Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-10
WORLDS RECORDS
MADE BY ATHLETES
Sensational Performances of
Amateurs During Sea-
son of 1908.

When the American Athletic Union of
the United States meets in annual ses-
sion one of the most important features
of the meeting, aside from the election of
president and other officers. will be the
consideration OF new worlds records
claimed to have been made during the
outdoor season of 1905 While the season
has not been so prolific of new marks as
some of the former years, the perform
ances which the A. A. U. delegates will
be confronted with were decidedly sensa-
tional and will be favorably acted upon.
One of the earliest of the seasons per-
formances was the sprinting of j.: A.
Rector. who equaled Daniel ]. Kelly's
record of 100 yards in . 3-5 at a dual
meet between Johns Hopkins University
Of Baltimore and the University of Vir-
ginia at Charlottesville, Va, May is.
Rector ran in the colors of the Univer-
sity OF Virginia, and as the result of that
performance represented America at the
Olympic games in London last summer.
Forest Smithson of the Multonomah
Athletic Club of Portland, Ore, will pre-
sent an application for a record of b 20
in a fifty yard hurdle race over high hur-
dies. Smthson tied the worlds record
of q 4-5, made by Walter Steffens at
Chicago in 1904. in the regular contest,
and subsequently, in special fifty-yard
race with Eberle Kuykendall of the Uni
versity of Oregon, lowered the record two
ffths of second.
Martin Sheridan, in addition to his
worlds record for throwing the discus,
Greek style, will receive another distinc-
ton in the shape of new record of 40
feet 5ls inches at the Olympic style, circle
and discus. made at the Pastime Oval,
New York, October 4, 1908. At the A. A.
u. meet at Travers Island, New York,
on September 10. NJ. f. Horn of SYRIA
cuse threw the discus, from a seven-foot
circle. 49, feet II inches. which will prob
ably be accepted.
In hammer throwing, John Flanagan Of
the Irish-American Athletic Club. New
York, made some astonishing perform
ances. At Celtic Park. New York. Au-
gust 30, he Is credited with throwing the
missile 179 feet 3a4 inches. nearly feet
farther than 1t has ever been thrown be-
fore. But there may be a question about
the mark, as also with the 175 feet IA
inches performance he Is supposed to
have made at Torrington, Conn, June 10.
B. F. Sherman of Harvard University,
who was member of the Olympic team
at London, eliminated two records that
have stood for twenty years. The eight
compound hammer he sent 131 feet Il
inch at Boston. Mass, June II, lowering
James s. MitchelPs record by more than
IL feet. and at the same place and time
threw the twenty-one-pound hammer 100
feet Nv inches. nearly twenty feet far
Their than c. ]. Queckberner sent it at
Staten Island November II, 1888.
Walter Remy Dray of Yale University
vaulted IL feet 9h inches at the Amateur
Athletic Union games at Danbury. Conn,
pices OF the Danbury gymnasium. Inc
old record, IL feet 511 inches. was made
by Dray at New Haven in May, 1907, but
at the Olympic try-outs In Boston last
June A. C. Gilbert. also of the Yale track
team, vaulted II feet TX inches. At the
meet in Pittsburg June 20, in which near
ly all the famous athletes in the country
competed, Gilbert vaulted u feet 6le
inches.
One of the most sensational Of the
years performances was the hurdling of
A. b. Shaw of Dartmouth College. At the
intercollegiate championships at Phila-
delphia May 30, Shaw covered the 120
yards over the high hurdles in O:15 1-5.
This equaled the worlds record Of A. c.
Kraenzlein of the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1898, and established a new tn
tercollegiate record. At Chicago Septem-
Der L. running In the colors of the Chi
cago Athletic Association, Shaw won the
13O-yard hurdle race in the wonderful
time of 0:15.
In shot-putting Ralph Rose, the Cali
fornian. created q new record with the
twelve-pound shot. putting the iron globe
81 feet inches at Celtic Park, New York
August %. 1908. The old record was So
feet 11% inches, made by himself at Trav-
ers Island last year. With a fourteen
pound shot he is credited with So feet 4
inches. and with the .sixteen-pound shot,
so feet IA inches. The latter perform
ances. however. are questionable.
With the fifty-two-pound weight John
Flanagan threw the weight 30 feet IL
inches, while Andrew J. Glarner of the
Olympic Club of San Francisco wiped
Melvin w. Sheppard's 9OO-yard run off
the books by covering the distance in
2:O1 2-5
In performances on the parallel bars
John N. Woodside at the meet of the
Holy Trinity A. A., New York. made a
new record for the dip on the Iaranel
bars. dipping sixty times. the old record
being fifty-eight times.