The herald., 1897-06-14

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The annual election of directors OF the
Los Angeles Athletic club last Tuesday
evening developed several surprises and
the members have spent a good portion
of the time since discussing the causes OF
the several changes made. Some of the
oldest and most active of the old board
were turned down and their places fillel
by new men, while John Brink only de-
feated ]. D. Wiley for president by four
votes, receiving IS to Mr.. Wiley's 81.
This result was entirely unlocked for,
and many of the members could not ac-
count for 1t. So far as known, there was
no dissatisfaction with Mr.. Drinks man.
agement. He had largely reduced the
indebtedness and did much to arouse
public interest in the club, and 1t was
the general impression that he would be
reelected president without opposition
So general was this impression that
many Of Mr.. Brinks friends did not
turn out to vote and 1t was not until q
bunch of forty proxies was deposited in
the ballot box against him at one time
that it became evident that there was an
organized secret opposition to him. 1t
was then too late for his friends to rally
and the result was that he got in by the
"skin of his teeth" as it were. AS to
the cause of this opposition, no one
seems to have any very clear idea. /:
was wholly unexpected by Mr.. Brink
who only consented to take the
office for another term to fin
ish cleaning up the Indebtedness
and who would never have per-
mitted his name to be used If he had
thought there was anything like serious
opposition. AS 1t Is, the members are
very chary In talking of the matter to
outsiders, and as Mr.. Brink also de-
clines to discuss 1t, all that can be done
Is to wait and let the case work itself
out, as it will do sooner or later.
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Local wheelmen are all now in active
training for the annual Santa Mnoica
road race, one Of the leading cycling
events CT Southern California. The en-
try list promises to be as large as last
year. and several of the number will
start to break the record.
There were the usual practice shoots
at the grounds Of the Gun club yester-
day.
The deer season opens July 15th and
q number of the local Nimrods are max
ing up parties to start for the mountains
as soon after that date as possible. 1t
Is possible that few may leave before
that time, 50 as to. be on the, ground
when the season opens, and thus get the
first show, but the great majority will
not leave until some time after.
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An effort has been made toward ar
ranging a field day between the Olympic
Athletic club of San Francisco and the
Multnomah Athletic club of Portland.
says the Chronicle. The proposition was
land on July 4th but it looks as If nego-
tiations had resulted in naught, ON ac-
count of the recent split In local athletic
circles. Secretary Siegler of the Oregon
club has written for the status of the
Olympic club since it's withdrawal from
The Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic as
sociation. 1t Is also understood that
Secretary Sullivan Of the Amateur Ath-
ietic union has notified the Multonomah
Athletic club that it will forfeit its
standing by competing with the Olympic
club.
California Is to be represented at the
international amateur swimming tour
nament championship which is to be
held at Chicago on July Sd. Dan Reanear
and H. Brewer Of San Francisco have
been selected to uphold the prestige of
the Golden Gate by the Pacific Coast
Amateur Athletic association. Renear.
who has a record of 153% for swimming g
100 yards, will compete in the SO, rs and
10O-yard events, while Brewer, who
leaped into fame at the last champion
ship meeting, held at the Lurline baths.
will be a contestant in the 220 and 440-
yard races. The fact that Tyers, the cei-
ebrated English champion, Is to be a
competitor, will give the events addi-
tional interest. Renear is regarded in
local swimming circles as next to in
vlncible.
A reporter on the New York World
thus describes the record-breaking per-
formance Of Flanagan with the six
teen-pound hammer: I'm the contest
from the seven-foot circle Flanagan
played with his opponents, Mitchell.
Chadwick of Yale, McCracken of the
University of Pennsylvania and Smith.
lank southerner. Every time the ham
mer left his hand to sail out amazing
distances into the expanse of turf its
flight was marked by the murmur Of the
multitude. And with this stimulus
Flanagan, smiling and confident,
hurled the hammer one last time, and
then what a shout went up from the
crowd! Far beyond the little mounds
of earth that showed where the ham
mers Of the others had SCARED the turf
fell the hammer of the Britisher. And
the most amazing part of 1t was that It,
had flown so far when thrown so low
Then the markers got out with the tape,
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that Flanagan had thrown the record
distance-150 feet inches--beating the
american record made by Mitchell s
feet ~ inches and the British and Irish
records made by himself feet inches.
Even Mitchell had to pat the victor on
the back for the work. None of the
others could get within tWenty-one feet