The San Francisco call., 1897-01-18

st. Patrick's day, 1891, he conceded twelve
inches to his best opponent and then won.
Though his best attested performance IN
regular competition for prize is 6 feet 3
inches, made at Warehouseman's cricket
Grounds, st. Hilda road, Melbourne, IN
1891. he cleared the bar while In practice
for that match at the height of feet u
inches. This performance was witnessed
and measured by Professor William Mil
ler, nov an athletic instructor in Mel
bourne, but formerly well known in this
City, and by P. II. Reynolds of the Royal
Mail Hotel, Bourke street, Melbourne.
In the games at Jerilderie; New South
Wales, in 1892, there we're thirteen events.
Conroy entered them all. He won twelve
first places and tied for the other. On
that occasion he esta ablished his record of
AZ feet and 4 nches in the running hop,
step and jump.
In 1888 at Geelong, Victoria, he made
his record OF IL feet l inch in the pole
vault. How good that is may be inferred
from the fact that the present Pacific
Coast record is 10 feet 101I inches made
vaulter. But Conroy equaled this latter
| record last st. Patrick's Day in con test
at the Sydney Cricket Grounds.
His standing high jump record of feet
| So inches was made in the games at AL
| bury, n. S. W., in April, 1895. That record
alone would here be considered creditable
for the running event, though only last
year Patterson of the Olympic Club and
little Bert Kerrigan, then of the Multno-
nah Athletic Club of Portland, but now
Of Stanford University, both cleared the
bar at 6 feet 2 inches, and surprised the
athletic world on this coast by esta bllsh-
ing record not approximated before in
the West. His record in the running
broad Jump, 81 feet 10 inches, was made
81 al in, II ~ hon
ever, compare favorably with his other
performances when contrasted with rec
ords on this coast. His record OF 81 feet
for three standing backward jumps was
made at The Crystal Palace, Melbourne,
in 1890.
He put the 56-pound weight 20 feet s
inches in the games at Murchison, VIC
weight % feet inches at Hobart Town,
Tasmania.
In $780, at the Melbourne Exhibition
Building, he won both the all-comers'
wrestling contests against nine com peti-
tors each time. These are the only wrest-
ling contests he has entered.
In the sprints his records were all re-
corded by Baird's automatic judging ma
chine, which is supposed to make none of
the mistakes so frequent among timers
using stop watches. He covered seventy
five yards on the Lilly Bridge Running
Grounds in Sydney last year from stand
ing start in seconds. The 100 yards he
made in 97s seconds and the others as in
dicated IN the list of records above.
When Walter Henry OF the University
of California established at the Olympic
grounds in 1898 worlds amateur record
OF 15M seconds for the 120-yard hurdles
his record was looked upon as phenomenal.
Conroy as a professional has covered the
same distance over the same obstacles in
Az seconds, though that is over a second
away from the worlds professional record.
In some years Conroy has competed in
over 200 events, and in Sydney contested
continuously once for six days during
big meet. In most of these professional
contests there is a cash prize of at least
ESQ, or $3.50. to the winner. Often it is
f100, or $500. In ore event in 1889 the
first prize, won by Conroy, was over $500.
Ii addition to the big cash prizes Con-
roy mas won twenty-four gold medals and
has four trophy cups, all of which are
twenty-five inches in height.
he modestly says that he would like to
go in for some athletic contests while he
is here, though so far his time has not
been his own.