The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-30

NV Marks
E in '9S.
lR ATHLETES
I onderfill Perform
les Of the Year.

PES Vi UIlG L ear.
|ual compilation of the per-
of the amateur athletes for
lust closing presents the
st of interesting figures, the
teresting of which are, of
those dealing with the reduc-
Ae.world's record. In the sea-
no less than six worlds rec
been smashed by American
upon American soil. In the
events the dashes and the
stances-the records stand
e they were a year ago. The
track events to suffer re-
were the low and high hurdles.
her figures altered were for
ng the 16-pound hammer, the
jump and the pole vault. John
gan, the Hercules of the New
Athletic Club, upset the record
for the weight twice during the
Flanagan raised the figures for
ammer throw from 1850 feet 4
to 1853 feet inches And yet the
ular giant Mailing from Kilmol-
Lays he has not yet reached his
nd will put the weight an even
t before he quits the game.
creator of the new records in the
Is is A. c. Krauslin of the Uni
" of Pennsylvania. At the in
Auegiate championships last May
an a furlong over the low sticks in
marvellous time of 23 3-5 seconds, a
fio1s performance for a 220-yard
without obstacles. In the same
was Bremen of Harvard, the for
record holder Kraenzlein estab-
"a the other record in the New
4.-Chicago dual games at Chicago
re he succeeded in clearing the
IS in the 120 yards high hurdles in
IS seconds. a. fifth of a second faster
''Cy' Chase's performance in the
rcollegiate games in New York
e years ago.
6. clapp of Yale now holds the
earring II feet 1872 inches in the dual
leet at Chicago. This was shortly af-
er J. L. Hurlburt, the Wesleyan ath-
|ete at the New England Intercollegiate
ganles in this city, had shaved the for
|mer record of II feet 3-S inches made
by W. S. Rodenbaugh, six years ago
Clapp has an entirely original way of
clearing the bar. 1t is a cross between
a climb and vault. 1t does not, how
ever, violate the American rules
against climbing He rises in the air
with the pole in the orthodox manner.
@When the pole is perpendicular, how
yer, he slides the lower hand up to the
sp one, pulls himself upwards slides
Vthe lower hand back again and pushes
his body over the willow
. The past season has also been pro-
life in great broad jumpers At least
three men, including Kraenzlen, w. P.
Remington and Myer Prinstein of Syr
acuse University got well over the eX-
ceptional stunt of % feet. 1t re-
manned, however, for the Syracuse
University student to change the Am
erican record figures to 23 feet s rs
inches. Prinstein did this at the spring
games of the New York Athletic Club
on + Nf 9he former record of c. S.
~ survived Since 1882 1t was
hi ~ ent in the early part of the year
~ fiat Remington would be the man to
make a new record, as he had on one
Aoccasion made leap of % feet 81
INCHES. But he could not quite reach,
n Ns the saying goes
FoXhall Keene appears to be the most
rsatile amateur sportsman in sight.
can ride a SteeplechaSe without
missing hurdle; he can follow
Mounds across country without
taking one of those embarrassing
littlf tumhles; he can guide a thor
oughbred over the fiat in most approved
fashion; he can make it interesting for
champions on the tennis court; and he
is said to have thrown the redoubtable
Ftndlay douglas INTO hts on the golf
links This week "FoXie" made his
debut into another branch of sport and
astonished a group of we'll known club
men at Hampstead Plains by blossom
ing out as crack wing shot. 1t
was on Christmas day when he captur-
ed the main event of the day the Christ
mas day cup, making the only clean
score of the day. Up to this week
keene was never given credit as being
able to hit the proverbial barn door
with shotgun. And now the cues
ton arises, in what branch of sport
this versatile sportsman will bob up !
next.
The test of Fourner's petroleum pac-
ing machine made this week in the
Madison Square Garden did not turn
out satisfactorily. The machine broke
at the end of the fourth mile so the
lnuch-mooted question as to the supe-
riority of machine over human pace
still remains unsettled Fournier the
inventor, insists that had it not been
for the breaking of the belt, the out
come would have been far different
and that in a future to test the ne
troleum wheel. will prove as effective
and satisfactory here as it did in France
and upon the continent. But so far
the men who make their daily bread
by pacing the cracks on the multi-cy-
Goes have no reasonable grounds for
fear. The motorcycle was slower in
getting away at the start and even
when under Roadway. lacked all the
speed of the riders. The pace akers'
places are secure for another season, at
least