The herald., 1896-11-27
A BREEZY FIELD DAY
Variety OF Sports at AtIi=
letic Park
some PROMISING YOUNGSTERS
Good Material for Future Racers
Discovered
NO RECORDS WERE BROKEN
But the Contestants Proved Their Stoy-
ing Qualities
One of the Winners Was Ruled Out by
NO RECORDS WERE BROKEN
But the Contestants Proved Their Stoy-
ing Qualities
Ose Of the Winners Was Ruled Out by
Protest
A Pretty Foot Race and Some Hurdle
Jumping-Hammer Throwing and
High Jumping-The Antics
of Funny Clown.


to spoil a field day of the Los Angeles
Athletic club, and the events programmed
for yesterday afternoon at Athletic park
came off all right, though the chilliness
of old Boreas had a deterring effect
upon the expected large crowd and pre-
vented any record smashing. Though the
audience did not amount to multitude
it was appreciative and not near as cold
as the weather. The officers of the
club and the day dressed in their Sun
day clothes, managed the affair smooth
ly and the clown, Ben Bogner divided
honors with the fascinating announcer,
Fay Stephenson. The officers were: II.
c. F. Smith, referee; Will Knippenbers,
starter; Walter McStay, clerk; John
Brink and A. c. Way, Judges; Theodore
H. Bessing, Fl. Jones Bateman and X.
Kerr. field judges; J. S. Thayer. G. w.
Williamson, D. E. Welcome, timers; I.
S. Logan, Ed. Cook, scorers.
The first event was the one-mile nov
ice bicycle race for gold and silver med
ais In the first heat there were seven
entries-Albert pickerson, S. G. Bur-
lingame, Arthur Burgess, A. s. Arvizie,
Los Angeles; r. b. Rogers and w. F.
Clark, Pomona; j. e. Sandstrom, San
Pedro. The boys started even on
squirt. finished the heat in 2:31 1-5, with
Rogers first, Clark second and Arvizie
third. The second heat had as starters
s. F. Duvall, l.. e. Maud, Henry Baetz,
Charles Webster. D. B. Cromwell and
j. r. Shafer, all of Los Angeles. A
limit of 2:40 had been placed on this race
and the time of the second heat was out
side this limit, being 2:43 2-5. The ref
cree ordered the heat run over again,
and it was done, resulting in better
time, 2:33 AS. The leader came in on
this trial in the same order as the pre-
ceding one-Cromwell, Webster, Duval.
In the final heat there were Rogers,
Cromwell, Clark, Webster, and Arvizie,
and they made pretty race. While half
way around the last lap CromwelPs
wheel threw him. The finishers were
Rogers, Clark, Arvizie. Time, 2:33 1-5.
In the 10O-yard novice race there were
five starters-Fred Bright, H. l.. Avery,
Pomona; II. S. Leland, u. S. c.. A. d.
Austin and Jackson. Avery came in
first, Bright second and Leland third.
Time, 10 3-5. A protest was made against
Avery as he had won prize in Po-
mona contest and consequently could
not be classed as novice. The judges
sustained the protest and Avery was
declared no winner.
A foot race came next 1O0-yard han
UlCdp. Inc starters anu their pOS1IlOnS
were: O. c. Muller, scratch, Fl. L.
Avery. one yard. II. l.. Leland, two
yards, w. B. Sheckles, scratch, Fred o.
Brock, scratch, E. r. Wright, one yard.
The finish was very close between Avery
and Sheckles, the former being a nose
ahead. Leland was third time, 10 35.
A 120-yard hurdle race fullowed, with
Morrill,, Sheckles and Edgren as en-
tries. Shecxles came in first Edgren
second, with two hurdles down and
Morrill, third, he not having touched
any wood OH the trip from the start.
The time was IS 3-5.
The one-mile open bicycle race brought
out some new talent that will show good
speed later on. The starters in the first
heat were w. Brotherton. Charles e.
Stauter, Fl. B. Cromwell, w. r. Ruess
Of Los Angeles; S. D. Loucks of Pomona
college. Stauter came in first, Crom-
well second and Brotherton third; time,
e. E. Sallady, j. w. Austin r. c. Ham
lin, Albert Dickerson of Los Angeles,
and J. E. Sandstrom of San Pedro. The
heat ended with Sallady, Dickerson and
Sandstrom leading in the order given,
the time being 2:29 2-5. The final heat
of this race was one of the most inter-
.esting events of the day. The starters
were Stauter, Sallady, Cromwell. Dick
erson, Loucks, Hamlin and Ruess. The
boys made a pretty finish in 2:30 3-5,
Ruess, Sallady and Cromwell being so
close together that the judges decided
1t to be dead heat. The plucky young
fellows yielded gracefully and ran the
heat over again at once, doing it in
2:38 3-5, with Cromwell first, Ruess sec
ond and Sallady third
The throwing of the sixteen-poupd
hammer had two contestants, Cutter and
Fuller but neither came up to his record,
the best throw of Cutter being 94 feet
nd of inches
Their accomplishment seemed all the
poorer by the act of Kathel Kerr, who
with one hand threw the same hammer
ITO feet inches.
F. L. Morrill,, Harry DufIill. Fred o.
Brock and E. r. Wright contested in
the running high jump, the last named
winning with feet 101a inches.
1t was almost dark when the last event
was called, the three mile handicap BIZ
cycle race. The starters and their handi-
caps were: Scratch, H. B. Cromwell,
Dickerson1' sallady' Is yards. D. 3:
yards, Sandstrom. Shafer, Austin,
Brotherton; 15O yards, Webster, Morris
All but one came In on the finish, the
leaders being Brotherton, Rogers and
H. B. Cromwell Time 1851.
There were numerous little side diver
sions during the afternoon. The clowns
comical bicycle falls and a mimic mur-
der in which he figured as the victim AMI
Knippenberg was the redhanded slayer,
were pleasing and unique. The most
thrilling incident of all was the expe1i-
ence of Fay Stephenson, who, in trying
to jump over hurdle while he wore his
store clothes, fell to the ground When
he was gathered up his friends thought
he was bleeding to death, but an in
vestigation showed that the supposed
gore was the contents of bottle of
nourishment which had broken in the
poor mans pocket. AS refreshments
were scarce the loss was deplored
BASEBALL.
The managers of the Los Angeles and
Trilby clubs have at last agreed to play