The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-01

all classes of sports, new marks having
been hung UP in the various track and
field competitions which will undoubtedly
stand for many years to come.
What 1t means to create new World
record only those who have closely fol-
lowed the course of champions in vari-;
Gus classes of sports can well under
stand. = 1t is the highest ambition OF
athletes to establish such marks. yet
those who realize such hopes are few IN
number.
Outside of the race track features in
1904, the most important athletic events
of the year were the Olympic games dur
ing the worlds fair at st. Louis and the
international varsity contests between
Yale and Harvard versus Cambridge and
Oxford in England. For the st. Louis
championships athletes gathered from all
parts of the world. and the New York A.
c.. team, with the aid of two or three
athletes who made new records, carried
off the honorS. Chicago was second, MIL
waukee third, and the Greater New York
irish A. fourth In the varsity sr eain eoh
victorious, winning six of the nine events.
Records in Baseball
The year of 1904 in baseball was un--
doubtedly the greatest season this great
national paStime has ever known. The.
attendance at the National and Amerl-
can league games was much larger than
ever before.
There were many prosperous minor
leagues in the field, showing an absorb
ing interest in the national game in ev-
cry part of the country.
Happy jack Chesbro, the great pitch
8 er of the New York American League
club, was a prominent figure in the game.
He led all the crack pitchers in percent
age of games won.
On the water the victory of Louis F.
Schoies in the Diamond sculls race at
most important event Of international
boat boating for 1904 This young scue
away course of one mile $50 yards by As
iseconds-his time being 1923 1-5-but he
also defeated F. S. Kelly. holder of the
emblem for two years, who was regarded
as the best amateur sculler England has
had in years.
In college aquatics Yale defeated Har-
yard in the varsity eight at New London
in 21:401a- Harvard's time being 22:10
Cambridge defeated Oxford by four and
. one-half lengths in their annual regatta
II al:5a England the time Of the winner being
In the Olympic regatta at st. Louis F.
B. Greer, of Boston. won in the cham
8 of New York, won the senior single race
of the Middle States association regatta
on the Harlem river Labor day. The
thirty eighth annual regatta of the Har-
lem River association was held July "a,
and the single championship was won by
Frank VeSeley.
= F. B. Greer also won the Canadian Hen
ley. with c. S. Titus second. Time, 8:22.
Titus won in the senior singles in the
Peoples day regatta, at Philadelphia July
q good field.
lngomar Made Best Record -
OF the yachting record made in 1904,
that of the 1ngomar in European waters
was the best. Leaving Bristol, L. l., late
in April and returning in September the
schooner owned by Commodore Morton S.
Plant, of New York, and sailed by Capt.
Charlie Barr, won nineteen prizes in TWEEN
ty-two races.
Atlantic won the Brenton's Reef cup
race in August, defeating the Resolute
and Endymion. The same yacht also won
the Cape May race of 220 miles, sailed in
September, her time being 39:3S:1S. Lit
tie Rhody won the Upton cup race for
I. : small yachts from New York to Marble
head. Yankee Won three of a series of
five match races under the auspices of the
New York Yacht club between the seven
ty-footers, the Rainbow winning two and
the Virginia none. Ste. Claire, of Detroit,
won the $1,000 Upton Challenge cup race
at Chicago.
& Howard Goulds steam yacht, Niagara
w, defeated w. K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s Ia
rantuIa by 8 minutes so seconds over a
course of thirty nautical miles on Long
Island sound The average speed of the
winner was q 81 knots an hour, and her
time Fle49:27. III. H. Rogers steam yacht
Kanawha successfully defended the Ly-
SlStrata. cup in a race of sixty nautical
miles in the lower bay, defeating f. M.
Smiths Hayoli minutes 39 seconds. The
Kanawha's time was 3:58.00 and her ave.
rage speed 1890 knots
In the homing pigeon contests many
new records were made. All the old birds
increased the records of 1903 from 200 to
500 yards per minute, and the young birds
falling off, except in 300-mile tests
Great Strides in Natation
The art of natation made rapid strides
In 1904, many performances being charac-
teriStic Cf this wonderful progress. while
the American swimmers are gradually
forging into the front line they are not as
yet the equals of the Australians and the
English, says an authority on swimming.
One of the best records of the year was
that of Dan B. Renear, at Honolulu in
November. who was credited with 100
yards StralShtaway in still water in one
minute flat, new worlds record by some
thing over a full second. B. Keran. of
Australia, mere boy, was the brilliant
lnenee and set up an almost entire set
: of new open water records, from $50 yards
to one mile, which he covered in "a min
uteS and thlrty-SiX and one-half seconds.
American interest centers in c. M Dan
iels, the young champion of the n. Y A.
C., who made two new open water records
of 110 yards in one minute and sixteen
seconds. and 200 yards in two minutes and
forty-four seconds.
"A record of considerable interest was
from the N. Y. A. c. The distance was
s zoo yards: each man to swim fifty yards,
the full time being 1;55 25. In Australia
five men covered 500 yards, each swim
ming 100 yards, in 5:17 2-5, which was a
truly marvellous performance.
The year in racquetS and fencing was
one of great interest to participants in
these sports. George A. Brooks, of Phil
adelphia, won the racquet championship
of the United States. West Point won the
intercollegiate fencing championship by a
score of Al points won to Is lost.
In billiards. two important match games
for the worlds balkline championship al
1872 and 49, were played between Mau-
rice Vignaux and George Sutton in Paris
Aiferdo de Orc won the worlds champion
ship pool emblem in the st. Louis tourna-
ment in October. William H. Clearwater
in this contest. made new worlds record
run of fifty-nine balls
On the American turf new records were
hung up by Tanya of 81 3-5 seconds for
four and a half furlongs; by Artful OF
LOS for hree-Quarters of a mile; by Mar
tinmas and Mineola of 1:1S 2-5 for six an6
a half furlongs; by Orthodox of 1898 70,
one mile; by Broomstiek of 1902 As fol
one mile and a quarter; by Ostrich of 81:
for one and five -SixteenthsN miles, and b,
Irish Lad of 2:1T 3-5 for one and three
eighth miles. At San Francisco Dec. /.
Dainty ran seven and a half furlongs il
1872
OF the leading stake features for 1904
Highbail won the American Derby Ell.
wood the Louisville Derby Herrnis ths
Handicap Broomstick the Brighton hand
leap. Artful the Futurity and st. Anan
the English Derby.
The fastest mile trotted in 1904 with
out wind shield or pacemaker in from
was 2.o1 by Lou Dillon at Memphis OF
Nov. II. Major Delmar, under same con
ditlonS and on the same track Oct 25