The San Francisco call., 1910-05-09
IRISH-AMERICANS
Hold GREAT MEET
Annual Spring Contests of Afh-
IefiC Club Develop Keen
Rivalry
By HERBERT HAUSER


attended the annual spring games of
the Irish-American athletic club yes
terday afternoon at the Presidio ath-
letic grounds and witnessed some in
teresting competition.
The hundred yard dash brought out
large field of entries, but Martin, the
former st. Mary's college runner. was
given too large a handicap and won the
even quite handily. Martin with %
yards handicap also captured the quar-
ter mile event from Gates of the Sacra-
mento athletic club.
w. B. Tean of the San Mateo high
school carried off the honors in the
half mile with Dan Riordan, captain of
the Irish-Americans second.
There were 20 starters in the FIVE
mile handicap. with James Magee as
| the scratch man. but the handicaps
were too heavy for him and c. Lawson
of the same club with three minutes
handicap captured the John Donohoe
| trophy. w. Greer of the Pastime club
was awarded third honors, but his posi-
tion was disputed by one or two other
! runners. The dispute was caused by
inexperienced scorers
Wheaton of st. Marys. who won the
shotput was the only scratch entry IN
the handicap events to win a first place
Dan Buckley of the American
club defeated his teammate and the
present coast champion SO pound weight
thrower, p. Donovan. by one inch.
r. C. starrett of st. Marys college
captured the running broad jump with
leap of p feet Y inches
St Joseph's school won the Catholic
| school relay by defeating st. Peters by
three yards
The steeplechase was an easy event
for Billy Garvin of the Olympic club.
The open relay race was won by the
Irish-American team. Cope, Smith,
Bennett and Martin running.
After the track events were COM
pleted an exhibition game of Gaelic
football was played between the Par
. nelIs and the Erin's Hopes.
The athletic events resulted as fol-
lows:
100 yard dash-First heat: Won by l. Martin.
l. n. y. c.. yards; second r. C. Smith
L. L. s, yards; time. 10 10. Second heat
Won by r. c. Starrett. st. NJ. c.: second. ]. s.
Doig. P a. c.; time. 10 2-5. Third heat-Won
by $. Searle Acme A. c., yards; second. Of
son. unattached; time. 10 %. Final heat-won
by f. Martin, I. A. A. C., yards; second, R. c.
Smith, l. A. c., yards; third R. c. Starrett,
l. \. A. c., scratch; time. 10 Is.
40 yard dash-Won by f. Martin. 1. A. A c.
% yards; second. \. l. Gates, Sacramento A. C..
scratch; third, NJ. Joy, l. A. A c., scratch;
time. :j1.
$50 yard run-Won by W. B. TealI, s. NJ H.
s., 10 yards; second, d. Riordan. l. A. A. c..
80 yards; third, j. Ferguson, unattached, 50
yards time, 200 %.
Five mile run-Won by C. Lawson, l. A A.
c., minutes; second. E George, I. A A c.,
21a yards; third ". Greer. P. A. c.. 1 minute;
time. % 40 10.
Catholic schools relay-Won by st. Joseph's;
second, st. Peters; time. 1:56. Winning team
Mcguire, Donovan. Collins and WEIGH
Open relay race-Won by Irish-American ath-
letic club; second, Acme athletic club; third,
Pastime athletic club; time, 3:O6 %.
One mile steeplechase-Won by William Gar
vim, o. A. c.; second, L. ]. Carroll P. A. c.;
third, D. Rordan, l. A A. c.; time. sos.
Sixteen pound shOput-won by t. B. Wheaton,
st. NJ. c.: second. Z. Donovan, l. A. A. c.. 1
foot; third, NJ Hurst, z. A. c.. feet; dis
tance. IS feet inches
Fifty-sx pound weight-Wou by d. Buckley
L. A. A c.. , feet: second 2. Donovan l. a.
A. G.. scratch; distance. "a feet
Running broad jump-WOn by f. c. Starrett
St. NJ G., inches; second, r. L. Hupp, unat-
tached; | foot; third, d. O'Neil. I. A. A. c.,
feet; distance, 21 feet 81 inches.
Ofhcials-Referee and starter. William Nina
han; timers-Herbert Hauser, Walter Christie;
ludges-T- r.. o'Dowd. Thomas McNaboe, j.
Bowling, D. Mcmahon; scorers-T Lowe. ri
Doyle. J. Murphy, W. G. Judge p. Scanlon Nick
Barron, J. c. Quinlan. j. Callaghan; clerk of
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