Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

International Games States. Barry, the hammer-thrower, of Queen's College, Cork, was among them. He won the Canadian championship. Purcell, another of the party, won the Canadian high-jumping champion– ship and took second place in the American individual championship. Several of the others gave a fair account of themselves. In 1887 an– other party of American athletes went to Eng– land. W. Bird Page, the high jumper, was the best of tbem. In the English and Irish cham– pionships he was unlucky, tying in each with his nearest rival; but on other occasions he won at such heights as 6 feet 1 inch, 6 feet 2t inches, and 6 feet 3t inches. This last performance was at that time the world's record. In the same autumn, C. G. Wood, an English quarter-mile champion, C. W. Clarke, a distance runner, and T. Ray, the English pole-vaulting champion, visited us. Ray was the only one to succeed. He won the national championship, and in another competition made a new American record of I I feet 4-! inches. Ray's performances were the fir t exhibitions in this country of the English style of climbing the pole, and they were viewed, naturally, with great curiosity and interest. In 1888 a squad of American athletes from the Manhattan and New York clubs visited England. Carter, C. W. Clarke, and Conneff, all of whom were newly tran planted Americans, were among