The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-06
The Popular Athlete of Yale
Secures the All Around
Championship.
GAMES OF TIE NEW JERSEY A. c.
caledoniaa Sports at Baldwin Park
Lively Teams at Com
munipaw-No Wind for
Yachting.

New Jersey Athletic Club was up to the
usual high standard of excellence and de-
served much better success than was
gained financially. The admirers of the
sport were evidently too much engrossed
in the celebration Of the day to give time
to a few hours pleasure at Bergen Point,
and remained at home shooting off the
crackers and bursting torpedoes, conse-
quently the fireworks dealers were the
| gamers. and the New Jerseys the losers.
The games were remarkably interesting,
and Notwithstanding the long programme
the events were hustled off in remark
ably fast time, and the sport terminated
at an early hour. There were many in
teresttng features, numerous close finishes
and throughout the day was one of rare
enjoyment to everyone. The New Jerseys
have made many fine records, but none
were ahead of this last one. The ALL
around contest for the amateur cham
plonship OF the Amateur Athletic Union
of America was won by Lou p. Shell
don Of Yale. The event did not pan out
as well as had been expected, and at
the present rate the contests will soon
be abandoned by the A. A. L. unless
a greater interest is manifested by the
athletes n a large entry is developed.
There We're only three contestants Satur-
day, and the struggle for the honor was
wholly between John "A. Larkin Of the
Xavier A. G. and Sheldon, the other was
Fl. O~bertubbeslng, New West Side A. c..
He was outclassed and fell far behind the
others. Sheldon won but not as easily
as had been anticipated. Larkin gave
him a hard tussle. and had it not been
for he fine record of the Yale man in
the pole vault he would Undoubtedly have
been defeated. He was disqualified in the
half mile walk, which lost him many
points. The best feature of this contest
was Sheldon's exhibition in the pole
vault, in which he cleared 10 feet 80
inches. Previous to this, Larkin was in
the lead, but he only cleared s feet 81
inches in this contest. The last event
was the one mile run, and LaTkins won
this by IS and a fraction of a second,
but would have had to have beaten Shell
don over q minute in order to have won.
Sheldon secured the championship by $50.
The open contests were far more inter-
esting. and one of the supposed features
was to have been the relay race between
the Catholic Club, Lafayette Kings Sons.
Guild OF the Iron Cross. yigilant Field
Golden Links and Irving Club did not
compete. 1t was to decide the cham
pionship of Jersey City. The Catholic
ii won easily, and after the first quar-
with the Lafayette Kings Sons second.
Vigtlant Field Club third, Young Mems
League fourth The first three teams re-
ceived medals. Tne winning team was
". +. Hurley, John j. keane, John j..
Hart, Thomas B. Connor. Il. K. s.
q. A Hemphill, T. P. F. Weston. A. j..
Boland and G. H. Weston. Vigilant II.
CD 2. Herman, C. Spatschii. E. Meek
er and L Wischart. The. game of AS
ISOLATION football resulted in another de-
feat for the Bayonne Rangers in the con-
test with the Bay Ridge A. c., who rolled
UP 2 goals to /. the same as on Memorial
Day. h scratch hammer threw for
the championship between James Mitch
ell, champion of America. and Charles
Chadwick Of Yale. was won by the for
mer after three trials had been made
by the Son of Eli to down him. This
was one of the special events Of the
day and the record smashing did not
occur. Mitchell was nearly II feet s
inches below 1t In HIS best throw. 1876
feet 5 inches The bicycle races were
all the more exciting because Of a num-
Der of bad spills. The worst was in the
final heat of the two mile race. The
men were riding punched on the third
turn, when Roome. scratch, and VIII
Darmer, 40 yards. sprinted to the front.
John Jaspers of Bayonne started after
Clos and fell. the others piling IN On
him, badly b~ruising him and severely in
juring his leg. Roome turned the last
corner too sharply and made a bad head
er, which gave Darrner the race. E.. B..
Fisher. Clio Wnheelrnen. was second, and
Jack Waller, Arcanufn Wheelmen. who
had scrambled out of the wreck. finished
third. The summary Of the events fol-
low
The relay race-cne mile. for local clubs
was won by the Catholic Club, Lafay-
cite Kings Sens second and Vigilant
Field Club third. Time. 3 minutes Al 2-5
econds The summarizes
POINTS IN THE ALL AROUND COM
plyfNtTIEN