The San Francisco call., 1897-08-29
WEFERS MAKES
A GREAT RUN
Equals the American
Record for One Hum
dred Yards.
Other Exciting Contests on
the Field and Track of
Manhattan.
Most Success sful Series Of Athletic
Games for National Champion
ships Ever Held.

Manhattan field. The attendance was
1000. The track was lightning fast and
the infield perfect. Chicago sent dozen
especially trained athletes, among whom
were Heineman, the heavy man; Kraenz-
leln and Richards, the hurdlers; May
| bury and Rush, the sprinters, and Barrett,
the half
| the greatest interest centered in the
| meeting of Wefers, the worlds champion
| sprinter, with May bury and Rush OF Chi
| cago Despite the fact that Maybury and
Rush were onsidered capable of pushing
Wefers to his utmost, the lanky runner
| from Georgetown College was favori.e
at odds of to 1, and, although party OF
three New EngIandeIs were on the ground
with money 10 back their champion, they
failed to secure any important bets from
friends Of the Westerners.
Maybury won his trial heat handily in
10 1-5 seconds, while Wefers won his in
the same time with little to spare. In
the finals of the 100 Wefers came away
| like streak and won from Rush and
May bury, who ran dsad heat for second
| place. The time, 8 As seconds, just
equaled the American record.
Wefers and Maybury met again in the
final heat of the 220-yard dash, which the
former won by five yards in q 2-5 Sec
onds, while Maybury was seven yards
ahead of Enrich for secord honors.
Burke, the worlds champion quarter
miller, won the 440-yard event. Townsend
and Rush, of Chicago, and Long of New
York were his principal opponents. but
after leading all the way the Boston man
won by nearly four yards from Townsend,
who secured second place from Long by
dropping head foremost over the line. This
| race was run in 49 seconds and the first
three were we'll played out after they had
crossed the finish line.
| Edward Power of Pittsburg and George
| Stephen of Montreal were among the con-
testants for the half-mile run, but the
best they could do was third and fourth,
respectively, as Cregan of New York and
| Marvel, the young runner from New Jer-
sew. finished second, in :5eA.
Young Fetterman of the New Yorks cut
out the pace in the mile walk for a quar-
ter of mile, with Sam Liegbold, the
champion, close on his heels. The latter
then cut loose and for the next three laps
kept ahead of Fetterman, finally winning
by forty yards.
George Orton, mile runner, was out
| paced in that event and failed to fini in
the first three. Brodie, the Canadian
| eighths of mile and looked sure win
ner until Cregan caught him furlong
| from home and beat him out easily by
| fifteen yards. Grant of Toronto, who
made the pace for half the distance. fin
ished fourth, five yards behind the Mon
! treal man.
In the high hurdles great things were
expected of ]. B. Richards of Chicago.
For the last four days Richards has been
nursing sprained ankle, but he insisted
on going over the high hurdles, while
KraenZlein was reserved for the longer
race. Richards ran well, but Thompson
outsprinted him and won by a yard.
Kraenzlein won the 220-yard hurdle race
by seven yards from Jerome Buck OF the
have been very much closer were it not
that Buck stumbled badly at the second
hurdle and lost lot OF ground thereby.
The one mile relay race between picked
! teams of four men each from the New
York, Chicago and Knicker booker clubs,
was won in hollow fashion by the wearers
of the mercury foot" and Wefers, who
ten minutes before had won the 220 yards
dash, ran the final quarter of the relay in
| :49 1.5 seconds, making new relay
record OF 3:21 2-5, which was just second
| faster than the old record which was held
by Yale.
| In the field events Heineman of Chi
cago won the putting of the 16. pound shot
and established new record with a
throw of 11S feet 8 inches, and finished
second in the throwing of the 56-pound
contest, which was won by Cham pion
! James S. Mitchell. Mitchell also beat the
record of 116 feet in the discus throwing
event by eight inches, securing second
place.
Flanagan. the worlds champion ham
mer-thrower, sent the ball and wire
| hon 1a foot x In l. CbaJ til
OF Yale made splendid throw of 141 feet
inches. Mitchell was third with 139 feet
4 inches, while Edgren of California, who
represented the Kn!ckerbocker Athletic
Club. was fourth with throw of 1874 feet
inches. The latter made a foul throw of
| 142 feet inches. and Flanagan made a
foul throw OF 152 feet IN inches.
Irving K. Baxter and two OF his club
mates-Carroll and l. slie-captured all
the points in the running high Jump for
the New York Athletic Club. There was
a close contest for third honors in the pole
vault after Hurlbut and Smith had cap
tured first and second places. After sew
eral trials and ties, Wilder and Frame
conceded the point TO Van Wrinkle. Mey er
Prinstein of Syracuse, who was the favor
ite in the broad jump, failed TO come up to
expectations, and could do no better than
81 feet inches, which placed him in
fourth position. The three finishing
ahead of him were separated by only one
and one-half inches. e. B, Bloss won by
half an inch from Bennett OF East Boston,
who in turn was one inch ahead of Friesell
OF Pittsburg.
Appended are the summaries:
1O0-yard dash, trial heats-First heat won
by James H. May bury of Chicago A. A., F. Jar
Wis oil Pittsburg A. C. second J. w. Enrich of
K. A. c. third. Time, 10 l-5.
Second heat won by b. J. Wefers (world's
cham pion) of New York A. c. by two yards
from J. II. Rush of c. A. A. second w. A.
Karns of K. A. C. third. Time, 10 Is
The third men in the two trial heats were to
have run off to see which would participate in
the final heat, but Enrich withdrew 10 save
his speed for the 220-yard dash, and Karns
had walkover. thus leaving five men to con
test the final of the 1O0-yard dash
SSO-yard run-Won by j. C. Cregan, N. A. C. /:
H. L. Marvel. K. A. c.. second; Ward M
Power Pittsburg A. G., third; George Stephen,
| Montreal A. A. u, fourth. Time, / :58 3-5
Putting the 16 pound shot-Won b. Charles
Henneman, Chicago A. A, distance AZ feet 7sI
inches; F. Beck, N. ]. A. e., distance AZ ieet
61z inches, second; J. Henley. New YORK West
Sue A. c., Al feet l0s4 inches third.
lOO-yard final heat-Won by B. ], Wefers
N. Y. A. c.; j. H. Maybury, Chicago A. A., and
Rush. ran dead heat for second place: j. F.
Jarvis, Pittsburg, A. c., fourth; A. Karns.
Knickerbocker A. c.. fifth. Time, % as
Wefers won by two wards and Just eoualed the