Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-15

New York, June 15.-Particulars of the Irish championship meeting, at which F. O'Connor of Waterford broke the worlds record for the running broad jump, have just reached this city. The conditions that prevailed render O'Connor's performance of twenty -four feet nine inches even more wonderful than it would appear from the cable despatches. The meeting was held at Balls bridge grounds, Dublin. on May 27 and rain fell heavily during the day. The track. was so wet that the bicycle handicaps had to be aban- doned, and in the other events on the program the times attested to thesu un- favorable state of the ground.
 The rain was failing at the time O'Connor was jumping, but in spite of this the phenomenal character of his work wasimaintained throughout 9his rivals, every one of which resulted in less than twenty three feet. This was his warming up one, i'll which he clear ed twenty two feet ten inches. On his second trial the Waterford man negQ- tinted, twenty three feet eleven inches and got over twenty-four feet on the third with twenty-four feer five inches This was British record, and it was on the next attempt that D'Connor cleared twenty-four feet nine inches and put Prinstein's figures of twenty four feet seven and one-half inches in the shade. He nerved himself for a still greater Affort onl the fftho, trial, but baked and nan over the take70ff. This ratt1ed him lighflp but hedinished up with twentyfhraeuf ufeeti eight tdandg one half inches. According to the reports there was no wind behind O'Connor and. as the ground has been leveled since the record jump made by John Purcell some years ago was rejected, 1t is probable that the record will be ac- cepted.
 F. J. Leahy of Charleville was sec ond to O'Connor. in the broad jump with twenty-three feet two inches. The pair also took the honors in the high jump, O,Connor winning with five feet nine and oneThalf inches while Leahy cleared half an inch less. I ts 5 The games were remarkable for the downfall of previous champions, only two holders maintaining their supre- macy. These were D. Carey, the Dublin policeman, who with the 120-yard hur- dle race for the fourth year in sue cession in sixteen and three-fifths sec onds, and the ever green T. F. Kiely of Carrick- -on-Suir who won the hammer throw with 15O feet three one-half in ches. J. E. Finnegan of Dublin de- feated J. J. Mckenzie, the holder of the half-mi1e title. in two minutes five and two-fifth seconds, but Finnegan, who won the mile last year, was beaten in turn by J. E. Deakin of the Rifle Bri- gade, in four minutes thirty-three sec onds. Deakin also won the four miles easily and is described as one of the best runners seen in Ireland in recent years.
 Dennis Morgan, eight times vic tor in the shot-putting contest, joined the professional ranks after his return from the United States last fall. His successor proved to be J. Galavan of New Ross, whose winning put was the moderate one of forty feet two inches. D. Murray of Dublin, who flashed into prominence this spring by defeating R. w Wadsley, the former English champion, and A. B. Hind, the Cam bridge crack, won the 100 and 220 yards easily in ten and one-half seconds and 231 seconds respectively. Tn the 100 Murray beat the holder, G. F. Cutts of York's Light Infantry by two yards. J. II. O'Neill of 1urgan won singing the 56-pound weight with twenty eight feet eight inches