Show AMERICANS WHO ho I HAVE MADE GOon GOOD Jec records I s Show Our Athletes Easily Excel All Those of Europe Europ E rop The rho eyes ey S and thoughts of all the ama eur athletes are arc turned across the At antic for tor next summer ummer the Olympic ames s will take place In I London The first record we have ot of any Amen Amerl Amerlan an athlete competing abroad is li of ot the tho performance or of Seward of New laven Javen Conn who went to England in hi u 44 and beat every man who dared run S T him I ni all distances up liP to a i en r nr of 01 a mile offering long starts to any lan ian liVIng beat 1 all existing records at short distances at skating and t jumping on n skates and finally re to America the tha th acknowledged printing champion of ot the world Ran in Moccasins Deerfoot tho great Seneca Indian run er cr went to England In 1863 ran nan many accA aces at distances near hear ten miles beat beati II 11 i the beai best English runners and s shed tho hour re ord rd for a twelvemile un m The latter lutter still stands as the fast fasti st In the tho world lIe He ran in i an awkward ana ane a alt mt outraged all civilized ideas of g but J nevertheless was the best man f his day The first American amateur to compete l England was probably H U t a New York boy bo He lie was a amateur and und an enthusiastic con oon stant ever over ready to run against any an ody on short notice for any prize from rpm diamond medal to a bunch of tooth l anks inks leks Icks il of Si His death left a big gap In thA tho the amateurs who sport for or sports sake Organized Invasion in 81 The Tho first regularly organized Invasion Ima lon t r Great Britain by b American amateur was In the summer of 1831 ISSI when E Myers Manhattan A C and E E Eo t l Union A C Boston Mass went i J England and competed In several Including the championships champlon Am An Jn several races and established v z W walking records at one mile mil miI two miles Myers was beaten but ethe l championship but won 10 o championship and shed a new worlds record for or that dis meG and several everal fresh English records r various distances A combination of ot athletes consisting of 1 H Meek F P Murray A A Val Wai ron and arid H Fredericks went to England i the summer of 1881 to attend the meeting Meek won the championship and established veral venal new records and was unanimously ted the tle fastest fast walker ever seen seeni i S England Engl Myers won every thin ir In astonishing his critics and ehing new records by the wholesale Two Teams in 1888 In tho the summer of Great Britain was by two armies of ot American ath nth tes tea The Manhattan Athletic club sent M L Banks T P Coneff Conett C JV W V V lark and F while the New ork Athletic club squad Included E C Cafter Carter after arter W C Dohm G R It Gray A A S W E Koos C M Smith and C White Banks White and Koos d ii nothing worthy of mention Smith on twice a running high jump and a run Dohm was 11 tl in the tha quarter and runs run won four firsts including a chain cham and the International race at Gray was wan an easy first In every ever shot contest he could find winning S the championships and beating iO e worlds record five times Umes In one aft att noon Clark and Coneff wore were also alBa big Inners but as their birthplace was un T 11 r the English flag their performances very well be accredited to Amer AmerI AmerL I L Again in 1891 1893 the Manhattan Athletic sent a team to England and In En Paris at the international me meeting Mapes Japes of ot Columbia university n 0 the long jump while the Manhattan team took every ever other first prize Yale Vale vs Oxford A team of Yale athletes crossed the At ItiC In lS H and competed against Ox rd university They lost the contest cont t the HIe score of oi 5 to 3 34 The training d management of the Yale teams were verely criticised and were undoubtedly for the failure allure n a the winter of arrangements re made for a match between the Lon Lonn n Athletic club and the New York Ath AthIe Ic Ie club Each club was allowed d to eng b 2 Its Ita team ly Ju additional mom r tins this match thus making the i contest between he tween the best Eng d American amateur athletes rte le result was most extraordinary The rhe rheIms ims were fairly representative of the I detle strength of their country COli and anti med likely like to make a good fight but buti i Now New York City Athletic club won WOI ery event And still more wonderful 1 the fart fact that if it the performance of all New Yorks eleven winners had been regarded and the score made up as they had not been present America uld have still won the match by a aI I jre of 6 to 5 Clean Sweep at Athens II n April 1896 several American ath athes es cs competed in the revived Olympian mes roes at Athens Greece This dolega delegan n Included no amateur champion ly Iy one record holder but they proved much better than their opponents opponent that sy y won almost every event entered E Burke won the meters and the meters with H 11 B Jamison second won the th hurdle rare race lo Ic II Jt B Clarke took the running hi up with R B Garrett second Clarke and Connolly took the first three ces ClI in the broad jump W W Hoyt n the pole vault and Connolly Connoll the tho hop hopp p and Jump and Garrett took the I t row and shot put The revolver I i 1 rifle rne shooting contests contest went to the tho I j sons eons of General Payne the renowned f i I fur fter long Ion negotiations a match was wasI Fan sed In 18 Oxford and Cambridge I 1 zinat Yale and Harvard The English I pe ne off oft victorious in this match win I ig tg by b a score of 5 Ii to 4 Americas Ar de do det doI I t was due to the ill III health of ot T E Erke Erke l lI I i who it was w conceded would win wint t I but finished last Instead I first I liThe The Greatest American Americ lr Team I l n the international games s In Paris in inI I I i I there were scratch con conI I ts and the American team eighn fn n of them This was perhaps the I team that ever eter left lett the United tea tes to Invade a foreign land Among I t Sprinters were such men as tho the great I f Jarvis and Burroughs in fl there here was Maxey Long the great I that ever eer lived who whoa 2 a quarter In 47 41 seconds a the champion hurdler whose hose ds for the and O hudlA still stilt t id was wa also on his team lie He was Mt cat broad jumper as well as hard hurd mid and also holds holdt the amateur record that event Maloney and und McLean 11 t 1 and jumpers were on this I m ai th thO broad jumper who Ull in the harness was also a com corn I tor and so ISO was Baxter the high I per r In Paris he did 6 feet 6 Inches the Jump Sheldon and Flana i the weight men astonished the for forens ers ens and won as they the pleased In don irlon at this same time this team swept sw pt Englishmen off their feet reet winning ut t everything In sight V t the he last Olympian games in Greece the American team again darn dem de n nId ear a ar ago OKO go Id Its superiority and won wo the toe toey y of ot events most of ot them with eulous culous ease case he recordS pr P Pi all aU these international I i competitions competition show that America is well ahead of the other when It comes to producing athletes The team that will represent the Stars and Stripes next summer will be up to the tha th and we may ma await with complacency the outcome at London |