Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

All-Round Individual Championship 395 The order of events in the all-round contests is as follows: one-hundred-yard dash, putting sixteen– pound shot, running high jump, half-mile walk, throwing sixteen-pound hammer, pole-vault, one– hundred-twenty-yard hurdles, throwing fifty-six– pound weight, running broad jump, and one-mile run. The endeavor is, of course, to place the most tiring events as nearly as possible toward the end, but for all that the athlete who can complete the last half of the programme with anything like the same sprightliness with which he began the first part of it must have an immense amount of vitality and be hard as nails. The individual all-round champions since the beginning of these contests, in 1884, are as fol– lows: W. E. Thompson, Montreal; 1885, M. W. Ford; 1886, M. W. Ford; 1887, A. A. Jordan; 1888, M. W. Ford; 1889, M. W. Ford; 1890, A. A. Jordan; 1891, A. A. Jordan; 1892, M. O'Sul– livan; 1893, E. W. Goff; 1894, E. W. Goff; 1895, J. Cosgrove; 1896, L. P. Sheldon; 1897, E. H. Clark; 1898, E. C. White; 1899, ]. Fred Powers; 1900, H. Gill, Toronto; 1901, Adam B. Gunn; 1902, Adam B. Gunn; 1903, Ellery H. Clark. Of these winners Harry Gill of Toronto made the highest score - 636oi points - in 1900. Ellery Clark of Boston comes next with his 6318t points, in 1903. Adam B. Gunn, with his