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EACH OTHER AT MANHATTAN
FIELD.
TOO SPEEDY FOR MAYBURY.
BOTH OF THE SPRINTS CAPTURED
BY WEFERS, OF GEORGETOWN
COLLEGE,.
SOME NEW RECORDS ESTABLISHED
The Games the Most Successful Ever
Held by the Amateur Athletic
Union.

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nation OF the Amateur Athletic union
there never before has been such a
successful series of athletic games fol
the national championships as that
which was held this afternoon at Man
haitian field. The attendance was 1000
! The track was lightning fast, and the
| infield perfect Chicago sent dozen
| splendidly trained athletes, among
whom were Henneman, the heavy man
Kranzlein and Richards, the hurdlers
Maybury and Rush, the sprintars, and
Barrett, the half-miler. All the West
ern men since their arrival here a week
ago have been the guests of the New
York Athletic club at Travers island,
and they, as well as the representa-
tives of Winged Foot" came on the
grounds this afternoon in perfect con-
dition for what was called the athletic
battle between the East and West.
The greatest interest centered in the
meeting of Wefers, the worlds cham
pion Splinter; w. Maybury and Rush,
of Chicago. Despite the fact that May
bury and Rush were considered capable
of pushing Wefers to his utmost, the
lanky runner from Georgetown college
was favorite at odds of 3 to l on,
and although a party of three New
Englanders were on the ground with
money to back the champion, they fail
ed to secure any important bets from
friends Of the Westerners. Maybury
won his trial heat handily in 10 10
seconds, while Wefers won his in the
same time with little to spare. In the
final of the 100 yards Wefers came away
like a streak, and won by two yards
from Rush and Maybury, who, accord
ing to the judges, ran dead heat for
second place. To many Of those who
were close to the finish line it was
evident that Rush was some inches
ahead Of his club mate, but the deci-
sion Of the judges did not change the
final result, as the second and thord
points went to Chicago. The time, 9 As
! seconds, just equalled 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
81 20 seconds, while Maybury was
seven yeards ahead of Enrich for sec
ond honors. Burke, the worlds cham
piOn quarter miller, won the 440 yards
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 first three were we'll played out
after they had crossed the finish line.
Edward Power, of Pittsburg, and
George Stephen, of Montreal, We're
| among the contestants for the half-mile
run, but the best they could do was
third and fourth respectively, as Gre
gan, of the New York, and Marvel,
the young runner from New Jersey,
finished first and second in 1853 SIS.
CHAMPION CUT LOOSE.
Young Fetterman, OF New York, cut
out the pace in the mile walk for a
quarter of a mile with Sam 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.
Geo Orion, the mile runner, was out
paced in that event and failed to finish
! in the first three. Brodie, the Cana
dian champion, ran spIendidly for sew
en-eighths of mile, and looked like a
winner until Cregan caught him a fur
long from home and beat him out easily
by fifteen yards. Grant, of Toronto,
who made the pace for half the dis
lance, finished third, fifty yards behind
the Montreal man.
In the high hurdles great things were
expected of J. r. Richards, of Chicago.
For the last four days Richads has
been nursing a sprained ankle, but he
insisted on going over the high hurdles,
while Kraenzein was reserved for the
longer race. Richards ran well, but
Thompson out-sprinted him and won
by a yard. When Richards returned
to his dressing room, he was limping,
and it was very evident that the
eXertion was too much for him. Kraen-
Zein won the 220 yards hurdle race by
seven yards from Jerome Buck, of the
Knickerbockers, 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 Knicker-
booker clubs was won in hollow fash
ion by the wearers of the Mercury
| Foot and Wefefs, who ten minutes
! before had won the 220-yard dash, ran
the final quarter of the relay race in
40 1-5 seconds, making a new relay rec
ord of 3:21 2-5, which was just a second
faster than the old record, which was
held by Yale.
In the field events Hanneman, of
Chicago, won the putting of the sixteen
pound shot and established a new rec
ord for discus throwing with a throw
of 11S feet inches, and finished second
in the throwing of the y-six-pound
contest, which was won by Champion
James S. Mitchell. Mitchell also beat
the record of LOG feet in the discus
throwing event by eight inches, secur-
ing second place. Flanagan, the
worlds champion thrower, sent the
ball and wire handle 14S feet inches
while Chadwick, of Yale, made a splen-
did throw of 141 feet inches. Mitchell
was third with 139 feet inches, while
Edgren, of California, who represented
the Knickerbocker Athletic club, was
fourth with a throw of 1874 feet 4 inches
The latter made foul throw of 142
feet 2 inches, and Flanagan made e
foul throw of 152 feet 21a 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
the pole vault after Hurlburt ana
Smith had captured first and second
places. After several trials and ties
Wilder and Franz conceded the point to
Van Wrinkle
Myer Prinstein, of Syracuse, who was
the favorite in the broad jump, failed
to come up to expectations, and could
not do better than 81 feet inches,
which placed him in fourth position.
The three who finished ahead of him
were separated by only one and one
half inches. B. Gloss won by half an
inch from Bennett, of East Boston, who
in turn was one inch ahead of Friesell
of Pittsburg.
The governing board of the Amateur Athletic
union met tdoay. These delegates were elect
ed members of the governing board: s. E.
Pettis, Central association; ]. ]. Wolf, of
the Southern association; G. L. Lison, of the
PACIFIC association z G OH rirI,o