Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-29

athletes visited England, but none did
anything worthy of note except w. Byrd
Page, University of Pennsylvania and the
Manhattan Athletic club He left home
with a sprained foot. which kept him
out of competition for many days after
his arrival in England, but once at work
he made clean sweep of the high
jumpers and established worlds record.
Two Teams in 1888
| In the summer of 1888 Great Britain
was visited by two armies of American
athletes. The Manhattan Athletic club
sent H. NJ Banks, T. p. Coneff, c. w.
" Clark and F. westing, while the New
York Athletic club squad included e. G..
Carter, w. G. Dohm, G. r. Gray, A. A.
Jordan. w. E. Koos, c. M Smith and
w. C. White. Banks, White and Koos
did nothing worthy of mention. Smith
won twice, a running high jump and a
half-mile run. Dohm was quite success
full in the quarter and half-mile runs
Jordan won four firsts including the
championship and the international race
at Dublin. Gray was an easy first in
every Shot-putting contest he could find,
winning the international championships
and beating the worlds record five times
in one afternoon. Clark and Coneff were
also big winners, but as their birthplace
was under the English flag their per-
to America.
Again in 1891 the Manhattan Athletic
club sent team to England and France.
OF this party A. B. George and w. t.
Young were Englishmen, and their per-
formances cannot be credited to America.
H. L. Dadman, e. d. Lang. c. L. Nicol,
j. S. Roddy e. L. Sarre and E. Van
Schaick did nothing worth mentioning.
NJ. w. Ford tied for the English cham
pionship long jump and won several
events C. A. j. Queckberner won sew
eral competitions and made new British
records for the 56-pound weight ham
mer. II. L. Hallock won several high
| jump competitions. L. III. Clark took
! few sprint races and NJ. Remington was
big winner, taking dozen events, all
in record time. In Paris, at the inter-
national meeting, Victor Mapes of Col
umbia university won the long jump,
while the Manhattan Athletic club team
took every other first prize.
| A team of Yale athletes crossed the
| Atlantic in 1894 and competed against
oxford university They lost the contest
by the score of 51s to 31a. The training
and management Of the Yale teams were
severely criticised. and were undoubtedly
responsible for the failure.
| During the winter of 1S94.1S95 arrange.
ments were made for a match between
the London A. c. and the New York A.
| c. Each club was allowed to strengthen
ij team by additional membership for
this match, thus making the affair con-
test between the best English and Ameri-
can amateur athletes.
| The result was most extraordinary.
| The teams were fairly representative of
the athletic strength of either country and
seemed likely to male good fight, but
the New York A. G. won every event.
And still more wonderful i the fact that
o Of all nf New York q
eleven winners had been disregarded, and
the score made up as if they had not
been present, America would have still
won the match by a score of 6 to o. The
New York A. G. team was composed OF
B. J. Wefers, ]. v. Crum, 7. p. Burke.
G. NJ. Sands, c. Fl. Fitzpatrick, II. s.
LYONS. T. P. Coneff, G. w. Orton. s.
Chase, M F. Sweeney, Il. B. Bloss, L. p,
Sheldon, g. R. Gray, w. o. Hickok. ]. S.
Mitchell and H. p. Cross. These men
were all prize winners.
This meet was not an American in
vasion of English territory, but the out
come gives a good line on the relative
merit of the English and American anna
teur athlete.
Clean Sweep at Athens
In April. 1896, several American ath-
letes competed in the revived Olympian
games at Athens, Greece. This delega-
ton included no amateur champion and
only one record holder. but they proved
so much better than their opponents they
won almost every event entered. r. p.
burke won the 100 meters and the 400
meters, with II. B. Jamfson second. Cur
til won the 110-meter hurdle race. while
II B. Clarke took the running high jump,
r. Garrett second. Clark. Garrett and
Connolly took the first three places in
the broad jump. w. w. Hoyt won the
pole vault and Connolly the hop. step and
Jump, and Garrett took the discus throw
and the shot put. The revolver and rife
shooting contests went to the two sons
of Gen. Payne, the renowned yachtsman
After long negotiations match was
arranged in 1s99-Oxford and Cambridge
against Yale and Harvard. The English
came off victorious in this match, win
ming by a score of to 4. Americas de-
feat being due to the III health Of T. p.
Burke. who, it was conceded, would win
tho half mile, but finished last instead OF
first.
In the international games in Paris in