The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06
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pionship at Newport on August 2e.
when he defeated the western crack.
Maurice F. Mclaughlin of California.
Larned and Clothier met at Newport
, on August %, and the champion set
terrific gait at the very start. which
had him badly beaten at the outset.
1t was not until the third game that
Clothier was able to solve Larned's
play, and the match went to the cham
pion. sets out of 5.
Mclaughlin and Long of California
were chosen to go to Australia to play
for the Davis challenge cup, but they
were defeated in every match.
Track and Field Records.
No page in the history of American
track athletics will stand out so promi-
nently as the records of the past year
in the field and on the cinder path.
Performances of many years standing
were smashed right and left, and
number of remarkable records were
athletes belonging to New York anna
teur organizations. The speed marvel
Of the year was the Italian runner.
Emilio Lunghi, of Italy. The events
which got the most severe shaking up
| were the half-mile run, the 16-pound
hammer throw, and the 1O-mile dis
ft,1, Iay .ty -clrtv, .nd
Italian, shattered the long established
mark of Charley Kirkpatrick, when at
Montreal on September Is he won the
| half-mile run from Frank Riley in the
remarkable time of 1:52 As, which
was just three fifths of a second bet
ter than Kilpatrick's old mark, which
stood the assault of II years.
| On September Lunghi did another
sensational performance when at Celtic
park he won thrilling victory in the
100 yard run, lowering Lon Myers rec
ord of 81 by covering the distance at
terrific speed in 1877 2-5. Myers rec
! ord was made in 1882. At this same
meet j. J. Eller of the Irish American
A. c., clipped one-fifth of a second off
AL Cope'and's record in the 120-yard
low hurdles, doing the event in OLA 20
This record of Copeland's was made II
years ago.
John Flanagan, who for some time
has had the record breaking habit
made a mighty heave with the Is
pound hammer at Travers Island on
| June ~. with a throw of TIA feet IL
SIS inches, and two weeks later he
again boosted the distance to $50 feet.
Dan Ahear41e broke the worlds record
for the running hop, step and jump at
Celtic park on June 4, when he cleared
| so feet / 1-2 inches, more than an inch
better than the record made by d.
Shanahan 20 yaers ago.
Some of the Best Marks.
At the New York Athletic club
games on September "a, the Irish
American Athletic clubs relay team es-
tablished a new record in the mile
relay, winning the event in 1920 20.
The runners were Cassassa, Sheppard,
Rosenberger and Robbins The for
mer record of 1921 2-5 was made by
the New York Athletic club team in
1898. the runners being Long, Wefers.
Burke and Lyons. This performance
was remarkable because each OF the
four runners covered his quarter mile
in less than 81 seconds.
Martin Sheridan of the Irish-Ameri-
can Athletic club had a great year in
the record breaking line. He won the
lalI-around championship of the world.
establishing a new mark, which VIII
probably stand for some time. He also
beat the worlds discus record, heaving
tho saucer 142 feet 10 IL inches. Sher-
idan also displaced MitchelPs old rec
ord of putting the 42-pound stone. by
sending it q feet 5 inches, inches
better than the old mark.
The four-mile outdoor relay record
was broken by the Irish american
Athletic club team, composed OF Col
Inns. Riley, Bromilow and Kiviat, when
they covered the distance in 1905 40.
Another remarkable performance by
Emilio Lunghi was in the tWo-tnlrd
mile run when he made a new mark OF
|2:4S Is, beating W. G. Georges old
record nv 3-5 seconds Another great
running performance was that by Geo
Bonhag of the Irish American A. G.
when on November at Celtic park ne
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