The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-14
JOINT 4ATHL ETYC MEETTNa <
'aeid In New York by KnfckerbocIxer..
 and New Jersey Clubs.

AAA tso" AOTA ny hn1CkerhOCkAFs and New Jersey Clubs. NeW York, Jan. 13.-The Knicker-
 booker and New Jersey Athletic cl,,hs5 5
 which are soon to be amalgamated ha1d
 a joint athletic meeting in Madison
 Square Garden tonight and most nfS the prominent athletes in the east took part m the various events. The Boston Athletic association sent on several rem resentatives, but none of them finished first in any of the events. The Boston men were easily defeated by the Knick- erbocker runners in the one mile relay race, in which teams of four men each competed. The last contest on the Ions. programme was a five mile race in Whlch eighteen runners started from scratch. Dick Grant of Harvard led up to the end of the third mile. Then Me Girr took the lead but soon fell back, leaving Dick Grant and Alex Grant Of the University of Pennsylvania strug-4 gling for the lead. The Harvard man held the premier position until the last lap, where his namesake from Pennsyl- vania passed him and crossed the tape aDOSAl o ydIo III LULU u 1lCh WHO WdS nearly seventy-five yards ahead of Mo- Girr. Summary:
 60 yards run, handicap, won by A. H. Kent of St. Bartholomew A. C., feet; A. w. Wallace, unattached, 15 feet, sec- ond; Frederick Flores, St. Bartholomew A. C., feet, third. Time, 6 2-5
 One mile scratch, inter-city team re- lay race-Won by the Knickerbocker club team, M. J. Waters, H. D. Bannis- ter, G. B. Holbrook and H. D. Manuel; Boston A. A. team, F. W. Lord, T. F. Curtis, w. Mansfield, and Harry l.. Dadmun, second. Time, 2:50 4-5.
 Inter- cholastic SS0 yards run, handi- cap-Won by John M Perry, Kings school, Stamford, Conn.,, 40 yards: H. E. Taylor, Battlin high school, 50 yards, second; N Adam, Hackettstown, 45 yards, third. Time, 2:03 2-5.
 22O yards hurdle race, handicap--Won by c. A. O'Rourke, N. Y. A. C., and Columbia university, IA yards; Augus- tus Anderson, N. w. B. A. C., IA yards, Charles Mcclellan, N. w. s. A. G., IS yards, third Time, 2S 15 sec- onds
 44O yards run, handicap-Won by Vic- @ tor Andrews, Pastime A. O., 2S yards; R. F. McKiniry, ,Pastime A. C., 1T yards, c. T. Meyers, N. J. A. o., IS yards, third. Time, 53 3-5
 Inter-colle giate 80 yards run-Won by J. w. Tewksbury, University of Penn ,ylvania; J. E. Mulligan, Georgetown university, second; F. J. Walsh, St. Francis Xaviers college A. A., third. Time. 6 2-5.
 One mile team relay race between cams representing the local branches if the Y. M. c. Avon by West Side cam, A. McLentock, and associates Time, 254 3-5.
 440 yards novice, scratch-Won by H. I. Edmonds, Bayside A. G.; H. M. White, Y M. c. A., second; N. Alden, third. Time, 59 4-5 sec- nds.
 Intercollegiate SSO yards run-Won " John Cregan, Princeton university, I. c. Mosenthal, Columbia university, B. A. Mechling, University of third. Time, 2O7 1-5
 $50 yards run, handicap-Won by Will am Y. Mclaughlin, N, W. S. A. G., 0 yards; George E. Behr. Polytechnic lstitute, Brooklyn, 45 yards, second; J. ,. Manville, scratch, third. Time, 2:Q4 5.
 22O yard run, handicap-Won by w. I. Garthe, N. J. A. G., 20 yards; E.
 Walsh, St. Francis Xavier college . A., yards, second Frederic Flores, t. Bartholomew, 1-2 yards, third.
 me 23 2-5.
 Putting 16 pound shot, scratch--Won y R. Sheldon, N. Y. A. G., distance, feet inches; w. W. Coe. Boston A.
 ., 43 feet inches, second; r. G. Beck, A. C., 43 feet 1-2 inch, ,ird.
 Running high jump. handicap-Won y James S. Speaker, Columbia univer- ty A. A., inches, actual height , ,et 5 inches; L. S. Jones. New York 3 inches, actual height, , ct 1-2 inches second. Five mile run, scratch-Won by All lander Grant, University of Pennsyl- ania; Dick Grant Harvard and N. Y.
 C., second; T. G. McGirr, N. Y. A. /: third; R. w. Kennedy, Star A. c.