The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-22
IF It's Il E r E
IT'S RIGHT
RECORD OF THE
YEAR IN SPORTS
While Season Has Not Been a
Remarkable One, Many Rec
0rdS Have Been Made.

While 1907 has not been marvellous in
record breaking for the whole sporting
calendar, there has been a steady i'm
Drovement in many lines of sport. and
the record-breaking performances have
been of nature to excite wide inter-
est
In the ice ana snow sports, the snow
shoers set a new mark in cross-coun-
try running Of nine miles in Al min
utes 20 seconds, and the ski Jumpers,
who have rapidly attained prominence,
have placed the record for jumping at
ia feet The local skaters were handi-
capped by a late season and poor ice,
but in the International meet new rec
Ords were made. about the best being
9 minutes s AS seconds for 5000 meters
{ miles 1SS YARDS. In ice yachting a
twenty-mile course (ten turns) was
covered in SO minutes 50 seconds.
Racing Hautos were credited with
many new records, the fastest mile on
a circular track being that of 81 sec
onds by Walter Christie In road rae
ing Nazzaro (F'iaD covered the Grand
PriX course in France of AIS miles at
an average speed of 1851 miles pee
hour. DUray de Bietrich) made the
fastest round of AIS miles in 1874,
Daniels Best Record Breaker.
Charles M Daniels, the New York 4.
c. swimmer, will receive the greatest
credit as one of the best record break
ers of the year. He created more than
forty new American records, his 100
yard mark of 90 20 seconds in the En-
gliSh championship and mile in 23-f0
in a 60-foot pool being simply marvel
Gus. In aquatics the One-mile canoe
record of S.45 with double paddles,
stTaightaway, was a good performance.
Il was unfortunate that Colin. the
champion horse of the season, found
nothing to force him to Ord-breaking
efforts in the way Of best world :
marks. New records were made. how
ever. among them being the one mile
an . eighth in 80 80 by Charles Ed
va at Brighton Beach, and the six
and oue-half furlongs in 1:17 2-5 by
Brookdale Nymph at Belmont park
The worlds trotting and pacing rec
ords were not shattered, but the new
corners showed such Improvement that
something may be expected next season
in this line. OF the new trOtting per
formances, the two-year-old Tramfast
C2:12l4) and the three-year-Old General
Watts (2;O62s), also the mare ReprOG/h-
less (2:O414) among the PAGERS. divided
the hOnOrs as the fastest of the season.
Big Baseball Attendance.
Total attendance at the National and
American league baseball games was
6.133, $500, 900 more than the previous
best record of 1904. Cobb of Detroit
led the American league batsmen, with
an average of 1852, while Wagner of
Pittsburg clouted the horsehide in the
National with an average of $50.
\ homing pigeon made an average
speed of 1872 yards per minute for GO
miles. Thompson's Colts bowling team
five mem rolled a 2,S53 score for three
games. Ralph Rose, John Flanagan.
Martin Sheridan, George Bonhag and
Melvin Sheppard, all broke athletic rec
ords.
Shooters Have improved.
The shooters had their eye ON the tar
gets in the Palma trophy International
match, i'm which a worlds record Of
LIP out Of a possible 1900 was made,
and even TopperWein's record for
for breaking 1000 flying targets was
broken by Capt. Hardy. who smashed
13O6O6. and then quit because one Of the
judges had to be home on time for his
supper.
Dr. Hudson of New York set up
new NOElu record ol- lriDJ OUT VI 81
possible 1.250 points on a ring target
at 200 yards, in fifty consecutive shots.
Rudolph Cute made 2,40O out of pos
sible $500 in a gallery match Of tn"
Zettler Rife club. William H. Herr.
the L. NJ. c. Remington professional.
made new worlds record at the traps,
where he shot al 1869 targets i'm COM
petition and broke 96.3 per cent.
The professional billiardists appear To
have nearly reached their limit in the
baIk-line games. although it is not un-
reasona Bile to believe that something
further may happen in this line the
present season. Calvin Demarest, in
winning the national amateur cham
piOnship. put on a new record average
of 2727 at 14.2. Willie Hoppe made
run of 81 points "off the red" Bush OF
Elmira pOcketed IS balls from the break
at pool: Nolan averaged 1.6 in a three
cushion game of twenty-five points.
and Sutton made a run of 221 points i'm
a practice at 1871 balk-line. this season.