Cambridge University Athletic Club bronze medal and a 1897 C.U.A.C. silver shield for handicaps long Jump awarded to W. Mendelson,the bronze circular medal in a glass protected cover, obverse with coat of arms surrounded by UNIVERSITY CANTABRIGIENSIS, reverse with laurel wreath and emblem, diameter 52mm., in a partial fitted case and the silver shield engraved C.U.A.C. HANDICAPS LONG JUMP STANDARD 20FT. 5IN., W MENDELSON JESUS COLL. DIST: 21 FEET 1897, 4 by 3.5cm., not hallmarked silver, each bears some wear, the fitted case missing its lid W. Mendelson played first class cricket in his native New Zealand and at Cambridge won a blue in rugby in 1894, 1895 and 1896 and an athlete blue in 1895. His main claim to fame was that in 1895 he won the Varsity long jump beating the then World record holder C.B. Fry. He went to South Africa in 1902 and soon after died of Myelitis aged 29.
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Cambridge University Athletic Club bronze medal and a 1897 C.U.A.C. silver shield for handicaps long Jump awarded to W. Mendelson,the bronze circular medal in a glass protected cover, obverse with coat of arms surrounded by UNIVERSITY CANTABRIGIENSIS, reverse with laurel wreath and emblem, diameter 52mm., in a partial fitted case and the silver shield engraved C.U.A.C. HANDICAPS LONG JUMP STANDARD 20FT. 5IN., W MENDELSON JESUS COLL. DIST: 21 FEET 1897, 4 by 3.5cm., not hallmarked silver, each bears some wear, the fitted case missing its lid W. Mendelson played first class cricket in his native New Zealand and at Cambridge won a blue in rugby in 1894, 1895 and 1896 and an athlete blue in 1895. His main claim to fame was that in 1895 he won the Varsity long jump beating the then World record holder C.B. Fry. He went to South Africa in 1902 and soon after died of Myelitis aged 29.