St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-02
DOWN GO RECORDS.
Johnson, the Phenomenon,
Cuts Two New NotcheS
for Skating.
Re Is Now Holder Of the 100
and 100 Yards Skating
Records.
Olaf Rudd Offers to Give Nor
seng a Turn Ahead on
Ice.
Events to Occur in Local Cir
cIes--StatuS Of the Shut
fleboard Tourney.

Last night John S. Johnson hung up
his skates and quit scratching ice and
breaking records for the season. He
took run at a couple OF records yes
terday afternoon, in Minneapolis, broke
both OF them and quit.
The fist record he went for was the
100 Yards. The ice was not good. The
snow was lust scraped off; the ice was
not sprinkled and it was full of cracks.
From a standing start Johnson covered
the 100 yards in 9 - seconds. lie did
Il without the assistance OF breath OF
wind. The best previous record, 10 Is,
was made by 5 ID. Sea, and IS set down
III The Clipper Annual as made with the
assistance of wind.
After a few minutes rest Johnson
went for the 120-yards record. He went
over that distance in II SIS seconds,
skating the last twenty yards around a
turn. The best previous record was
made by G.. s. Phillips in 1l3S seconds.
All three watches caugh the time iii
both trials under the record, and in
each case Johnson was given the worst
of il To the extent that he was given the
sloweSt time. The officials were: Ref
cree. Ray ii. Smith; starter, Harry
Dover; Judges, Oscar HOltheI and AL
fred johnson; timers, J. c. Harper, c.
l.. Baker and t. W. Eek. Johnson was
sent away each time by pistol shot.
When Johnson finished the races at
Red Bank, \. j., he announced that he
would be open for engagements,
ny or Inn IL
until March l. None Of them have
rome forward with a definite PROPOSE
ton, 50 he has quit for the season.
Johnson expects to put in the summer
on the bicycle, and he must have some
rest. Next Monday, accompanied by
Tom Eek, his trainer, he will go to the
Hot Springs. He will train there
for six weeks and then bestride the
pneumatic again. Eek is confident that
johnson will aStOnish them all this sea-
son on the wheel. Last season was his
first on the wheel, practically. He had
ridden in local races, but without any
training. His first race last season was
in the big Milwaukee road race, from
WaukeSha to Milwaukee. johnson
went down there without much
training, beat all the scratch
men, and won the second time
DrlZG. linen Eek lOOh Iiill III manu. otlu
at independence, three weeks after he
began riding, Johnson had record be-
low two minutes for nile. After that
he Won race after race, doing remark
able work for a boy who began when
the season was half over. He is only a
boy yet. being but twenty years old.
! asst year he scaled, in riding costume,
down to 1876. This year he will ride at
about l4j.
And the people who think that boy
can't finish, " says Eek, want to wait
till they see him."
Johnson has had equally as remark
able a career as a skater. Two years
ago he was skating in local races in the
Twin Cities aud beating everybody.
But he had interpolation outside. This
winter he went down among the East
ern cracks and defeated the best of
them III addition to that, he has made
and now holds new records for 100
yards. l20 yards, 200 yards, one-halt
mile. one mile, TWO miles ana five miles.
1t hasn't made any difference what the
condition Of the track or the day. He
has made new record on the first trial
every time he has started for one. All
precautions have been taken and the
records will stand.