The Washington herald., 1910-01-02
NOTEWORTHY PERFORMANCESIN SPORTS, 1909

records.
Pennsylvania started of well by taking
first honors in the tri-cornered chess
tournament from Cornell and Brown.
on January /. at Pretoria, South Africa,
r. h. Walker won the 1Oo-meter dash in
10 % seconds. new worlds record.
January &C. II. Daniels lowered the
2lo-yard swimming record by ? 20 sec
onds
January lie. F. Carpenter was re-
elected president Of the Tri-State Base
bali League,
January 15-Packey Mcfarland defeated
Dick Hylaud in ten rounds at Los An
geies, Cal
January 17-Philadelphia defeated Bal
timore in an intercity squash tournament.
January lS-Jesse Williamson, second,
was reelected commodore Of the Schuyl-
kin navy
January 19-Jem Driscoll. of Wales,
won twelve-round decision from Grover
Hayes at Boston.
January ON Hereford and p. Haugh-
ton won the racquet doubles champion
ship al Boston
January 27-The Rising Sun (Md) Gun
club defeated the Highlands, of Philadel-
phia. in a team shoot by 429 to al.
February S-GerLnautown won the
squash racquet championship at Philadel-
phia.
February u-R Cloughen ran 100 yards
in j. 40 seconds. lowering the record by
is OF a second.
February 2-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, \. j.. won the international fancy
skating championship of the United
States, at Cleveland, Ohio.
February 26-Mra. Edwin Fl. 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 InterschoIastic basketball
championship of Philadelphia
February 8-The Philadelphia Central
Y NJ G. A. won the Middle Atlantic one
mile relay championship al Trenton, \. J.
February 25-Theodore r. PelI and Wy
lie c. Grant won the National Indoor
Lawn Tennis Doubles championship by
defeating W B. Cragin, jr., and Miles 5.
Charlock in the final round Of the annual
tournament.
February Theodore R. Pell won the
championship singles in the National In
door Lawn Tennis Tournament in New
York.
March 3-Reuther, of Yale, established
q new intercollegiate swimming record OF
2:S9 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 q fifth
Of "a second off his own worlds record for
the 2J0-yard swim, setting the mark at
2l5 flat
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
Show Association.
March III, De Roster, of New York,
lowered the fve-mne motorcycle record
from 5.25 TO 4:C9 20 and the two-mne
record from 200 to $40 T. Hwyck Of
Chicago lowered the dve-mile amateur
record to al 3-5. X Lingenfelder. of
Chicago. lowered the three-mile record
from 800 So TO 2:2S %. while c. c. Hych,
of Chicago, lowered the three mile anna
teur record from 3:45 to 1887 %. 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
isoH Square Garden.
March 15-The University of Chicago
five awarded the Western intercollegiate
basketball championship.
March l7-Wison Potter won the sin
giles racquet championship Of PhladeI>
phia. W. 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 championships 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
ut san Diego. Cal. and won the All
American Championship and the Spreck-
els Cup.
March 22-One-mile relay record for a
for-man team was lowered to minutes
and g seconds by the quartet of the Thir-
teenth Regiment n. Y. y. G.
March 23-The Episcopal Academy GYM
nastic team captured the Interscholastic
championship Of the East
March De. +. Partridge, Of Mingo
Springs. Ne, won the United States Re
volyer Associations State championship
tournament at Pinehurst, y. G.
March 26-Sidney Hatch. of Chicago. set
new worlds indoor record of hours
A 10 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 d-Alfred Shrubb, the English
runner broke the worlds indoor ten-mile
record at Ottawa. Canada. going the dis
tance i'm 53 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
mic 1.r- Il.
points 10 II. The winners broke the in
tercollegiate record for the S0O-foot relay
race, their time being minutes SO S-5
seconds
April 3-OXford beat Cambridge in the
annual boat race by three and one-half
lengths in 70 minutes. 50 seconds.
April 5-Dr. George Barclay, former La
fayette football star died in the Jrrf,-or