The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-03
K|V|AT BREAKS
HIS OWN RECORD
FASTEST TIME EVER MADE IN 1,S0e
&
METRE Run. ny NINE
SECONDS.
NEW DISCUS RECORD
WONDERFUL Exhibition At Gel
TIC pARk By NETH0POLI-
TAN ASSOCIATION AND
8RiCkLAfERs' UNION.

NEW YORK June Two
s,orld's records were made at Celtic
park This afternoon at the games OF
the Metropolitan association clubs ana
tire f4rttty t;1vers union
Abel e. kjviat, Of the Irish -Ameri-
can A G.. who on last Sunday made
Il new record in rhe i.500 metre run
Of 3 - L.. showed a marvellous burst
Of speed for the same distance and
l.,44s44A -Aet44-4-44-Y, by more THAI
twenty yards, in the remarkable time
Of three minutes. fifty and four -fifths
seconds. the best time ever made for
the distance
The nearest man 10 kviat when
the gun Was fired was +. Joyce. OF ths
Mohawk A., e., and the field was scat
-lerna- --t4t-t+4~ the yard mark. but
the HHie Irish American champion
went after his field at the start and
passed them one by one until at the
last lap there was only Joyce In front
Of him A. ktvat started down the
back stretch with 300 yards to go.
Lawson Robertson shouted to him
that the record was In sight and or
dered MIN TO sprint, kvlat imme-
diately began sprint which has
never been equal led in distance race
and before the turn was reached had
closed up the twenty yard gap be-
tq4t-t-t4- himself and Joyce. continuing
his great squirt to the finish, the mid
get i1uftrri M in fine shape, having
made the worlds best time without
any apparent effort Joyce was TWEEN
~ yards behind Kiviat at the finish.
Discus Record Broken.
i'm Duncan who last Sunday made
a world $ record for throwing tho dis
cus from n eight feet two inch cir
Gle. made new mark in throwing
from the seven foot circle. Duncan
made a throw or las feet 1-2 inches.
beating the worlds record Of 14t
feet 10 inches held by Martin Sheri-
dan Duncan made two other throws
which were better than his record.
but the discus struck the picket fence
nj the outside, Of the track and
bounded back. that the throws
/ could not be counted as records. In
spite of his great throw Duncan nau
| 10 be content with second prize as
/ r. Albers, with an allowance of TWEEN
ty-four feet. made an actual throw
! of 134 feet.
| Wonderful High Jump.
The running high Jump brought out
| the greatest field of high jumpers ever
| seen at meet in the East. Six
/ men cleared the bar at six feet, and
| Egon Erickson. a New York police
! man bettered his previous jump by
! clearing the bar at six feet TOUR
/ inches. As he had an allowance OF
I two inches on George HORNE, OF Cali
/ fornia. the worlds record holder. this
lump forced HORNE to the necessity
I Of clearing SIX feet six inches in order
10 win HORNE showed some OF tho
/ form which has mace him tho worlds
best high Jumper by going over tho.
| stick at the height OF six feet ffvo
inches At this point some OF tho
| Judges demanded that the height b.
| measured and IL was found that the
| f1ar had SIZE Of one inch, SO that
! the best jump OF HORNE Vas SIX Test
I four inches and that of Erickson SIX
feet three inches HORNE then tried
to clear the bar at six feet five inches.
/ but could not get over without knock
ing down the bar. although on two OF
the trial 1t seemed that the stick
( would stay up even after he hit IT.
HORNE has only been in the East two
DAYS, coming off a train after FOUR
days journey. and yet he has shown
that six feet four inches Is within hle
power.
Some East Sprinting.
Carl Reidpath who on Saturday
WIN tffs. intercollegiate championships
at the geo and 44o yard runs, making
a new collegiate record for the quar-
ter; won the 400 metre run in thu
+ fast time OF ~ 4-a seconds. KefdpAth.
Sheppard and Hayes started from
scratch with a big field in front.
Coming round the first turn one OF tho
! runners stumbled and roffed ACROSS
the track in front OF Reidpath. who
was forced to break his stride ana
/ null out to the far side Of the track
to avoid stepping on the PROSTATE
athlete. At this point Sheppard ana
Hayes sprinted past the college man
and held their lead until the last nve
/ wards, when Retdpath came mp on the-
/ outside with 81 aseaatsss.l spur. SwssscA<
! carried him across the tape winner
bv a yard and half over s. F. Aggen.
! who had lead of sixteen yards.
Sheppard was third and Hayes fourth
! Less than two yards separated the
four runners.
w. ]. kramer. the national cross
/ country champion, beat Louis SOON
| In the 5000 metre run. Last weeG
scott beat Kramer in the 6.Ooo
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