New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-13
RECORDS GALORE BROKEN
KoIehmainen Clips Time from
New and Old Marks.
HEDLUNG CATCHES FEVER
Boston A. A. Team Wins the Re
lay Race at New York Ath-
letic Clubs Games.

distance champion OF the World ana INC
greatest runner that ever drew on
spiked shoe. smashed his own worlds IN
door record for five miles at the New
York Athletic Clubs annual Indoor track
and field games at Madison Square Gar
den last night Kolehmanen won his race
by Just two laps from Harry Smith. the
Bronx runner, in - minutes % seconds
which took i 40 seconds OF the world
mark that he made at the games or the
Irish-American club last week. and also
lowered the record OF 24.%3 established by
All Shrubb the great English professional
runner. for the distance.
Kolehmainen, however. was not content
with smashing the fve-mie record lie
went ont as he alone can go, and. running
with all the ease and grace of thorough
tired. wiped out the mark for three ana
half and four and one-half miles III
order to celebrate the day in htunG
manner. He brceZed by the three ana
-halfmile mark in l. minutes ii 80
scconds. which took Just 8 - seconds on
the record he established last week. Al
four miles he was only two seconds be-
lllllu ilp llluOOE TttOlu vi 1907 ii'i' ~
George Bonhag. but he was far ahead OF
Louis SCOTS outdoor mark. He picked
UP I'm the next half mile. and was caught
at four and one-half miles in 900 10
which lowered his own record for the
distance by a round ten seconds. In the
last half mile the little Finn ran on the
wings OF the wind and knocked the props
dc i'm
all the world.
The performance OF koehmainen is all
the more wonderful when il is remcm-
bered that yesterday afternoon he started
in the threc-milc run in the games of
Battery T.. OF the 9Th Regiment. ana
there established d new worlds record
for that distance. with only a couple OF
hours rest he faced the starter in the
five-m!lc run, and ran as il he had been
training for nothing In the world but that
particular race.
koiehmainen started against seven other
rum rs who have won their spUrs-liarry
smith, Joe Silva. Fred Bellars and Eddi"
jordan. among others Right AZ the crack
or the gun kolehmalncn went oIt. ana
paced along by smith went away from
the rest. Before one mile had been
travelled this flying pair had opened a.
gap Of some forty yards on the rest OF
the aeld which even then was strung out
like the tail OF a Kite. IL was shortly
after the mile mark that Smith and the
tireless Finn passed Mussler for the first
time. and after a mile and hall Bel.ar.
dropped ont. Smith and kolehmainen
were timed tor the frs, mile In minutes
A. 81 seconds and stepped 10 the second
mile ia ga.
oscar r. lIcilund Of Boston won tie
one-mile handicap run from scratch and
broke the indoor record by fun second
Iiedund won the race in minutes IS -
seconds. which lowered the former record
held BY H. l.. Trube. Norman : Taber
Of Brown University. VINO took third
place IN the l.5r meter race NJ stock
holm. started from scratch against He'd
lund, but he was beaten by some forty
Yards. barely able 10 struggle home IN
fourth place. lledlund and Taber allowed
handicaps up 10 10 yards 20 "a fast field.
Right from the start Taber went out in
hot pursuit OF the limit men. but II was
not until two laps from home that he
finally caught them and passed into the
lead II was pretty piece OF running,
and the crowd cheered him to the echo.
The relay team of the Boston Athletic
Association won the int.rcity relay r"ce.
but the victory was not clean cut No}
Wood the anchor man Of the New YORK
team. fell rounding the Fourth avenue
turn. and the race ended 10 all intents
and purposes right then aud there. Wood
picked himself up and finished the race
at a fast clip, but the men from the iiub
won by almost half II lap IN 30 20 winch
was only one-ifth OF "a second behind tho
record established in the games Of the
Boston Athletic Association last week.
Patton. Baker. he Grouchy and Wood
ran for New York in the order named
against Caldwell. Lee. Merrihew anG Hal
pin FOR Boston. Boston was always Ia
command of the situation. and even had
Wood held his feet II IL more than proba-
bile that he would have won just the
same.
Then came the untimely ending 10
what might have been brilliant race
when Wood fell on the slippery turn ana
the Boston man rated over the HE an
easy winner.
Jimmy Wendell. OF williams University.
eaualled the worlds record over the 10
ward high hurdles. when he won the hual
heat I'm . l-5 seconds. W. +. Peter was
second. and Don Trenholm came IN thrd
place slightly behind the winner. ia
Spencer. wearing the colors Of Columbia
University. won we'll run race IN the
44o-vard novice ana broke the wolsted in
30 As seconds.
The summaries follow:
3O-yard dash (handicsp) WON boy g. HoyL
New York a. 9. a feeU. II. Deitjen. WESLEYAN
University IS feeD. second +. J. stephenson
Trinity club tscratcD. third. Time 900 ..
ono mile run handicapl Won by oscar
Hedlund, Boston A. \. (scratchD. Charles Mo
Cam unattached go yarosJ, second. q. CID
bons New York a 6. GO yards, ;hiTi y. =
Tabor. Brown University scratch fourth.
Time, 4:1s45.
Intercity relay race-won bv Boston Athletic
Association caldwell. leo. Mcrrihew and tal
pinD; New York Athletic club ddton, Baker.
De Grouchy and WOOD. second. Time.
3:2j %
Pole vault handcap, Won by :. T. wss-
9ner. Yale University % Inches: y. watson MaI
Wright Dartmouth University scratch. third
Winning vault, II feet 8 inches.
standing high jump-Won by Platt ADAMS,
New York A. &. scratch. with leap or .
feet inches, l.. Geohring. Mohawk A. 9.
(scrstch, second. with leap Of feet :
inches. second; L. l.; Zines Bronx Chrrch
House q inches) third with a leap Of o feet
| inch.
One-mile ralk-Won by ". Beencr. Glencoe
4. CO 40 seconds. A. /. Davis. unattached GO
seconds) second: r. Neuendorfer. New YORK A
G (22 seconds. third. Time 7i5.
800 yard dash--Won BY ". r. Storey. New
York \. G. ~ YARDS. Mel Sheppard, Irish
American A =. (scratcht. II. Muller. Sew
York A. q. Oi YARDS third Time O:337s.
40 ard tnoyiceJ- Won bv t. A. b. Spencer
Columbia University: :. Stoyct. Columbia Uni
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