The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-01
MANY NEW RECORDS WERE
MADE DURING PAST YEAR


Of 2:osz made by Maud S in Cleveland
the only successful record breaker with
the use of the wind shield in 1904. pacing
best ST. performanee ma iats withpat tbe use Of "a
wind shield was 2:00H at Memphis
Prince Alert was the only horse to beat
wind shield, having paced miles IN 1894
at Lexington, Syracuse and Philadelphia.
Luke Burke made a record with sEl Moro
way of 2:15 and 2:1411s for two consecutive
heats.
Cycle Records Broken
Next in local importance the recent
six day bicycle race won by Root and
Dorlon, the National Cycling association
Kramer and the national amateur cham.
pionship Swon by M. L. Hurley We're OF
special interest. Many records were
ord in which Eugene Bruni at the Veie-a
drome. Paris, Oct. 81 covered ffty-four
miles 545 yards.
the professional and Marcus Hurley, OF
New York, the amateur worlds cham
pionships in the Crystal palace tourna-
| ment in London in September. Lawson
beat Hurley in the run off. = and is the
first American to hold an actual worlds
cycling championship.
teur Championship of Great Britain and
II. Chandler Egan that of the United
States. Miss Georgiana Bishop won the
tenth wOmenS s amateur championship or
| the United States.
Jack White won the open champion
| ship of England and H. L. Boyd the Ju-
| bilee cup at ST. Andrews, Scotland DR..
G. O. Walker, an American, won the
championship of Germany
New York golfers defeated Philadel-
phia in the inter-city tourney, and, Ameri-
| can women won the International event
with Canadian women.
To Barney Oldfeld must again be given
Obj
| feur, he having established many new au-
! tomobile records. Early in November Old
/ field set up new marks from on to twenty
| miles, with a few exceptions for interme-
diate miles At Fresno, Cal, Dec. IS, he
again made new set of records from ff-
teen to fifty miles, and again on Dec. %
he. made yet .others from two to nine
miles Inclusive.
In lighter machines than that used by
| Oldfeld Frank Croker, M. 6. BERN,
Frank Kulick (whose performances were
/ of exceptional nerit), and Joseph Tracey
have also created new records.
The Vanderbilt cup race. on Long ISL
and roads. won by Frank Heath, was
| the greatest event of this sort held IN
/ America, and attracted drivers and cars
from Europe. On the other side, the Cor
| don Bennett cup race, won~by L. Thery,
was the principal feature of road racing.
| In this country road racing became
! very interesting feature of auto-driving,
and many new records were made. that
| lowered to 80 days % hours 20 minutes;
from Chicago to New York to -5S hours,
] 45 minutes, and from Boston to New York
i to hours, minutes.
Great Year In Athletics
No better evidence of the advance made
In athletics could be obtained than that
| found in looking over the complete table
of new records made in 1904 Especially
worthy of note are the remarkable per-
formances Of Harry L. Hillman Jr., Ray.
/ Ewry, M. J. Sheridan and John Flanagan
in the New York A. C. team, which won
the many individual prizes In the point
| Olympic events at st. Louis.
lowered records In these contests in
1 which the best athletes of the world were
| competitors. and the new marks they set
up were all the more meritorious when 1T
is remembered that these contests have
Records have been smashed during the
/ year, in nearly all the leas1ins.e gasnes,
notably sprinting, hurdle races, jump
and shot putting and walking In the
last form of sport A. E. Shrubb. an Eng
lish amateur, who has lately come into
ors. Harry Hillman, of New York won
further honOrS in hurdle and fiat racing.
Duffey was defeated by,sAforteH in Eng
land, but his hundred record was not
/ disturbed. New records were made of
/ forty, forty and ftftyssaadss sssssas
John Flanagan smashed several old rees.
! was obliged to SHARE honprs with Ralph
! Rose, the young zf4ft who
made worlds S record throw of 48 feet17
! inches with the 16-poundzsho at st. Louis,
/ Aug. 81. 80
/ snec,a, Ea.t,re -, r.nxf,,,
r...'. -,s..s ~. - s 70.
| classification of ring champions as they
| now appear tIec. ~ 1904 is, more likely
/ 10 come from those Claiming such honors.
i yet generally hghtngs ate~sWeights far
/ above the recognized scale. than from the
leading authorities wh ho@Inake a study of
ring AFFAIRS The dissatisfied may locate
a
and the management of clubs who permit
"championship contests<at such false
WEIGHTS. there ever was a time in the
i history OF puglllsmr when. the great weight
4 question should be settled those who con-
that spch time has certainly " arrived s1i d. sss
the number decided e at the weight s limit limit