The Washington times., 1905-09-05


pet yesterday at Benning in the annual
athletic games incident to the Labor
Day celebration. and 1t was all wit
messed by large crowd.
The festivities began carly in the day
with field and track games and a base
oaH game in which the Aloysius club
OF the Capital City League defeated the
Navy by / TO 3 After this there
were various field and track sports.
The earlier events were published in
The Times yesterday afternoon. c. NJ.
Ashton and Z. ]. Briggs had bee doing
some practicing on the side and won the
thrce-leggcd race, with e Sutton and
H. Maple second.
Olsie Mclie Won the egg race for girls.
, with Florence Cadick second The eggs
had to be picked UP and carried with
spoon. and several Of the contestants
disqualified themselves in their excite
ment by using their hands
Brown the Winner
The star features were bicycle race
for policemen and the motor and auto
races. Perhaps the most interesting of
these was the race for the cops. All
of the starters were we'll known and
each had d large following This, and
the fact that the event was closely con-
tested, aroused much enthusiasm. A L.
Brown was first. and pulled down a
handsome cup. His victory was deserved
for he won on sheer grit from Sergeant
Bode, who set a terrific pace In the
heavy going. Bode had Brown beat up
to the last 200 yards. when the winner
came on with squirt which had been
delayed too long and just managed to
get there first. A G. Lynn was third In
the final and was pushing the two
men ahead hard. when the pistol sound
ed. Major Sylvester who was referee
speech. complimenting the men upon
their pluck.
The rain of the morning had made the
track slow for cyclists and motorcycles.
Sand in some places made good time i'm
possible, and for that reason the final
heat of the policer ace, which was to
nave been a mile. was cut down to half
mile. For the same reason Scott
Hamel refused to race DR.. Kiobdanz
more than one heat when he pitted his
motorcycle against the doctors auto
mobile Hamel won by a few inches by
a desperate squirt, after allowing the
doctor TO pace him fast mile. At one
place the sand was so deep that Hamel
nearly lost control of his machine while
going OF such fast clip. but recovered
In time
Last Was Best.
Among the automobile races the last.
carded as Il free-for-all was best 1t
went five miles and the distance was
negotiated in 9:47. The best mile was
done in 1:54. while the others were COW
cred in 1:56 and Whereabouts. Howard
Rhine was given permission by Referee
Sylvester to start and won handfly J.
l.. De Neale vas second, furIong be-
hind.
Rhine was also the winner of the
first race. leading c. L. Miller by nearly
a quarter OF a mile. ]. Il. Martin was
third The second race was for the same
machines at five miles and agein Rhine
was a winner, but Miller had troubles
In the third mile and Martin got second
place
Spectacular Race.
The third race was at five miles and
was the most spectacular, but 1t could
hardly have been called a race as all
Of the drivers were using the same
make of machine and seemed bent upon
furnishing excitement by a close finish
In this they succeeded. for the finish. !
in which ]. S. Boyd slipped up from the
rear and beat F. s. Blivin by a length, |
was well worth seeing. Fred Hart was
a good third
There was another stirring finish
along the same lines in the fourth race
in which Their were four steam>S1achines
OF the same make. r. French was only |
a length in front of F. s. CahilI. with |
Mr.. Engle third, and B. F. Anderson |
fourth.
Officials Congratulated.
Pat Throop was first in of the four
starters in the motorcycle race. with