The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-16
WORK OF ATHLETES.
Americans stretch Their Muscles at
the Queens Club.

LONDON, July B.-Holcomb ]. Brown,
william A Beal and W. j. Holloway, OF
the American University athletic team, un-
der the care of Trainer Lathrop, practiced
this morning at the Queens Club. The
combined teams made their first appearance
at the club this afternoon They had a
number Of trials.
In the first sprint Of fifty yards. c. Dupee
Yale), d. Bordman (Yale), p. j. Quinlan
Harvard) and F. A Blount CYale). COM
peting, Quinlan won in five and three-fifths
seconds. Another fifty-yard sprint between
Dupee. Quinlan and Blount was also won
by Quinlan IN ga seconds.
William Fincu (Yale) and ]. W.. Hallowell
Harvard) started In a 40 yards hurdle
race. Hallowel won in is 1-5 seconds, but
the two men were so neal a dead heat that
It was difficult to tell the winner or which
was the better man. Then F.. q. Hopper
(Harvard) did the 40 yards hurdle, paced
onds. Morse Oale), DAILY (Harvard) and
Harrington (Harvard) tried broad jumping
", Very gre creditab diS. though pI the distance We're
not measured. Clarke (Harvard), Foote
Harvard) and Palmer (Yale) logged a
Ten members of the Oxford-C Cambridge
team did a little dilatory work. While II Is
too early to discriminate between the con-
teStants, the Englishmen do not appear TO
be in as good condition as the Americans.
Bevan Cambridge, who Is slated for the
long jump, Is manifestly out of condition.
The Americans, all around, are younger
and lighter, but they are In excellent form.
1t would be difficult 10 imagine a more
charming picture than the Queens Club
grounds presented this afternoon when the
blue and crimson ribboned American uni
versity athletic teams made their first APP
pearance upon the scene of next weeks con-
test 1t was a typical English day with
balmy air and a half clouded sky, which
combined to make athletics a pleasure. THE
Queens Club IS undoubtedly the most COM
plete athletic grounds ever seen" said Man
ager Wendell to the correspondent OF the
Associated Press; W know the charms
nothing could equal those OF the Queens
Club. 1t is delightful TO know that the Ok
our desire to free amateur sports from the
charge of professionalism. The attention
paid US here has exceeded anything we could
dezire-"
Walter Camp, the college athlete who ac-
companied the teams across the Atlantic out
of personal love of sports, watched the
events to-day and expressed satisfaction
with all the arrangements and the form of
the Americans. Il do not know what next
week may do" said he, but there is every
indication now that the Americans Will enter
the contests In the finest Of form and ready
to meet their opponents fairly and square
ly, irrespective Of results. This Is the charm
of amateur sports, which we are fighting
80 hard to impress upon the American pub
lie. The only fault we find is that the pub
lie, anxious TO see the best, fastest ana
strongest of all things, has not learned to
differentiate between amateur and profess
sional sport. We are rapidly overcoming
this. and frequent contests in England will
do much TO bring about the right result
which amateurs In both countries SO much
DESIRE"
The presence on the grounds of half a
score Of the Oxford and Cambridge teams
added to the interest Of the afternoon. c. n.
jackson, the honorary treasurer of Oxford.
and Captain Hunter, OF Cambridge, were
presented to the Americans and assured
them of the sincerity Of the English well
come. The English athletes refrained from
any performance until the retirement OF the
Americans to Brighton, when they INDUCED
In a number Of creditable tests.
Secretary Becks, of the Queens Club, who
is making every effort for the success OF the
s contests, expressed great delight at the pros
pect Of successful games and showed the AS
ISOLATED P.ess correspondent the arrange.
ments tLat had been made for the accom-
mediation of the Prince Of Wales, the Duke
and Duchess Of York and other notable peo-
pie who VIII witness the contests.
The fact that the English sprinters run
with the right hand on the inside OF the
track, the opposite direction Of the Anneri-
cans. is regarded by many as a serious
handicap upon the latter. Mr.. Wendell says,
however, the Americans will be put on train
Ing In that direction and he thinks the CUES
ton of direction will make no material dif-
ference.