New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-19
TRACK HEROES OFF FORM
,vmuic Runners Make Poor
" Showing at Celtic Park.
WHAT'S RUN DISAPP0INTS
adams Boys, Macdonald and
McGrath Score Finely at
Big Track Meet.


o,vr,p,c team members. who exhibited
,,sr prowcss in the annual carnival of
.oorts Of the Eccentric Firemen, Local
Union No. 90. which were held at Celtic
park Long Island City. yesterday. The
rack men were unable to display their
II rpe form. rs the long sea voyage. COM
i blned with lack of practice for several
weeks had put them out Of condition
/ Al appeared heavy and in need Of train
,ns The field men. however. came up
10 expectations. OF the fifteen or more
/ stockholm visitors the list included
| such Olympic performers as Patrick J.
Mcdonald. the Adams brothers, Abel r.
Klvist, Matthew J. McGrath and Harry
Grumpelt. The programme was so long
that the throwing Of the discus event
was postponed until the games of St
Johns Hospital next Sunday on the
same field, owing to darkness. Babe"
Mcdonald, the traffic policeman. who
created a new record at Stockholm at
the Olympic style with the 1e-pound
shot, again showed his form IN hurting
the 12-pound ball a distance Of 81 feet
~ inches. while his left hand scaled ii
for the figures of - feet 10a inches.
the total effort being 80 feet IL. inches.
The Adams brothers. Plat and Ben
who finished first and second, respec-
lively, in the standing high jump in
til a. u, hot
went. Each cleared the bar at a height
Of feet inches. Leo Goehring, OF the
Mohawk Athletic Club. another Olympic
winner, was third, with the height OF
feet inches. Plat would have prob
ably done better had not the ground
been dead from rain.
Matthew J. McGrath, the worlds cham
pion with the hammer, displayed the
best form In many months In the UNI
limited run and follow with the 16-pound
missile the athletaic policeman sent the
ball sailing through the air a distance
Of 100 feet, easily beating the field al
though competing from scratch. Harry
Grumpelt. Of the New York Athletic
Club. another successful Olympic prize
winner, had to contest against severe
handicapping in the running high jump,
hut captured second place. He wriggled
over the bar at a height Of feet
Abel r. Kiviat, the wonderful Irish
American Club miller. who was second in
the sensational 1,50Nmetre race at Stock
holm. ran a disappointing race. lie toed
the scratch mark. with field of fifteen,
and found II impossible to move up among
the leaders. lie finished eighth, moro
than sixty yards behind James b. O'Con-
nor. OF the Morris Athletic Association,
the winner. O'Connor had an advantage
Of 70 yards. and from the outset was
closely pursued by William Anderson, an
unattached runner, who had the same
allowance. O'Connor. Anderson and
lanes Mclaughlin, of Eymard Lyceum,
EEe punched few yards apart at the
had Of the finishing stretch, and IN a
terrific fight to the tape O'COnnor won by
Two yards, with Mclaughlin a yard IN
the rear Of Anderson. Kiviat ploughed
across the finish blowing hard.
Although Alvah r. Meyer. the Olympic
point winner, was unable to show enough
speed to obtain place in his heat Of the
Mme1re dash, he did better in the 200
metre contest. He won second place in
bis heat, but fourth was the best he could
DO In the final struggle, after a pretty
and hard fought race. Jim Rosenberger
also showed the effects of the long jour
ney. when he was shut out in the second
heat of the 400-metre run. Joe Slonim.
the former Buffalo runner, again upset
calculations by winning In close finish
by few feet
John J. DAILY, the favorite Celt steeple-
chaser. and Tom J. Collins, the distance
runner. who competed in the steeplechase
ana 5,0V0-metre run. respectively, found
the allowances allotted too steep to over
come Each finished fourth in their
esents.
The athletes of the Irish-Americsn and
New York Athletic clubs fought out the
mint prize issue throughout the after
noon. The Celtic Park squad took all
three places in the hammer competition,
thereby winning the beautiful prize by q
points TO II.
The summaries follow.
soO.metre run (handicsp)--W by p. J.
Planck, Pastime A. 9. (46 yards): J. Vein
berger Clark House A A. (42 yards). sec
end; ". Boyle Mohawk A. c. CAS- YARDS.
hird Time, :55 As.
l0O-mctre dash (handcap)-won by. b.
Barger Loughlin Lyceum an yards) Il. j.
sehileh. Dominican Lyceum Is ysrds), sec
S Sse; C.; Z. sshedler unattached Is yardsl'
lg59o-metre run (handicap)-Won by ]. F.
XCohnor. Morris A. a. as yards); w. An
%Ssrson, Unattached (65 YARDS, second J.
;Mse!Lssughlin, Eymsrd Lyceum Gio yards)'
AQoOmetre run (steeplechsse; handicap
nVn py John Donnelly. irish American a. g
il4V ysrds) Tom Nelson, Irish American
tar y l00 yards), second; w. GAVIN pnat-
@WO-metre run (handicap)-Won by Ed
nsrd Jordan, Xavier a. a. (12O yardsl; y. +.
ssfosh. unattached (s5 yardsl. second; z; j.
$Ssilehley, New York A. G. (l2O yards)' thlrd.
ilme, 1903 As.
sD0-mstre run (handicap) Won by Joseph
sonln. unattached q YARDS: l.. r. Dor
s.N o' Dominican Lyceum (2S yaraS1 sec
ho W. McCracken, unattached Is yards)
"fo Time. O:22 40.
pemetre run (handicap)--Won by Ed
aoioon, Dominican Lyceum az yards). sec.
end Ben Story, Irish-American a. G. 20
'atos), third. Time. 0:50 As.
WDhs,hslf-mile run (closed 10 mempersl-
won BY p. J. Flanagan. Fred Hussey, sec
q Scott, third. Time. 2:3O.' -.
eighty yard boys race (closed 70 mem
ne Re sons under fourteen yearsl-Wop by w
tsIssssnan; J. ToODey, second; j. hcDonough'
NY. Time, OIL.
Eghty-ysrd girls race (open TO alD-Won
Nellie Donovan; Marie Hamilton, second
p Duny. third. No time taken.
winning high jump (handicapl-Won bS
hnehes). with en- actual jump Of 8 feet =
ischhse; H. J. Grumpclt New York a. Z. "
osSesI with an actual Jump OF y feet sec
"a ~. a. r. Rodriguez. Irish American A. e
in.h..hesD, With an actual jump OF feet ~
Sbnes third
Putting I2.pound shot (Olyinpic style: