Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-27
ADJUSTMENTS
ATHLETICS
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August Bleach party for benefit
of Wildwood and Holly Beach life
guards at Andrew avenue and board
walk.
September 2-Concert at Wildwood
Ocean Pier at $50 D.. m. Benefit of
Hollywood NJ. f. church.
September 6-Feast of Lanterns on
the boardwalk.
September 6-Auto and motor cycle
races on North Wildwood speed way.
Sacred concert every Sunday night
at Wild wood Ocean Pier.
Sacred concert every Sunday night
on the boardwalk at the bandstand.
Skating every Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoon and evening. Music by
Troilo's band. Wildwood Ocean Pier.
Euchre every Wednesday afternoon
at Wildwoo Yacht club and dance
every Thursday evening.
Sacred concert every Sunday night
at Crest Pier.
Dancing every night the at ocean
pier. Good music.
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The Holly Beach Yacht club will
hold races and a clam bake tomorrow
at the club house at Wildwood Crest.
ATHLETIC MEET
High class competition marked the
athletic meet held last Saturday morn
ing over the course at the Holly Beach
Yacht Club at Wildwood Crest under
the auspices of the Five Mile Beach
Marathon Association. Quality count
ed for more than numbers and the car
nival brought many of the best college
and high school athletes into compe-
tition. The affair drew large crowds
of spectators who thronged the club
house and porches of all nearby cot
tages where q good view of the events
could be had besides lining up and
down the course. A most exciting fin
ish ended the n mile race. Bird, the
Camden Commercial College man, wss
entered and set a fast pace, closely fol-
lowed by BRAKEMAN, of the University
of Pennsylvania. Howard Kirk, of
the Germantown Boys Club, was next
in line but showed wonderful speed in
the last lap and managed to edge his
way to thefronts He broke the tape
d MnnefS6ya few yards after a sprint
to the finish with Bird, the man who
won from Gallagher in a similar event
at Atlantic City. Fast time was made
in all the sprints in which were entered
many stars from the University OF
Pennsylvania, Central Y. M. G. A.,
Aquinas Club and Brown Preparatory
School. Following are the events
100 Yard Dash-First, Fawley, Central Y. NJ.
c. A.; Second, McFarland, Aqulnas I. -;
third, BOYLE, unattached. Time, 10 70 seconds.
20 YARD Dash-Fdrst. Boyle q a pn n: thiTa'
Mcfarland, Aquinas G G. Time, ~ 70 sec
onds. ca...,
Y, M. o.. A; second, b. Bowley, DUMAS A.
c.; third, A. Nash, Camden Y. M. A. Time'
81 35 seconds. -
mantown Boys Club; second, Bird, Camden
Commercial; third, BRAKEMAN, University OF
Pennsylvania. Time, A minutes, 30 seconds.
Standing Broad J~ump-First, Stegman, Cen
trail Y. M. C. a.; second, Furlong, Chester
Y. M. G. A.; third, Mcfarland, Acquinas
&C. Winners jump, 9 feet 10 inches
Running Broad Hess, unlVer-
sity of Pennsylvania, distance, lS feet inches;
second, Furlong, Chester Y: M. G; A., and
Stegman, Central Y. M. &. A., tled, IL Ieet
inches. Furlong won jump of:
Running High Jump-First, H. Yale Steg-
man, C.. Y. NJ. C. A., 5 feet; second, Il. Hess,
third, Haas, Friends Central school.
Ten-Mile Marathon S~pecial-F1rst, Johnny
Gallagher, Brown preparatory, 90 mlnases :
o~-- 10. uannnd Mal1nn. Germantown BOYs
Club, SO minutes, 81 seconds; thlrd, GarVln,
Ascension q. G.; Fourth, Tasler, Baron de
Hirsch School, Woodplne'
The officials of the meet were mostly
Philadelphians. j. O'Donnell was ref
cree. Aquinas, q. c.; u. g. Bayless,
w. Frledgen, Philadelphia
Turngemeinde; ]. B. Meyer, Prof. ] IT.
Coleman, P. r. r. Y. NJ. G. A, judges.
F. w. Bauer, of the University of
Pennsylvania, was starter.
Handsome medals were awarded the
winners in each event. In the Mara
thop race, gold, silver, and two bronze
medals were given; in the other events,
a silver and a bronze medal were Won
bv the first and second. After the
races refreshments were served at
the club house. In the evening a
dance was given at the Yacht Club
from $50 to II o'clock, IN honor of the
contestants, which was thoroughly en-
joyed by all at which time the prizes
were awarded the winners of the day.
Special features of the evening were
prize and block waltzes for which
prizes were offered. Judges for the
block waltz were H. G. Koeneke and
d. g. Bayless and the winners were
H. H. Smedley and lady, the prizes
being a hand painted dish and a neck
tie box. Judges in the prize waltz
were Mrs. H. C. Koeneke, Mrs. D. @.