1879 AAC Championships

Outdoor track and field competition

International athletics championship event

1879 AAC Championships
Dates	7 April 1879 14/16 June 1879
Host city	London, England
Venue	Lillie Bridge Grounds Stamford Bridge Running Grounds
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
← 1878 1880 AAA Championships → AAC Championships

The 1879 AAC Championships were two outdoor track and field competitions organised by the Amateur Athletic Club (AAC) and London Athletic Club (LAC). The first was the usual annual AAC championships, held at the Lillie Bridge Grounds on 7 April 1879.^[1]

A second championships was organised in the Summer of 1879 to allow for the growing demand of club athletes to compete. Previously the championships in March were organised largely to suit the availality of university athletes.^[2]^[3]

The Summer Championships were held on Saturday 14 June and Monday 16 June 1879 at the Stamford Bridge Running Grounds in England.^[4]^[5]

Summary

In addition to each event winner receiving a medal, the prizes included several valuable cups ppresented on an annual basis:

A 60-Guinea Cup for the 4 miles race donated by Earl of Jersey
A 100-Guinea Cup for the 100 yards race donated by Prince Hassam
A 50-Guinea Cup for the 1 mile race donated by Mr C. B. Lawes

Results

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Spring Championships

Event	1st			2nd			3rd
100 yards	Melville R. Portal	Oxford UAC	10.6	Edgar Storey	Cambridge UAC	1 ft	Edward L. Lucas	Cambridge UAC	2 yd
440 yards	Edgar Storey	Cambridge UAC	51.4	Melville R. Portal	Oxford UAC	1 ft	Frederick W. Fellowes	Burton FC	20 yd
880 yards	William W. Bolton	Cambridge UAC	2:03.6	Lees Knowles	Cambridge UAC	3 yd	Charles J. Johnstone	Cambridge UAC	17 yd
1 mile	Bernhard Wise	Oxford UAC	4:29.0	Henry C. Jenkins	Oxford UAC	15 yd	Charles J. Johnstone	Cambridge UAC	100 yd
4 miles	James E. Warburton	Stoke Victoria	20:41.6	James Harris	Middlesbrough BC	22:15.6
120yd hurdles	Samuel Palmer	Cambridge UAC	17.4	Charles Gilbert	Oxford UAC	12 yd	only 2 competitors
7 miles walk	Harry Webster	Stoke Victoria	52:34.5 NR	n/a			only 1 competitor
high jump	Reginald Macauley	Cambridge UAC	1.765	Thomas Tomlinson	Denby	1.689	only 2 competitors
pole jump	Frederick H.W.D. Robinson	Beccles AC	3.05	n/a			only 1 competitor
long jump	William G. Elliott	Cambridge UAC	6.36	Stanley F. Prest	Durham ARC	5.84	only 2 competitors
shot put	Arthur H. East	Cambridge UAC	11.47	Henry W. Macauley	Cambridge UAC	10.90	only 2 competitors

Summer Championships

Event	1st			2nd			3rd
100 yards	Charles L. Lockton	London AC	10.1–5 sec	Henry Allan	London AC	2½ yd	Horace Crossley	London AC	close
440 yards	Henry R. Ball	London AC	51.8	Sidney H. Baker	London AC	1½ yd	Herbert H. Sturt	London AC	½ yd
880 yards	Charles Hazen-Wood	London AC	2:01.3–5 sec	Neville Turner	London AC	5 yd	William E. Pedley	RIEC	15 yd
1 mile	Walter George	Moseley Harriers	4:26.6	Samuel K. Holman	London AC	dnf	Charles Hazen-Wood	London AC	dnf
4 miles	Walter George	Moseley Harriers	20:52.2	Charles H. Mason	London AC	dnf	W. Stevenson	London AC	dnf
10 miles	Charles H. Mason	London AC	56:31.6	George E. Stanley	Spartan Harriers	57:51.8	C. F. Turner	Spartan Harriers	dnf
120yd hurdles	Charles L. Lockton	London AC	16.6	Henry Allan	London AC	2 yd	Francis J. W. Wood	London AC	6 inches
steeplechase	Henry M. Oliver	LAC & Mosley Harriers	11:49.2	Charles L. O'Malley (Ireland)	LAC & Ilex SC	70 yd	Robert S. Benson	Royal School of Mines	100 yd
7 miles walk	Harry Venn	London AC	56:10.6	n/a			only 1 competitor
high jump	Robert E. Thomas William Hall	Liverpool Gymnasium Bristol Ariel RC	1.753	n/a			Horace W. Strachan Frank J. W. Wood	London AC London AC	1.664 1,664
long jump	Charles L. Lockton	London AC	6.74	Horace Crossley	London AC	6.22	Gerard Fowler	Birmingham AC	6.02
shot put	William Y. Winthrop	London AC	12.01	Robert E. Thomas	Liverpool Gymnasium	10.77	only 2 competitors
hammer throw	William A. Burgess	late Oxford UAC	29.49	William Y. Winthrop	London AC	28.52	only 2 competitors

References

^ "Athletics". Dublin Daily Express. 8 April 1879. Retrieved 17 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The Amateur Championship Meeting". Field. 29 March 1879. Retrieved 17 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Amateur Athletic Championships". Field. 21 June 1879. Retrieved 17 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The Championship meeting at the L.A.C grounds this day". London Evening Standard. 14 June 1879. Retrieved 17 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The Athletic Championships". Sporting Life. 14 June 1879. Retrieved 17 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
^ "The Amateur Championship Athletic Sports". Morning Post. 8 April 1879. Retrieved 23 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.