The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19
GAMES AT BOSTON
An Academy Athlete Furnished the Sur
prise of the Meet, and Won Both
Dashes---Holy Cross Forfeited
Team Race to Columbia.

man on the B. A. A. team. followed i'm
mediately after the trials in the 500
handicap. so Dad" did not care to
run any chances of firing himself,
knowing that as soon as the trial heats
were finished he would be obliged TO
run against Mauvel in the team race.
Joseph Deedy, the st. Anne's man,
answered to his name when the men
were called to their marks in the one
mile-run. Alexander Grant OF the
University of Pennsylvania was down
on the program as scratch man. He
had been and won the two-mile tnvi-
tation race earlier In the evening, and
so stayed out, watching from seat
in the press box, his brother Dicks
work from the 8-yard line With Alex
out, Dick was practically scratch, but
heavy handicaps counted against him,
and, try as hard as he would, he could
not catch the field ahead of him.
Meanwhile Alex Mcdonald, with rs
yards, and Deadly, with 80 yards, were
making the race for first place, Deadly
finishing only a few yards behind the
Cambridge man.
The only Worcester man entered in
the onemile run was Joseph Deedy,
who recently was defeated by ID. G.
| Hall. the Brown University runner at
the Holy Cross College games Deedy
was given handicap of 80 yards, while
1 there were others who had two or
! three times that amount. The Wor-
| cester boy ran we'll and got second
! place. although he would have been
much better off at the finish had he
started out as strong as he could. In
stead, he laid back of the ruck, allow
ing Mcdonald. who eventually won the
| race, to pass him and get a lead of at
least 10 yards. Deedy began his race
about four laps from the finish He
pulled up from tenth place into third
lv.ls 10. Loot
lap, Deedy was just behind Smith Of
Yale who was running strongly, and
seemed fairly certain of second place,
/ with Mcdonald as the winner. But
in the last five or ten yards, by a
magnificent burst Of speed, the Worces-
i ter man went by his college rival and
won out in a finish that was as close
as was that of Moran in the 800. Nc
j Donald won without much difficulty.
The result of the Holy Cross ColuIn-
bia University team race was a bitter
disappointment to the Holy Cross stu
dents present, as well as to the ma
jority of the crowd, who had expected
hot race when the two teams met
: After considerable discussion and ban
tering at the start, the two teams left
the track for the dressing rooms, and
; Columbia had won by default
i When the men who were to run
! upon the Holy Cross team were sent
QOWH 10 bOSIOD, tine Name OF Jerry
l Moynihan, for some unknown reason,
: was omitted. At any rate, 1t did not
: appear upon the printed programs, and
when the Columbia men found It WAS
intended to run Moynihan, the Column
: bia University men lodged most em-
phatic protest They said his name
was not included in the Holy Cross re-
} lay team, and so was not eligible to
} compete. Father Bill Curtis, VINO was
2 acting as referee, decided that the
! New Workers were in the right and
! that Moynihan must not run. The
= Worcester team refused to run without
= the presence of Moynihan on the team.
( and, accordingly, forfeited the race to
e Columbia.
t Team races have always been made
- q feature Of the y. a. a. annual meet
ings, and tonight ehere was the usual
= number. on the whole, they were as
= exciting as ever, although in some
cases one team 50 completely out
D classed the other that il was really
: no race at all The principal race Of
= the evening, in point OF importance as
4 well as in point Of interest. was that
. between the 3. A, A. and the K. A.
= G. Of New York. Earlier In the sea-
5 son the local men We1t to New York
. where, in Madison Garden, they were
trimmed by the New -orkers. Re
S yenge the h. A. A. men sought to-
f night and revenge they secured. For
% two relays st was a case Of nip and
. tuck all the way. The first relay con-
r sistng of Tommy Curtis the Atheuian
q champion and NJ j. Waters of New
4 York, ended with he pole and about
$ three yards lead in favor Of the visit
u ing team. Bannistar, the New Yorker
Y was held by Fenno, bat the old Har-
d ward man could not pass BannisteT,
. Bremen, who ran third on the g. A. A.
team virtually won the race for his
+, team He was pitted against big Hol-
4 lander. but he had the turns down bet
d ter, and when he turned over his re-
@ lay to Dadmun, the Worcester man
H. had six or seven yards 20 the good. The
n race was as good as over Their and
n there, for there is not man living to-
n day-as long as Da1mun mas been or
3 the track THAT can take the pole away
h from him and win out In a 800 yard
relay over "A lap track Dadmun
r. who is always a popular favorite with
n a b. A. A crowd, was cheered to ths
If echo as ne sped around the track OF
e. his first lap, with each stride increas
y ing the lead over the speedy Marvel
- Then ne let up a bit, and was conten
1t TO win by six or seven yards In nj
= the team races DadmGn has run at TIL
q y. A. A. games ne has never beer
Is obliged to run himself out. Being TIL
o fastest man on the team. he is inva
t. rlably placed last. and IL has Away
r. happened that the third man has han
e ded over lead sufficient 70 insure tn
t. race without any sps ,ill exertion.
Is In the New York race Dadmun. a
~ usual. ran fourth, nut there he ha'
l. about twelve yards to make up in hi
@. relay and not being in the best o
n condition and running against Marvel