The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29
CONTESTS OF ATHLETES
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WON by
NEW YORK, WITH "A POINTS.
Chicago A. c. Second, with 74-Mny-
bury Defeated by Wefers in the
100 and 220-Yard Sprints.

ship as that which was held this afternoon
on the track and infeds of Manhattan
| Field. The attendance was 1900. The track
was lightning fast and the infield per-
| feet. Chicago sent a dozen splendidiy
| trained athletes, among whom were Hen
| neman, the heavy man; kraenzein and
Richards, the hurdlers; Maybury and Rush,
the sprinters. and Barnett, the half-miler.
| All the Western men, since their arrival
| here a week ago, have been the guests of
| the New York Athletic Club at Travers
| island, and they came on the grounds this
| afternoon in perfect condition for what was
called the athletic battle between the East
| and West The greatest interest centered in
the meeting of Wefers, the worlds champion
sprinter with Maybury and Rush. of Chi
cago. Despite the fact that Maybury and
Rush were considered capable of pushing
Wefers to his utmost, the lanky runner
| from Georgetown College was a
| favorite at 8 to on, and,
although party of three New
Englanders was on the ground with
money to back the champion, they failed to
secure any important bets from friends of
| the Westerners. Maybury won the trial
heat handily in 10 1-5 seconds, while Wefers
won his in the same time, with a little
| to spare. In the final of the hundred
| Wefers came away like a streak and won
by two yards from Rush and Maybury,
who, according to the judges, ran a dead
| heat for second place. TO many of those
who were close to the finish line it was evil
dent that Rush was some inches ahead of
| his clubmate, but the decision of the judges
did not change the final result, as the sec
| ond and third points went to Chicago. The
time, 8 As seconds, just equaled the Amer
lean 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 seconds when Maybury was seven
| yards ahead of Enrich for second honors.
Burke, the worlds champion quarter
miller, won the 44O-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 forty-nine seconds, and the
| nrst three were we'll played out after they
| had crossed the finish line. Edward Power,
| or PlttSburg, and George stephen, of Mont
| real were. among the contestants for the
| half-mile run but the best they could do
| was third and fourth, respectively, as Gre
| gan, OF New York, and Marvel, the
| young runner from New Jersey, finished
| first and second in 1854.
|
| out the pace in the mile walk for a quar-
| ter or mile with Samuel Leibgold, 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 orion. mile run
| ner, was outpaced in that event, and failed
| to finish in the first three Brodie, the
! Canadian champion, ran splendidly for sew
| en-eighths of 2 mile and looking like
| winner until Cregan caught him a furlong
| from home and beat him out easily by fif-
| teen yards Grant, of Toronto, who made
for hole
third, fifty yards behind the Montreal man.
In the high hurdles great things were ex-
pected or j. X RICHARDS, OF Chicago. For
| the last fouls days Richards has been nurs-
| ing a sprained ankle, but he insisted on go
| ing over the high hurdles, while Kraenzlein
| was reserved for the longer race. Richards
| ran well, but Thompson outsprinted him
! and won by a yard. When Richards
| turned to his dressing ROOM he was limp
! ing, and it was very evident that the eXer-
| ton was too much for him. Kraenzlein
| won the 220 yards hurdle race by seven
| yards from jerome Buck, of the knicker
! bockers, but the finish would have been
very much closer were it not that Buck
| stumbled badly at the second hurdle and
| lost a lot of ground thereby.
| The one-mile relay race between picked
| teams of four men each from the New
| York Chicago and Knickerbocker Clubs
| of the Mercury foot and Wefers, who ten
| minutes before had won the tWO-hundred-
and-twenty-y yard dash, ran the final quar-
| ter of the relay in 40 10 seconds, making
new relay record of 32l rs, which was just
a second faster than the old record which
| was held by Yale.
| In the field events. Hanneman of Chi
cago, the putting of she sixteen pound
| shot and established new record for dis
| Gus throwing, with a throw of lis feet
| inches and finished second in the throwing
! of the hfty-six-pound contest, which was
Mitchell also beat the record of JOG feet in
| the discus throwing event by eight inches,
securing second place Flanagan, the
| worlds champion thrower, sent the ball and
wire handle las feet inches while Chad
| wick, of Yale, m3de a splendid throw of 141
| feet inches. Mitchell was third with l39
| feet inches while Edgren, of California,
| who represented the Knickerbocker Ath-
| letic Club, fourth with a throw of l34
! feet inches. The latter made a foul throw
! OF 142 feet inches and Flanagan made a
| foul throw of 1872 feet 212 inches. Irving X.
! Baxter and two of his club mates-Carroll
and Leslis-captured all the points IN the
| running high jump for the New York Ath-
| letic Club. There was close contest for
third hOnors in the pole vault after Hurl-
burt and Smith had captured first and sec
| ond places. After several trials and ties,
Wilder and Franz conceded the point to
Van Wrinkle. Myer PrinZtein, of Syracuse,
who was the favorite in the broad jump,
failed to come up to expectations and could
| do no better than q feet inches, which
placed him in fourth position. The three
! finishing ahead of him were separated by
| only one and one-half inches. r. Glop won
| by half an inch from Bennett, OF East Bos-
ton, who in turn was one inch ahead Of
| Friesell, of Pittsburg.
SUMMARIES.
| One-hundred-yard dash: Final heat won
by B. j. Wefers N z. A. c.; j. H. May
bury, c. A. A, and Rush ran dead heat
for second place; ]. f. Jarvis, Pough-
keepsie A c., fourth: w. A. Harms, Knick-
erbocker A. c., fifth. Time, % As. Wefers
won by two yards and just cqualed the
worlds record.
Observation-Disclosures run: Won
by ]. C. Creegan, New York A. c.; II. l..
Marvel, New Jersey A. c.. second; Id
ward NJ Power, Pittsburg a: G., third;
! George Stephen, Montreal AGA u, fourth
Putting the 16-pound shot: Won by
| Charles Hanneman, Chicago A. A, dis
| lance, ~ feet "a inches f. Beck, New Jer
sey A. c. AZ feet Ga inches, second J.
| Herty, West Side A. c., Al feet 1914 inches
| third.
Pastime A. c.; W. B. Fetterman, Jr., New
| York A c., second; w II. Donovan, New
| Jersey A. c.. third. Time, 6:44 As. Liebgold
won by 40 yards, with 30 yards between
second and third.
Running high jump: Won by I. K. Bax-
| ter, New York a. C, height feet IA
inches: w. c. Carroll, n. y. A. G, 8 feet
second; n. T. Leslie, N. Y. a. c, feet
! II inches, third
| Observation-Disclosures nty-yard hurdle
race: Won by J. II. Thompson, jr. New
York A. c.. John II; Richards, Chicago A.
c., second; 7. w. Chase, New York A. g.,
| fourth. n. r. Friesell, Pittsburg a. g, fell
at the ninth hurdle and did not finish. Time
| :16. Thompson won by yard; ten feet be-
| tween second and third.