Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-28
IN The WORLD OF SPORT
Opening Of Y, NJ, q, A, Park Takes Place
Next Saturday.
BIG LIST OF ENTRIES COMING IN
The Athletic Carnival In Expected to
Draw Together the Largest crowd
Ever Seen Mt similar
Event I'm Omaha.

June 9 has been advertised aplenty during
the past few weeks and as consequence
there should be but few people in the city
who do not know that next Saturday Is the
date upon which the Young Mems Christian
association will dedicate its new Ames ave-
nue. athletic field with big amateur athletic
carnival. This coming affair will be unques-
tionably the biggest thing of the kind that
has ever been held in the city. This is indl-
Gated BY the large number of applications
that have been made for entry blanks. Just
what the number OF entries will be 1t is not
possible to cay, as they do not close until
next Thursday evening, but goodly number
OF local athletes have already filed entries
AS has before been stated, institutions Of
learning in the vicinity of Omaha have prom
ised to be liberal in the way OF entries and
in this connection Athletic Director Barnes
did come good missionary work yesterday.
He was one OF the officials at the state inter
collegiate track meet at Crete, where the
representatives OF Nebraskas bigger schools
net In competition, and made very pointed
suggestions to the effect that these same
schools should be represented at next Satur-
days meet in this city. The idea was quite
acceptably received and Is expected to bear
fruit.
Assurances have been given that the meet
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that similar affairs are in the east. The
officials OF the association have been in
formed that half dozen parties OF society
folks are being gotten up for the days sport
and II is also likely that the spectators will
be regaled with an exhibition Of some of the
swell rigs of the city The association con-
fdently counts upon the BIGGEST attendance
that has ever turned out to an athletic car
nival in the history of the city.
During the last week the following off,
cals for the meet were selected
Bicycle Events-Referee J. L. Livesey;
clerk of the course, E. b. Henderson; scorer,
A. l.. Angel; starter, Joe Polcar; judges, D.
j. o'Brien, Harry K Smith, Fred Inches, A.
G. Jones; timers, H. K. Wykert, Fred L.
Willis, G. e. Howe, NJ. ]. Patterson.
Athletic Events-Referee, f. B. Barnes;
starter Joe Polcar; timers, II. r. Wykert,
Fred l.. Willis, G. e. Howe, NJ. ]. Patterson;
judges, Frank Crawford w. H. Overton, S.
G. V. Griswold, Prof. Retzer; clerk of the
course, Nathan Bernstein; announcer, f. l..
Willis.
The grounds are being fast put into proper
condition. The track has been completed all
except the rolling, which has been somewhat
delayed on account of the rainy weather,
but 1t will be in first class shape before Sat-
urday. The diamond, the tennis courts and
all the other features of the field with the
exception of the natatorium will also be
finished.
The dual meet between the Omaha High
school boys and the athletic representatives
OF the Council Bluffs High school has been
practically arranged. 1t is to take place at
the Young Mems Christian association park
week from next Saturday The boys Of
both schools are practicng hard for the
event This meet Is likely to be the first of
the series that will be held for an indefinite
number. of years in the future Foot ball
games between the two institutions have al
ready become an annual fixture and 1t is
hoped that the schools will see their way
clear toward commencing series of annual
base bali games next spring.
The Nebraska School for the Deaf and
Dumb will hold it's annual field meet on the
school campus on Decoration day. The list
of events is as follows: One hundred yard
DASH fifty yard dash. 200-yard obstacle race,
potato race for girls, archery contest, nall
driving contest for girls, spoon and egg race
for girls, silt race, tumber race, shoe race,
ball throwing contest for girls, tug -of-war,
fifty-yard backward race for girls, throwing
the hammer, hop, skip and jump, pud-
ding eating race, sack race, quarter of a
mile running race, slow fifty-yard bicycle
race, half mile handicap running race ten
mis- match.
International collegiate contests seem to
be all the rage. About week ago Oxford
and Cambridge universities issued a chal-
lenge to Yale and Harvard for an athletic
contest to take place in London during the
latter part Of June. The program is to
consist of the following events: One hun
dred-yard dash, 120-yard hurdle, quarter
mile run, half-mile run, mile run, three
mile rum hammer throwing, high jump and
long jump. Yale has accepted this chal-
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