Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-08
MANY RECORDS
Are Going Down Under
Prowess ot'07 Athletes.
University Of Pennsylvania
Cficketsrs Win In England.
Johnny Summers will Return 10
America With Family.

New York, July 7.-"If some Of orr
strong men don't give the figures in the
record book an awful jouncing before
the summer is over I'll miss my guess"
That was the way n sport follower un
burdencd himGel: during n discussion
of what the athletic season was likely
to bring forth at one of the local clubs
last month. From the capers cut up by
strong armed covey in the past fort
night it certainly appears as If the
athletic fan was nosing along on the
right trail and not talking through his,
hat. New worlds figures have been es-
tablished in no fewer than four So
called weight events in the past two
weeks and the athletic season of 1907
is only in the bud. The new records are
yet subject to confirmation by the A
A. U.
Three of the former weight records
that succumbed to the prowess Of the
cracks were J. Mangan's Is feet AZ
inch for the 5G-pound weight over the
bar, Irish style: Jim Mitchell's IL feet
Gas inches for the 56-pound weight for
height. American style. and Martin
Sheridan's ICE feet inches with the
discus. Con Walsh, the brawney Celt
from Macroom, County Cork, who
sports the Winged Fist Of the Irish
Americans. was the man to cause the
snaknup in the go figures, tossing the
heavy missile over the bar at Il feet 9
inches and hitting the drum at Il feet
inches. and Martin Sheridan smashed
his former record with the discus nv
scaling the saucer 136 feet 10 inches
Con and Martin are running Il neck end
neck race for record breaking honors.
each having two records to his credit.
Besides setting a new discus standard
Martin established new figures for the
all-aronnd championships, scoring
1901 points against his own former
best figures of 6S20l5
One other record also went nv the
board. John Flanagan, the Winged Fist
Hercules, hurled the 16-polInd hammer
from n ninc-foot circle. 173 feet 4 IL
inches. The hammer has not been
thrown from nine-foOt circle in some
time, the rules calling for q seven-foot
ring. The best previous recorded throw
from ninc-foot circle was 1G4 feet
inches. made by Flanagan at Bavonne,
y. j., September 4. 1899. Tom Nichol-
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never hurled the hammer more than
100 feet in his life, and the statement
that Flanagan's throw bested the for
mer WORRIES figures, held by Nicholson,
was erroneous. John has thrown near
ly as far from q SeVen-foot circle az
he did last Thursday from the nine-
FOOT ring. His worlds record for throw
ing the 1G-pound hammer, the standard
style. from 4 Seven-foot circle. is 172
feet II inches.
\ prominent official Of the Amoteur
Athletic Union and an old weight
thrower himself last week said that he
thought before the summer was over
SHERIDAN would scale the discus close
To l40 feet, Flanagan would throw tho
hammer perilouSly near $50 feet. and
Nalsh would reach 16 feet with the
ID for height. One hundred and forty
ieet with the discus seems an almost
impossible distance when the fact ia
taken nto consideration that it was mt
many years ago that Charlie Henne-
man OF milwaukee, caused q sensation
py h'irllng the discus us feet Q inches
establishing worlds record. and in
l'ct win The 16-pound hammer seems
wen hiSh as improbable when il is re-
iieihpered that it was only a little
more than decade ago that Tim
Ml'chell made himself the king of
ht'hi'ler throWers by hurting the mis-
sile 130 feet.