The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-30
A,.aW Marks
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JR ATHLETES
| ondcrful Perform
.es Of the Year.


rbual compilation of the per-
u of the amateur athletes for
bust closing presents the
st of interesting figures the
teresting of which are, of
those dealing with the reduc-
81 worlds record In the sea-
NJ 40 less than six worlds rec
Is been smashed by American
q, upon American soil In the
or events the dashes and the
orrestances-the records stand
ms s'e they were a year ago. The
sssT1 track events to suffer a re-
ngawere the low and high hurdles
2 a1er figures altered We're for
-, ng the 16- pound hammer, the
Ter jump and the pole vault John
saJgan, the Hercules of the New
ois Athletic Club upset the record
a, for the weight twice during the
lea Flanagan raised the figures for
lneammer throw from $50 feet Al
sis to 15S feet inches And yet the
pendular giant hailing from kilmol-
=. Il avs he has not yet reached his
litnd will put the weight an even
Eelit before he quits the game.
We're. ,reator of the new records in the
sentirs is A. c. Krauslin of the Uni
orouiy of Pennsylvania. AT the in
tcesspnegiate championships last May
lty an furlong over the low sticks in
the marvellous time of % 80 seconds, a |
We iots performance for a 220-yard
Ion without obstacles In the same
nave was Bremen of Harvard, the for
we d!record holder. Kraenzlein estab- |
sprind the other record in the New
tnat.-Chicag go dual games at Chicago. !
slde.re he succeeded in clearing the
are as in the 120 yards high hurdles in
& nPa 7 f,e~
we "Cy' Chase's performance in the |
ana ana orcollegiate games in New York
Mr..
tiong G. Clapp of Yale now holds the
ahc6rld's record for the pole vault !
SaMearing II feet 1912 inches in the dual
Ssleet at Chicago. This was shortly af- |
Ter J. L: Hurlburt, the Wesleyan ath
Nc etc at the New England intercollegiate /
bgames in this city, had shaved the for |
ga 'rler record of II feet 3-S inches made |
81 by W. S. Rodenbaugh, six years ago. |
n Clapp has an entirely original way of |
clearing the bar 1t is a cross between |
a climb and a vault. It does not, how |
4 ever, violate the American rules |
tio against climbing. He rises in the air !
par,%9ith the pole in the orthodox manner. |
cIaroN hen the pole is perpendicular how |
TIsS5er, he slides the lower hand up to the
nex+ ,p one pulls himself upwards slides |
for the lower hand back again and pushes !
VI his body over the willow.
p The past season has also been pro-
III life in great broad jumpers. At least |
tn three men, including Kraenzlein w p
Remington and Myer Prinstein of Syr-
1t acuse University got well over the ex-
vi ceptonal stunt of % feet 1t re-
o manned, however, for the Syracuse
al University student to change the Am
erican record figures to 23 feet rs /
inches. Prinstein did this at the spring 1
Il games of the New York Athletic Club
81 on June H. The former record of C. S. Ii
III R=ber had survived since 1892 1t was
Ills thought in the early part of the year
nd That Remington would be the man to
The make a new record, as he had on one
nse occasion made leap of 90 feet G |,
nnI;o inches. But he could not quite reach,
tens the saying goes.
tba a thFoxhall Keene appears'to be the most
do1,bt ersatile amateur sportsman in sight
eyvad can ride a steeplechase without
W ufr missing a hurdle: he can follow
~ WI hounds across country wifho,1t
NIL, iltr taking one of those embarrassing
, pa !. pre- tumbles he can guide a thor
Vlb -, nbred over the fiat in most approved II
s,, ~ WHOM; he can make it interesting for
90 champions on the tennis court; and he
5 5eoais said to have thrown the redoubtabIe
a 80 sssandlay Douglas into fits on the golf
l~o sinks. This week "FoXie" made his Z.
aas n" nebut into another branch of sport. and
ia.e sstonished a group of Unknown cluh
~ NJ men at Hampstead Plains by blossom
ST. ing out as crack wing shot It
,a,. was ON christmas day when he Captur- =
,es 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 Ir
tlon arises in what branch of Snort ,
TINS versatile sportsman will bob up
next. !
The test of Fournier's petroleum nae a
ing machine, made this week in fine
Madison Square Garden. did NOT Turn :
out satisfactorily, The machine broke i
at the end of the fourth mile so tbe /
much mooted question as to the sune I
llority Of machine over human pace I
stun remains unsettled. Fournier tba
inventor insists that had it not bear |
Tor the breaking of the belt the ont :
come would have been far different |
and that in a future TO test the ne s
troleum wheel will prove as effective p
and satisfactory here as it did in France !
ana upon the continent But so far 7
the men who make their dailv broad Il
by pacing the cracks on the multi-cv Iii
Goes have no reasonable grounds for
fear. The motorcycle was slower in ! l.
getting away at the start and even h
when under Roadway lacked all +be p
speed of the riders The pace-maJxers' n,
places are secure for another season. AZ Id
least. 2
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