The sun., 1919-07-05
$4,000 ATHLETES IN
SANE 4FH GAMES 4!
Meets in Parks, Fairgrounds
and Baths Draw Half Mill
ion Spectators. A.
CONCERTS IN EVENING
Clean Amusement and Safe
Celebration Popular in All
Parts of City.
CONCERTS IN EVENING

More than 10000 contestants repre-
senting every nationality known and
close to 500, 900 persons looked on at the
annual Safe and Sane Fourth OF July
city athletic meets held in ffty odd
parks, Fairgrounds, gymnasiu1ns and
baths yesterday. The games. which
were under the supervision OF the May
or's Committee OF Welcome. were run
off in fine order. with not a single acci-
dent They easily outdid an Olympic
carnival as far as competitors and spec
tators were concerned
Girls. from the little tot to the grown
up woman, as we'll as boys and men,
competed. In some OF the parks, spe-
cially so at Betsy Head Park in Brook
lyn. mothers and daughters, as well az
fathers and sons, were seen competing
in the same race. The events in which
the girls and women took part were
folk dancing. song rallies, flag drtllA re-
lay races, broad jumping and dashcs
The male athletes ranged from the dx-
year-old youngster to the husky cham
pion who has won national fame On
track and field.
The carnival yesterday easily outdid
those of former years Larger crowds
turned out to watch the games, and the
number of competitors far outnumbered
those OF previous years. This was prob
ably due to the ending of the war.
Many an athlete was seen competing
yesterday who year or so ago was
fighting in France. 1t was for this rea-
son that the large number of mothers.
sisters and brothers braved the sweltAr-
ing sun for hours to watch the gameA
Concerts in the Evening.
The carnival was brought to a cloae
in the evening with the staging of his
toric pageant In the College of the City
of New York Stadium which lasted from
o'clock until II and band concerts in
all the parks and Fairgrounds from
until 10 o'clock.
A record breaking crowd turned out at
Hamilton Fish Park at Houston and
Pitt streets Close to 5000 persons
watched the games here. The chief per-
formers at this park were Fred Tesch-
ner of the Glencoe A. c.. the national in
door sprint champion and Frederick l.
Onken OF the Brooklyn A. A. Teschner
won the 220 yard A. A. U. run. while the
Brooklyn athlete captured both the IL
pound shot put and the running high
jump. Onken put the leaden ball As feet
inches and leaped feet IN inches in
the high jump
Other large gatherings were seen at
De Witt Clinton Park and at Jasper
Oval. At De Witt Clinton Park nine
events were decided, six of which were
| A. A. L. events.
| Jack Costello OF the Paulist A. c. won
the feature at De Witt Clinton when he
came home first in the two mile rur.
| The other winners were p. O'Connor in
tho 100 yard dash. c. Brundage in the
40 yard run, T. A. Cooke. Jr in the IL
pound shot, J. Frankel in the pole vault
and Joseph Pearman in the mile walk
IaG n.-aI L.,
rlgan won the 300 yard run A. A. L
event, the feature. D. Rosenberg won
the shot put here and II. Brown the mile
run.
Connie ShauEhnessy Wins.
Connie shaughnessy Of the Knights OF
ST. Antony Of Brooklyn, the Junior and
senior quarter mile national outdoor
champion. won the feature at Curtis
Field. Staten Island, where a select field
OF athletes competed. Shaughnessy won
| tho 800 yard open run in the fine time OF
% 20 seconds.
The other registered athletes to win
their events at this park were J. Ben
Lziger OF st, Anselm's A. C. and w. Har-
per Of the Knights of st, Antony. Ben
ziser won the high jump with feet
inches and Harper took the 44O yard
| novice open run.
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Chelsea Park. at Twenty-eishth stre.t
and Ninth avenue The bouts ali n,
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Joe Lyon VS.. Jimmy Burns. RA DevlIn
VS.. Bobby Moore and Frank ManKoI We
! Willie ManRol The feature atbIeti,
which went TO w. Cummings
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