The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-07
RECORDS HARD
HIT THIS YEAR
Many New Marks Set in Utah
Sports-PonieS Lead the
Bike Riders.
BY W. D. RISHEl.

Utah state records have received a seri-
Gus shaking up during the year just end
ed and It is doubtful if. taking all sports
INTO Consideration. as many new marks
have been set in a single season The
work OF compiling The Herald dope book
for the year 1903 has just been finished.
and In summarizing the work of the year
many interesting results are noted.
The average person would probably
imagine that the cycling records had been
nit harder during the past year than an
cthera- While II IS true many new marks
were set. yet the ponies carry off the
70 tho high class of the runners tn at
tendance at the Murray meet az the
STATE IalF grounds right after the state
.air. During the twenty-eight days Of
racing every record, with the exception
OF four. was broken In some instances
records were broken as many a. six times
before the final figures which will appear
in the record book were established. In
harnesis racing but one record was bro
Ken, this being by Ginger at Provo oil
July 4, when he put the half mile in COM
petition down to 1:0l Is.
Bike Riders Not Slow.
The bike riders were not slow, how
ever. and the official records show that
Saltaie captured eleven new records to
nine by the Salt Palace and four bv the
year, the mile open competition however
went TO the Salt Palace after the Saltair
track tried in vain 10 put it to a mark
where It could not be touched. The rec
ORD IS known the Hopper mile COM
petition and was made by Floyd McFar-
land In LAG 2-5 at the Hopper meet
The track and field records of the col
leges are now lower than those of any
other state in the Rocky mountain west
For this reason, breaking one of these
records means something. In the who'll
Ter rEN Hl~F-
what may be termed a cripple This was
the 12-yard hurdles. which stood at II
seconds for five years. In the state meet
last season Bill Hunt put the time down
to 16 2-5 seconds, the only intercollegiate
record broken during the season. In the
high school class the younger athletes
were more successful, and three ne~y
marks were set up, the half and mile
run and the hammer throw.
Swimming Records Easy.
Utah has one class Of records that Is
FAR below the standard. and they are the
swimming MARKS good man could
come along ard sweep the entire list from
the record book. but until that time ar
rives there Is an interesting struggle eac1
year to lower the marks by the swimmers
now in the game. -Four new marks were
set at the Lagoon meet this season. They
were the 80. 100 and 220-yard competition
and the underwater swim. w. o. West
oily. r. s. McNeice. E o. Peterson ami
K Sallintine are the men 10 whom the
honor fell.
In tennis new CHAMPION in the per
son Of Z. NJ Garrett appears, while A.
W. Copp again comes to the front as
the golf champion. In baseball the one
record of ths year that is established
which viii live is the first no hit-no-run
game ever pitched in league baseball in
Utah Carl Spoaberg holds the honor
and played tie game in Ogden on july 1.
Pusilism was hit hard and will go down
in the records with less contests in the
state than any year since 1901. when a to-
tai of three fights tells the efforts of the
mitt mixers in this state