New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
St. Christopher Club Has
to Borrow Adjacent
Field for Games.
LEM-CRESCENT
TAKES LONG RELAY
Negro Schoolboy Champion In
Great Sprint Defeats Lem
berg at Two Miles.

The st. Christopher Athletic Club Sc
lectcd a poor track at Timer Park for
its annual open games yesterday, but
when il appeared that a postponement
would be necessary good friends came
TO the rescue.
An improvised ten-lap turf track
had been laid out over uneven ground,
but the athletes entered refused to
risk injury The Brooklyn Union Gas
Company was holding its annual field
day on an adjacent field and gladly
consented to double UP.
A l.20O-yard handicap relay race,
which had field Of seven teams, fur
nished considerable excitement and a
good race. The Salem Crescent Attn
lctic Club had liberal allowance OF
40 yards, and. making the best of this
advantage. won in a strong finish by
five yards. Sheridan Club runners led
for the first two laps, when Salem took
command, never to fall rearward.
Wiese and Butler. tho last two men
for the Bronx Church House, finished
strongly. moving up from fourth place
during the last lap to finish second.
The first team of the Irish American
Athletic Club, composed of F. 7. Lee,
Eddie Coyle, Abel Kiviat and John j.
Eller, could not show at their best at
the short distance, and we're third,
eight yards behind the victors
Abe Lemberg, the fast Trinity Club
runner, who has thrown away many
first prizes this season by foolish run
ming. was again defeated by holding
his opponents too cheaply. Lemberg
started from scratch in the two-mile
run, and catching Frank Jenkins, the
schoolboy champion. at the one and a
half mile point matched strides with
him for little more than lap. Lem
berg undCrestimated the finishing
sprint of his negro opponent and was
defeated by five yards. Arthur Thomas,
Ct st. Mary's Club. was third.
Jack BohaD. the Xavier Athletic Club
sprinter. who has been carrying the
Colors Of his club for the last fifteen
years, showed that he had lost little
Of his oldtime speed in winning the
century sprint fl ON the 5-yard mark i'll
8 40 seconds. Bohan came through in
advance of his field IN the trial and
sem-fnal heats.
the summaries follow:
100 yard dash ,handicap,-Won by !. 4.
l}nhan. Navicr 4. 4. q YARDS; A. Pendel-
ton. salem Crcscsn; A. 6. u yardsl. second;
r. Vorwayen. Salem Crescent A. c. 20 YARDS.
third Time 900 { }.
emile run movice)-Wor by John Karl.
Nmpilus. f. r. Rommc. Bronx Church House.
second: Fred Engblom. unattached, thru.
Time-J:O5 :.
sSO-yaId run Chaadicapy--Won by T. 5.
Fraser. Irish American 4. G. liz yardsI. l..
y Granger. unattached $50 Yards, second:
II. Biddlc. Mohawk A. G. (@5 YARDS, third.
Time 30 -.
900 ward relay race Handicap Won by
Sa lem Crescent 4. &. 80 YARDS, with l.. La
Rect, If. Foster \. g. Gorhsm and =. J.
White: Bronx Church House '34iz yardS.
with w. I. Graf Howard Sency. W. r.
Weise and II, Bueher. second Irish-Amer-
lean \. {, first team G2i2 YARDS. with r
+. Lee. =. Coylc Abel Kviat and John j.
I.l!er. third. Time 2:1J.
Two mile nm bankruptcies by Frank
Jenkins, smart Set 4. G. (25 yards; Abe
emberg. Trinity Club isCratch second: A
Thomas, ST. Marys A. {. go yarls). third
Time -l0:03.