Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-07-19

Albert L, Gutterson, the Vermont boy
who is the champion broad jumper of
the world, will be 90 years old August
% of this year. He was born in An
dover in Windsor county, and until he
was Is years old attended the district
school and worked on a farm He be-
came interested in athletics while at
tending the high school in Springfield,
this state, and at the meet OF the Green
Mountain Interscholastic. association
few years ago established a new associa-'
ton record in the high jump by clear
ing the bar at feet Sh inches, Won
derful performance for a school boy. On
his first attempt at the broad jump he
finished second with leap Of 20 feet
/ inch. He graduated from the Spring
field high school in 1908 and entered the
University of Vermont in the fall of that
year. 1t was not until 1910, when he
cleared % feet / inch in the broad jump,
that he began to attract attention. AS
an all-around athlete Gutterson is one
of the most wonderful performers in the
world Last year in the athletic meet
between the University of Vermont and
the University of Maine he won the 100
yard dash in 10 1-5 seconds, the 220-yard
DAN in 20 1-5 seconds, the 220-yard low
hurdles in % 1-5 seconds, the running
high jump a feet ~ inches, the run
ming broad jump at 20 feet inches and
the discus throw al 112 feet 10 inches.
He was second in the high hurdles in
Nc is seconds. This was going
some" for single afternoons work.
At the New England intercollegiate
meet in Springfield, Mass, he was the
individual star, scoring II points for his
college. Then Gutterson joined the Bos-
ton Athletic association and in the New
England championships in 1911 won the
low hurdles in &c 1-5 seconds in easy
fa aft in ho
broad jump carried him 90 feet 51a
inches He did not have to jump again.
He not only won the event, but made
new record.
This year Gutterson specialized in the
running broad jump, and at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania relay games at
Philadelphia on May q in a drenching
rain jumped "a feet Is inch, only a lit
tie more than six inches under the
American record of "a feet ~ inches,
held by Myer Prinstein. That day, run
ming through miniature ponds to muddy
take-off, Gutterson made six jumps as
follows: 20 feet 81 inches, % feet 5
inches, 20 feet 91a inches, % feet Z
inches 90 feet inches and "a feet Is
inch.
r Guttersons last public appearance was
at the New England Intercollegiate
championships at Springfield on May is,
when he scored in two events and
broke one record in his favorite event,
the broad jump. He leaped 90 feet 5
2-5 inches when he won the jump, and
finished second to Wendell of Wesley
an in the low hurdles in "a As seconds,
being beaten by less than two feet.
Here are Gutterson's best performances:
100-yard dash, 10 1-5 seconds (set back
a Yard; 220-yard dash, % 15 seconds;
120-yard high hurdles, 16 LIS seconds;
220-yard low hurdles, "a 3-5 seconds;
running broad jump, "a feet IL 2-10
inches; running high jump 3 feet IL
inches; putting 16-pound shot, SO feet
inches; throwing the discus, 112 feet
10 inches; pole vault, 10 feet 2 inches.
Gutterson is 6 feet l inch in height
and weighs a trife more than $50
pounds. He will not be seen in college
athletics again, as he graduated from
the University OF Vermont last June.