The Washington herald., 1908-01-01

worlds champion three-year-old. with
2.e6&. Highball enjoys the reputation of
the worlds fastest pacing gelding, with
2;O6is, and Helen Hale, 2;lSA. is the
worlds champion two-year-old trottiug
Ally
In the pacing division, the honors are
not as numerous. Reproachless, 2:041s.
made a worlds record in races, and Lord
Prodigal, 2:23A, established new figures
for two-year-old PAGERS against time.
The fastest mile of the year was paced
by Angus Pointer in 2.01&.
Tommy BURNS Champion
When Tommy Burns, the man with the
best right TO the title Of champion pugil-
ist Of America won the championship of
Australia by knocking out BIN Sduires
and a few months later followed this up
by capturing the championship of Eng
land by putting Gunner Moir away, many
people who never go to fights and who
seldom read about them became interest
ed, 1t was another championship for
America, and every true American likes
to hear about American champions.
squires was proclaimed the best fighter
in Australia. and Moir held a place all his
own in Great Britain, so Burns, whose
right name is Noah Brusso. has only TO
whip Jack Johnson, now conceded TO be
the most dangerous man in this country,
to earn a clear title to the pugilistic
of the world. The English
countries alone foster boxing.
and the champion Of Great Britain. Au-
stralia and America could travel the
world over and not find any one to meet
him.
1t is a noticeable fact that there is
more public interest in championship
fights between big men-men who bar no
between better fighters of a
smaller stature. Thus the contest sched-
uled for tonight between Abe Attell. the
champion bantam of America, and Owen
Moran. the best little man in England. Is
sure to outTank in skill any fight in which
Burns has ever taken part. for Attell and
Moran are both wonderfully clever box
eTs, as well as hard hitters, but the fact
that they are small men causes their
bout to be looked upon as a second-cIass
affair
Twenty-one times during 1907 did Amer
lean athletes set new time or distance
figures for their performances in field
Or track sports.
One Of the principal features of the
year on the path, or in any sport. was
the four-mile run of George Bonhag, the
Irish-American distance runner. who put
UP new mark of 20:l1 10. The feat was
I'm that the time was four
hfths OF a second under the record of W.
D. Day. which had stood since November
l6, 1889.
Records for Rose.
Ralph Rose, the Olympic Club giant
from California. stands out with great
as a champion Of champions
among shot-putters He holds every
shot-put record from the 7-foot circle.
One Of his best performances was with
the S-pound shot. which he threw e.
'eet inches. or nearly feet farther
than Martin Sheridan. Rose performed
wonders In the New York Athletic Club
games September Il, when he created
new figures at the following weights al
he shot-put: s. L, II, 16. IS 2. and Is
seven records in one day, a performaace
that has no parallel in the annals Of
athletic sports
The other track records of Importance
IN the Amateur Athletic Union ranks
were 800 yards in 2.Ul 40, by Melvin W
Sheppard, Irish-American Athletic Club.
,eltic Park, September I; Boston Athletic
Association, Marathon rs milesl. by
Thomas Longboat. in 2:24.20 40. at Bos- |
ton, April l9; l0o-yard low hurdles in
)l2 Is, by s. c. Northbridge Irish
American Athletic Club, March 50. and
o-yard three-legged race by Harry L. |
tillman, New York Athletic Club. and
-aWson Roberts, Irish-American Athletic /
Club, in 0:0S AZ, February 2.
In the weight events the records of
Ralph Rose overshadowed those of other /
lthletes- John Flanagan. Irish-AmeriCan
Athletic Club, set the 56-pOund weight 4
distance at 3S feet inches al the James /
own Exposition, September Z. and Mar /
In j. Sheridan, also of the Irish-Amerf- /
an Athletic Club, was responsible for |
wo records, throwing the discus 1856 feet
md 10 inches, and hurIlng the iavaIin 1
10 feet and Z inches. Both records were /
made at Celtic Park. L. l.
Eight College Records.
Eight new records marked the running |
f the championships of the Intercolle- /
,iate Association Of Amateur Athletes of /
America at Cambridge last spring. Krue- /
er, the weight thTOwer of Swarthmore. /
eaved the l5-pound shot IS feet 80 1
nches; Guy Haskins, the great distance |
unner Of the University of Pennsylvania
an the mile in 4:2O 2-5, which time broke |
he record of 4;2O 93-5. made by George
r. Orton. J. =. Taylor, a college mate
# Haskins, broke his own record of
:l9 1-l5 in the quarter-mile run by cover
ng the distance in 0:4S As, and Penn
ylvania had its third record-breaIzer in
'om Moffitt, the great high jumper who.
With leap of feet 81 inches, made a
ew record TO surpass the one Of 6 feet 2
nches. created by J. D. Winsor, ir.. of
in 1897
Walter Dray, of Yale, with a vault Of
feet 11& inches. broke the old record
( II feet 1o24 inches held jointly by a.
z. Grant, of Harvard, and T. NJ. Jack
on. Of Cornell. T. 4. Rowe added fur
her distinction TO Michigan athletics by
reaking Schults record of $40 for two
liles, covering the distance in 9:344- /
ohm c. Garrels, the phenomenal hurtler
rom Michigan, marked his coming East
y winning the high hurdles In 15:011-5. /
7hich equals Alvin c. Kraenzelein's
'orld record and reduces the inteTcoIle-
late record by one-fifth of a second. The
ecord will probably not stand, as IL was
lade with strong wind favoring the
unner
International field and track sports
ere at discount n. J. CartmeH. Uni h
ersity of Pennsylvania. the intercolIe-
late champion sprinter, ran second to J.
'. Morton in the 100-yard English cham
lonship. Cartmell had been in England
My three days when he ran against
lOrton.
Tennis Players Busy.
Tennis players enjoyed a busy year
he team sent from America TO contest
he Davis Cup was defeated by the Aus l.
al nh, fv~rF H.. a.