New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-10
BETTERS HIS OWN MARN
Sheridan Makes a New Worlo
Record in the Discus Throw.

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/ form when he established a new "orlu
record for the throwing Of the discus at the
/ fall members games Of the Ir1sh-AinerI-
/ can Athletic Club. which were held at Gel
( tic Park Yesterday The worlds chan-
pion threw the missile q distance or l4z leel
? inches. which surpassed his old PERFORM
ance bv more than two feet.
/ The four events which comprised the pro-
gramme were the most spirited seen at the
! park in many months. Several OF the
athletes who competed had final tryout
/ before departing for the national champioh-
/ ships at New Orleans on Tuesday. ROBERT
Cloughen, the champion Splinter, gave
/ splendid exhibition when he captured the
/ 229-yard run. He started from scratch, ana
after trailing the prominent field through
out he made his jump fve yards from the
! tape. just noSing out Bert DeWdI.
Cloughen won in the new track time OF
% 3-5 seconds Jimmy Archer the Irish
track captain, was yard behind DeWar.
Dick Egan. the half miller, from scratch,
won the 600-yard run. by making rapid
strides toward the tape in the last fifty
yards. He won by five yards. Henry Hugs
man. the former Corona Lyceun athlete,
won the one and a half mile run from the
seventy-fve-yard allowance MARX by the
meagre margin of a few yards.
Interest. however, centred in the stTng-
Gle between Willie Powers and James Don
nelly. both starting from scratch, for sec
ond position. After a driving finish for
! the last lap. the men speeding along almost
abreast. Powers heaved his chest at the
/ tape to win, amid a tumult Of applause
Paddy Ryan, the heralded champion OF all
ireland. made his first public appearance
in an exhibition with the sixteen-pound
| hammer. Ryan threw the ball from the
| Irish nine-foot circle and surprised the
critics with his performance. He hurled it
! a distance of 165 feet / inches, with appar-
ent little effort. Robert Cioughen, accom-
panied by his father and mother, will leave
| by rail this afternoon to represent the Irish
American Club in the sprint in the senior
championships
| tn summaries follow:
22O-yard run Chandicap)--won by Robert
! Cloughen (scratch): Bert Dewar a yards).
| second: James J. Archer q yards), third
6o0-yard run Chandicap)-won by Robert
Egan (scratch); Edward Gardner go yards),
second; James Riley go yards), third. Time,
| 0ne-and one -half-mile run (handicap)--won
| by II. Huysman 60 YARDS; William Powers
| (scratch). second ]. Donnelly (scratch), third.
! Throwing the discus Gandicap)-won by
/ Martin J Sheridan (scratch), with a throw of
! 49, feet . inches; Tom Ryan GO feet). second,
! with an actual throw OF III feet inches: II.
/ Gear $50 feet), third, with throw of 80 feet
/ 10 inches.
! Alfred Richter. the crack Splinter, was
! the star individual performer at the
monthly games of Loughlin Lyceum, at
Loughlin Oval, Yesterday. Richter toed
| the scratch mark in both the 100 and 800
yard dashes and breasted the tape VIM
ner in clever fashion in fast time. Scratch
athletes were evident in the three races.
| The summaries follow:
1OO-yard dash thardicap)-Won by A. Richter
| fscratch: A. Pinkerton (scratchl, second A.
! Koch tscratchl. third. Time. 0:I0-k-
1,000-yard run (handicap)-Won by ]. YuIe go
YARDS; L. Dietrich % YARDS, second; ". Ban
field I'd 40 yards1 third Tim w. $50 ,,.,+.
I (scratch): A ioch tscratch), second; Louis
/ schloesser Scratch, third. Time. o:35.
The final outdoor games of the Morris
Athletic Association. which were held at
! Macomh's Dam Park yesterday, were en-
livened by many interesting finishes.
! Simon Aggen, the crack sprinter of the
club. won beautiful contest in winning
the 440yard run from scratch. Aggen
was considered to be beaten when turn
ing into the stretch in last position. BY
q determined squirt Aggen jumped and
succeeded in defeating the field by few
yards. His time was So 10 seconds.
Aggen also won the cup awarded to the
points during the season with a total of
| SO. sam Rosenstein was second, with %
points, and K T Eearns third, with Is
! TA winners Of the other events were D.
Levy, in the 100-yard dash; e Newman,
in the one-half-nile run; J. F. O'Connor
in the three-nlile run; D. NJ. Smith, in the
| three-quarter-m mile run; A. Kussel, in the
standing broad jump, and 4. Emdin. in
! the 12-pound shot event.
Several promising runners were uncov-
cred at the last outdoor members games
of the Mott Haven Athletic Club, which
were held at their oval yesterday William
! Peterson furnished a surprise when, with
handicap of 175 yards, he simply romped
away with the two-nlile run. Peterson was
never in danger of being overtaken, win
ming by more than forty yards from Willie
Burke and Dick Devln, who started from
| scratch and finished second and third re-
: Specuvely. His time was 10 minutes I Is
seconds. David Frank, another recruit, ran
| succeeded in outdistarcing George Wilcox,
the scratch, who was second, by inches.
leaped a distance of 10 feet inches in the
running broad jump, winning the event by
three inches.
! The summaries follow:
! Fifty-yard dash (novice)-Won by Alfred
Stearns; Harry Laniers. second; William Barron.
third. Time. o:o6+s
! 3OO-yard run (handicap)-Won by r. c. EiseIe
as yards: Joseph Shessangold d5 yardsl; second;
w Carter rs YARDS. third. Time, O;33 u
Frank 40 YARDS; George wilcox tscratch) sec
I opd; Martin Gamer (25 YARDS, third Time
one-lap sack race-won by j. shessangold: NJ
Gamer. second: Frank FOran, third.
Two-nnile run Chandcap)--won by W. Peter
r. P. Devlin (scratch}. third; Time. 1o:07&
inches: J. Schando rs inchesl. second. with