The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-26
Arrived in New York and
Is Working at Celtic
Park.
HOLDER or MAJORITY OF
THE WORLDS RECORDS
Longboat May Be Matched With
Fast Englishman
Shortly.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK. May 25.-Alfrod
Shrubb, the greatest distance runner
in the world, who landed IN New York
recently, had his first work out at Celtic
Park. III was the first chance the local
experts had TO look over the English
1ver, and they were amazed. Shrubb
is not the tall, lirbe-limbed athlete one
would expect TO see as a champion dis
tance runner. He appears to be about
five feet seven inches in height-much
shorter than Bonhag and Longboat-
yet his records are better than theirs
at every distance.
The Engishman when running does
not show as pretty style as the average
American distance champion. You are
impressed, first of all, by the wonderful
'snap' IN his action. Instead of the
long lope, Shrubb uses a fast stride,
and his arm action Is more that of
sprinter than that of the average dis
tance runner.
In running distance race, the av-
erage athlete maintains an even gait
all the way. Not so with Shrubb, how
ever. He is just as liable to let out
hundred-yard sprint in the middle Of
a race as not; IN fact. that is his ia
yorite way OF worrying and wearing
out an opponent. Without warning he
will dash away and gain twenty 1--WE
yards over his rivals in hundred.
Slowly they will close on him again un-
I'll they have almost reached his shoul-
der, but the instant Shrubb sees shad
ow on the path behind him he is off
again like scared rabbit. This trick
repeated few times takes the heart
Of : to hnc ,T
AS an amateur, Shrubb beat every,
thing in sight. Not pretending to be
at his best under two miles, he has.
nevertheless, done his mile A ward
worse than 4 l6 40. His two miles in
300 So is regarded as the greatest dis"
tance record on the books. Another
peach is ten miles IN so minutes
and 40 seconds, or sos per mile all tho
way.
The following world S records are all
held by Shrubb;
Mile and quarter, $40 l.5.
Mile and half. 6;47 So,
Two miles, 900 So.
Three miles. 14:l7 So.
Four miles, 1923 5-5.
Five miles, "a % %.
Six miles, % 80 %
Seven miles, 35:04 So.
Eight miles, 40:l6.
Nine miles, 1927 3-5.
Ten miles, 50:40.
Eleven miles. 56:23 25.
One hour. l miles l.l3T yards.
Discovered by Accident.
Shrubb, like most great athletes, dis.
covered bis ability by accident. Hs
lived in n small English town in which
cross-colnrry running was one of the
favoritc winter sports. Shrubb never
Il. =
big fire IN ono of the adjoining villages
one evening. y party of cross-country
runners set out to run TO the IRE (abous
seven miles), and In some way Shrubb
was enticed TO go along Shrubb
reached the fire long before the crack
runners of his village. and from that
gradually improved until ne became u
champion. When news reached Eng
land this spring of Longboat s trouble
with the Canadian A. A. u, ShrubA
thought that more than likely the great
Indian would be competing as a profes-
sional ere long. and at once decided
TO hottoot II over here 10 meet him.
In the meantime Lougboat has been
forgiven and reinstated, but reports OF
his receiving money as a gift froM
the CITY of Hamilton. Ontario, have
set the deep thinkers 10 work trying
to figure out whether or not the Indian
can compete as an amateur, IL not,
match between Lougboat and Shruhb
is in order, and what q race it would
be,
The Indian has run ten miles in 81
minutes o. hard road with fat shoes,
and would be a worthy foe for the
flying briton. Longboat has been beat
en- but once in his career-at three
mics, by George Bonhsg-and has
proven himself peerless in America
from five miles up, He is the logical
choice TO meet Shruhb at any distance
over five miles In the event of Long
boat 8 remaining an amateur, however,
Shubb will not be idle. Already 4
raac is arranged between the British
hie: and Tom kausly, the great Bos.
ton runner, who is the fastest pro
i'm Americs, at distances under five
miles The distance of this race will
be around two or three miles. and the
date and place of lis running will be
announced in few days, Shrubb IS
already in lair shape. He is a faithful
trainer. and his simple living habits en-
able him TO get into condition on short
notice.