New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-31
GAMES AT BERGEN POINT
A WORLDS RECORD MADE IN THROW.
INC THE HAMMER
J. c. M'CRACKEN. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN
sYLvANIA THE RECORD BIaDAKER-THB
oNrlMr1E BICYCLE RECORD FOR
THE TRACK LOWERED.

THE TRACK LOWERED.
Tho New-Jersey Athletic Clubs annual Memorial
Day carnival Of sports was held yesterday after
noon on the New-Jersey A. c. Oval. at Bergen
Point, in the presence OF fully five thousand spec
tators. There seventeen contests. tho sport
beginning at noon with football game followed
by a lacrosse match and ending six hours later
with a baseball game. which followed a good card
of bicycle track and field contests.
Two records broken. The intercollegiate
champion. J. c. McCrackcn. OF the University OF
Pennsylvania, defeated tho worlds champion. John
Flanagan OF the New-York Athletic Club IN throw
ing the sixteen pound hammer and surpassed by
an inoh Flanaga worlds record Of 1853 feet and
inches recently made ut New-Orleana
The other record breaking feat merely that
Of ecpsing the one-nile bicycle record for tho
Ovals quarter-Ine cinder track II was the work
Of Louis Hunter. who lowered by seven and two
nfths seconds the long-standng figures made BY
Arthur A Zimmerman. former worlds champion
bicycle rider.
J. w b. Tcwksbury, Of tho University OF Penn
syvania the intercollegiate champion sprtnter was
TOO heavily handicapped In tho onehundred yard
run 10 win a place in the final heat. He ran second
In his trial heat. and won an entrance IN the nnal
by capturing q second trial. but in the final he fin
ished fourth. However. no won IN the fast time OF
03l the special three hundred-yard run. NJ. W.
Long Of tho New York A. c.. who finished second
10 Tewksbury in the special race. won tho quarter
mile from scratch. George w. orion. the cham
pion ran a ll-judged race in tho milo run. which
he easily won w b. Fetterman. OF the University
OF Pennsylvania. the intercollegiate champion.
failed to gain place IN the mile walk because Of
the liberal handicap allowances his competitors
received
A. c. Kraenzlein. Of tho University Of Pennsyl-
vania the intercollegiate champion hurdler did not
compete in his speciality, but took second honors
in tho running high jump Herbert A. Marvel. the
New Jersey schoolboy champion middle-distance
runner won from scratch the haf-re run. pro
vious 10 which he had cantered that distance in an
exhibition run with r. E. Burke the Harvard Uni
versity champion. pig jim Mitchell got tho gold
medal at putting the forty-two-pound weight a
contest especially put the programme to please
the big fellows from the Emerald Isle In one Of
the bicycle races Walter g. Roome. the New-Jersey
A. c. flyer was a winner and In another race ne
was second man once. and his clubmate w. NJ.
McCully. Of Elizabeth. tho New-Jersey schoo!boy
champion. also first and second
The summary.
~ 'qiss G"9 hs Ct u S'y sT na'sf
Bayonne from Brooklyn Wanderers by score OF
Two goals. kicked by Forwaris r Sergeant and !, hs'
Lacrosse mach-The teams Of the Island and the
Moniclalr Lacrosse clubs PLAYED halves Of twenty
Minutes each, the resu, being a Each scored
three goals. Vincent Scott throwing TWO and Richard
efss 0ps u loT for Ai ise Moaca ~"' myers
Hs sTS Sv sa !u nS e Ms0p New g
c. second. Tine-2:C9's There were other entries.
wash St Franc. XAVIER college 4 A. ~ yafas
! yagdsj !. ,hird Time@olo
90 sends; 4 r Bennett N.w-So5F
! 80 seconds. third. Time-7O3's actual time.
Tewksbury' University Of Pennsyvania: II w Long.
Hew-YCrk A. G. r tee0nd r. pSn Hoffman, University Of
W wv Mccaily NeT.jer.@y < 9 80 ySfdo; waiter g
Enrich Yale \. a. go yards, third Time-2:217s.
Two hundred and-twenty yard hurdle race handcap)
YARDS yard warren w smith, New-York city ds ysras
second George J. Smith. Ne" Jersey A 9 as y"fda
Two-rn mile bicycle thand csp,-won by. Walter G.
Rome New-JeIsey A. G. 'seraicn wv, w. NJ Mecully
Vac A. A. go yaris ihird. Ttme-s'a%.
ons-mils run 'handicap,-won by George W orton.
Newf0s a. CARDS rS scna II "e' M6s.nhs conmSa
/ University go yards. third. Tne-424.
NJ W ISSr Z FG scrc K DON o
man. University of Pennsylvania q yards second; C.
T Myers. New-Jers@v A. e. 90 YARDS. third Time
Eight hundred eighty yard Giandcap by
Smith. New Jersey A. c. CS2 yards second: W q.
Meseer KncherbocAer A. C. '25 yaFds). third. Time
Special onernile track record bicycle trial race paced
by tr'pet ridden by Walter C. Roome Harry Hosford
rode mile in 22oR breaking the truck record Of 22
made ten years ago BY Arthur a. Zimmerman old
Running hieh jump ,handieap)-won by Jacob Kns-
over. Alliance A. G. IS inches. with Il. In. 4 e.
Efaerzleia University o. Pennsylvania % nches ,ac-
oni. With feet; r. J. Graham New-Jersey y. I. 'sDs
insaeo third With r. ~ in.
G. Mc1iscken raversiiy Of Pennsylvania with wo,ld =
record throN 1873 Il in: Johr Flanagan Nrw-Yori
=. L, second with throw o: i4a It. IN There
no cihe. contestants.
raIone The l2-pouua weigh; '.crstch;.won by James
Rcsd h.dsn ri H pS 81 2 w =,
ss.iis \ I'M John E.a1asan. N.w-YoTx r. fthlrd.