Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-03
THREE RECORDS GO BY BOARD
Amateur Athletic Union Meet at
Pittsburg Highly Successful.
SHEPPARD WINS FAST HALF.MIE
Athletic Club of New
York wins by Large Score
queer situation In Hish
Jump.


day In the second and final days meet
Of the Amateur Athletic unions champion
ship games at Forbes field This fact.
taken with the showing made yesterday
by the junior athletes, made the meeting
one OF the most successful in the history
II the Amateur Athletic union. The Irish
Amer can Athletic club won easily, as was
expected
The records broken were in the sso-yard
run, the mile run and the javelin throw.
The previous record for the 22O-yard hur-
dies was equaled by the man who made It.
From every angle the contests were ex-
ceptionally good. 1t Is est mated that 5000
spectators crowded into the stadium to
witness the events. Counting the attend
anee yesterday. more than 5000 persons
saw the meet
Weather conditions were IDEAL Towards
the close of the day the intense heat af-
fected many Of the men, but the competi-
tors and their trainers successfully guarded
against prostrations
Two of the records broken went to New
York men, members Of the Irish-American
Athletic club. The third went to a mem
Der Of the Olympic club OF San Francisco.
Eller Of the Irish-American Athletic club
record in the 22O-yard hurdle.
sheppard Breaks Record in Half.
In the sSO-yard run, NJ w Sheppard.
Irish-Amerlcan Athletic club made the fast
time of 1:54b, beating the previous Amer
lean record by Just one second. In the
mile run. "A. r Kiviat, 1r.sh-American
Athletic club, took the race in 4;1sx the
former American record being 4:22.s
o. r. Snedigar of the Olympic club, San
Francisco, hurled the javelin 1856 p feet,
breaking the American record. The prevl-
GUS mark made by Brodd Ir' sh-American
club, last year at New Orleans, was 1853
feet.
As In the junior contests, the five-mile
run was to the fore In interest. c. "
Bonhag Irish-American Athlete club, took
the lead and held IT until the end. Bonhag
had the satisfaction Of badly beating w
j. Kramer of the Long Island Athletic
club, who last year took away his laur els
Kramer fell into fourth position in the sec
ond lap. Gradually he worked into third
With L. Scott. South Patterson Athletic
club second.
After several miles Scott was compelled
to drop out, putting Kramer second. Bon
nag slowly pulled away from the cham
pion. Close to the fourth mile Bonhag's
pace became too much for Kramer and he
slowed down. P. Laruna, Quines Cycle
club OF Philadelphia, and e. F. Fitzgerald,
New York Athletic club. passing him. An
other lap found Kramer out OF the race
Bonhag won the race easily in 25:5Oh, with
Laruna second and Fitzgerald third
In the pole vault three men. r. T. Cooke,
1r.. Cleveland Athletic club; H CoyIe,
Chicago university. and s. Bellah Olympic
club, San Francisco, cleared the mark at
IL feet inches. The bar was then raised
to thirteen feet. Time after time they
failed and when the bar was dropped to
twelve feet eleven inches. they again were
unable to clear 1t. The men then tried
for position. They tied with p feet inches
and could not break IT. Finally the matter
was decided by draw, Cooke first, Coyle !
second, Bellah third
Unusual situation Arises.
A peculiar incident occurred in the run !
ming high jump. H. Grumpelt New York !
Athletic club, was first with feet 8 inches. |
Harry F, Porter. Irish-American, second. |
feet inch, and II. ]. Burdick, Pittsburg |
Athletic association, third with 6 feet 3 |
inches.
Grumpelt and Porter had tied for first |
place with Feet inches. In the jump |
off Grumpelt again made this height, but |
the best Porter could do was feet inch. |
putting him in second place.
Now came a situation that was unusual |
Four men had tied with feet inch and |
to decide third position jumped again At
this juncture Burdick of Pittsburg cleared
the bar at feet inches, equalling the |
first man and beating the second, but
d.. kl,g~
Previous to the beginning of the contests
Today, Governor John X. Tener Of Penn
sylvania. together with several hundred
representative Pittsburgers held recep- |
ton at the Pittsburg Athletic club and |
met the Amateur-Athletic union officials.
well known athletic trainers and the COM |
petitors The party was late in getting to
Forbes field and the games were delayed.
The points scored by clubs are: