The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23

shrubb displaced the Scottish all-comers
three mile record OF Id minutes 81 SIS Sac
onds, by r. z. Bacon, made at the Edin-
burgh Northern Harriers meeting, Powder
Much earlier in the season. on May 70. at
Stamford Bridge, London. the South Lon
doner treated the spectators to a superb
bit Of pedestrianism in the five mile special
race He won in the as, ounding time OF
"a minutes So 2-5 seconds. wipng all records,
slate The old amateur mark was "a min
utes So SIS seconds, by Sid Thomas, in Sep
TENDER. ls9s and the professional mark was
"a minutes 10 seconds, by Jack White, as
far back as 1864.
running. At the Spanish war veterans
games in the Twenty-seoond Regiment
Armory In this city Ave man team from
the University Of Pennsylvania made a
new record for the mile They were v. D.
Carbonell and j. B. Taylor, and their time
was 3 minutes 20 1-5 seconds. A team Of
four men belonging to Harvard University
made q new record for three-quarters OF
mile at Mechanics Hall, Boston, on Feb. 49,
Tho time was 8 minutes 8 rs seconds and
A. Grilk and B. L. Young. On the same
date and the same track, the Yale team,
composed Of @. ]. Clapp, D. NJ Moffat
S. r. Burnap and E. B. Parsons, set up new
total distance in minutes IS seconds
The New York A. c. games was the scene
Of still another relay record and this time
the distance was four miles The Cornell
team, Smith, Munson, Foster and Schutt,
won. and the time was Is minutes 20 is
seconds.
No. much was accomplished among the
hurdlers, but a smack OF sensation was
given TO this branch of athletics
BY the burdling Of T. shideler Of San Fran
cisco at st. Louis on June /. The startling
5 feet 9 inches hurdles and shideler was
credited with the marvellous time Of Is
seconds, which II allowed would completely
smother every other known record. One
OF the timers even made the time IL 40
seconds, but the third timer returned IS
seconds, 80 that there was nothing for the
referee TO do but accept the timing Of the
| middle man and there was such a marked
| divergence In the three that the record
will never get official recognition. At
odd distances there were q few records .o
| yards over I hurdles feet inches high
In seconds; and on Feb. 81 on the came
floor Walter Steffens ran so yards over 4
| hurdles feet inches high In IS seconds.
On March [, F, ". Schulz Of the Milwaukee
hurdles 8 feet 0 inches high, and he sue
ceeded in getting over the sticks in As
seconds and in all probability the new
| mark will be accepted. But a genuine
performance over the timbers was that Of
Harry L. Hillman Of the New York A. G.
| at TTavers Island on Oct. 1. He ran the 40
yards over 10 hurdles feet inches high
In "a s-5 seconds and knocked out the old
figures OF SO is seconds, by b. Arnold
on Sept 7, 1901. Still q better perform
ance was that OF Hillman at st. Louis when
| he ran the 400 meter hurdle In So seconds
| but lost the record on account Of knocking
| down one Of the hurdles
Walking has long been ommitted from
| the American programme, but Is still in
Guided In highlands category, where long
distance contests are now all the rage.
| One Of the best Of these was a ffty-mile
contest at the Crystal Palaon, London,
on Oct. /, when +. B. Thompson com.
pleted the journey in hours 81 minutes
So seconds, breaking all the former
| records.
In the field competitions the greatest
| change was effected, no less than five OF
| the standard events having the records
altered-the broad and high jump being
the only ones to escape. The heavyweight
department this year attracted a great
| deal of attention, and the first to create
an interest in 1t was John Flanagan. He
| began a sortie on the records rs &c riy AZ
March u at Madison Square Garden, and
hurled the 5e-pound weight a distance Of
| 20 feet inches In the old style from stand
| For some time afterward 1t was doubtful