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Show 1 Ireland's Champion. T. F. Kiely, Ireland's greatest athlete, whose coming in years past has been so frequently heralded, herald-ed, is at last on these shores. He sailed on the Tcutonis May Keily has broken records in everything conceivable style of weight throwing, slinging, pushing, putting and winding. He owns more championship medals and prizes than any half dozen athletes in the world, won at every kind of track and field competition. He has been invincible invin-cible in all round contests for the past dozen years. . . He is Ireland's representative for the all-round athletic championship of the world to be held at the Exposition Grounds, St. Louis on the Fourth of July. Kiely was- born at Ballyneal, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, in the early seventies, and from his boyhood was fired with a desire to be worthy of his neighbors, the. famous Davin brothers, who were then making athletic history. He won his first all-round championship in 1890 by such a margin that he has since been reckoned as one of the world's greatest athletes. The year following saw him a factor in the Gaelic Gae-lic Athletic and Irish Amateur Championships, while his face was familiar at all meetings, large and small, throughout Ireland. He won the all-round all-round championship in 1S93 and 1SU4. He won the English hammer championship five times and the Irish championship seventeen times. At the international in-ternational meeting, Ireland V3. Scotland, in -897, he won the hammer by a throw of 137 feet. He won this event in those international contests for seven years. He now holds Irish reeord for 1 pound hammer from 9 feet circle, 151 feet 11 inches, in-ches, and the world's record for 56 pound unlimited run, and follows 38 feet 11 inches at Cork, Sept. 14, 1893. In 120 yards' hurdle his best performance perfor-mance was at Limerick in 1892, 16 seconds. He won nine hurdle championships, the time being always al-ways close to 10 seconds and nearly always on slow grass tracks. He was broad jump champion six years. He holds the Scotch record. 22 feet 2 inches, off grass. For this event his best coffrt was at Aherlow 1900, 23 feet 2 inches. The all-round championship was revived in 189S. Kiely repeated his former victories by easily securing secur-ing the coveted championship. The event lias not been held since, but in 1902 he. won the all-round all-round championship at Munster. nl fact he has never been beaten in an all-round athletic contest. |