The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-11
ATHLETES SET
MANY RECORDS
Great Number Of Marks
Have Gone by the Board
in Twelve Months.

The remarkable number of new.
records hung up by American athletes
during the last twelve months, as is
shown by the acceptance by the Amer
lean Athletic Amateur union Of the
record committees report, shows that
Yankee athletes are not yet near the
limit Of their ability. The list shows
that rapid advances have been made
in almost every department Of track
end field sports-short and long dis
tance running. Jumping, weight throw
ing. swimming. In all there were
eighty-one new marks established, a
larger number than during any year
for a long time past.
No one Is more enthusiastic over
the exceptional showing than James
p. Sullivan. secretary-treasurer of the
A. A. o., and one Of the biggest men
in amateur sports, who declares that
It proves his contention that Yankee
speed. Drawn and endurance has yet
1T is difficult" said Sullivan, "to
properly estimate the relative inn
portance of the new records, but one
feat that seems to stand at the head
of the list is that Of Jim Thorpe. the
wonderful Carlisle Indian, in estab-
fishing q new %'all-round' mark: Too
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portance Of developing athletes pro-
l1cient In more than one branch of
sport, and. accordingly. Thorpe's work
stamps him the biggest athlete Of the
year.
HORNE Stands Next to Thorpe.
ut would not be fair possibly to
say who stands next to Thorpe in
achievement during the last year. but
It must be generally agreed that the
wonderful high jumping by George
HORNE Of Leland Stanford university,
stamps him Of the greatest ath-
in his attack on Mike Sweeney's seven
t~een-year-old record for h running
high shows his wonderful work. Now,
although he IL believed to have made
higher jumps, he is only credited Of
l1cially with q leap of 6 feet s 1-8 in
ches. yet he has demonstrated that
he has not yet in all probability reach
ed his limit.
I'm the jumping department 1t must
also be remembered that the work OF
Wright, the Dartmouth pole vaulter.
was the greatest seen in years In this
sport. But a few years ago the stand
ards used for pole vaulting did not
Wright boosted the records to more
than 13. Other pole vaulters are do
ing great work also, as may be seen
in the fact that all clubs and schools
now have standards OF IL feet.
"Kiavit's 1.5O0-meter mark at the
minutes Is "a seconds. in making
which both he and Tabor Tapped the
field and had to elbow other runners
out Of the way at the tape. thereby
being robbed Of at least q second.
stand out as among the best running
performances Of the year. Then. too.
the work Of Donald Lippincott and
Ralph Craig in the 100 meters and
Meredith in the 500 prove that Ameri-
can athletes are not found wanting
at the shorter distances.
Will Sec Better Records.
"Pat Mcdonald with the shot and
Jim Duncan with the discus showed
that the weight throwers are keeping
step in the quick-step advance of tho
American athletic army, and Duke
Kahanamoku's swimming records in
dicate that in the water as we'll as on
land the American athlete excels.
Last but not least among the nota-
bic performances Of the rear is Lofts
new javelin record. This is a branch
Of field sports that has been sadly
neglected in America. but his perform
ance Of 166 feet 10 inches. though
some distance behind the worlds rec
ord, shows We may yet arrive in that