The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-18
w. NJ. FLETCHER. c. A. BRADLEY.
II O uopAN

II. y. HORAN.
GODFREY SHAW. A. r. DowNER.
premacy in three different sports. Lord
Dunraven is after yachting honors with his
Valkyrie III, Oxford and Cambridge are
endeavoring TO prove that Englishmen,
even when away from home, can play bet
ter cricket than Americans, tho London
Athletic club has sent 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 n great interna-
tional match with Yale for the athletic
championship Of the college world.
Sept. 81 is the time and Manhattan
field, New York. the place for the great
ip national contest betwesl tho London
A. .. and tho New York A. G.. AS orig
inally planned the struggle was to be a
club affair between the best mon who were
bona fide members of the respective clubs
before the New York A. g. 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
flowe of Americas athletic manhood.
The London A. Z. men are captained by
Godfrey Shaw and trained by the old timer
Jack White. Three OF tho great English
athletes, E. G. Bredin, who has half mile
record of minute 90 seconds and quarter
figures of 4Sh seconds; j. II. Bacon, who
established worlds record on Aug. 10 of
9 feet 4 "a inches for the high Jump, and
4. II. Bacon, who, until recently, held the
worlds amateur mile record of minutes
IL seconds, did not come, +. r.. Bacon be-
cause other members of the team refused to
consider him q 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
the team. The names Of the London A.
G. men who will compete and the events
In which they will participate are as fol-
lows:
100 yards run. ..............Br Bradley and Downer
22u yards run. ..Downer and Jordan
440 yards run ......... .Fitzherbert and Jordan
$50 yards run. ............. Koran and Lutyens
mie run.........' ..'s....................L .Lutyens
mile run. Koran and Thomas
10 yards hurdles. s........... Shaw and Oakley
Running high Jump. p....................Wil Williams
Running broad jump. Oakley and Mendelson
Putting 10 pound shot. Watson
Throwing 10 pound hammer .....
Robertson and Johnstone
There are 4 events In all, and the team
winning six or more will bo declared win
ner OF the contest.
G. A. Bradley, the English sprinter, is
robust young fellow, with sinews of steel
He Is member Of the Huddersfeld Crick-
ct and Athletic club as well as the Lon
don Athletic club. He has held the Eng
lish amateur championship for 100 yards
since 1899. He has a record OF AS SEQ
onds, and he Is credited with 10 seconds
on several occasions. He Is a Yorkshire
man by birth, and since 1890 has captured
prizes worth $3.50 the best trophy of
them oil being the Bingley vase, which he
had to win successlvely three years before
it became his absolute property. This
vase Is worth sl, 1875. Bradley IL hard
trainer and leaves the mark like thunder
bolt. He has run 100 yards I'm ii 80 Sec
onds and can run at top speed up 20 100
yards, but his best distance is 100 yards.
"A. II. Downer, tho other sprinter, is n
member of the Scottish Pelcans and the
London Athletic club. His record for the
100 yards dash Is 0 4-5 seconds. He won
the Scottish amateur championship at 100