The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-02
NOTEWORTHY PERFORMANCES IN SPORTS 1909

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Pennsylvania started of well by taking
first honors in the tri-cornered chess
tournament from Cornell and Brown.
on January l. at Pretoria, South Africa.
r. Il. Walker won the lO0-meter dash in
10 20 seconds. a new worlds record.
January &C. IT. Daniels lowered the
2oo-yard swimming record by ? % sec
ouds.
January lie. F. Carpenter was re-
elected president Of the Tri-State Base
ball League
January 15-Pacl1ey Mcfarland defeated
Dick Hylaud in ten rounds at Los An
geles, Cal
January Philadelphia defeated Bal
timore in an tntercity squash tournament
january 1S-Jesse Williamson, second,
was reelected commodore of the Schuyl-
kin navy.
January 19-Jem Driscoll. of Wales.
won a twelve-round decision from Grover
Hayes at Boston.
January 2l-M Hereford and P. Haugh-
ton won the racquet doubles champion
ship at Boston
January 27-The Rising Sun AId) Gun
club defeated the Highlands. of Philadel-
phia. in a team shoot by 429 to al.
February 3-Gernautown won the
squash racquet championship at Philadel-
pha
February H-R. Cloughen ran 100 yards
i'm j. 10 seconds. lowering the record by
is OF a second.
February 22-By defeating Dartmouth,
Harvard won the intercollegiate hockey
championship.
February Philadelphia National
League baseball club sold to the Durham
McNichol-WoIf syndicate.
February 25-Arthur Williams, of New
ark, n J.. won the international fancy
skating championship of the United
States. at Cleveland. Ohio
February 26-Ars- Edwin II. Filter, Of
Philadelphia. won the golf championship
Of South Florida and established a new
record of % for the Palm Beach links
February 26-The Catholic High School
team won the Interscholastic basketball
championship of Philadelphia.
February 26-The Philadelphia Central
Y N. G. A. won the Middle Atlantic one
mile relay championship at Trenton. y J.
February 26-Theodore r. Pell and Wy
lie c. Grant won the National Indoor
Lawn Tennis Doubles championship by
defeating W. B. Cragin, jr., and Miles S.
Charlock in the final round Of the annual
tournament
February 27-Tbeodore R. Peu won the
championship singles in the National In
door Lawn Tennis Tournament in New
York
March 3-Reuther, of Yale, established
p new intercollegiate swimming record of
e.39 for the 220-yard race.
March columbia won the Intercolle-
giate Basketball championship with a
record of seven victories and one defeat.
March &C. NJ. Daniels clipped fifth
Of a second off his own world record for
the 200-yard swim, setting the mark at
2I5 fiat
March 5-Penn swimming team made a
clean sweep of events at Sportsman S
Snow Championship in Madison Square
Garden, New York.
March 12-Alfred G. Vanderbilt was
elected president and Z. T. Stotesbury
vice president OF the National Horse
Show Association.
March III. De Roster, of New York,
lowered the five-mile motorcycle record
from 5.25 TO 400 % and the two-mile
record from 200 TO $40 T. Hwyck, Of
Chicago, Lowered the fve-mile amateur
record to al So. X Lingenfelder. Of
Chicago, lowered the three-mile record
from 800 80 to 2.2S %, while c. c. Hych,
of Chicago, lowered the three-mile anna
tem record from 3.45 to 3:37 20 All on
the new saucer track at Los Angeles,
Cal
March l5--DOrando again defeated John
ny Hayes in a Marathon race at the Mad
ison Square Garden.
March 15-The University of Chicago
FIVE awarded the Western Intercollegiate
basketball championship.
March I7-Wilson Potter won the sin
giles racquet championship Of PhiladeI-
phia. vs.. T. II. HUM won the squash
racquet championship, and w. Yorke
Stevenson won the handicap tournament.
March 1S-OXford won the dual athletic
games from Cambridge by six events to
four
March 19-Yale won the intercollegiate
wrestling championship, defeating Penn,
Princeton. Cornell. and Columbia.
March I-Floyd Mcfarland and James
Moran, the American team, won the six
day bicycle race held in Berlin, Germany.
March 22-The BUrlingame polo team
defeated the Ranelagh team of England
at San Diego, Cal, and won the All
American Championship and the spreck-
els Cup
March 22-One-mile relay record for a
foW-man team was lowered to 3 minutes
and e seconds by the quartet of the Thir-
teenth Regiment n. Y " G.
March 23-The Episcopal Academy gym
nastic team captured the Interscholastic
championship Of the East
s. March BE. T. Partridge, Of Mingo
Springs, Ne, Won the United States Re
volyer Associations State championship
tournament at Pinehurst, y. c.
March 26-Sidney Hatch. of Chicago. set
new worlds indoor record Of hours.
a Is minutes FOR the Marathon distance
OF &c miles, $50 yards.
March &c. n. Daniels lowered the
record for the 225-yard swim to 90 ga.
March Sl-Alfred shrubb, the English
runner broke the worlds indoor ten-mile
record at ottawa. Canada, going the dis
tance i'm 80 minutes, 4 seconds. eleven sec
onds faster than the former record, also
held by Shrubb
March 5l-University Of Pennsylvania
won the intercollegiate swimming cham
pionship by defeating Princeton by 20
points 10 -. The winners broke the in
tercoIegiate record for the SlO-foot relay
race, their time being minutes So ga
seconds.
April 3-OXford beat Cambridge in the
annual boat race by three and one-half
lengths i'm 70 minutes n socopdg