New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-06
RYAN Sets New Mark
at Celtic Park Games
Fraser Also Distinguishes
Himself, but Sterling Ell.
forts of Both May Not
Be Recognized.

annual games Of the Irish-Ameriean A.
c. AZ Celtic Park yesterday afternoon.
Pat Ryan, the big Hibernian weigh,
tosser, threw the 35-pound weigh, soma
five feet farther than he has ever
thrown It before. for new record o.
G2 feet 4 inches, and Eddie Fraser, ar.
other ish-American A. e. man, ran SOD
metres in l minute 64-5 seconds, this
being two-ffths Of second under the
old mark.
Everything seemed to be agains. the
success Of the games. The threatening
skies kept the crowd away and the fields
in all events were small Howard Berry,
the University Of Pennsylvania fresh
man who won the pentathion contest ia
the Ouakers' relay carnival last April,
was widely advertised as competitor
in the pentalhlon, but did not appear.
ONLY three men went through the con-
test. and none Of the other events had
more than a handful Of entries.
Fraser's race in the 50O-retre run
was we'll worthy OF a record. lie made
his running in the last hundred yards
and sped away from the field 70 81
easv victory. ". J. Kelley, unattached,
and Harry Schaf. of the home club,
made the pace most Of the way. Fra.
ser found the going heavy on the IA,
turn and swung wide. This gave him
an open berth when he reached thu
stretch, and he romped past Kelley and
Schaf, TO win by ten yards. lnasmuea
as there were only two watches timing
Fraser the record will probable be res
jected.
Hurting the 35-pound weight 70 the
unprecedented distance Of 81 feet 1
inches was like child's play for Pat
Ryan. Indeed, il was easier for Ryan
to make his record toss than . was fos
the officials 70 measure the circle from
which the toss was made. In order tina.
the record may be allowed % stand tho
throw must be authenticated as beng
made from a seyeD-foot circle. This
circle was bit lop-sided 20 begin with
and that fact added 90 the measurers'
difficulties. Then their only measure
was a steel tape graduated IN tenths Of
feet rather than in inches.
They all agreed that feet 3 inches
was the radius Of seven-foot circle,
but il was only after higher mathemat-
les, algebra and a little trigonometry
were brought into play that sparrow
Robertson discovered that tye-tenth5
of a foot was equal 20 six inches. They
forgot 10 measure the hypot1enuse OK
the circle. This omission viii probably
be fatal when the record is presented
for adoption by the A. A. L.
Dan Shea. of the Pastimes, won tbs
pentathlOn with a total of 9 points. l.
J. Harper, Of the IrishAmerican CLUB,
was second with 10, and j. Fritts, o.
the Pastimes, third with II. Shea won
the broad jump and the discus throw,
was second in the 200 and 1900 metre
runs and third in the jayelin throw,
Harper won the iavelin throw and the
the longer run.
Abel Kiviat and Joe Bromilow had a
spirited duel in the 1,000-yard run.
Oscar Bell. unattached. starting from
the 42-yard mark, was the winner, but.
the chief interest in the race centred n
kiviat and Bromilow. The new half
mile metropolitan champion had five
yards on Kiviat. and led him by thres
yards all the way TO the stretch. when
Kiviat unbolted his sprint and shot
ahead, beating Bromilow for the place
by five feet. Bell won by so much thai
he almost walked 20 the tape
Colonel Charley Dieges, Of the 22d
Infantry Regiment. had two companies
on hand, and they gave an exhibition ot
bridge building. and later Of destroying
the bridge with a charge OF trotcl gela-
tin. the new high explosive recently ~
vented by Captain II. G. Woo Ward
Il took the company OF builders only
few minutes 20 set up stable
bridge, built on six piers and plenty
long enough for use IN foriiug q small
stream. When it was finished the de-
stroying company headed b. Captain
Woodward, took the field.
In less that three minutes the bridgs
was wired and mined Twenty mines
we're set on the far side Of the bridge
to keep the enemy from approaching
and fifty different wire connections
were made, the main charges being
planted in the timbering Of TIE two
middle piers. Only small charges vera
used. because a regulation ffteen-pound
mine tears n hole in the earth more
than twenty feet in diameter and the
conclusion kills every one within an
eighty-foot radius.
When the attacking company mads
ready for an assault on the bridge tho
defenders exploded the charge and the
bridge collapsed, while huge holes were
torn in the turf.
The summaries follow:
loo-yari dash l7ov'ce)-won ty Herr, g T-orr.,
unattached. 3 Liner unattached serari Remand
Ro'icnh'rg. unattached Third Time d
Roll unattached ~ yariu. Joseph H-ru j.,
Irish American A g. ID yarlsI. SECOND A1e- X