Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14

M. j. Sheridan winning with put of q
feet inches, more than a foot beyond
the cid record. McGrath and Mcdonald
were also in the competition and they, too,
were ahead of the record. 1t is not yet
exactly known IL the stone was the full
weight, but there is a queer story going
the rounds about one Of the weighers,
Somebody asked after the competition If
the stone was right when one OF those
entrusted with the job OF Weighing said,
IF it isn't right wen make it right"
Throwing the Javelin was officially added
to the championship programme for the
first time this year, and the throws made
with this rather difficult implement gave
every promise that American athletes
should figure in the front rank in future
Olympic games. At the commencement
of the season the American record was
131 feet, by Platt Adams Of the New York
Athletic club, and made in the Olympic
tryouts at Philadelphia last year. This
stood until the national championships,
when in the junior contest Bradley Gish, a
young Swedish American of the Seattle
Athletic club sent the shaft IA feet inch.
The throw made a new American record.
Next day in the senior contest Gish was
beaten by Ralph Rose with throw of
141 feet, and had not the contestants been
forced to throw against the wind Rose
would surely have beaten the record made
by Gish. In the triple meet at Frisco Ollie
Snedigar of the Olympic club beat Rose
with a throw Of 149 feet, but the javelin
was not correct in shape and weight, so
the mark was refused official recognition.
Only a few days ago Snedigar is reported
to have made 16O feet 1O1k inches with
the javelin at San Francisco, and very
likely the throw was correct. At least
snedigar has the proper style Of throwing
and all he needed was a favorable chance
to do something big.
Rose the Champion.
In the throwing of the discus Rose won
the national championship with throw Of
131 feet, distance which would havs inn
proved by several feet had not the discus
hit the fence in its flight. M j. Sheridan
had matters his own way in the east. At
different times during the year he was
credited with various records, but the
genuine ones will not be known till after
the American Athletic union convention.
In the jumping department there was
nothing new except that A. c. Gilbert, the
Yale pole vaulter. was reported to have
beaten thirteen feet In the pole vault,
though there is a rumor now that 1t was
only an exhibition. but II will not be
known for a couple of days whether or not
II was the real thing The old figures for
the broad and high jumps go over un-
touched till next season. In the latter con-
test Egon Erickson Of the Mott Haven
Athletic club travelled to Seattle for the
national championship. which he won with
the moderate performance OF 5 feet IL
inches. Some time later he was reported
to have jumped feet 4 inches, and that
was the best public performance Of the
season. H. f. Porter OF the Irish-Ameri-
| can Athletic club, the ex-champiOn, beat
! Erickson for the Metropolitan title. d. J.
Ahearne OF the Irish-American Athletic
club made several great attempts at the
running two hops and jump. Two or three
times he got beyond fifty feet, using the
broad takeoff but at the present time
only the record corAmittee can tell which
Of the records will go on the books.
In the matter OF scoring points at an
Amateur Athletic union championship meet
Ralph Rose made a new one this year by
scoring a total OF q points. He secured
firsts IN the sixteen-pound shot, discus
and Javelin and seconds in the fiftx-six-
pound weight and siXteen-pound hammer
The best previous record was 20 points
by the late Lon Myers. but the record has
a Significance because Myers made -four
firsts. feat not so far TO the credit OF
any one man.