Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

/nternatwnal Games for the high and won the broad jump ; Hickock of Yale won both the shot and hammer. The other five events went to the Englishmen. This was the first real " international ,, match between representative teams of England and America. The next international match was the meet be– tween London Athletic Club and New York Ath– letic Club teams, at Manhattan Field, September 21, 1895. Each club was permitted to elect new members especially for this match. Many of the best college athletes of both England and Amer– ica were thus drawn in, and, in fact, the teams represented pretty adequately the track athletic strength of the two countries at that time. As everybody remembers, the games were won by the AmericJ.ns with what was the most extraor– dinary collection of performances that had ever been witnessed on any field or track. World's . records in the half mile, the two-twenty, the high hurdles, and the high jump were broken, and the world's record in the hundred was equalled. It was no wonder that the Englishmen, good and plucky men as they were, were beaten. The American team won every event, and had the firsts all been disregarded, the Americans would still have won by a score of 6 to 5. The sum– mary of that meet was as follows: one-hundred– yard dash, won by B. J. W efer , 9f seconds ; two-hundred-twenty-yard dash, won by B. J.