The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-29
Wefers Equals the Record in the One Hun
dred Yard Sprint.
Maybury and Rush, Chicago's
Cracks, Easily Beaten-Hene-
man of Chicago Establishes a
New Record for Discus Throw
ing-Flanagan Wins the Six
teen-Pound Hammer Throwing.

! NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Since the for
nation of the Amateur Athletic Asso-
citation there has never been such a sue
cessful series of athletic games at ma
tional championships as that which was
held this afternoon on the track and
field of Manhattan Field. The attend
ance was 1000. The track was light
ming fast, and the in-field perfect Chi
cago sent a dozen specially trained ath-
| letes, among them were Heneman, the
heavy man: KFaenzlein and Richards,
| the hurdlers; Maybury and Rush, the
! Sprinters, and Barrett, the half-miler
The greatest interest centered in the
meeting of Wefers, the worlds cham
pion Splinter, with Maybury and Rush
! of Chicago. Despite the fact that May
/ bury and Rush We're considered capable
/ of pushing Wefers to his utmost, the
1 lanky runer from Georgetown College
was a favorite at odds of to l. and al
/ though a party of three New England
J ers were on the ground to back their
/ champion, they failed to secure any i'm
portant bets from friends of the West
] ernerS. Maybury won his trial heat
handily in 1915 seconds, While Wefers
won his in the same time, with a little to
spare. In the finals of the 100 Wefers
/ came away like streak, and won by
| two yards from Rush and Maybury,
who ran a dead heat for second place.
/ The time. 945 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 2125 seconds, with May
/ bury seven yards ahead of Enrich for
/ second honors.
Burke, the worlds champion quarter
miller, won the 440 yards event Town
send and Rush of Chicago and Long of
| New York were his principal opponents,
! but after leading all the way, the Bos-
ton 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 40
seconds, and she first three We're well
played out after they had crossed the
! line
Edward Power of Pittsburg and
! George Stephen Of Montreal 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 second
| in 1:3S%.
| Young Fetterman of the New Yorks
| cut out the pace in the mile walk for a
quarter of a mile with Sam Liebgold,
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, the mile unner, was out
paced in that event, and failed to fin
I ~, Ca
madam champion, ran splendidly for
seven-eighths of a mile, and looked a
sure winner, until Cregan caught him
| furlong from home and beat him out
easily by fifteen yards. Grant of To-
ronto who made the pace for half the
distance, finished fourth, five yards be-
hind the Montreal man.
In the high hurdles great things We're
expected of J. B. Richards of Chicago.
For the last four days Richards has
been nursing a sDrained 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 ward.
Kraenzlein won the 800 yard hurdle
race by seven yards from Jerome Buck
of the Knickerbockers.
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 fash
ion by the wearers of the Mercury
foot" and Wefers, who ten minutes
before had won the 220-yard dash. ran
the final quarter of the relay in 0:49 1-5,
making a new relay record of 3:21 %,
which was just a second faster than
the old record held by Yale.
In the field events Heneman of Chi
cago won the putting of the sixteen
pound shot and established a new rec
ord for discus throwing with a throw
of lis feet inches, and finished sec
ond in the throwing of the 56-pound
contest. which was won by Champion
James S. Mitchell Mitchell also beat
the record of 116 feet in the discus
throwing event by eight inches, secur-
ing second place.
Flanagan, the worlds champion
hammer thrower. sent the ball and wire
handle 14S feet ) inches, while Chad
wick of Yale made a splendid throw of
al feet s inches Mitchell was third
with 139 feet 4 inches. while Edgren of
California, who represented the Knick~
erbocker Athletic Club, was fourth
with throw of 1874 feet 4 inches. The
latter made foul throw of 142 feet
inches. and Flanagan made a foul
throw of f52 feet 215 inches
Irving K. Baxter and two of his club
mates-Carroll and Leslie-captured all
the points in the running high jump
for the New York Athletic Club. There
was 4 close contest for third honors in
the pole vault, after Hurlburt and
Smith had captured first and second
places. After several trials and ties.
Wilder and Frame conceded the point
to Van Wrinkle.
Meyer Pr1nstein of Syracuse, who was
the favorite in the broad jump. failed to
come up TO expectations. and could do
no better than 21 feet 4 inches. which
placed him in fourth position. The three
finishing ahead Of him were separated
by only one and one-fourth inches
E. B. Bloss won by half an inch from
Bennett of Boston. who in turn was
one inch ahead of Friesell of Pits
burg.
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