Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-24
E DAYS DOINGS IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS
HARvARp's ATHLETIC RECORDS
Those of Present Time Show Great
Advance Over Twenty Years Ago.

| since lney nave been kept mas tttl
framed ana placed i'll the room of The
Track ana Field club of Harvard iii
| The locker building Oh Soldiers field. A
| study Of these is most Interesting. as
| showing lie great difference in the rec
| ordA Of - years ago from those Of The
| present Gay ANA the Improvement
| which has been made in almost all Of
| the performances. The names OF some
| of the record holders also are Of inter
est as being those of men who III a
| number of cases have attained marked
success in life.
tIndrr the l00-yard dash the first rec
ord which is recorded is that made by
! $. II. kittredge, &c, i'll October, 1874, Of
| lli2 seconds In the following year his
| was reduced TO IL seconds by r. w.
| 1hayer, rs. Robert Bacon, assistant
secretary of state, whose three SONS are
| at Harvard and prominent III athletics,
was the first man TO reach 10 80 sec
| OndS. IN 1878. Three years later Fvert
Jansen Wendell cut the record to
10 seconds fiat. at which point it re-
| manned until 1902 without being bet
| tered, although Il number Of men We're
able to equal it. In that year w. A.
Schick, %, ran the 100 in 9.4-5 seconds.
| Wendell ran the 220-yard dash in "a
seconds fiat in 1873. In 1886 Wendell
| Baker lowered these figures 10 ~ sec
| onds. w. A. Schick is the holder Of the
| present record for this event. u %
| seconds.
In 1875 The best performance for the
| quarter-mile was 60 seconds. This rec
ord was held by c. s. Bird, II. Bacon,
| Wendell and Baker successfully low
| cred these figures until in 1903 j. f.
| iiaigh ran the quarter in 40 seconds
| fiat. The Improvement Of the time for
| this event is little short of marvellous.
| The half mile record in 1874 was held
hy f. $. Sturgis, who ran the event in
> minutes 521a seconds. In 1875 this
| record was lowered by I2L seconds by
"a man who is now as well known for
| his high scholarship and profound
knowledge of history and governmental
science as he was then for his speed on
the clnder track. A. Lawrence Lowell,
4, now q Harvard professor, ran the
half mile in minutes, 9 seconds. Vari-
| Gus other men continued to better this
record until in 1897 f. HOLSTER estab-
| liShed the mark of minute "a 2-5 sec
| onds, which still holds good. This is
| y
| time.
In 1874 the figures for the mile run
| held by c. $. Bird, We're 5 minutes, 413.
| seconds. A. l.. Lowell clipped this 10
minutes 2h seconds, and i'm 1898 Rich
ard Grant made The record, which still
is unbeaten. Of 4 minutes, e l-5 sec
ends. The original record for the two
mile race was 10 minutes 81 - seconds.
Al
year lowered these figures 10 minutes
~ AS seconds in the dual meet with
| Yale.
, The 120-yard hurdle was run by T. w.
| Ihayer IN 1850 i'll 20A seconds This
performance was successfully bettered
by }. f. CoWdin, -; G. r. Fearing, '93;
w. +. GarcelOn of the law school: J. w.
lialloWeli, 'Ol, and F. b. Fox of the law
| school The latter ran the high hurdles
| IN 1893 in ID 30 seconds. In 1883 G. S
Mandell ran the 90 yard hurdles in
70 - seconds. In 1905 J. c. Willis. '02
| established the present record of q 4-J
| seconds.
| Inc lgureS for the broad jump show
| great increase. In 1874 the record
winch was held by j. Il. Keys, was T.
| ieet 614 inches, a jump of which the
| average school boy Of today would be
| ashamed. In 1890 +. r. Bloss estab-
lISled the record which he held for 1G
years. HIS best jump was ~ feet lOlS
lhcheS. This record succumbed ONLY To
the line jumping of +. j. w Ford last
May. Ford did p feet IL inches The
hlsn Jump exhibits the same tremen-
dous relative increase. In 1874 the Har-
Vard record was feet inches. In I89,
T. X. Fearing cleared the bar at 6 feet
"a inches, which still remains the
harvard record. Fearing. who is a
member Of the Harvard athletic com
fhittee, was one of the most remarkahIe
htil"teS who ever went to an American
university. daShing football Dlayer
ne was on" of the finest oars that ever
foWed IN Harvard shell, PLAYED a good
gam" of baseball, and was a high hmm
or OF such ability that he still holds Tho
Harvard record.
from q height of feet inch. which
record FOR the pole vault was held in
1919 by II. n. Fowler, the performance
was gradually increased until W. "
fioyt' with his vault of II feet Az inches
~ 1922 held the record for nine wears
IL was then broken by b. Gring. who
cIedred me bar at II feet 6 3-16 inches
Inns leat was remarkable because. i'm |
"iie o. ms earlier attempts Grng's pol.
broke and he fell from a great height
on ms back after turning a comnleta
Soinersault ard narrowly escaping i'm
pdilhS himself on the jagged end of the
pIoheh pole. The fact that he was able
TO PICK himself up and after recovering
ms wind make another attempt and |
break the Harvard record shows tn.
sTlt OF the man. Last spring A. G |
rant ~ bettered Gring's performance |
win vault of II feet 1OA INCHES
IN 1873 the record for the 16-po,nd |
sIiot was 80 feet 10 inches, and was held
ny ). X Cruger. What a world of diff
terence there is between this and the
isures set by LeMoyne in 1904. who
hurled the ball as feet 10 inches with
ease. Hut the most incredible differ
thte OF all is seen by CHANGING al the
recorcS for the hammer throw. In 1879
y. II. Brandegee threw the hammer
~ ieet . inches. Last spring II. +
NerSberg threw il I47 feet