The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-28
ENGLAND IMPROVING
 IN TRACK ATHLETICS

New York July 2s-The fact that the l United States and English track and field championships were held upon the
 same day, makes a comparison of tho
 work of. the native athletes and thelr visiting competitors of more than ug-
 uaI interest. Eng1and's A A A.
 games were held on the famous oval
 at Stamford Bridge, London, while the United States championships were be- | ing contested at Chicago Some 17.O00 spectators watched the English and Swedish athletes battle for houors fin a drizz1e, while about half that number sweltered in a temperature close to ] 100 while American titles were won on
 a track and in field which failed to eli- cit any praise from the competitors. Although conditions as reported from both athletic fields were agatnat rec ] ord-breaking performances, a remark able improvement was shown in the general all round work of the English and Swedish athletes, indicating that
 the lessons learned in recent Olympic
 Games defeats have not been forgot ten.
 The English programme consisted Of
 fourteen events, of which English ath- 1etes won nine and SWeden's repre8en- tatiXes five. Four A. A. A. recordg were established, two by the Swedes and two by English conteuders- The United States schedule contained eighteen contests in which two new
 games records were made, one by an American born and the other by an Irish athlete. A comparison of the programmes of the two meets shovrs that eleven similar events appeared on
 both, and with these as Q basis a. com pairing of records proves that the tfmeI or distances were better at Stamford
 Bridge in six of the eleven competl- tions. To what extent local coudltIoua affected these figures there Is no way
  simply to show that the oft-repeateI
 statements that European athletics arc gradually approaching American stan- dards are not based on idle observa.- ton.
 Beginning with the 100. 200 and 40
 yard runs England showed a winner
 in the first two events in the person of
 w R. Applegarth, who won in 10 and l21 3-5 seconds respectively against spin
 ter Drews times of 10 2-5 and 22 l-6 seconds at Chicago. Half, the Chica-
 go A. A and Michigan flyer won the 40 yards in 51 4-5. while G. Nicol did 1925 at London. In both the half and one mile runs the United States hgure8 were better. Baker. the New York A. c. runner, captured the $50 in 2 min
 utes and 15 seconds. E. Wide. Of SWe-
 den, winner in England, was 2-5 Of a
 second slower. N Norman Tabor won
 the mile @at Chicago in 4 minutes @ 2-5 seconds, while Zander, of the SWed- ish team, required 4 minutes 20 A-5 sec-
 onds to take the English title. Tn tho
 running broad jump Abrahams cleared
 22 feet inches at the A A A Eames.
 while Stiles, the winner at Chicago.
 did 22 feet 3-4 inch. The running hiEh jump showed that Richards, the O1yzu- pic champion, had but 3-S of an Inca advantage over Baker, EngIauE1 champion, who jumped feet inch Nilsson, the Swedish shot butter, push- ed the weight out 47 feet 1-Z inches. against American champion Whituey's 46 feet 5-6 inches. In the pole vault and hammer throw the American fig
 ures were far superior to those made at Stamford Bridge.