Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics them. Of the rest, Jordan, the jumper, Westing, the sprinter, and Gray, the shot-putter, all distin– guished themselves by winning at the champion– ships. In the autumn of the same year another lot of Irishmen came over, among whom was J. S. Mitchell, who was presently to be the American weight-throwing champion. This team was badly managed, took sides in several unseemly squabbles, and finally went to pieces. The following year several English athletes came across the water, most of them to remain. E. L. Stones of the Ulverstone Cricket and Football Club won the Canadian and American pole-vaulting champion– ships and returned to England. In the summer of 1891 a large party of Manhattan Athletic Club men went to England and Paris. Malcolm Ford tied for the English broad-jump championship, C. A. J. Queckenberner established new English records in the hammer and fifty-six-pound weight, and Luther Cary and Remington won a number of victories in the sprints. At Paris that summer the Manhattan athletes won every first except that in the broad jump, which was captured by Victor Mapes of Columbia. The first team of college track athletes to be sent to England was the Yale team of 1894. This team met the Oxford team on the Queen's Club grounds, in London. Oxford won by a score of st to 3t, L. P. Sheldon of Yale tied