New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
5THLETIC ST1RS SEI
THREE M4RkS.
Bonhag Runs 4scay so'th fo"F
Nile Race at Irish-Amcr-
ican Games.

,7e distance in S - seconds Neo' &C
bag reduced the four mile notch heai's
seconds and the Irish-Amef1cah 'eai.l .oN
cred the 24ho yards relay in''e' 'oI'a1
Ciorehen and J. J. Archer a's0
the % yard dash record
The four mile race. the last on lile Pio-
s-aa,r7e. attracted twenty odd oiS'diiCe
~o-s 90 v,orc or less prominence 1t
- -, -,,-,ored about that great race
- ..s,,It from the meeting Of Bonnas
- .C,o,I;ne and so ii proved. After 'he
- i1s ,ne others might just as wen
- remained in their dressing rooms ior
All rne Part they played
First. Bonhas and then Collins TonIo 'ahe
,b,. lead Scott. Of Paterson. hung Oh a.
,bsir heels for q time, but the piuchF la'
from New Jersey could not maintain 'he
race
the hrst mile was covered by the TWO
leaders in AS, the second in e-4f ana tlle
third IN 1852 Three laps from -aonle Dol
bag cut loose 8 fearful sprint. hnaiS shcoh
of Collins and raced home, twenty
vsrds IN front. Ee was in good cohol'loI''
Tn. time. 1919 50 IS almost four SECONDS
better than The old record held by himself
John 7 F-ller. Of the home club, estab-
,isrA5 new worlds record in the first
hes: OF the . yards low hurdles when
re c-zered tle distance from scratch in
- ssoon6e This vas one-fifJh Of a sec
,-r6 berter than xhe former mark made b.
: 9. BIsckmer. of Dartmouth, q. YEAR ago
IN his fear Eller forged TO the front at 90
Yards and Won by a comfortable margin
T-I;er had to be content with second place
n the .fnal heat. as ". Bursch, New
Ya-k Athletic Club entrant. with the aid
O, : foot allowance, broke the tape first
in the fast time OF S1-5 seconds As Ener
,vss close up. the champion got inside the
record for the second time
When the half-miIe special was called
& Walther. Z !. Sweeney. 7. Rehey, Matt
Cliee. Melvin Sheppard, r J. Egan, A.
Niviat joe BroH7ilow and A Beck ap-
reared. The last named represented the
University Of Pennsylvania. Sheppards
presence drew forth shouts Of approval
from his followers.
A. the start Gies led for lap. with Esan
second Talther third and Sheppard fourth.
Going into the second lap Bsan raced away
IN The lead, and little later Sheppard
moved into third place. closely followed
l.r Bromilcw. while Gies fell away. At 6a9
Yards Sheppard made his move. and when
the bell rang for the last circuit he VAS
- Ezan's heelf- Half lap from home he
PASSED the former Psstime runner as if he
were = snding still. and Won With one Of
his olddule slrrints by about seven yards.
T1e time of rs 40 was not SO fast as had
heen expected In the absence o. Harry
Gissing the race lost much Of its interest
II lair raising finish that brought the
spectz tors to their feet J. J. Archer Won
the seventy-yar5 special race. In the de-
cisive heat the Irish csptsin had the dis
tinction Of beating the redoUbtable Robert
CloUghen, eQEailins the record Of 10 sec
ouds-
The Irish-Anlerican team won the e,4eo-
.ard handicap relay race in the remark
ably fast time Of minutes 6 ID sec
onds. beating the old record by three-hfths
of second. The New York Athletic Club
iesm. minus Gissng and McEntee, finished
.oconS
The result Of tnis .4n5-yard relay pleased
the I-izh following down to the ground.
W-nen II vas seen that the New York Ath-
ietic Club VAS going TO depend upon Hey
vard Noble, Frick and Haywood, the fol-
lovers Of the winged foot organization ell
tertained scsrt hope Of victory. Gissing
and NcEntee we're greatly missed On the
Irish team rere BromiIow. Schaaf. Rob
Lius ana Kiviat
Each man ran six hundred yards, and
Howard moved along so well in the first
relay that he gave New York . lead Of two
Yards. Hevwerd's opponent was Bronliov.
IN the second part Schaaf held Noble. Of
the New York Athlete Club. but the Irish
club did not show in front until after the
start cf the third relay. when Robbins
managed &C get a four foot advantage over
Frick. In Tho last six hundred yards
Kiviat oVtfoo5ed WaitIler to the tape by a
good two Yards.
The crowd, Of course, vas large As
soon Is the doors were opened the gal
lsry gods" svarrned up the stairs 10 their
accustomed roosts beneath. BY S o'clock
most Of the box and arena seats were oc-
cupied and an hour later it vas esti-
uared that five thousand persons we're on
hand. James L Sullivan, secretary of The
Amateur Athletic Union, acted as referee
srd he was assisted bv formidable corps
Or officials. The programme called for six
teen events.
General disappointment was expressed at
tho failure Of Harry Gissing. the New York
Athletic Club 1icr, 10 put in an appear
ance for the half-mile. glance at the
programme showed that he had not even
entered. although the advance information
which had found its way into print had
tTlsslng as & sure starter in at least Two
races Early in the evening Bernard
Nefers the trainer. explained that Gissinr,
"oNiN4-1 ~ save himself Ter the relay
racc. but he failed to appear for that also.
A questionable decision of the Judges +,
the nrst heat OF the 7o-yard special eljr1i
mated Kerr. When the contestants toed the
scratch Kerr shot away like fash. close
ly attended by Archer and Reed AT the
iape 4 looked as If the worst thar Kerr
could get was q dead heat with Archer
but The officials failed TO see the Canadian
a. al, as Archer was declared the win
her' with Reed second. The time was %
seconds
1nere vas never any doubt about the
outcome Of hte second heat Cloughen lead
ing all the way and winning by q va-d
'om his club mate, Heating. in The record
oIne o. : il seconds. In the final heat
.loughen, Reed, Archer and Heating left
ii.e marx 10 q fine start and at the half
- poht Reed seemed 10 forge ahead
1o~afo the end, however, both Archer
@-o Nloushen squeezed in ahead of the
Ia.l-I d.leI man The Judges said Archer had
btaten C4oughen by inches
-le- " .. sheridan. the all-round cham
s.pu, "oh the 2e-pound stone contest with
- actual put OF % feet inches This is
syU-t thfee feet short Of the record
he summaries follow:
Putting the 2s-pound stone fscratcb,-Vvon
- : sheridan, Irish-American a C. 80
.@et inches; =. Mcdonald Irish A Arnerjcan
N. y.soAo' 81 feet Inches; William Roose
dofh 4. c, third. Is feet 6 inches
4-sefa -sefa relay thandicap)-Won by Irish
iISsh a {. ttesn composed Of J. Brown
~, 4 Schsaf. w Robbins and A Ki,late
~, New York 4. {. ftear3 com posed of
-,.7,sIsAA' 80 j. ) hcErtie, II Haywood apo