Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
Opinions About the Alleged Sprint
ing Record of Carey and its
Probable Results.
AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS.
A Few Words About Baseball Affairs and
the Great Conference That
Never Came.
DIXON'S EASY DEFEAT OF MURPHY.
Remarks About ssvn and Sullivan and Other Sporting
Events

Without doubt the great sporting event of
the last few days. may say of the year, has
been the alleged feat of Carey in running 100
yards III 81 seconds. l use the word alleged in
no sense OF inuendo. but merely because up to
date. Saturday evening as far as / know, the
record has not been officially accepted. AS far
as public statements il newspapers are con-
eerned. there seems to be nothing that will pre-
vent the acceptance of the record, but it is
satisfactory to know that Carey's claim will be
thoroughly tested by a number of COM
petent and honorable gentlemen. Their finding
will satisfy me. Assuming that the claim is a
valid one, it suggests many interesting thoughts
In the first place it tells us how stupid and alb
surd has been all the talk In recent years about
this man or that man going out at an hours no.
tice and snriDting 100 yards in even time or bet
ter. Lately some very prominent people who
write on sporting matters have really talked
about "even time" in a way that suggested the
notion that almost any sprinter in the coun-
try could do il. Now, when the claims of Owen
and Carey are put forward people who have a
sound, practical knowledge of the matter
and whose business it is 10 EXPRESS an opinion
on II look upon the event as phenomenal and
IL Is phenomenal. OF course, S-ward'Sr alleged
record of 81 has been discarded, and ought
claim is a sound one, / feel quite satisfied that
if George Seward had been three or four yards
in front of Carey at he start in the recent race
Seward would have finished second. Well
clearly to the world that even time is not SO
easy to do after all. Certainly there have been
numerous objections against the acceptance of
Carey's record. That is as it ought to be- be-
cause every claim ought to be sif.ed to its
remotest limits, that when one is ac-
cepted we can feel satisfied that it is
correct In the past records. particularly
sprinting records have been accepted with too
much laXiUy. We are almost always ready to
dispute the phenomenal and it is only evidence
of the very clearest mind that will remove our
n dforrfr "a off II IC Tnf han,
fact puts all these phenomenal records on the
defensive, which is just as it ought to be.
suppose that Carey and his friends have made
their case up fully, and until the A. A. U.
committee has pronounced upon it il
would be very preSumptinus on my part
to take anything regarding it for granted.
dealing further with it But Carey's claim
at least goes t1 prove that Owens record ought
TO 90. Bv the way, L discussed Owens claim
last week and in doing / referred 10 Mr.
Myers. From what said some friends have in.
feTred that meant Myers had not record of
running 100 yards IN ten seconds. neither said
nor meant any such thing. 1 was dealing with
rational amateur championship races, and in
these Myers best time was 10 Is seconds.
was aware that he ran the "100' in even time 4
ten years ago, but ! said he never made lO0-
yard record. He ran the distance in even time
in 1880 but there we're two men before him with
that record and both were amateurs,
so that Myers did not make a rec
had heen made IN 1873 bv W. c. Wilmer in a
championship contest. and by r. L. La Mon
-aEue in The same year. Therefore my state
ment that Myers had ''rried to make a 100
yard record and failed'' was correct l make
this explanation because that excellent
authority TurL Fl ID and Farm in doing me
the honor to reprint my view on the matter
seems to have overlooked the facts that have
just menti ned. But as was Just saving if
Carey's correct time at Princeton was any,
where near 915 seconds, that goes very long
way in proving that Owen must have been bet
ter than eTens when he defeated Carey at
Washington only two weeks ago.