Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-18

GODFREY SHAW. A. r. DoWNER.
premacy in three different sports Lord
| Dunraven Is after yachting honors with his
Val,yrie III, Oxford and Cambridge are
endeavoring to prove that Engllshmen,
even when away from home, can play bet
ter cricket than Americans, the London
Athletic club has sent a team OF crack
athletes to meet the best men the New
York Athletic club can muster on track
and field, and Cambridge has team on
American soil training for great interna-
tional match with Yale for the athletic
championship of the college world.
Sept. 81 is tho time and Manhattan
field, New York, the place for the great
international contest between the London
A. C. and the New York A. C. AS orig
inally planned the struggle was to be a
club affair between the best men who were
bona tlde members of the respective clubs
before the New York A. C. sent its chal-
lenge but the scope of the contest has been
broadened so that the London team prac-
tically contains the best men in England,
while the New York team contains the
flower of Americas athletic manhood.
The London A. c. men are captained by
Godfrey Shaw and trained by the old timer
athletes E. C. Bredin, who has a half mile
record of minute IS seconds and quarter
figures of 49, seconds; J. e. Bacon, who
established a worlds record on Aug. 10 of
6 feet AZ inches for the high jump, and
F. E. Bacon, who, until recently, held the
worlds amateur mile record of minutes
II seconds, did not come, F. E. Bacon be-
cause other menu ers of the team refused to
consider him gentleman amateur and
declined to visit America in his company.
Bacon has been soldier for pay has no
visible means Of support and is looked up
on as professional by many members of
tho team. The names of the London A
G. men who will compete and the events
in which they will participate are as fol-
lows:
loo yards run. .............B Bradley and Downer
~ yards run .Downor and Jordan
440 yards run ........ .Fitzherbert and Jordan
$50 yards run. .............. Koran and Lutyens
l mile run. ......................... .Lutyons
mile run. Koran and Thomas
l20 yards hurdles. ........... Shaw and Oakley
Running high jump. ...................W Williams
Running broad jump. Oakley ard Mondelson
Putting lG pound shot. Watson
Throwing is pound hammer.
Robertson and tombstone
There are II events in all, and the team
winning six or more will be declared win
ncr of the contest.
G. A Bradley, the English sprinter, is
robust young fellow, with sincws of steel
He is a member of the Huddersficld Crick-
ct and Athletic club as well as the Lon
don Athletic club. He has held the Eng
fish amateur championship Tor 100 yards
since 1892. He has record of As sec
onds and he is credited with 10 seconds
on several occasions. He is Yorkshire
man by birth, and since 1890 has captured
prizes worth So, S75, tho best trophy of
them all being the Bingley vase, which he
had to win successfully three years before
it became his absolute property. This
vase is worth 81, 1875. Bradley is a hard
trainer and leaves the mark like thunder
bolt. He has run 100 yards in II 3-5 sec
onds and can run ut top speed up to $50
yards, but his best distance is 100 yards.
A. X. Downer, the other sprinter, is
member of the Scottish Pelicans and tho
London Athletic club. His record for the
100 yards dash is 9 As seconds. He won
the Scottish amateur championship at 100