The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21

yoaTn no VlslUed England ana Lne year IN Wulcn
he set up the American record Of 1 minute
IS rs seconds. This IL a race worthy OF
retention among the younger genera
Uon OF athletic followers. IL formed an
item OF fall games on October 3 on the
Manhattan A. 9. grounds, at Eighty-sixth
stands a solid block OF ~brownstone resi-
dences.
TWO OLD ECoRD
The event was a handicap, with about a
score Of men aligned out on different marks,
ranging to fifty -eight yards, and prominent
were G.. ID. Christian Of Dublin University,
the Irish champion. on eighteen yards, and
shorty Haubold, afterwRrd one Of the
--chippie rev." of the New YORK A. G., on
the limit. Myers was on scratch. n in
going through the field had to run on the
outsade, where the track was loose, but he
came 90 Haubold, who was leading on the
homestretch. The New York A. c. man
Is 8 feet 4 inIhes tall and he was tearing
away ana working his long arms Ikea wind
mill ,anY ayers could not get by him. But
a brigeA diea struck Myers az they neared
the tapA Ee dGcked his lead and shot
under Hauoold,S right arm and won by a
couple Of feet v tAe record time mentioned.
Another remarkable incident came to light
Just as the runners were strolling toward
the dressing ROOM, for 1t was discovered
that Myers started from the wrong mark
~ ANh VNCND NV VNVA wv hN@A
mile, or SOL Yards in all. These things.
added to the fact Of the day being a damp
and raw n in October, make Myers's
race something to be remembered.
To look at Kilpatrick's record on paper
conveys no real idea Of its merits. About
twenty yards or so after the start his tights
became disarranged and on the first stretch
he strobe along in the rear, striving to fix
them, but In vain. Tbs quarter mile was
reached in 81 LIS seconds and then Kill
mn NnL A~>L l. IA-1 .a1 a- ~ .A0nRA
quarter unpaced. a point which should he
remembered when stress In laid on Shep-
paTd's running the last hundred yards alone.
There rs another thing, too. which means
something. Fitzpatrick carried the respon-
sibility OF an International match on his
shoulders. while Sheppard had nothing at
stake. As keen a critic as Montagu Shear
man, president of the London A. c. and a
first rate runner himself, admitted tina
had not the accident happened to Kilpat-
rick's tights his time would be about l
minute 81 seconds,
LONG DISTANCE RACES.
The 500 metre race at Athens, when Pill
grim defeated Lightbody. a the other
noteworthy event in middle distance racing,
but Lightbody by his victory in the ] 500
metres did a LOT TO place American distance
runners toward the front. He won from
good men as Crabbe Of Cambridge,
who had beaten 4 minutes 20 second for the
IAilp hld OOill NAtNhOIkH VI ENtOIldIlus IO
once beat Shrubb in a level two mixes
McGough subsequently, made a new Scotch
record, 4 minutes 20 3-5 seconds.
The best mile run, either here or in the
old country. was the English championship
which " as won by G. Butterfeld in 4minutes
10 rs seconds. Here +. A. Rodgers ran a
couple of slashing miles, and he was easily
the best OF the lot. At the National A. A. u.
championships his time was 4 minutes % As
seconds. and it was the best ace ever run
by a native born American and ties similar
figures made by j. p. Sullivan last year.
Rodgers can be reckoned a little better,
for he eased up several yards from home,
had he run himself clean out the time
would be much closer to 4 minutes % sec
onds. Sheppard ran some fast miles in
doors last winter, notably 4 minutes -
in the Fourteenth Regiment Armory
and 4 minutes rs is seconds in Madison
Square Garden, but neither has received
any recognition by the record authorities,
as they ignore running records made in
doors.
The long dist ance records remained in
tact, but several Englishmen put up good
races but far behind anything like Shrubb
would reel OF were he still in the amateur
On this side Bonhag's two miles in
Q minutes 40 As seconds turned out to be
high water mark of the season, though
it was far behind the record OF o minutes
p as seconds by Alec Grant in 1903. Out
o n the Pacific slope a runner named Connel
made W miles in Q minutes 81 LIS seconds,
and this was next to Bonhag's. and, incl
dentally, a new mark for the Coast, sup
an old figure Of 10 minutes 10
by Hunter in 1898.
sHERRINo's MARATHON RIUMPH
At all the other distances there was
new until the Marathon distance
Of tw~enty-six miles il reached. Here W. j.
Sherring Of Hamilton, Ont, reigns supreme
by his record breaking win in the Marathon
in the Olympic games. He covered
a jagged, dusty, hilIy,. zigzag highway
from the ~ramshackle village Of Marathon
to the stadium in a broiling sun in 2 hours
81 minutes Is 3-5 seconds, beating all former
marks and winning by a mile from Swan
berg, his nearest opponent. In 1898, when
the race was won by Loues. the Greek, his
time was 2 hours IS minutes 20 seconds.
w. @. Frank OF the United States team was
third, in hours 40 4-5seconds.
Relay racing received its share OF atten-
ton, especially at the big annual carnival
promoted by the University OF Pennsylvania
in April. Michigan University came East
with a strong team for the four miles, W hich
they won in 10 minutes 10 rs seconds,
breaking the old record, which stood to the
credit OF Cornell. by Q IS seconds.
Foremost among those who claimed dis
tinction over the hurdles was John ]. Gar
rels OF the University of Michigan by his
work in the 100 yards high obstacles. At
the intercollegiate conference meet on
North western Field at Evanston, Ill. on
June 4 he won the championship in is is
seconds, thereby ~equalling the worlds
mark to the credit OF Alvin Kraenzlein
since. June IS, 1898. 1t was a rafting per-
Torrance, but Garrels unavOidably violated
one Of the rules of record breaking; that is,
that all the hurdles must be standing after
the hurdler has struck the tape. In his
eaRerness to make good time he knocked
down two of the hurdles, so the IS is SEQ
onds will And a resting place in the record
refuse heap. What appears to be a genuine
hurdle record is fifty yards in o lis seconds
by Walter Steffens OF Chicago University
in a dual meet last spring with Wendell
Phillips school. The obstacles were 2 feet
Q inches high, and Steffens was Joint holder
Of the old record Of 8 as econd with NJ. S.
Catlen OF Chicago.
Next to Garrels, Smithson of the Multi
nomah A. C.. did the best work over the
high sticks, and it occurred sinRllarlv at
this memorable meet at Spokane where Dan
Kelly made his two records. Smithson's
time was is rs seconds, and il is still more
singular that he never before showed such
speed.
j. 6. HILLS HURDLE FEAT.
Joseph S. Hill Of Johns Hopkins University
has made a claim for a new record, and as
it seems to be all right and the first one OF
its length and arrangement it will make
a new paragraph In the book. Its length
is 100 yards, z hurdles ? feet 9 inches hi9h.
the first hurdle being 20 Yards from the