The herald., 1895-05-15
A SUCCESSFUL FIELD DAY
st. Vincent's College Boys Hold
Their First Annual
A REMARKABLE SHOWING
Their Preceptors Confident Of Future
Gl0ries
Mixed Programme Of Field Events Presented
With a Rope Walk and Fencing
Bouts-The Events

The first annual field day of st. Vim
cents college was held yesterday on the
infeld at Agricultural park, and was SO
successful that its permanency is as
sured. There was no great crowd present
to cheer the young men to deeds of der
ring-do. only the boys from the school
and few friends, because the affair was
an experiment and was kept rather quiet.
But under the favor of Father Meyers
and the carefully enthusiastic direction
of experienced Father Garrell. the boys
have trained so well and made such
good showing that their annual field day
is now assured. Father Garrell is a firm
believer in the sensible, generally ac-
cepted belief that the gymnasium for the
body Is as necessary for the body as the
school room is for the mind, and that
both should 20 hand In hand.
1t was about o'clock that the horsemen
at the park were startled by chorus of
yells:
Rah! Rah! Rail
Whoop! Yah! Zee!
fsll. sa1Gci boys YELL boy''
And the appearance of n swarm of tho
young fellows. undergraduates and
the events with an exhibition of slack
wire walking bv Edward Dougherty on
wire strung under the grand stand.
Then Charles Keith and Floyd Strou nd
went through a livoly fencing bout that
was one of the most interesting of the
events. The former won the points and.
as the winner of the first match, foug ht a
second duel with the third man. Pho
| Santa Maria, whom he defeated handily.
| The field was sought and the standing
! jump was called. Adam Derkum. Ed
Tighe. Juan Murrietta and George Lam
| cf,v fto Ia otn 40 nd In fnr
won by jump Of 8 feet or inches.
The running broad jump was won by
| Juan Murrletta by jump of 16 feet 6
inches, against Adam Derkum, Ed Tighe
and Frank Donegan. Murrietta also won
the. next event. the running hop, step
against G. S. Darcy, Adam Derkum and
Ed Tighe. And the victorious Murrietta
continued until he had won almost every
event. The next, the standing hop, step
and jump, he won in 27 feet 10 inches,
against Adam Derkum. George Lawson
| and Ed Tighe. He made the running
high jump in feet inches and beat
| Ed Tighe, Adam Derkum, George Lawson
| and @. s. Darcy.
The l0O-yard dash was close finish, but
Murrietta won that, running it in 10H
seconds, with Frank Donegan close sec-
ond. George Lawson and Adam Derkum
following in order. Murrietta also won
the 50-yard dash. running it in seconds
against Frank Donegan. Ed Tighe and
George Lawson. The 50-yard race for the
little boys was won by 12year. old Harry
Herrmenn in a 6-second run, closely fol-
lowed by Alphonse Coenen OF the same
age. ..f
The one-mile bicycle racing event was
q much noted feature, and was won by
John McGarry, who rode it in 2:52 com.
peting with Arthur Smith and Owen
Dunn. The time would have been much
faster, but that McGarry's racer met with
pupctured tire early in the race, and
for the second trial. The baseball game
between the Undergraduates and the Col
lege Alumni closed the interesting pro-
gramme. The former won score, 8 to 13.
The Undergraduates lined up in the
following order: Frank Wolfskil. first
base; Wilfred lie Sage center field Philip
Kerr, right field; Laurence Fitzgerald
pitcher and captain Joseph Amestoy, left
teld Harry hough shortstop; Ed
Tighte. second base; William Kelly, third
base; Patrick Fitzwilliam. cu,cher. The
battery was the Fitzwlliams brothers.
much admired and comolimented, his
curves flaming out'' twelve of the
Alumni batsmen. The nine was charged
with only one error and they scored eight
runs. The Alumni team lined up with
Frank Donegan. catcher; Stephen Mott
|
pitcher; Michael Amestoy, center field ;
Arthur Smith. sLortstop; G. s. Dorsey.
seconu base; George Lawson. first base
Owen Dunn, left field Patrick McGarry
right field. Their battery was Stephen
Mott. They changed about considerably
during the game. They were chaIged
with three errors. When the score of to
13 was announced storm of yells and
tin horns screeches was given. and so gen.
e'ally kept up that trotting lorse on
the speed track became SO agitated as to
break his record.
Last week the Undergraduates st. Vim
cents College team met and defeated the
Anchors from Thirteth street with a
score of II to Is. The young men are
thoroughly interested in their athletics
and are working hard toward perfecting
them selves to become a full-hedged col
lege team. so they can have competitive
meets. wear the chrysanthemun, and
banquet each other like the rest of them.
KENV0NsS DACC