The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
LOOKS like POWERS
0artaT fe. a@t-s
Has Excellent Chance
Of Winning Cham
pionship.
FIGURES SAY THAT, AT LEAST.
Most Dangerous Competitor
Will Be Famous Record
Breaker, Kraenzlein.

j. Fred Powers of this city will be a
competitor at the national all-round
championships, which take place in
Bayonne City Tuesday, under the aus
pices of the New York Athletic club
His most dangerous competitor will
be Kraenzlein of the University of
Pennsylvania who can do all kinds of
things with hurdle and running broad
jump records.
Powers leaves this city tomorrow, and
is confident of winning. He is a con-
sistent performer and tireless, as he has
proved in many meets, when he won
half dozen firsts frequently He
banks on Kraenzlein not being able to
reach his mark on account of the num-
Der of events.
The championship is decided by 10
events, which are run off in the follow
ing order: 10O-yard dash, putting 16-
pound shot, running high jump, half
mile walk, throwing 56-pound weight,
pole vault, throwing 16-pound hammer,
l2O-yard hurdle race, running broad
jump and mile run.
Powers has been practicing daily at
the oval, paying greatest attention to
the events in which he does not excef
The half-mile walk and throwing the
56-pound weight are the only really new
events; for, although he has not posed
as a distance runner, he has raced on
several relay teams and has shown
ability to do the distances. He has
praeticed throwing the weight and the
walk, but his practice in the latter has
been slight, for he feared to injure by
walking muscles which are used in
other specialties.
The system of scoring for the all
round championship is little known
principally because the number of ath-
letes competing for it is small. In
each event the worlds best amateur
record is taken as maximum. for
which 1000 points are allowed. Then a
standard or limit is established, and
points equal or worse than these stand
ards score nothing. For instance, the
maximum of the 100 yards is 94-5 sec
onds, the worlds best amateur record.
and the minimum is IA 3-5 seconds.
The run scores from 94-5 seconds UP
TO IA S-5 seconds allowing 1000 points
for 8 40 seconds and AZ points less for
each successive fifth of a second worse.
For time faster than 9 AS seconds 1000
points and ~ points for each fifth of a
second better are scored
Ordinary timing watches cannot re-
cord any fraction of time less than the
nfth OF a second, and at the finish of
the l00-yard run or 120-yard hurdle
race the runners cover from four feet
to seven feet in a fifth of a second.
Hence one runner might be even six
feet behind another and the watches
give the same time for the two.
In order to get fair score, the men are
f0l hrYf
timed and the positions of the others
noted. For this purpose white lines ex-
tend across the track one foot apart.
and the judges establish themselves at
these lines, carefully noting where the
various contestants finish when the
leader crosses the tape. The first man is
given his score according to the stand
ard OF measurement, and the others
are rated seven points less for each
1901 tnat they are behind the first man.
In the other events the system of
scoring is the same. The record is
taken for 1000 points and the mark of
the men is compared with the record
when their scores in the various points
are made out
Just what Powers can do and last
what Kraenzlein can do gives pleniv
OF opportunity to guess. 1t might be
easy enough to state what each man
Souiu uo Ut would De likely to do If
| one event was selected and The man
| sent out to make the best performance
| he could. For instance, if Powers could
exert all his energies in the pole vault
| he would clear the bar above IL feet. as
| he has done it several times But Pow
ers and his friends don't figure on any
thing like IL feet in the championships.
| There are nine other events in the
| championships and Powers places his
best mark at 10 TT. 6 in: Kraenzlein has
| covered over % feet in the running
| broad jump, but he wasn't throwing
| 56-pound weights and 16-pound ham
mers the same day, and if he does
% #. in. he will be doing well.
| A careful follower of both men has
| made out table in which he makes
| allowance for the fact that the men
have 10 events in which to compete, and
he does not give them their best per-
| formances. He reckons on what he
| considers a fair basis, and if anythir g
| Is treating the men kindly in some
| events The table shows Powers win
ner The figures for what they are
| worth are as follows:
|