New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-02
WESTERN ATHLETES SHINE
Craig and HORNE Show Wonder.
full Form at Travers Island.
BOTH THREATEN RECORDS
Winged Foot Team Establishes
New Worlds Figures in Re.
lay Race at One Mile.

the coming Olympiad at Stockholm. thu
holder of the American intercollegiate rec
ord Of as seconds for the loo-yard dash.
gave one Of the most renarka bic exhibi
tons Of sprinting ever seen in this city IN
the annual spring games Of the New York
Athletic Club at Travers Island Yesterday
afternoon
Craig ran the 100 yards I'm his heat in
As seconds. which not alone equalled his
record az college athlete IN the intercoi-
legiate championships last year. but was
the fastest 100 yards ever over thu
Travers Island track, and IL New York
since the days OF Arthur Duffy. years ago
Craig ran second to J. r. Waidman Of
the Irish American Club. who had handi-
cap of five yards. beaten by an inch IN
even time, and was just beaten for second
honors in the final by a hairs breadth.
again in even time He also won his heat
In the furlong dash In % 4-5 seconds but
the strain and .handlcaps were too much
for him I'm the finals. and he was shut
out. beaten yard by the winner In blsr-
ket inish
George W HORNE the holder OF The
worlds record in the running high jump,
who arrived In this city less than forty
eight hours ago. was beaten I'm the running
high jump by Plat Adams, who had
handicap OF one inch. and whose actual
leap was . feet 2 inches. Grunpelt and
the Western wonder tied for second place
at feet . inches actual jump HORNE was
affected by tho long trip across the country.
but he showed that the reports which pre-
ceded him were not exaggerated
BY the time Grumpelt and HORNE met -
decide second honors the kinks were gone
completely from the latter's legs, and with
scarcely an effort he sailed over the bar
set at feet inches. clearing IL by fully
three inches. Grumpelt failed to better his
mark
HORNE then had the bar raised to feet
inches, and once more he cleared II as II
on wings. but when he tried g feet inches
he failed. The Western boys form vas
ideal and told OF many hours of practice
He took a short take-off, and when ap.
preaching came up with sort of slide
When he sprang. however. every muscle IN
his body loaned power to the effort. ana.
once in the air. he Strengthened out and
dropped gracefully 10 the pit
/ The one-mile fve-man relay team OF the
New York Athletic Club, running from
scratch, established a new worlds record
| In the one-mile relay race. covering the
distance in 3:ll as, which lowered the for
mer standard, established by cloughen,
Northr1dge. Sheppard Rosenberger and
Robbins on the Celtic Park track on May
a 81, 1909 W. G. Packard, Eddie Prick, L.
G. Cary. r. T. Edwards and lie Roy
Wood were the boys who performed the
feat, leading the Irish American and West
Side Young Mems Christian Association
teams over the line.
Timothy Carol, Of the Irish American
| Athletic Club. one Of the earnest athletes
since the days of Finn McCool, scored the
most popular victory of the day in the 1000
metre Olympic walk by something less
than a lap. Fred Kaiser. the metropolitan
. and national champion, allowed the gray
haired Irishman forty seconds. but AFTER
|, | wearing himself out in the effort TO pun
, oway from Carol, and while leading py
tventy-fye yards. Kaiser quit. after going
five miles sick stomach caused him TO
stop, he said.
? Carol who twenty years ago competeo
! | for the Acorn Athletic club or Brookiyp'
. went right along walking true ana ter 70
, tho mark Never a thought OF quitting en-
tered the head OF this battle-tried old Ce'.
who IN the. beginning Of the race allowed
the str,plings to go out and exhaust them
5 selves Az the tourney heightened he ives
still going strong. while his opponents quiz
2 one after another. When he finally walked
: Kaiser into the ground the crowd eheered
/ him at every turn Of the track.
Like the majority OF the other atnie'es
who competed from scratch, Jim Duncan
. holder OF the worlds record for THROWING
. the discus. found the handicaps too no
; Ieral Duncan. who said that his shoulder
: still bothered him since he made his phe-
nomenal hurl a week ago, tossed the saucer
! 1S7 feet II inches, but even this was not
suficient 10 overcome the twenty-foot
: handicap under which he competed
Frank joyce, the runner OF the Mohawk
Athletic Club won a we'll run race In ths
one-nile event. and won by almost as mucn
; as his handicap. twenty yards H.
Fitzgerald won the three-mile run after a.
, hard battle all the way.
The summaries follow:
: Howard dash (frst semi fnal hest)-Won ~
R,v %admA er.is crsica
Time oiS Second :e%-n "a r, as:,0oa ,S;.es.
I20-yard high hurdles (hnal heat--Won oy Z:
pf!ssSaid ,riiGA%sTcan I.cr.ssa S.T ss
Snd; i Hsr'ranft New York A. c. third
' icS-yard dash (nna he.o-won by ID MADDEN.
. New York A. c. Is yards; J. waidnnsn. lrsh
4 American A. G: Is yards second r. C. cfas'
, One-mile relay race for nye-msn teaIns-won
BY New XoyS a sc,i rssk'Ea fgiGS
w Fisher COVE Terwilliger, Valentine and
pspis5 II yards. second we:, SIDE Y. NJ c: a.
m sSIFns u yards, " thrd Time sill IS srssi
ny Pole Vsult,Nwon BY A. L. B.leher; New York
q inches: !. r.. watson. New York A. {: ~
inches), second. with an actual vault OF II test
inches s. Hs0sSes actual Msw vau her OK Il, feet
, Putting l6-pound shot-Won by r. . onnn;
unattached a.; fes0 With an IA aet s,d Pvt
= feet Inches; 9. p. Oils. New York a e. @
inehes), third, with an actual put Of 81 fest
a throwing l6- pound hsmmer-won BY & G
= of 1871 feet III inches; ellis, New YORK a. Z.
iHch. y. p. Hines, Pastime A. c. (scratch,.
; third. with throw OF 14s feet inch.
?, standing high jump--won by B. Adams, New
inches TSIs A. G ADAMS ansN New ~'9 York jump r.ssh
second, with jump OF feet inchea; 4. NICK
y mus. Mohawk a. c; q inches)' third with =
''mpo S ~ metre s wslHWon by Tim Carol. Irish
!. American A. C, 40 ,econds,: 4. ,V olimsks'
= Psstime a. q. go seconds. second: T., eiroru'
r Knights Of st. Antony go seconds 'hrd Tine
d one-rniie run--won BY F. g Joyce. MoSaw q
A. {. go yardsl; T: Moran. New aS.k a - n IS
!. YARDS, third Time. Ara 10.
! Throwing the discus--won by p. r Hines