The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-20
NATIONAL A.A.U. !.
CHAMP ONSH|Pt
Many Olympic Champion
Take Part-IriSh- Ameri-
can A. c. the Winner.

Traverse Island. n. Y. Sept rs-TI
national senior track and field champic
ships of the Amateur Athletic unit
decided today on the famous oval D. Il
New York Athletic club. As usual thel
was a fight for supremacy in point
honors between the Irish-ArNerican Att
ietic club ard the New YoNk Athlet
club. Many of the recent Olympic con
petitors took part IN the contests. whic
We're of interest and the Irish-America
Athletic club won the honors with
points. the New York A. c. being secon
with y and the Chicago Athletic assOcis
ton third with 16. The other points Wer
distributed as follows:
Point Winners.
Olympic \. g.. San Francisco. 5; Mon
treal Athletic association. o; Boston A A
Z, Gurley \. A. Washington. ID. G.
Pastime A. c., New York. J. and tire
points went to athl5tes who were not en-
tered from any particular club. The five
mile run was won by Fred Belalrs of tn
New York \. c: j. J. Lee New Yorl
A g. was second fifty yards away an
he was two feet ahead of John J. DAILY
lrish-AmeriCan A. c.. who finished third
A scene Of great disorder followed ia,
second running of the one-mile race Tn
first time the race was won by IL. l.
Trube Of the New York A. c.. after Z;
false signal announcing the last lap had
Trube was well in the lead at the end
both laps. the race was ordered re-run
y similar blunder marred the second run
ming Of the race, which Trube again won
after Cohen had stopped at the false sig
nal The race was then ordered post
poncd until Wednesday night, and this de
cisiOn was followed by boots from the
crowd and hundreds of spectators rushed
onto the track 10 protest.
Summaries.
Running broad jump-won by Platt
Adams. n Y A G. distance q feet {
inches; second. A c. Northbridge. Ia
A. g.. p feet inches; third. c. A King
Gurley a. G, Washington, ID. c, 70 feet
6l2 inches.
Throwing the Discussion by NJ F.
Horn la. A. c.. with 1872 feet inches !;
Ralph Rose Olympic A G. San Francis
60. second. with 127 feet p inch: Lee Tai
bot. Ia. a. c., third. with 10 feet 111
inches.
lOO-yard run-First heat won by ". F.
Hanrt:con. Chicago A A: T. II. Stinson.
Montreal A. G.. second. j. NJ. Rosenberg
er. IA A c., third. Time. 10 1-5. Sec
ond heat won by W. F. Heating, Ia. A.
c; r. c. Taylor. Chicago \. A. second !;
c. j. Fl. Seitz. n. Y A. c., third. Time.
SS0-yard run-Won by NJ. w. Shepard.
LA. A. c.: Harry Gissing. unattached,
second; J. NJ. Brownlow, la. A. c.,
l0O-yard final heat-won by ". F..
Hamilton. W. F. Heating second, T. II.
Stinson third. Time 10 Is seconds.
120-yard hurdles-Won by A. Il. SHAW.
Chicago A A: j. 3. Eller. la. a. C.
second; G. W. Walter. n. Y. A. C. third.
Time. Il Is seconds.
Putting 16-pound shot-Won by Ralph
Rose. Olympic A. c. distance 40 feet z
inch: II. B. Hill. BrOokline gymnastic
team. second. distance A feet II inches;
NJ. F. Horn, la. A. c.. third, distance
~ feet So inches.
440-yard run-Won by Harry HiIlman,
n Y. A. c.; c. Cassasa. Ia. A. C.. sec
ond; j. j. McEntee. n. Y. A. C., and
for third. Time 10 3-5 seconds
Running high jump-WOn by III. F. Her
ton, Ia. A. c, distance feet 11i4 inches;
II. A. Grumfell, y. Y. A. C.. second; II. A
Didney. Boston A A. third
Pole vault-WOn by W. Hapenny, Mon
Claud Allen. la. A c.. second; J. l.
Barrett, n. Y. A. c. third.
Throwing 16-pOund hammer-Won by
NJ. j. McGrath. New York A c. distance
l73 feet: Lee Talbot IA A. c. second.
distance l69 feet 6Iz inches; J. J. Flana-
gan. Ia. A C, third, distance 16S feet
524 inches.
IA A c.: a. B. Show. Chicago A. A.
second; Harry L. Hilman, \. Y. A. c.,
third. Time. "a As seconds.
220-yard run, final heat-Won by w. +.
Heating; w. F. Hamilton second: r.
Cloughen, Ia A. c.. third Time. p 2-5
seconds.
Throwing 56-pound weight-won n ].
liz inches; second, NJ. J. McGrath. N Y.
A. c., distance "a feet 3l2 inches; third.
Lee Talbot IA. A. c.. distance 81 feet
~ inches.