The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-28

McCracken of Pennsylvania Sends the
 Hammer Distance 149 Feet, 5 Inches,
 Breaking the Intercollegiate Record
 by 13 Feet, 9 Inches-Wefers Absent-- Work of the Yale Men.
 New York, May 27.-The twenty third annual field, track and bicycle meetings of the Intercollegiate associ- ation began this afternoon at Berkeley
 Oval. The weather during the forenoon was anything but pleasant, but not a drop of rain fell during the progress of
 the games and the contestants were
 not very heavily handicapped by the soggy condition of the cinder track and the infield. Three new. intercollegiate
 records were established and one equal- ed, and if the grounds dry out thor-
 oughly by tomorrow it is confidently expected that several more new rcc-
 ords will be established. This year
 there were nearly seven hundred <en- tries for the different events and
 very fair percentage of those entered
 put in an appearance. The collegians were out in force to cheer their class ! mates in their efforts for championship honors, and they made quite a respects
 able crowd. The general public, how- ever, was evidently deterred from wit
 messing the games by the threatening weather. If 1t should be fair tomorrow
 there will undoubtedly be very large
 attendance at the oval
 In former years the bicycle events were run off on the cinder track, with the exception of last year, when they were contested at the Manhattan Beach cycle track. This year, however, things were different, as an excellent and well
 banked board track has been laid at the oval, which may, judging from the races ridden over it to-day, prove sat- isfactory to the bicycle riders. The | first record broken was the hammer throw. McCracken of Pennsylvania sent his sixteen-pound hammer dis- l tance of 149 feet 5 inches, which ex- celled the previous record held by w. G. Woodruff of the same university by l 13 feet inches. McCracken, barring accident, has this event secure. Myer i Prinstron of Syracuse and A. O.. 1 Kraenslein of Pennsylvania both beat l the former record in the trials at the broad jump. Prinstron jumped 23 feet | 1A inches and Kraenslein was only l quarter of an inch behind him. The contest between these two in the finals
 will certainly be close.
 | The absence of that king of sprint 1 CTS, B. J. Wefers of Georgetown uni- versity, was very much regretted. Wef-
 CTS broke down in his training and it 1 is probable that he may not be seen l on the track until late if at all, this I year. Two noted sprinters, Tewksbury 1 of Pennsylvania and Rush of Prince i ton, won their respective trial heats in the 100-yard dash, and an exciting race 1 is expected between them when they 1 meet for the final. Tewksbury is the
 favorite for that event, as he ran in l faultless style to-day, and he is also
 looked upon as the winner of the 220-
 yard run. While the track appeared
 good on the surface, 1t was slow owing
 to recent rains, and it may not dry out
 sufficiently to enable the sprinters to
 make notably fast time.
 | Jarvis of Princeton and Fish of Har- ! ward are the most likely winners of l first and second honors in the quarter
 mile run. Kraeslin of Pennsylvania
 and Brewer of Harvard should capture
 the hurdles, and Eetterman of Pennsyl-
 vania has no peer in the entries for
 the one mile walk. Cregan of Prince
 ton, A. Grant of Pennsylvania and R. Grant of Harvard look like the most
 promising contenders in the half and
 one mile runs. Last year the Columbia
 university wheelmen carried off all the
 honors on the cycle track and it is all
 most certain that they will duplicate
 that feat this year. Ray Dawson of
 Columbia won the half and one mile
 cycle races to-day and the blue and
 white was always in the front rank in
 all of the cycle events.
 There was a good deal of delay caus-
 ed in the half mile bicycle trial heats
 this afternoon. Four heats were run
 off, but the time in each exceeded the
 limit of 1:1O and they all had to be run
 over again. Fully thirty minutes were
 consumed on this score but much bet
 ter time was made with one exception,
 in the second attempts. In the second 1 trial heat, Strong of Yale won in 1:06
 2-5, equalling the intercollegiate and collegiate records, but the time for the final, which was won by Dawson, was 1:12 2-5. Fred Schade of Georgetown
 and w. M. McCutcheon of Yale. who finished first and second in the third heat, were disqualified from competing
 in the finals, as they were 4-5 sec be-
 yond the limit in covering the distance.
 A bicycle record was broken and new l one established in the quarter mile
 race by L. B. Dannemiller of George town, who covered the distance in 3I
 2-5 seconds, which was 4-5 of a second | better than the existing record. The l trial heats for one mile tandem bicycle
 race will be the first event on the card
 tomorrow and the finals of that race will be run as the last event.
 Under the new rules the points to be
 scored will be five for first, three for
 seconds; two for thirds, and one for | fourths. There will be five bicycle con- tests in all, two of which were con-
 cluded to-day and when the winners of the first four places in each have been I decided the university or college win ming the greatest lumber of points out ! of the five events will score five points