The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-15
NEW JERSEY A. O. M
The Competition the Greatest Indool
Meeting Ever Held.


The New Jersey Athletic Club held its
second annual indoor carnival Saturday
evening at Madison Square Garden. The
event was the most prominent athletic
competition ever held In the big amphi-
theatre and deserved a far greater at
tendance. There were not more hi 1900
people present while at Bergen Point at
the summer games the club has entertain
ed as high as 5000 with not near as great
an attraction as the one OF Saturday. The
entry of colleges into the sport gave a
greater interest to the competitions. The
college men made an excellent showing
and. in their work displayed the result of
good training. Princeton, Yale, Columbia,
University of Pennsylvania and George
town had out their best Representatives
and they gave the local athletes much to
do to defend their prestige. There were
many exciting struggles for the prizes
and h remarkably large entry list in
each contest made it necessary to run off
a great many preliminary heats. The pro-
gramme of events was larger than ever
and the club in order to hurry it through
ran off our events at one time. This was
accomplished with the aid of two tracks
marked out ON the board floor while in
the centre the pole vaul and Jumps were
contested. There were two championship
events, the two mile steeple chase and the
ten mile run. Both were holly contested
being won right at the tape after a des-
perate struggle on the final lap. The local
athletes failed to meet with as much sue
cess as was anticipated. Will Brister of
the Fourth Regiment finished second in
the final heat of the go yards rum from the
y yard mark beating Wefers the worlds
champion by a yard who ran 4 yards
back of the mark. h basketball game
filled in the time during the ten mile run
and was very exciting. Everything ran
smoothly and the great success was due
to capable management. The results in
the final heats follow
60 yard run, handicap-Won by Thomas
r. Fisher, Jr., Yale A. A., 5 feet; Bernard
J.. Wefers, Georgetown University,
scratch, second; R. Hoffman, University
Of Pennsylvania, Z feet, third. Time, 6 3-5
seconds.
$50 yard run, scratch, for novices-Won
by Alexander Grant, University of Penn
sylvania; F. Y. Lane, University of Penn
sylvania, second; S. McKeH Buckingham,
Two mile steeplechase, national champ
ionship-Won by E. W.. Hjertberg, New
Jersey A. G.; George w Orion, University
of Pennsylvania, second; J. B. Finnamore,
22O yard run, handicap-Won by M. j.
Waters, Twenty-third Street Y. M. C. A.,
10 yards; W. B. Brister, Fourth. Regiment
A. A., N: g.. n. j. 9 yards, second; Ber-
penalized a yards, third. Time, "a As sec
onds.
One mile walk, handicap-Won by Harry
w. Laid, New West Sid A. c., As sec
onds: H: F. Mclaughlin, New West Side
A. c. As seconds, second; Samuel Lieb-
gold, Pastime A.. c., scratch, third. Time,
Z minutes 80 Is seconds.
One mile run, shandicap-Won by e. w.
Bedford, Knickerbocker A.. c., so. yards;
John F. Cregan, Princeton University, 10
yards, second; Robert Kennedy, Xavier
A. A., rs yards, third. Time, 4 minutes
Al Is seconds.
One mile bicycle handicap-Won by C..
M. Kervan, H. w, So yards; VIII. Owen,
K. A. c., scratch, second; L. R. Jefferson,
e. A. c., scratch. third. Time, 2 minutes
As seconds.
60 yard run, scratch-Won by Bernard
j. Wefers, Georgetown University; M. F.
Halpin, N. Y. A. C.,second; Edward linn,
New West Sid A. G., third. Time, s 3-5
seconds.
Storms, -Jr, K. A. O.. 8 yards; Jerome
Buck, K. A. c., scratch, second; H. M.
Cogan, Columbia U. u, Is yards, third.
Time, 54 So seconds.
Won by Charley Fitzpatrick, Princeton,
scratch; Alexander Grant, University of
PI~ennsyIvania, 20 yards, second; 6 G.
2 minutes 8 2-5 seconds.
One-milc bicycle race, scratch-Won by
w. H. Owen, K. A. c.; A. S. ~Jungkind,
R. W., second; r. A. Miller, Greenwich
Wheelmen, third. Time, 2 minutes
54 25 seconds.
Ten-mile run, National Championship
Won by Theodore McGirr, Georgetown
University A.. A; P. Mackey, New West
Sid A. c., second; M. J.. Regain, New
West Side A, c., third. Time, 81 minutes
40 Id seconds
Pole vault for height-Won by c.. T..
Van Wrinkle, Yale A. A., l inch, with a
Thomas, K. A. c., 3 inches, second. with
a vault of 10 feet 81 inches; Albert c.
Tyler, Princeton, 8 inches, third, with a
vault of 10 feet 2 SIS inches.
Standing hop, step and jump, scratch
Won by B. E.. Mulligan, X. A. G., with
20 feet 10Y inches; John Cosgrave, Com
pany A, Tenth Battalion. second, with
20 feet 81 inches; Franklin Block, EN-
pire A. A, Brooklyn, third, with 26 feet