The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-17
NEW RECORDS
OF PAST YEAR

Keen competition in many branches
| of sport led to the betterment of marks
| during 1905 New records were set in
events requiring speed, strength and
skill. The chief new marks in the last
year are chronicled below:
Jan. Pc P Swatek sets worlds rec
ord by swimming 800 feet under
water at the Chicago Central Y NJ.
c. A. natatorium. H. J. Handy
breaks worlds record by swimming
forty yards on his back in OPP 2-5
at Central Y. NJ. c. A. Ollie SlaVin
makes worlds auto record Claim
ED, covering 100 miles on circular
track at Dallas, Texas, in 2:06:43
So
Jan. lie. R Thomas drives auto fif-
teen miles at average speed of
thirty-seven seconds for each mile
a Ormond Beach, Fla.
Jan. 20-Arthur Mcdonald claims a
mile in thirty-four seconds at Or
mond Beach auto course.
Jan. PA. c. Mcdonald sets new five
mile auto record by going distance
in 3:17 at Ormond Beach
Jan. 25-H. L. Bowden breaks Wander
ering the distance in 0:34 1-5 at Or
mord Beach.
Jan. ga. c. Mcdonald sets new
American record for one kilometer
at Ormond Beach-time 0:23.
Jan. 2S--E r. Thomas breaks Wander
bits ten-mile auto record setting
new mark at 6:31 As. Worlds record
for 20S-yard potato race is reduced
to 0:49 3-5 by c. j. P. Lucas at st.
Louis.
Jan, 3O-H. W. Fletcher sets new auto
record for 100 miles, making the
time of 1:1S:24.
Jan 31-Five American records smash
ed at Ormond Beach auto races. H.
L. Bowden goes mile in 0:32 As; A.
G. Mcdonald sets ten-mile time at
6:15 and the twenty record he
placed at 1923: II. w. Fletcher did
fifty miles in 1888; mile for Amer
lean gasoline machines was made |
in 0:40.
Feb. Wv. Gould Brokaw's motor boat, |
Challenger, travels kilometer in 1:21 |
off Palm Beach, Fla. |
Feb. 3-Motor boat Challenger goes !,
eight miles on Lake Worth, Fla, in |
1888, a worlds record.
Feb. 15-The Bensinger bowling team
VI CHIcdSO eSCdD1SneS world rec |
ord by averaging 1861 for three
games.
March 16-W. H. Freer of Concordia,
Kan, sets worlds record by break
ing 307 targets, consecutively, at
Des Moines, Iowa.
April Swords three-mile running
record is established at Oakland,
Cal, by Elie-time, 1922
May 90. D. Lightbody of the Uni
versity of Chicago breaks confer
ence college record by running
balf-miIe at Ann Arbor in 1:57. He
also breaks one-mile conference
record by negotiating distance in
4:30 1-5 J. c. GarreIs of the Uni
versity of Michigan sets conference
mark by throwing discus 127 feet
10 inches. Louis Chevrolet sets
track record for autos by going
mile in 0:52 As at Morris Park.
Nay 27-Parsons of Yale lowers eastern
intercollegiate haIf-mile mark to
1:56. Dray of Yale makes new rec
ord in pole vault at II feet 10 IL
inches, meet being held in Phila-
delphfa
une AT the western college confer
ence meet on Marshal field J. c.
Garrels of Michigan breaks worlds
dlScuS record at distance of lao feet
3-S inches. Conference records
established are as follows: High {
jump, H. NJ. Friend, Chicago
height. % feet "a inch; pole vault.
f. c. Glover. Purdue-height. IL y
feet 9 3-8 inches; r. V. Norris Hi
nois, makes same mark in pole
vault; two-mile run, F. A. Rowe,
Michigan-time, $50; one-mile run, \
J. D. Lightbody. Chicag o-time,
AS; half-mile run, J. D. Light
body, Chica go-time 1:57 2-5.
lne 24-Guy Vaughn sets 1000-mileI
auto record at Empire City track,
New York-time, 23:33:20.
lly 26-E. Desmarteau breaks worlds Il
record for throwing y-sfx-pound P
weight for height, Is feet II inches. 81
ug. 5-W. w Coe raises worlds shot t
put record to 40 feet s inches at s.
Portland. "
ug. 12-B. B. Kieran of Australia sets p;
worlds record at IFS 2-5 for 800 Y,
meter swim at Stockholm. u
ug. 26-H. NJ. Hanna drives Aerolite F
and Leola at Cleveland a mile in p