The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-23
AMERICANS WIN ALL EVENTS
THE INTERNATIONAL ATHLETIC
GAMES IN NEW YORK.

The Engllshmen Did Not Win Single
Large Assemblage on Manhattan Field
Britishers Cheer the Viotors-MilSe MUIR
ply on Observation-Disclosures Ladies.
The international athletic games be-
tween the New York Athletic club and
the London Athletic club We're held Sat-
urday on Manhattan field, New York
and resulted in an overwhelming vic
tory for the American team, the Eng
lishmen not winning a single event.
Four worlds records were broken by
B. j. Wefers, N. Y. A. G., 900 yards, in
q 2-5 seconds;C. ]. Fitzpatrick, N, Y. A.
c., half mile run in so % seconds; Ste
phen Chase, 100 yards hurdle in 10 20;
Michael F, Sweeney, running high
jump, 6 feet, SIS inches.
The summaries of the various events
are as follows:
Half mile run-Charles j. Fitzpatrick,
New York A, c. first; Frederick S. Ho-
ran, London A. c., second Time, 1852
rs. (New worlds record9 Other COM
petitore were Henry S. Lyons, New York
A. c., and Charles H. Levin.
100-yards dash-Bernard ]. Wefers,
New York A. c., first; Charles A. Brad
ley, London A. c., second; John " Crum,
New York A. c., third. Time, AS. II.
G. Stevenson, London A. c., also start
ed.
pt,,c r. ohoa oil
ney, New York A. c., first, height,
feet: S. A. Warner Ba1tazzi New York
A. c. second. Other competitors were
Reginald Williams and Alan Brooke
johnson, both of the London IA. Bal
tazzi and Williams tied for second
place, at feet 10 inches. Williams re-
fused to jump over or toss, and Baltaz-
ri was awarded second prize. After
the competition Sweeney had the ba1
placed at feet 5-S inches and tried
for a record. At the third attempt he
succeeded in clearing the bar, thus
breaking the worlds record held by
himself
One mile run-Thomas P. Connect
New York A. c., first; George W. orion
New York A. c., second. Time, Ais is
William E. Luytens, London A. c., also
started, but fell exhausted on the frs
lap.
Putting sixteen pound shot-Georgt
r. Gray, New York A. c., first, dis
lance 43 feet inches;W .Orville Hickok
New York A. c., second, distance, 4.
feet; Edward John Watson, London A
c., third, distance, "a feet inches.
200 yards run-Bernard J. Wefers, New
York A. c., first; John V. Crum, New
York A. c.. second; Gilbert Jordan
London A. c. third. Time, 81 3-5, (Nev
worlds record) Alfred r. Downer
London A. c., started put quit aftel
running 50 yards.
100 yards hurdle race-Stephen Chase
New York A. c., first; Godfrey Shaw
London A. c.. second; William Johr
Oakley, London A. c., third. Time
Is rs. Ernest Fl. Cady. New York A
G., also started but quit at the fifth
flight. The time was one-f1fth of sec
ond better than the record, but was no
allowed to stand, because Chas,
knocked down his first hurdle.
Throwing 16-pound hammer-James
Mitchell, New York A. c., first, dis
lance, 1877 feet, IL inches; Harry P
Cross, New York A. g, second, dis
lance, 1914 feet 10 inches. George S
Robertson, London A. c., also compel
ed. He made six fouls IN succession
His best throw was 81 feet.
quarter mile run-Thomas J. Burke
New York A. c., first; Gilbert Jordan
London A. c., second; w. Fitzherbert
London A. c. third. George M Sands
New York A. c., did not finish Time
49,
Running broad jump-Elwood E
Bloss, New York A. c., first, distance
% feet inches; Lewis P. Sheldon, New
York A. c., second, distance q feet 1
inches; William J. Oakley, London A
c., third, distance, 81 feet inches Wal
lingford Mendelsohn, London A. c., ais
competed.
Three mile run-Thomas J. Connect
New York A. c., first; E. J. Wilkins
London A. c., second Time, 1876 81
Other starters were Charles j. Kilpat
rick, New York A. c., ana Frederick s
Koran, London A. C. Neither finished
The New York Sunday Times in com
menting on the appearance Of the fiel
and the assembled spectators says a
follows:
All cIIOIlIlOu CIOWd Ol people wa
assembled to see the battle Of the ath
letes In spite of the heat, it staid on
the contests and worked itself up int
a fever heat as event after event wen
to the credit of the American repre-
sentatives.
Cheering such as the English boy
have never heard before followed tn
performances of the men. The enthr
siasm was of the contagious sort
batch of men, women, and boys woul
break out in a cheer in the body of tn
lower grand stand. 1t would be take
UP by the section nearest to the clut
house. Then would come the volum
of sound from the bleachers on tn
north side Of the ground. 1t took tw
choruses, usually, for the shirt-sleeve
and coatless crowd over there to e2
haust itself Then the bleachers al tn
extreme west end of the grounds woul
have their turn at it, and the gio
would end with an outburst at the w
per grand stand. Half the time thel
would then come general outbreal
in which the people in all the stand
would join and drown out the wei
meaning efforts of the band to try an
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