The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-19

neff inactive until 'o4. whom he startled tn,
athletic world by running n mile Mt Cambridge
Mass, in the worlds record time OF 4 minutes
II 40 seconds. He also broke an intermediate
record. going %. the three.qunrter pole IN !
minutes : seconds. Ills achievements durina
we past season are sill fresh in the memory
addition TO his double win Mt the lnternntionhs
games. he created new worlds records from
The three other matches suggested by Cant.
Weeks OF tho New York A. &. are scarcely a
whit less important than the event which led 70
the present negotiations. shaw. and Chase; the
rival murders, are head and shoulders ABOVE
, ,ha e1mpeers ~ t aS r. rgspeet' W c S9%nHpiies;
the English team herclast year may have handi.
capped shaw. and lie mnde such n gallanl, bid
to hold Chase then that Americana would be
delighted to SEQ him have another chance. pnr-
ticulnriy a. this season will 90 about his last on
the path. Chase had to break the worlds rec.
ord to get away from the sturdy EnElishnian at
Manhattan Field, and another duel between tho
noted hnrdiers might lead TO- further redus,
Glasses credit. Shaw's fastest recorded time Is
10 SO seconds. but there ia no doubt that he
race with the Dartmouth wonder.
Charles A. Bradley. the noted English Splinter
little intTpdnclion to the American sporting
public His home reputation, made him out a
S MSriHi D realize an" ,S. avH p W gSw si @o H Ss1s e faster Ssa
man. Bradley is II big framed athlete, carrying
plenty of flesh. and the intense heat during his
row margin by which Wcters beat him may en-
courage tho "HOo-dersfeld crack to accept
tho TEMPTING offer Of the New York a. @. and
have another try; Wefers is more than anxions
to meet the burly Britisher again, and should
viii viii focus The a,te " " Of ~ every arg speed peel s adye eosts
IN the world. Wefers has got the time for the
distance down to, the lowest limit so far. o 40
seconds, but as the honor Is shared by a few
predecessors he Is ready to strain every nerve to
clip of another fraction. That he can do so is
by no means an mprobability.
f. G. Bredin. who took the initiative in the
present negotiations. may not have reckoued on
there is little doubt Of bis sincerity in desiring
n race with Charley Fitzpatrick on his own ac-
count; In his letters to, Conner he only men
offered to pay Kilpatrick's expenses to Eng
land for the pleasure of meeting him in q half
tIedin Is TO the other middle distance experts
Of the Old World. The lengthy London A. c.
. Hhsn ot i,sPa' sid In a and r'a Se S @a. hi nniHdr.s on
q Lon Myers Until kfilpstricik, s sHpiodsd
tionai haif.miie race in pi the worlds roc record "ie time
Of minute 53 20 seconds. Even then the
EnRlishmen present did not waver In their alle-
glance TO Bredin. who, unfortunately. was 5000
miles away on the occasion. instead Of being on
Whether Bredln could have gone the pace must
an open. question until the proposed
Rrsdin H. comes pnmis off, and fer that reason alone
feverish interest. Averaging up the respective
times and performance, OF the two men.
has rarely run the half under 1867.
lBredin has done 50 repeatedly, and once got as
low as $50 round a big handicap field. The
the worlds, records for q quarter OF a mile and
6OO-yard distances. at which Fitzpatrick has
never cut much of a figure.
Altogether. Bredin seems to have no logical
reason for evading a decisive match. particu-
larly as he was the first to suggest 1t, and the
probabilities are that he will jump at the
If so. the success of the enterprise 10
lined should furnish an unprecedented treat
'or lovers of hlgh-class sport.