The San Francisco call., 1896-07-03
MANY RECORDS
WILL Be BROKEN
Splendid Entry List for
Stockton's Carnival
of Sport.
OCCURS ON JULY FOURTH
Seventy Eight Athletes Will
Compete in the Field
Games.
SEVERAL CHAMPIONS LISTED.
Bicycling, Foot and Hurdle Racing in
the Afternoon and Boxing
at Night.
SEVERAL CHAMPIONS LISTED

STOCKTON, CAL, July 2.-The coming
carnival of sport on the Fourth OF July
promises to be the greatest event of the
kind ever held in the West. In the field
DAY games there are seventy-eight entries,
exclusive of the fifteen entries in the two
bicycle events, and if some records are not
lowered the knowing ones will be badly
mistaken.
Cheek, of the Academic Athletic League,
has his heart set on lowering the coast
record for the shot put. The Olympic
Club tried its best to get him to go TO Port
land, but he preferred to save his energies
for the games here, and he will give a
creditable account of himself on the after
noon of the Fourth.
Last year Robert Edgren broke the coast
record for the hammer throw at the field
day games held here, and this year he will
probably eclipse the great record he made
in his trial in San Francisco. He has
promised to lower the worlds amateur
record for the 56-pound shot, and all who
know the stalwart athletes ability in this
line do not doubt that he will do it.
Then there is the half-mile run, in
which fourteen men will start. Tom Car
keek of Stockton will lower the Coast rec
ord if he is given half a show, He is anx-
ious to make a record for Stockton, and
has been training hard for the event. He
is one of the best all-round amateur attn
letes on the coast to-day and the Stockton
Athletic Association is willing to match
him with any amateur on the coast in a
catch-as-catch-can wrestling bout. He
has entered in all of the running events
except the mile and 220-yard hurdle race.
and may be depended upon TO give good
account of himself.
Cheek has entered in the pole vault and
high jump, and is expected to do some
thing phenomenal for his team.
Stanford has also some good men en-
tered. Fred Butz of the Olympic Club
has his name down for all the sprints. He
will have rival in White of Modesto,
who is a mem Der OF the Stockton Athletic
Association and will wear the blue and
white of that club.
Excursions will be run from Sacra-
mento, Antioch, Tracy, Merced, Fresno
and Modesto on the Fourth for the carni-
val of sport, and Stockton will be filled
with strangers. Already accommodations
have been secured in all the leading hotels
for the visitors.
Almost as much interest centers in the
boxing tournament that is to come off at
night as in anything else. Van Buskirk
has vowed to knock Corrigan out inside
the allotted six rounds, and if condition
counts there is little doubt that he will not
do so. He is extremely anxious to win
Iaurels in the professional ring, and wants
to challenge Sharkey, who will spar here
with Needham at the boxing tournament
On that night Van Buskirk will issue a
challenge to Sharkey, and the two may be
brought together. Sharkey will be the
best man the ex-amateur evr went up
against, but Van Buskirk is confident he
can win against the sailor in finish fight
or in one of a sufficient number of rounds.
The big Olym plan is in better trim than
he ever was IN his life. As he has an ideal
place for training and is making good use
of it he should soon be better man than
he ever was.
Tom Berry is in training at the same
place for his eight-round go with Charley
Turner. The latter has promised to re-
deem himself in the ewes of his erstwhile
Stockton admirers, and they are anxiously
waiting to see what the wreck of their
former idol can do.
One of the contests that is creating
much excitement is that between Jack
Hopkins, who once bested Solly Smith,
and Ben Maxwell, a colored pugilist.
This is scheduled to last eight rounds, but
few expect it to continue longer than six.
The lists are full for the regatta that is
to come off on the morning of the Fourth.
The great disappointment is that the
champion senior South End crew did not
keep their recent promise made to come
here and compete against the Giant crew
of Stockton. The local men offered to
pay their expenses, and to offer individual
medals, besides trophy, for the contest.
The South Ends said that they wanted
medals, and this point was waived. Even
then they did not enter and have only
sent crew to go in the intermediate class.
This has caused much comment, as the
Giants we're only juniors at the El Campo
races.
The new barge has been fitted up and
the seniors from the Stockton Athletic
Association are ready to pull the race of
their lives. There are enough entries in
the other events to make the regatta
great success, and the channel will be
lined on the morning of the Fourth with
thousands of spectators.