Evening star., 1901-02-05
SPORTS IN MGENERAL
Champion Duffy Defeated by Delgado
in go Yards Dash.
TOOK RECORD aarlEf TO DO IT
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National League Will Consider
Players Latest Propositions.
TOM OBJ RIEN DEAD
OoK RECORD o,qIEs TO Do IT
TOM OBJ RIEN DEA:

Washington Delgado, tall, rangy ath-
lete of the Brooklyn Young Mems Christian
Association, 1.-THE as a greyhound and
swarthy as a Spaniard, defeated Arthur
Duffy Of Georgetown, the champion sprin-
ter of two continents, at the games of the
Knickerbocker Athletic Club in Madison
Square Garden, New York, last night.
The race in which the Georgetown sprin-
ter met his Waterloo was a sixty-yard dash
across the board floor Of the garden. 1t
| was special race. and he had come up
from his southern home to win it.
Ranged on the starting line by his side
were six other runners known to possess
great speed on a board floor. Arthur Kent
of the Pastime Athletic Club was the man
| picked out by the athletic sharps to finish
| second to Duffy, but Delgado upset all CAL
| culationS.
When the pistol cracked Duffy and Kent
l. were off like team Delgado about foot
behind. They raced in this position. leav-
| ing the other starters further behind at
| every jump until they had covered thirty
| yards. - -
| Then the long legs and space-devouring
| stride of Delgado began to be felt, and at
| fifty yards he had passed both his rivals
| and was still gaining. When he broke the
| tape yard separated him from Duffy, who
| was foot in front Of Kent. They finished
| in that order, much to the surprise of most
| of the spectators, and greatly to the disgust
| of Duffy, who thought the race was easy
| for him. The time. q 2-5. is the record.
The meeting the third annual winter
| athletic carnival of the Knickerbocker Ath-
letic Club, and brought together the fastest
| runners at all distances and the best jump
| ers in the country.
Alexander Grant represented the Uniyers-
| ity of Pennsylvania, and after a desperate
| struggle with a field Of sixteen won the
ha..-mile race from scratch. But Grant
was not the only, college boy that won ap-
| plause from the hundreds Of pretty women
who occupied the boxes at the show
There was an Intercollegiate team relay
! race in which twelve collegians took part
| Cornell, Columbia and the College of the
| City OF New York each sent four of their
! speediest men to capture this highly priced
| trophy. Cornell, as is usually the case in
| college relay races. galioped off with it
| wi,nout trouble. Each Of her men outran
| the other representatives. Columbia was
! poor second and the College of the City of
A>eW York bad third.
Tom O'Brien Dies In Arizona.
No player on the Pittsburg nine at the
close Of last season seemed in better con-
| dtion physically than Tom" O'Brien, the
first baseman. He tdied:yesterday in Ari-
zona from pneumonia, preceded by a seri-
Gus lung trouble. s.-
His first illness was ascribed by him to
the fact that he drank copiously of sea
water just at the beginning of a trip to
Cuba that he had made with other ball
players last fall. He was told that drink
ing sea water would render him impervious
to Seasickness. 3D.
When he arrived in Havana he was in
wretched condition. He could not play and
finally returned to the United States He
had lost forty pounds on the journey, and
symptoms of lung disease becoming mani
fest he was advised to goto Arizona.
In the season of 1899 O Brien was q men,
Der of the New York nine, playing left field
admirably. Pittsburz loaned him for that
summer O'Brien was noted for wonder
ful catch of a fly bail IN 1895, when play
ing for visiting club. inuthe right field
bleachers on the Polo ground. He leaped
into the air and. Notwithstanding the fact
that he collided with the stand badly
enough to render him quite unconscious.
held the bali New York tried to secure
him from Pittsburg last year, but with no
success.