The times., 1898-04-24
FIELD DAY AT PRINCETON.
Winners of the Nipth Annual Hand
leap Meet.

Princeton, n. J., April 23.-(Special)-
The Princeton University Athletic Asso-
citation held it's ninth annual handicap
track meet here this afternoon. The
weather was favorable and the track in
fine condition. Washington was repre-
sented by four men-George W. Curtiss,
Central High School; ]. w. Beatty, CO.
lumbian University; Fred Schade, and
A. C. Moran. of Georgetown College.
George Curtiss. although heavily handi-
capped, won the pole vault with ease.
with an actual vault of 8 feet inches In
the high jump he also scored third place.
Beatty, of Columbia, made a game ef-
fort to overcome the handicap in the
quarter mile run, finishing in fourth
place.
In the bicycle race. a one-miIe handi-
cap, Bert Ripley. of Princeton. was
scratch, with Schade at ten yards. Moran
at thirty yards and the rest of the field
strung out to 40 yards.
Fifteen men rode in the final. which
was handily won, after beautiful ride.
by Moran. In this race Georgetown 5
crack" Schade, after catching the field
and shaking off the scratch man, Ripley,
received heavy fall, caused by his
chain jumping his sprocket. Aldrich, of
fennSNtNdDld, Dlleu Oh, dffu HI ttAS iitA&
up Schade grittily remounted the other
man machine, much 10 the delight of the
crowd, and started afresh, but seeing
his chances hopeless, he reluctantly gave
up the chase Moran paced the whole
last lap and won out by magnificent
sprint.
The summaries:
1OO-yard dash-Won by G. W. Knapp
Johns Hopkins, 8 yards; second, F. c.
Floses. St. Bartholomew Athletic Club.
1-2 yards; third, J. f. Jones, Princeton.
6 yards. Time. 40 seconds.
220- yard dash-Won by ]. w. B. Tewks-
bury, University of Pennsylvania, 4
yards second G. w. Knapp. Johns Hop
kins. 10 yards third f. C. Floses. st.
Bartholomew Athletic Club, ID yards.
Time, q As seconds.
440-yard dash-Won by j. K. Adams,
Lawrenceville Academy, 80 yards; Sec
ond c. w. Clancy. Princeton, 40 yards
third, F. r. Steven. Columbia University,
20 yards. Time, 49 So seconds.
SS0-yard run-Won by f. Mechling. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Y yards; Sec
ond, Alex Grant, University of Pennsyl-
vania, 10 yards; third, e. A. Chamber
lin. LawrenceviIIe Academy, 30 yards.
Time. 1:56 2-5.
One mile run-Won by c. W. Orton,
Toronto Athletic Club. scratch. second.
L. r. Palmer, Princeton, 30 yards; third,
c. D. Meeker. s. yards. Time. i-Zs 2-5.
120-yards hurdle-Won by III. Hutchin-
SON. yards; second. G. HerendOn, Prince
ton yards; third, II. Wheeler, Prince
ton. yards Time. 1s la.
220-yards hurdle-Won by F. G. Watson,
Pennington, % yards; second, X &.
Krainzlein l.. of p, scratch; third H.
Hutchinson, u yards. Time, "a 3-5.
One mile bicycle-Won by A. G. Moran.
N w Dean, Princeton. 100 yards; third,
Harry Hitler, Princeton, 90 yards. Time.
2192-5
Running high jump-Won by E. III.
Webb Pennington, 8 inches; second. W.
a Lilly. Pennington 10 inches; third.
G.. W. Cur5iss. Central High School.
Washington, inches. Height, 8 feet Il
inch.
Pole vault-won by G. W. Curtiss. Cen
tral High School. Washington, inches:
second, l.. E. Katzenbach, Princeton, Is
inches; third L. Strayer, Princeton.
scratch Height 9 feet 10 inches.
Putting 16-pound shot-Won by b. E.
Finnegan. Pennington. s IL feet; second
r. ]. Sheriden. feet; third, P. ]. McMa-
hon. IL feet. Distance 43 feet 4 L:
inches.
Throwing 16-pound hammer-Won by I
T. Hare. University of Pennsylvania. L
feet: second, II. c. Potter, Princeton, 1:
feet; third John Outland University oil
Pennsylvania, y feet. Distance 126 feet
| inches.