sprinters tn take a long run around
the oval track after they have done
their regular work, but whether they
do this or not they must trot over
$50 or $50 yards of the course
This course of training must be begun
again at s o'clock in the afternoon
and must be continued until the pre-
paratory bell rings for dinner at $50
o'clock.
Altogether the London men consume
Just about three and a half hours in
actual training.
They are permitted to use their own
discretion regarding their retiring time,
but all Of them are always in bed before
10 o'clock.
Williams. Oakley. johnson and Men,
delson the high and long jump men.
take t. same exercise as the sprinters.
only they vary II somewhat by doing a
little-a very little-jumping in the after
noon work. They never jump their best,
,s they are afraid of straining before
the race.
Oakley and Williams are in the hur-
dies. as we'll as In the jumping events.
and they go over four-foot hurdles in
the afternoon for a distance of about
one-Quarter mile.
e. J. Watson. the weight-putter occu-
pies his training time in running and
tossing l5-pound shot around the
grounds, The hammer throwers, Robert
learn how to throw the hammer from and
turn In 7-foot circle. which is the
American, allowance. In England the
a 3O-foot circle and the English profess
sionals only throw from a 9-foot circle
consequently the smaller allowance line
is rather puzzling to the British strong
Capt. Shaw said that neither he nor his
men could wish for any better training
quarters than they Ia have ~ at BE Berkeley
beautiful. In his opinion. the accommo,,
dations OF the training quarters could
not be surpassed.
TO help along the training OF the Brit
ishers, for since their arrival there has
been but one bad day.
At Travers Island the New York Ath-
lettc Club men working much hard
er than their English cousins, but the
British form is as good, as the most
together the Britishers are a fine look
ing lot of men. and when they march
on the field next Saturday the Ameri-
efnf ,her T best eops snd w taent
The track and iniield at Manhattan
reld were given final Iii1lp iIin1spection yes, ,so
ltives Of the London A, C. and. New
ork A. c. teams and pronounced per-
,ct. Everything is now ready for the
At the Amateur Athletic Unions
championships last saturday there was
>me complaint that the take-off for
lis nsn Mas due nd to .he Of PGG he
inway, the whole subsurface having
een removed and the top dressing not
,liing that the track had received
low a cinder coating has been laid on
Or the jumpers and the take-of is firm
While the number of seats already
old at the New York Athletic Club
louse, the downtown offices of the New
York Baseball Club and at the regular
ticket agencies already exceeds 1900
crush IS anticipated at the gates. so an
extra force OF t!cket-sellers and takers
has been engaged including two of the
fastest men In the business.
The games will begin promptly at go
p. NJ, but for the accommodation OF
those who have not already obtained
reserved seats or boxes the gates will be
opened two Tours earlier. Those intend
ing to go are warned by the manage
ment to look out for counterfeit tick
cts and to buy only, those sold a the
the n. Y. A. c. Club House or the New
York Baseball Clubs office. 80 Cort-
landt street.