Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-04
SOME MISCELLANEOUS SPORT
Track Athletes Manage to Put Up a
Few New Marks for the Sen
son in Spite Of War.

The war has unquestionably had an in
fuence In rendering more quiet the sea-
son that has just ended in the matter Of
track athletics, yet the caliber of our ath-
letics has not langushed and today 1t is
possible to pick out bunch Of American
athletes who would have no difficulty in de-
feating team from any nation in the world.
Possibly America could not hope for such a
clean sweep as was dealt the English team
in 1895. but 1t would not fall far behind.
Since Wefers has taken upon himself the
cares and responsibilities Of matrimony and
housekeeping, he has done nothing, and does
not seem to be the same man who tagged
fields and broke records at his seeming
pleasure a year or two ago. There are at
least two men, however. Tewksbury Of the
University OF Pennsylvania and Rush Of
Princeton, who are probably destined to fill
his shoes In the short sprint, having gone
below 10 fiat. This trio. together with
Matthew Long Of Columbia. are the stars In
everything below the quarter mile. Tom
Burke OF Boston is the king Of the quarter
and the half, while in the mile America has
had no better runner since Connef and
Orton than John F. Cregan Of Princeton.
who last spring won the distance in 4:23 3-5.
In high jumping we have fallen back
However, Justin D. Winsor, the PennsyFVa-
mia wonder, seems to be on the way to equal
Mike Sweeney's wonderful performances.
He was almost successful in clearing feet
6 inches last spring, and has given other
marvellous exhibitions since. There has been
some rare broad jumping during the last
season, that mark Of high class work, twen-
ty-three feet, being beaten by several men.
The leaders are J. G.. Remington OF Penn
! sylvania, and Myer Prnstein Of Syracuse,
N Y. Both have surpassed the old record
| of % feet 31s inches and have covered close
| to twenty-four feet
| In the hurdle events A. c. Kraenzlen Of
! Chicago and Pennsylvania has displayed
| speed that Is remarkable. In the intercol-
| legiate games he finished the low hurdles
| in O23 3-5, lowering the worlds record
| full second. In the high hurdles on the same
| day he made record Of OILS 80 Incident
ally, this same Kraenzrein should outclass
! anybody as an all around athlete. man
| who can, as he has done, run in even time,
! high Jump six feet, broad jump better than
| twenty-three feet. put shot forty feet and
hurdle faster than any man on earth. may
be held to be the full equal OF any one aiive'
not accepting Kiely, the Irish champion
who hurdles. jumps and throws in frst-class
form and has never been headed IN an an
around contest. Yet, when Kraenzlein came
I
years ago, he was likened unto big horse.
! He was a six -footer, OF rather awkward car
riage and heavy, weighing about 1SO pounds
stripped
In the shot put, there have been few de-
yelopments and no one Is worthy to be
! ranked with George r. Gray, the Canadian
artist in this line. McCracken. the Penn
sylvania foot ball player, puts the shot
forty four feet, and this is about as near as
anyone has gotten to Gray's forty-seven
feet The records made by Mitchell with the
fifty pound weight still hold. but his
best records with the hammer have been
beaten dozen feet by John Flanagan, while
two classic collegians. McCracken and the
Californian, Ehgren, have surpassed his old
record Flanagan, the Irishman just over
from the old country, does our hammer
throwing nowadays. He was invincible In
Ireland and he is invincible here, being as
far in the lead with the hammer as was
Gray with the shot, Wefers In the dash
race. or as Chase and Sweeney were In
hurding and high jumping respectively.
His last mark was 1853 feet four and one
half inches.
There has been a noticeable raising in the
standard OF college p"le-valters. When
Clapp and johnson OF Yale and Hoyt OF
Harvard all cleared above eleven feet a. the
intercollegiate championship last May, 1t
was the finest exhibitions OF pole vaulting
ever given In the country. Clapp has since
raised the record to eleven feet ten and one
half inches the worlds record.
In this connection should be mentioned
the latest remarkable performance made by
NJ. ]. NJ Newburn. the famous and almost
, phenomenal broad iumper OF Ireland snd
the holder OF the worlds record. Newburns q
accented figures heretofore have hean
twenty four feet six and three-ouarter
inches. but according to the latest batch OF
sporting exchanges from across the wa 'er. he
has cast this record completely In the
shade by clearing the astounding distance
OF twenty five feet three inches. or some
thing like one foot seven inches further