The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-06
irish ATHLETES
Win Club TROPHY
MeCrath, Mcdonald, and
Ryan Put New York Club n
First Place 1t Meet.
CHICAGO A. "A. SECOND


Chicago July 5.-Three gentlemen O
Celtic extraction almost literally lifte<
the Irish-American Athletic Club. of New
York. into FIRST place this afternoon II
the senior A. A. u. games at the pre-
Olympic contests in Grant Park. Unit
Messrs- Martin McGrath, Patrick Nc
Donald, and Patrick Ryan had finished
lifting and hurting the 5S-pound weight
1t appears as though the Chicago Aih
letic Association had chance to wiz
the meet.
suits in that particular event was made
Chicago was secondhand a comparatively
poor second at that.
Before the weight throwing events, tn,
Cherry Circle boys were leading tn,
field. They had a total of n points
with the Boston A. c. second with %
and the Irish-American A. c., and tn,
New York A. C. were tied for third with
Is points each. After the large gentle
men of Celtic extraction had finished
throwing the heavy weight. and had pu
the 16-pound shot farther than theil
other competitors, and also had won thu
discuss throw. Western Joys" wer'
chased Off the field by the little biacl
''giooms" from the east.
The result was: Irish-American A. C.
~ SiSaSo "a a., oobtoh ~ -
New York A. c., Is; Illinois A. c., 10
Missouri A. c., IL.
One Of the greatest sprinters the
country ever has seen--a negro, II. p
Drew, running under the colDrs OF tn,
Springfield (Mass.) High School-was
the individual point-wInning cham
pion. This veritable streak Of dark
ness easily won the 100 and the zoo
yard dashes. His closest competitors
were McGrath. OF the Irish-American
team, who won the fifty -six-pound
weight event and was second in put
ting the shot, and j. w. Kelley. of the
University of Southern California,
who got frst and a second in the
hurdle races. Closely following on
their heels was Patrick Mcdonald. also
of the I. A. C. c.. who had two seconds
to his credit.
Three senior A. A. U. records were
broken-the running hop, step. and
jump. the pole vault, and the hammer
throw. Dan Ahearn, champion of the
world. cleared fifty feet even In the
running hop, step and jump, beating the
forty-eight feet six inch mark set by
E. v. Bloss in New York City in 1898.
s. B. Waggoner, captain of the Yale
track team. competing for the Missouri
A. c., broke the pole vaulting record
OF twelve feet six inches, set in 1911
by c. c. Cook. of Cleveland. Patrick
Ryan. /. A A. C.. broke the hammer
throwing mark set by c. Walsh in 1911.
Ryan'r mark was III feet 73-4 inches,
while Walsh's was III feet 6a inches.
There were several surprises in the re-
suits Probably the most startling was
the defeat of Mel Sheppard. the wonder
full distance runner, who was entered in
the half-mile run by the Irish-American
A. c. Sheppard finished third, being
beaten by two New York A. c. men-H.
Baker and c. Deernchy. Another I'M
lookcd-for defeat was that of A. b. Xiv
lat, one Of the greatest mile runners in
the world. He accompanied the Irish
American A. c. team, and had been
looked upon as sure point winner. He
was beaten. however, by n. S. Taber.
Brown University man. and ]. A. Power.
both Of whom ran for the Boston A. c.
Mark Wright's failure to show some
of his Eastern class in the pole vault
also was matter of comment The
Dartmouth man was distanced not only
by waggoner. but F. Murphy and ].
Gold, both of the Chicago A. A.