The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-19
WORCESTER IN IT.
New England Cham
pionship Games at
Riverside.
DUFFY PICKED FOR WINNER.
Powers, Moynihan, Moran
and McQueeney
to Compete.
DUFFY PICKED FOR WINNER.

The New England championship
games which will be held at Riverside
Saturday will bring several Worcester
men into the competition.
The officials are hustling to make, the
games a success from an athletic stand
point. Financially the success is already
assured as a guarantee is given by the
manager of the grounds. He'll be a
wiser man after Saturday.
No championships were held last year
on account of lack Of interest. The
prizes have been purchased and will be
given away on the grounds, an innova-
ton hardly credible in New England
championships, not excluding those
which have been given in Worcester.
The program will contain these
events: 100 yards DASH 22O yards dash,
44O yards run, $50 yards run, mile run,
120 yards hurdles, 22O yards hurdles,
potato race, throwing the discus, run
ming high jump, running broad jump,
putting the shot, and pole vault.
Among the men of Worcester who
will enter are j. Fred Powers, William
H. Moran, ]. ]. Moynihan and A. F.
Duffey. T. F. McQueeney, who is at
present living in Cambridge, will com
pete in the hurdles.
In connection with the championships
swimming races will be held. No en-
tries will be made from this city in the
latter There will be races at 10 yards,
220 yards, 440 yards and half mile and
special prizes will be given to record
breakers.
Harvard has announced its intention
of sending It's international team to the
championships, and if it does the Grim
son will carry away the most prizes.
Arthur F. Duffey of Worcester Acad-
envy looks for first place in the century.
He has done 10 seconds for the dis
lance in practice and competition and
that ought to win.
Quinlan, Harvard's sprinter, is en-
tered but Quinlan has been beaten
more than once this season in even
time, and unless Duffey goes back
Quinlan will have to content himself
with the plate. Eddie Hines Of St. JOS
ephs Athletic Association is a claim
ant for athletic honors in the dashes
who can't be ignored. He is reported to
be going fast this year. Neil Seaman of
Boston College is running well and
stands good chances of getting a Whack
at the prizes in the final heat.
1t looks like a good thing for Quinlan
in the furlong. He is stronger than Duff
fey when it comes to the longer dash
and will outstrip the Academy lad at
that distance. Billie Holland of Boston
College is a hot one for the furlong, and
with Hines will make Duffey hustle
to get in at all.
j. M. Jackson, the champion of two
years ago, has decided to enter again
and will try to hold his position at the
top of the heap. Tom Burke is suffering
from a stone bruise and may not en-
danger his chances, as he has the Eng
fish competition to worry him. Jere
Moynihan of this city Is entered in the
440 and may enter the furlong. If he
does, Quinlan will have all the running
he wants in a day, and If Quinlan has
too much work in the century, Moyni-
han will trim him in the 200. BY stay
ing out of the furlong, Moynihan will
worry Jackson in the quarter. He is
going faster than Jackson ever went.
Jennings, also Of the East Boston as
ISOLATION, is running almost as fast as
Jackson and is one of the men looked
on for a prize winner.
w. w. Garrett, of NJ. l. T., has been
doing close 20 two minutes for the hale
mile on the Harvard track and c. J.,
Kiley of Boston College is running well
also. Alex Mcdonald of Cambridgeporr
gym is entered in this event, but will
save himself Cor the mile. The Boston
men are wondering whether Kiley can
beat Garrett. They mustn't forget Billy
Moran the high school runner of this
city, who intends to compete in the half,
If Garrett can't do better than close
to two minutes he will have more than
he wants to look after In Moran, for the
latter is also doing close to two min
utes. so close in fact that the mark
shivers.
Young Trott of Medford high, who
won the mile in the interschoiastic
meet at the oval a week ago, is en-
tered in the mile, and will make Nc
Donald and some of the older ones hus
tie to win. Trott showed by his run
ming at the oval that he can come close
to Am. 3Os., and the number who can
do that isn't great He ran in Am. 39s.
at the oval, and was well within him
self all the time. Jim Halahan of
East Boston, Purcell of the Cam
bridgeports and ]. w. Gates of Boston
are the other men in the event.
In the hurdles, Fox, Warren, Morse
and Converse of Harvard appear to-
have things all their own way. Tom
McQueeney of the Cambridgeports, at
one time New England champion in the
high flights, is entered in both events.
McQueeney was in Worcester a week
or two ago, at which time he said he
would not only win the high hurdles,
but establish a new record for the
event.
Nat Young of the East Bostons is
champion in the shot, and it looks to
Boston men that he will retain that
title Brown Of Harvard has not yet
decided to enter. Powers Of this city
will give Young a hustle in the event
unless he tires from the other competi-
tions. He is to compete in several
events. Young and Powers will be the
principal contestants in throwing tine
discus. The prize should come to the
Worcester man. and it won't be at all
surprising If he establishes a world
record. He has a mark that is only
four feet behind the record of 1I9 feet,
and he made it during a meet in which
he competed in half a dozen events. He
will enter the pole vault, high jump,
running broad, putting the shot and
throwing the discus. In the high
jump he will have for opponents Bob
Ferguson OF Harvard, Francis Con-
nelly of the East Bostons, and posi-
bly, Rotch of Harvard.
J. f. Bennett of Boston and Daily of
Harvard will be the principal compe-
titors of Powers in the broad jump.
Mahady is being picked for winner in
the pole vault. He won the cham
pionship the last time the games were
held. w. J. Lynch Of Cambridgeport
gym is going well. Powers has cleared
II feet, ard if he can repeat the per-
Torrance, he will upset all calculations
which place Mahady winner.