Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-27
BANG! GO RECORDS
Duncan, Kiviat and Scott
Shine on Track and Field.
SET NEW WORLDS MARKS
Candidates for Olympic Team
Astound Thousands With Their
Brilliant Work.

NEW YORK, May 27.-Three world 8
records were broken yesterday in the ath-
letic carnival Of the Post Office Clerks
Association, held at Celtic Park, Long
Island City. Those who achieved fame
formerly of the Mohawk Athletic Club;
Louis Scott, the sensational ten-mile
champion Of the South Paterson Athletic
Club, competing in the 5.OOO-meter run,
and Abel r. Kiviat, the one-mile national
title holder of the Irish-American Athletic
Club. running in the !. 5OO-meter contest.
All are strong candidates for the Olympic
team.
The exhibition with the discus by Dun
can, at the Olympic style. with both right
and left hands. from an foot 2ls inch
circle, took crowd Of thousands by
storm. In scaling it with his right hand
Duncan melted the remarkable distance
the record of LAB feet 4 inches made by
George Nilsson. the Olympic javelin
champion. In qualifying for a position on
the Swedish team in the trials at Stock
holm last Saturday. With his left hand
Duncan made another amazing throw OF
SO feet 712 inches. which brought the total
up to 252 feet S1z inches.
Scott never ran in better form in cap
turing the long 5.OOO-meter race. He
started from the scratch mark, and after
gradually picking up the huge field scam
pered across the line with a 100-yard ad-
vantage in the wonderful time Of 10 min
utes 6 2-5 seconds. This was five seconds
better than the mark made by Gene
Bouin, the fast Frenchman. Scott had as
an opponent at the start William j.
Kramer. the five-mile and national cross
country champion. The latter stuck de-
termtnedly to Louis, who set terrific
pace at the start.
Entering on the third from the last lap
Scott suddenly sprinted away from his
companion, and after he had gained a
twenty-five-yard lead Kramer decided to
retire. Louis sprinted along like a half
miller. and 800 yards further passed
letic Club, who had been leading the
field in the last mile Never slackening
his pace, Scott entered the final stretch
with much reserve speed.
Abel r. Kiviat showed the results OF
his many weeks of faithful training for
the coming Olympic try-outs by defeating
celebrated quartet composed of He'd
lund, Mel Sheppard and Riley in the 500
meter event. He won by a margin of fit
teen yards in the new Olympic time Of
minutes 50 15 seconds. The previous
mark Of 3 minutes 50 As seconds was
hung up by Harold cPony'') Wilson, the
British champion miller, in the Olympic
try-outS of 1908
ne race was the most bitterly IOuSnt
of the afternoon, Kiviat being forced all
the way. The Irish-American Athletic
Club runner was scheduled to have an
other tilt with Oscar Hedlund. the New
England champion of the Boston Ath-
letic Association, but the latter was COM
PEELED to retire. after setting the pace for
700 yards. 1t was the first time that the
Boston athlete had been forced to stop in
an important event. Melvin w. Sheppard
and Frank N. Riley, both Of the Irish
American Athletic Club. were the two
other leading contestants, finishing in the
order named, after being run into the
dirt.
After Hedlung left the track Riley set
the pace. but was supplanted by kiviat
on the last lap. with Riley second and
Sheppard next, barely five yards separat-
ing them. Abe carried them along at the
killing pace and slowly crept away from
the field on the backstretch. Rounding
the last turn. he sprinted and left his two
rivals behind. Riley and Sheppard flew
after him, but, 100 yards from home, the
exhausting pace told on Riley. who
weakened, and was finally passed by
Sheppard twenty-five yards from the
finish.