The Alaska citizen., 1913-05-19

Other records made lF- American
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..'' ''iS jump Of = ieet IL /" inches
- Albert GatteJson. Of the Uniyers F
II OF Vermont. at the Olympic games
III Stockholm, and tn" sensational
pole vault Of II feet 81. inches by
Mark :. Wright. of yarmouth College
a the iry-aUt- for the American
team. The latter, however. was not
He only l&-fvet yaulter for the year,
for al the inteTeoliee ate cham
H.onshiH n May Robert y Gardner.
of Na'e. cleared an inch beyond that
great height.
ON thu cuder path the best per
farWaHe" OF the season by an Amer
.ean vas the beating Of the worlds
hali-mife record ut the Stockholm
games lay Ted" Meredith. a school
Ley from Mercershurg Academy.
aheH b. covered The >>n Yards in
I'm. a2ass This ~as particularly
pleasing to many veteran athletic
followers, as there were certain cir
enmstaaees in connection with the
figures established by Emilio Iunshi,
he Italian. at Montreal in faFa which
made the timing look inaccurate.
While there were many differ NJ
records made hy the athletes. those
mentioned were the most noteworthy
The work Of Jim Thorpe. the Won
lerful Sac and Fox Indian, how
ever, is deserving Of a special niche
The aborig.ne proved himself the
greatest allround athlete Of all time
Here in America on last Labor day
after a long period of ira ming and
competition. he beat Martin Sheri-
3an's record with total of 747Gi2
Joints fer the ten events of the
competition under weather conditions
which were anything but conducive
10 GOOD athletes Not only did
Thorpe prove to be the hest ath.
lpte in America. but. pitted against
}ha pick of the world al Stockholm.
10 handily won both the decathloa
ard pentathlon
AeRoNAUTlCs.
Water FLYING. or aviation in the
hydro aeroplana and its new off,
spring. the flying boat or acrobat.
advanced more RAPIDLY in America
nam any other branch of aeronauties
II 1872. The army followed the
navy in adopting these marine air
craft
Lieut.. John II. Towers, l. S. y,
established 4 new aviation endurance
record in a Curtiss hydro-aeroplane,
flying 6h. 1om. Sos. above the Chesa-
nealle al Annapolis. Md The new
Wright marine aircraft was flown
across Long Island Sound and back
by Charles Wald. and the Curtiss
machine by Beckwith Ravens.
Charles T. Weymann upheld Amer
ieau aviation abroad by flying 400
miles in one day in one of the new
air and water craft. Newport by
dro monoplane, September 16 last,
along the Belgi an and French coasts
and the river Seine. He also wen
he international water FLYING race
of 81 miles above the English Chan
mel on August q in the same ma
chine. carving a passenger, against
several French competitors. cover ns
the distance in III. 44m 24s.
A great cross-country performance
in a hydro-aeroplane was that Of
Anthony Janus. who flew down the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers. in
November and December, carrying
a PASSENGER from Omaha to New
Orleans. He used a Benoist hydro
biplane The journey lasted SO days,
and covered 1873 miles, following
he river bends. It was the longest
ever made in a marine aeroplane
and the longest passengercarryin
tip ever reported in aviation.
Several new speed records were
made at the Chicago international
rect in September by Jules We'd
,.,oc -; ,,-ippipo tho Couna Jntarno-