Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

ord Of 1913 for 90 yards made By Burke
fourteen years ago. lie also added fame
20 his name By making records at 100. 800
and 900 Yards
sheppard's greatest performance. how
ever came on July Il at Celtic park. when
he ran 1000 yards in minutes iegs seconds,
thereby lettering By three-fifths OF . sec
Ond record made BY Lon Myers twenty
nine years ago.
George Bonhaa began his record smash
ing work on the indoor tracks early In the
winter and kept right at II to the end Of
the summer Hts time Of D minutes ifN
seconds for two miles made at Buffalo on
February 20 has never been equalied. T.
s Berna OF Cornell. By running the dis
lance in . minutes 2sss seconds on May &
established a new outdoor record. and was
second only 10 Bonhag at two miles. Bon
bag aid not steS az this distance. however,
bot cont.s,ssd setting up new marks for
three and four miles. Although he was
the indoor distance king, Bonhag reached
the zenith OF his career al Travers Island
on September TO- There the Irish american
star ran four miles in 2o:li and rounded out
live mules in z5.0g1s For twenty one Years
w b. Days record Of sOsib.s FOR four miles
had withstood the assaults OF all contest
ants and for lwenty-threc years -. G.
Carter had held the flve-lnlle record until
Bonhag came aiong and took the honor.
Leland $. Scott OF stanford. Cal, raised
the pole vault record for height to Y feet
1914 inches, and Plat Adams Of the New
York Athletic club cleared 2s feet inches
in tile vault for distance. In the fifty-six-
pound weight throwing contest for height
a. J. McGrath now holds the mark AZ 10
feet Ga inches,
a..
1919. and II has been many year sincs
the record books have experienced such an
upheaval
Thoroughbred Hucing.
While the season was cut short the sport
while II lasted, was we'll up TO the standard
Two new American--whioh amount TO
world 's--records were established. while a
number OF horses Of unquestioned class and
quality did their part toward writing a
bright page in turf history. Bubbling Water
took up i2i pounds and established a new
mark Of i.42h for one mile and seventy
yards. while Everett, a 3-year-old. with 1O7
pounds in the saddle. supplanted Fitz Her
berfs record at two miles by covering the
distance in s;25ss
AutOntubIHinE.
As said before Barney Oldfield earned
the distinction OF travelling faster than
any living thing except the birds in his
specially constructed racing car The
powerful machine hurtled it's way over the
hard sand on a Florida beach in 027.Ss for
q mile, or at the rate of 1918 miles an
hour, a speed which, II II could be main
tained. would land man in Chicago from
New York IN iuet about seven hours
This was not all. No fewer than fifty
eight new records were established during
straight-away free-for-af races In the
various classes. Every record for a cir
cular dirt track. from one mile to seventy
five miles. was broken. while every recog-
nized speedway record from half a mile to
$50 miles went by the board Barney Old
field and Ralph De Palma, the former with
eleven new marks and the latter with ten.
were the leaders In smaahlng most Of the
existing records. but George Robertson.
Ray Harroun and Louis Chevrolet also
were prominent.
Oldfield established a new speedway rec
ord OF a5.6s seconds for one mile, while
Ralph De Palma dashed over a mile on
circular dirt track In the remarkable time
Of eo.4s.s2
Harry Grant won the Vanderbilt cup race
over the Motor parkway course on Long
Island for the second year In succession
In an Alec car Joe Dawson was second in
Marmon. only % seconds away while
Jack Aitken was right on the latters heels
IN National car. Grant averaged s5is
miles an hour
New Golf Cha1nplon.
While w e, Fownes, jr., Of Pittsburg
did not enter tbs amateur championship
tournament ct Brookiine a savorite he
soon demonstrated to the satisfaction Of all
IA a
with. and as the tournament advanced his
shots became more deadly, The steady
golf BY the Oakmont man wore down other
players undoubtedly more brilliant
In passing II may be az well 70 remember
that c. W. Evans. b.. the Edgewater
youth. generally regarded as the beat
amateur IN the country today. gathered to
himself lasting fame by winning the open
championship tournament OF the Western
Golf association. This fixture BEGAN with
= qualifying round and then finished At
match play. Evans defeated both amateurs
and professionals, something never before
accomplished in the history Of golf in this
country.
TrottinR and PacfRE.
!, The history OF the light harness turf for
Al9lo makes particularly good reading The
wholesale breaking Of records was remark
able IN itself but the ama1ing perform
anco Of Uhlan, which trotted = mile IN
l.5sA was enough TO mark the season In
red letters. just As Star Pointer, who died
few days ago. was the first two-minute
PAGER uhian may be ranked as the first
real two-minute trolter Lou Dillon. aided
by a wind shield, trotted one mile In 1901
in 1854. bat the two-minuse mark had
never been beaten up 10 last season with.
out soma artificial aid. uhlan, however
took his place AZ the head Of all trotter,
BY practically equaihng Lou Dillon's per.
formance while trotsing tn the open.
uhlan 81 a son Of Binsea one OF IN,
great trostere q His day and In All prob
abilisy the black whirlwind has not ye
reached the limit Of his speed. This coun
ttf has Ions been the nursery for Ugh
harness horses, and the sure but gradua
development along scientific breeding inei
has reached such q high point that d
speaks volumes for those who have worked
70 earnestly TO foster and encourage
GroWing industry.