The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-02
MEL SHEPPARD
BREAKS RECORD
Famous Middle Distance Run
ner Lowers His Own Mark
for Half Mile.
THREE RECORDS BROKEN
In ATHLETIC CONTESTS
Great Interest Is Taken in
Struggles for Amateur
Events.
By Leased wire 10 The Tribune.

By Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
PITTSBURG Pa. July MEL Shep-
pard the sensational middle distance
champion of the Irish American Athletic
club this afternoon established a new
senior record by smashing his own marx
by two-ffths OF a second in the half.
mile race at the national championships
Abel KiYiat of the l. A. A. c. won
the mile race in the best time ever
made in a. a. u. CHAMPIONSHIPS. He
beat the old record by 15 seconds.
Sheppard ran the distance In t;54 is.
His performance was most remarkable
one. He outdistanccd his rivals almost
from the start
More than 10000 athletes from all sec
tlons OF the country took the park by
storm and made enough noise all through
the forenoon preliminaries to the start
OF the games to make everybody feel
happy.
Gwynne Henry unattached. captured
the first event on the programme, the
1oo-yard dash His time was 10 seconds
| fiat.
Gish OF the Seattle a. e was second in
! the ai0-yard run and Wyman OF tho
! Olympic club OF San Francisco was third
| In the same event.
| The fact that three senior records were
broken and one eoualed today In the
| second and final days meet OF the ANA
| teur Athletic union championship games
al Forbes field. taken with the showing
made yesterday by junior athletes. made
the meeting one OF the most successful
in the history Of the a. a. u.
! Weather conditions we're ideal. Toward
/ the close OF the day the intense heat af-
fected many of the men, but the competi-
tors and their trainers successfully guard
ed against prostrations.
Two of the records broken went TO
| New York men. members OF the Irish
American Athletic club. The third honor
OF the Olympic club OF San Francisco
! Eller of the Irish American A. G.. eaualed
! his own A, A. U. record in the 320-yard
J hurdle
In the sso-ysrd run. M. w. Sheppard.
Irish American a. c.. made the fast time
of 1;b4 LIB. beating the previous Ameri-
run. a. r, kiviat. Irish American A. c.,
took the race In 4I9 3-5. The former
American record was 4:22 As;
o. f. Snedigar of the Olympic club
san Francisco, hurled the iaveiin 1871
feet. breaking the American record The
PTsEioHS rsn S,oISdR marx made by srodd Of the
| Orleans, was 1853 feet inch
Bonhag Wins.
AS in the junior contests the five mile
run was TO the fore In interest. c. V.
Bonhag. lrishAmerican A. c., took the
| lead and held il until the end. Bonhag
over w. j. Kramer of the Long Island A,
C., who last year took away his laurels
| Kramer fell into fourth position In the
second lap. Gradually ne worked into
| c.. second.
After several miles Scott was compelled
Bonhag slowly pulled away from the
champion. Close TO the fourth mile Bon
hags pace became too much for Kramer
end ne Of sPSaa PSadepSs eG% and E qhas Tss
gerald. New York \. c.. passing him. An
other lap found Kramer out OF the race.
Bonhag won the race easily In 25:50 2-5,
with Laruna second and Fitzgerald third.
Three Tie in Vault.
| In the pole vault three men,. r. T.
Cooke. Jr., Cleveland a: c: r. Soyle.
pic club, San Francisco. cleared the mark
raised to IS feet. Time after time they
failed and when the bar was dropped 10
II feet II inches they again were unable
to clear IL. The men then tried for po-
| sition They tied with Il feet inches
and could not break 1t. Finally the mat
ter was decided hy draw, Cook first. Coyle
| second and Bellah third
peculiar incident, occurred In tho
running high jump. IL GrumPelt. n: Y
a. c., was first with feet inches.
second. 8 feet inch, and II. ]. Burdick.
Pittsburg A. A.. third c feet inches.
Grumpelt and Porter had tied for tlrst
place with feet Inches. In the jump
OFF Grumpelt again made his height. but
Porter could jump only 0 feet Inch, put
ting him in second place. Four men had
tied with i feet ] inch, and to decide
third position, jumped again, AT this
juncture Burdick of Pittsburg cleared the
bar at 8 feet inches. equaliug the hrst
man and beating the second. but going
into third place under the rules
The points scored ny clubs were:
Irish Americans Lead,
Irish American a. c.. 5S; New York 4
O. yS. Seattle A. G., L.: Olympic cluRs
II: Boston a. A.. 4. Cleveland a. c., III
Kansas CITY A. G.. &; Chicago A. A.. ~
unattached tnine). .; =. a. A., SO; broSS.
line G, a. a.. 8; Chicago university. 8.
The Results.
ono milc-Kiviat. Irish American Ath-
letic club. first, Hedlund. Brookiine u
A. A., second: Baker. Cleveland a. @.
third. Time, i:i9 2-5 ,,a ..
,:23 i-5. held by Fred Rogers of New
isc.yard hurdles shaw. Irish -Ameri-
can. first; blanchard. Boston. second
Griffith. Pt,sburs \, A. third Time
Fller Irish American a. c.. finished
third. but was disqualified for knock
Ing down three hurdles, II
Throwing ts-pound hammcr--W alSh
New York \, C., first, J - feet 6h inches
McC;rath New York 4, G.. second, la
feet "a inches; Ryan. Irish American ~
-. third. l65 feet inehes -.
i6-pound shot ut-McDonald. Irish
American A. {. FIRST, 81 feet inches
Talbot Kansas City 4. C. second, IS feet
6 inchcs: Coo. Boston y. a. third, 10 feet
inches.
SS0-yard run-Shsppard, Irish Americas
A. C.. first; Riley. Irish American a z.
second: Frick. New York a. c., third
Time, 1:5i i-o.
This establishes a new A. A. u record.
the previous record being i.5b LIS.