Modern Athletics 1868

56 MODERN ATHLETICS. 5 feet 6 inches, while the open quarter-milehandicap also fell to a London A. 0. man in T. Yesey-Dawson (30 yards), •whobeat Stevenson ofthe German Gymnastic So­ ciety by 3 yards. M. E. Jobling,Civil Service (scratch), third, but well np; E. Loder, Eton College (22 yards), ran well and won his heat; T. C. Collett, Civil Service (28 yards), being equally fortunate though unplaced in the final. But the greatestsurprise of the day was the victory of J. K. Barnes, Barnes Football Club, in the open 100 yards, over C. A. Absolomand "VVC. . Collett, re­ spectively the champions of Cambridge and London; some few only who remembered his easy victory over J. K. Birkeley, no sluggard, atBarnes three weeks before fancying the winner. Yet another schoolboy came out of Tonbridge School in E. Rudyard, who with100 seconds won the 3 miles handicap anyhow, beating E. Hawtrey of Eton (20), whostruggled as usual into second place, though temporarily dispossessedof it by the scratchman, G. C. Kennedy of Cambridge, the latter doing the dis­ tance in 16 minutes 11 seconds over grassH. . C. Riches (30), who was made the favourite, wasunluckily put out of the race by the starter, who didnot despatch himtill 16 seconds too late. On the second day a club 250yards was another moral for A. Bremner, who with 12 yards could not bebeaten on the previousday's running. W. C. Collett, from scratch, wonhis heat, but did not geptlaced in the final. C. A. Absolom of Cambridge won the long jump with 21 feet 2 inches—a magnificent leap consider­ ing he took off well before the mark. F. Shillitoe ofthe Hitchin Football Club, who had showed fair form at Hounslow, won (with 18 yards) a slowly-run half-mile open handicap, beating no oneof note but J. A.Maddock, who, as on the previous day in a local mile,ran out of all ^ 0 . rm ". Graham repeated his Barnes victory by winning the polejump with a good leapof 9 feet 6 inches; and T. Vesey-Dawson followedup his success of the day before by winning the football club 160 yards handicap, G. H. Jupp from scratch again running into secpolnadce. R. H. Nunn, Honourable Artillery Company, with 90 seconds, won^ the open 3 miles walking handicap easily enough, walking in fine form; W. Rye, London Athletic Club, from scratch, again working his way into second place, doing 24 minutes 16seconds over grass, upsetting two great favourites inT. Griffith (20 seconds), and H.