Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
TIE BOSTON GAMES|
Worcester Athletes AS Usual
Win Prizes.
High School and Academy Runners Maks
Things Lively-U. P. Defeats Holy
Gross in Team Race.
lspecial pegpatch to the spr.l

Especial Despatch to the Spy.)
Boston, Feb. 5.--Woreester athletes
and those who have represented Wor-
cester Institutions in former years, were
very much in evidence at the ninth an
nual games of the Boston Athletic AS
ISOLATION, held this evening in the Me-
chanics building on Huntington avenue
While the Worcester men did not sweep
everything before them, they took an
active part in the distribution of the
prizes and. by dint of clever, fast work,
secured a number of good things before
the evening was over. Had the team
race between Holy Cross and the Uni
verSity of Pennsylvania resulted dlffe-
rently than it did, the Worcester boys
cup of happiness would have been filled
to overlooking.
The Worcester Academy's team of
four men. in charge of Trainer Dono-
van landed first, second and a third
place. A. f. Hills, heretofore unknown
and untried Splinter, won the 40-yards
dash for his school from the 6-foot
mark over the usual big field of starters
of varying degrees of speed. A. F.
Duffy, who entered the Academy last
fall from the Boston English high
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40-yards scratch invitation race, while
Spear, the football player, was second
| in the shot-put, with put of 40 feet
So inches to his credit.
| The Worcester high school, as was
| predicted in this mornings Spy would
| be the case, gave the Boston talent
surprise by walking away with the 1000
yards handicap run, always one of the
| principal events of the meeting.
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| easily, although handicapped by lack Of
| experience. Moran, another Worcester
! lad started in the 600 yards run, but
was soon lost in the shuttle.
Two other Worcester athletes were
prominent in the games, although they
did not run under any Worcester aus
pices. But they live in Worcester, and
their credtabie performances rebound
/ to the Heart of the Commonwealth just
| as much as TO the club or the college
| for which they were now running. One
! Of these was the old high school runner
| Frank H. Bigelow, who is now captain
Of the Harvard track athletic team
| Bigelow ran first in the race against
| Yale, and assisted materially in sue
| cess Of his team, which established
| new record for the mile by going the
distance in minutes IL 2-5 seconds.
| Another Worcester man who would
probably have done about as we'll as
Bigelow. had circumstances required,
was Harry l.. Dadmun, who ran fourth
on the B. A. A. IS relay team in it's race
with the KniclSerbockeT Athletic Club Of
New York city 1t has come to be an
established fact that Dadmun never has
to extend himself when running on a
relay team, and this evening was no
exception The three men who pre-
coded him had cut out winning lead,
and all Dadmun had to do was to can
ter around the track three times with a
lead of nearly half a lap in his favor,
when he took up the relay.
Despite the record-brealIing perform
ance of the Harvard team in lowering
the former record of 3:12 established by
them at the games a year ago, it was
common talk among the athletes in the
dressing room, after the games were
over, that Worcester undoubtedly had
four men who could whip any relay
team in existence OF course both
Dadmun and Bigelow are to be counted
upon as two of the members Of the
team, with Jerry Moynihan and Charles
O'Connor, two of Holy Cross relay men,
as the other two members The heart
of the commonwealth still maintains
her prestige in track athletics, al
though her athletes do not all OF them
have the best facilities for training.
There were several others of the par
their first athletic training in Worces-
ter while attending preparatory schools
there, and who are now prominent in
the athletic circles of the colleges they
are attending. H. II. Fish, for in
stance who put in the fastest quarter
on the Harvard team, tonight, is an old
Worcester Academy man, and it was
Pouch Donovan who first taught him
how to take corners and run straights. |
Walter Hersey. another Academy man,
captured the 45-yard high-hurdle event, |
although now running for Phillips Exc
ter Paul Potter, who was captain of
the high school team last year. was one
of the men who defeated Amherst in
her team race with Williams tonight.
John Gregson, another Worcester boy, |
ran Third on the Bowdoin team, and
Denny O'Brien of the ST. PauPs Ly-
ceum was one of the four men on
Browns relay team. All around, it was
a great night for the Worcester men, |
both past and present.
The Holy Cross boys are disappointed
but not discouraged, that they failed to
defeat the University of Pennsylvania
team tonight. 1t was Holy Cross that
suggested the race. and finally induced
u. of P. to run. When Tommy Conner
came down tonight with his quartet of
speedy men, four people out of five
thought it would be a Holy Cross vic |
tory. Connect knew his team was good
for S:15 or 316, and believed that such
time would be plenty fast enough to
win the race Trainer Murphy. how
ever, had four men selected for the fray
that proved just little faster. and so
the event and the four silver cups went
to the Quaker city.
Holy Cross won The toss for positions,
and, of course. took the pole, and for
the first part of the race things looked
very rosy for the purple. But there was
weak spot in the Holy Cross team
1t lay in Conway, the third runner on
the Worcester team. Although having
good lead at the start over Tewksbury,
he went all to pieces in the second lap
and let the Philadelphia man not only
pick up the ground that Holy Cross had
already gained, but also allowed him to
go ahead and cut out a lead that Moy-
nihan or any other man in tie business
could not possibly make UP against so
speedy man as Hoffman in so short
a distance as three laps or $50 yards.
The first relay was Charles O'Connor
of Holy Cross and NJ. V. Bastian. a