Athletic Notes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 533, 18 November 1890, Page 3

Athletic Notes.

Tax entries for the Hospital Sports are io he ia thia week. It is anticipated that they will be more numerous than in any previous year. Pedestrians are to be seen at the Park in the early morning and in the evening, and the healthy apart is being entered into with Beet. At the Caledonian games held at New York on Sept. 3, Peter pannon, the wellknown Scotch Champion, was defeated by Priddy In both the Three (15min 40sec) and Five Miles (28min 59sec) races, Priddy, who also won the mi’s run, ia as well known as a sculler as a pedestrian, and hails from PittsJewett. of Chicago, Is reported to have olaarad a distance of 44ft B}ln at the first attempt in a running hop, step and jump at the games of the Detroit (Mich,) Athletic Club, August 16. If this Is correct, it is the best performance by an American amateur on record, ths previous best having been 44ft fin. Soma good performances at weight putting were done at the annual games of the Caledonian Society, Montreal, Canada, which IW* Pl** on August 17, They are as follows'—Putting the 811 b stone, C. Currie first, {Sit lOin; J. D, M Pherson second, 87ft flin ; J. Purch»’.l third, SSf 9!n. Putting the 141 b stone—O. Currie, 57ft 2tn ;J. D. McPherson, I4f‘; J. Pnrohell, 4flft, This trio are known throughout America as the heat weight putters in the country At the Boston Caledonian Sports Currie put the U» shoe 44f’ 9Jin. At the games of the Sulr Side Athletic Chib, held at Carrick on-Suir, Ireland, a pole vaulter, named Stokes. vary nearly cleared lift 2 : n. He won the jump with 10ft, and fost brushed the o'her height jjnwn, eacji of He trials coming'Very ne-r being successful. In his final effort the pole broke, and he had k narrow S«eape from receiving a serious •”fary . Criticisms in the Irish Press are that Stokes Is the best poll vau’ter seen in that oonntry, Tom Ray and E. L Stones thrown In, The two latter climbed the pole, but Stokes takes a fair clean jump.