The evening times., 1895-09-20
FAST ATHLETES ARE THESE
Men. Who.-Will .Tsy1 fQr Worlds
Championships Of AnsK Kinds
what They Have Done and what They
Expect 10 DO IN the International
Contests Tomorrow.
tspecyal to the Times. :,


noon. on Manhattan Field, what will un-
doubtedly be the greatest athletic ex-
| hibition ever witnessed. Will take place.
| For more than six months, all classes
| interested In athletic sports In this country,
England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia
havebad their minds turned tothIs event.
When this meeting was first talked about
it was intended that it should be a contest
between members of the London and New
York Athletic Clubs. the recognized leading
organizations of their kind in England and
America, but one club and then the other
began to enlist r..n frnm the outside, and
the battle Tomorrow will be between the
very best amateur athletes to be found in
the world.
The running events are attracting a vast
amount OF attention, and IL records are not
smashed in many OF them the members Of
both teams will be surprised, Cruni. Lee.
wefers and Goodwin, who are to represent
the home team, are splendid lot OF
sprinters.. -f
/ They will go against the -lO0-yard and
220-yard dashes, and good Hs the English
men-C. A. Bradley. A. r.. Downer and 9.
Jordan-are said to be, II is confidently
expected that the New York Athletic Club
men will carry off both events.
Downer and Bradley, however, have rec
ords of O:O9 4-5 for thebundred. Recently
at tstoke-on-Trent, England, they ran deaa
heat in that time. Downer, who is known
at home as the ..Flying Scotchman," will
probably be depended upon to win the 22O,
as it is thought that he has more endur-
nrn Ia.
record-O:22 4-5-for the distance. Brad
Iey's best performance for 100 yards is
10 seconds.
The New Yorks will place reliance on
Burke and Sands in the 440 yards. Burke is
Bostonian, and has the distinction OF being
the youngest champion op the list, not yet
having attained his majority. Heiscredited
with running the quarter In 0s49 10, when
in poor condition. Old-timersrekard him as
the fastest man this country has had since
the days of Lon Myers.
Sands is a Union College student and
popular lhae man. G. Fitzherbert Is
novice, but he defeated Bre-
din in the late English championship, de-
din in the late English championship, COW
ering the distance III O:49 3-5.
For the SsO-yards run the New Yorks
will have Charlie Fitzpatrick, ano ther
champion, and a Chicago lad, w. II. Rem
ington, who-is several yards slower than
the Albany man. Fitzpatrick is a twenty
one-year-old boy. Last year pc won the
American half mile in 1:o5 Al, which is
the fastest time on the record books for
an American championship a that distance.
The Engiishmen will send s. Hofan and God
frey Shaw 10 the mark for thisevenC
W. E. Lutyens will represent the Lon
don Athletic Club, and Tom Connect the
New York Athletic Club in the mile run.
The latter may run the mile In Al o. which
is considerably inside the worlds record.
The Londoner's best mile is 4:l9 1-o,
and it seems that the little Irishman. on
paper at all events, will be the winner.
Godfrey Shaw and w. j. Oakley are the
London Athletic Club men who will be
sent against Stephen Chase and E. II.
Cady in the 12O-yard hurdle race. Oak
ley defeated Cady last year in the Oxford
Yale games on the other side of the water.
His best time is O:16 20.
shaw Is an Australian. In 1893 and
1894 he won the English championships
in 0:16 each. This year he captured the
championship in O:15 4-o. Chase, who is
| Dartmouth College man, is a wonder
full hurdler over the high timbers, holding
the worlds record Of 0:15 3-5.
George orton will represent New York
in the three mile, and he Will have F. S.
Horan, of London, as his opponent. Horan
can travel three miles in 1880 or better.
Orion, although Canadian and a Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania student is tue
American and Canadian champion.
Williams, the London high jumper, is
looked upon as easy for Sweeney, the New
York man. Williams record is five feet
eleven inches. On Labor Day Sweeney
jumped six feet and q fraction over five
inches.
Oakley and Mendclsohn will do the
broad jumping for the London club, while
Shelden a nd Bloss will represent New York.
Sheldon has a record of tweuty-threc feet
and Bloss is said TO be doing that distance
in practice. Oakley, with a record of
twenty-five feet eleven inches, will make
the struggle a close one. G. 8. Robert
son, the English hammer thrower, with
116 feet as his best performance, will
not have chance against Champion Jim
Mitchell, and George Gray, another Cana
dian who wears the mercury foot" is
sure winner Of the shot quitting contest,
for worlds record of forty-seven feet
compares more than favorably with the
thirty-seven feet G. T. Watson, the Lon
dOner, is cable OF doing.