California Collegiates Take On Eastern Track Might
The California UC squad led by captain Fred Koch and star Edgren tours to New York for the Intercollegiate championships on May 25. The eleven man crew includes Scoggins, Dyer, Woolsey, Patterson, Merwin, and Torrey, with strong hammer, sprint and hurdles marks. Their recent showing against Princeton and Penn signals California's rapid rise as credible rivals to eastern college teams.
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University of California
Princeton
California
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
New York
Fred W. Koch
Philadelphia
Koch
M. F. Sweeney
Patterson
Chester Woolsey
C. B. Morse
Woolsey
Louis T. Merwin
Plainfield
N. J
Merwin
P. BR. Bradley
Bradley
Calfornia
Melvin Dozier
Dozier
Harry B. Torrey
Dyer
J. L. Bremer
Torrey
University of Pennsylvania
Barnes
Edgren
RECORD BREAKER DE CARDY ON THE CYCLE PATCH
Chicago rider William A. De Cardy rapidly develops into a crackerjack after a record 39 1-5 seconds for a short distance. Previous marks by J. H. Allen at Springfield dated Aug 27, 1894. Herrmannpresents a sensational horseback routine as a tease for next season. A doctor’s check is urged before racing and a new all-women golf club starts on Staten Island.
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Hilsendegen
Detroit
Staten Island
Hornpipe and Hamilton Jockeys Shine in Turf Highlights
Hornpipe the four year old brown colt by Mr. Pickwick out of Round Dance, owned by James R. and Foxhall Keene, won the Brooklyn Handicap as a upstart outsider. He also claimed the Tyre stakes at Monmouth and the Criterion at Monmouth, with a strong season including victories in the Carlton stakes and a Brooklyn fall sweepstakes on heavy tracks. Spriggs, Baltimore’s strongman, works as a Boston bank janitor and recently pushed a 50,900 pound freight car three feet, then lifted 4,125 pounds of iron in a show of unusual strength.
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Hornpipe
Mr. Pickwick
Round Dance
Charles Reed
Foxhall Keene
Sheepshead Bay
Declare
Monmouth Park
Dobbins
Hamilton
Monmouth
Brooklyn
James R
New York
Keene
Paris
Spriggs
Baltimore
George Spriggs
Boston
Baltimore and Ohio
John Whitman
Hudson River Railroad
New York City
Checker Problem and Chess Tactics Note
Checker Problem No 88 by Dr Jd T Brown presents a sequence White to move and mate in two through a series of captures and advances. The chess puzzle shows a move by 1.Kt to Kt followed by 2.Kt-Ks5 and 3.K-Kt with a mating finish, while solutions reference multiple captures and pawn pushes leading to mate.
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Checker Probem No
Jd. T. Brown
Old Irish porter shows independence at station
An Irish porter's defiant act returns in memory as a director complaint over a missed station call. Charley, the porter, confronted by management, swore revenge and, on the directors' return journey, loudly announced the correct Cookstown Junction and all connecting stations to prove their error.
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Cookstown Junction
Randalstown
Castledawson
Magherafelt
Monceymore
Cookstown
London
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Lever College Boys
Fred W.eqch
E. J. Dyer
Ele
Noch
Robert D. Edgren
University
Hickok
Yale
Edgrep
Sonnt
W. Scoggins
Theodore
John Owen
Ernest Dyer
Cilitecnian
Ford
Stephen Chase
America
Robey Edgren
J. W. Scoggins
J. P. Lee
Willan Chandler Patterson
Coast Cham
Fanny Davenport
South Duxbury
Mass
Professor Herrmann
Whitestone
James O'Neill
Monte Cristo Villa
New London
Marie Wainwright
France
Frank Daniels
Rye Beach
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Chicago
Richard Mansfield
Long Island Sound
Otis Skinner
Proctorsville
Thomas Q. Seabrooke
Larchmont
Jem We
Sarsaparilla
Frazer Axle
Wageea
Hedd
T. O. Slater & Co
General Hardware
Eic
Wiard
Carroll
Gurney
Farm Tools
Water St
Warren, Pa
New Times
the Times
Pennsylvania
Cpti le
Youyl
W. Jarvis
Waiter Street
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