The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
WING FOOT YEFERS
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WORLDS RECORD SMASHED BY
THE SPEEDY SPLINTER AT
~ TRAVERSE ISLAND
EAST AGAINST THE WEST.
CHICAGO ATHLETES COULD LAND
BUT THREE OF TWELVE
EVENTS.
SECOND OF DUAL CITY MEETS.
Wefer's New Mark May lie Contest
ed Because There Was 81 Gale
at His Back.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The New York
Athletic clubs annual field and track
athletic games We're held on the TRAY
erse Island grounds today. There was
a stiff wind blowing from the eastward
across the grounds during the greater
part of the afternoon. For second
time this year a dual meet was ar
ranged between the Mercury foot
experts and the Chicago athletes, and
for a second time the Western men
had to put up with clean defeat. The
fact that Richards and Every could
not compete for the Illinois delegation
proved a serious handicap to the West
ern club. and, while their other men
worked very hard, the best they could
do out of twelve races was to win three
t'and score a half a point on a dead
heat in another, leaving the score at
the finish 81 points to S1a points, fig
ured on the basis of one for each first
scored.
Bernard J. Wefers won three evnts,
in one of which, the 150-yard run, he
smashed a worlds record and estab-
1ished a new one The record for this
distance. hitherto IA As seconds. was
held by Wood, but Wefers clipped ore
fifth Of a second off this, and estab-
Iished a new worlds record of IA 80
seconds. This may not stand as rec
ord, as he had a favorable wind at his
back, but, nevertheless, his work
throughout the afternoon was equal to
any of his previuos best performances.
Wefers won the fifty-yard dash from
Klunder and Rush, both of Chicago,
in 5 40 seconds, and won the last quar-
ter of the one-Inile relay race by ten
yards from Townsend, Of Chicago,
gaining all that distance and little
more from the time that he had picked
I'D Lyons at the finish of the three
quarters.
y c. Kraenzlein, a Chicago hurdler,
Won the high and low hurdles splendid
ly, and in the discus throwing contest
he was third. while his club mate, C.
II. Hennaman, won the last event with
a throw Of 113 feet inches. Kraen-
zleins performances over the hurdles
were fautless, and, although no extra
ordinary time was made, the Western
Jumper was generously applauded.
The most sensational finish Of the
day was that between Townsend, Of
Chicago, and Long, of the local club.
Townsend led from the start, with
Long only two feet behind him. Town
send increased his lead a trifle on the
far turn, but as they rounded into the
stretch Long overhauled him and the
New Yorker made a wonderful effort at
the head of the stretch and the two
men raced like q team. as they neared
the finish. Each of them was run out
within a yard OF the worsted and both
fell across it simultaneously, each re
Ceiving a nasty fail. The tine-51 sec
onds-was nothing out of the ordinary,
but as the men were watching each
other closely, and out-sprinted their
stamina in the last fifty yards, the time
Of the race cannot be considered when
such i flashing finish was the result.
After the men had been revived, they
tossed up a coin, and as Townsend won
the toss, he got the gold medal and
Long the silver one. while their re-
spective clubs scored half point each.