Modern Athletics 1868

60 MODERN ATHLETICS. neither of these contests wereactual tests ofmerit, as the former took place downhill, and in the lattter the amount of run wasnot limited tothe regulation sevenfeet. J. God- fray was par excellence victorInderum of the meetinga,nd proved himself more at home in flat races than in' those with obstacles. The Eifle Corps race fell an easy prey to him. His best distances, however, are clearly from a "quarter" up tao mile. His timesin the formerand in the half-mile, 68f seconds and 2 minutes 14 seconds respec­ tively, were first class, considering the course was turf, and the steephill to be ascended in bothcases. The mile was completely at his mercy, but at twice that distance he seemed unable tostay, and was beatensomewhat easily by S. Grant. A race, peculiar to this public school, but one of the best testsof endurance that can be devised— viz., the "Stone Gathering," for a prize presented an­ nually by the Rev. T. A. Southwood—produced a very close contest between A. Tee and W. Branson.The latter was the favourite from his well-known lasting powers, but the former had a greatetrurn of speed, and, spurting gamely at the finish, won by a couple of stones. In the final heat of the hurdles, W. Wood,who had met with an _ accident in his trial heat, won a good race from L. Griffith, in the run home; H. Ommaney coming with a rush at the finish and dead-heating the latter for second place. The badness of the time, 22 seconds, is accounted for by a turn in the course, which might easily have been avoided. A. J. Goodwin, of Merthyr Tydvil, won the strangers' race, defeating E. Fox, London A. C., somewhat easily. The distance for this event was a most absurd one—viz., a 120 yards steeple­ chase. The wide jumping and hop, step, and jump call for no_comment, as the leaping took place down a rather steep incline. The Sheffield Football Club held their eleventh annual meeting on May4, at Bramall Lane. The finishes of the races were up-hill, which made the times somewhat slow. W. M. Chinnery, London A. 0., defeated a large field, in­ cluding a goodman in G. Stevenson of Norton, easily in the open threemiles; but was not so well at home with the jumps in the650 yards open steeplechase.^ 0H. . Prest, also of the London A. C.,showed some of his old form by securing both the 120 and 130 yards, the former very