Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-07
Observation-Disclosures.

Plat Adams of this city. member
of the News York A. c., is today the
1913 titleholder in the standing high
jump, standing broad jump and pole
vault for distance, as result of his
victories in the annual indoor tourna-
ment of the \. A. U. held in Madison
Square Garden, New York, last night
In the high jump he equaled his
own record of five feet two inches. He
failed three times in an attempt to
smash these figures.
Records fell fast throughout the
competition. Pat Mcdonald, of the
Irish American A. c.. shattered his
own worlds mark in the 24-pound
shot event, established by himself in
1912. The big New Yorker tossed the
iron ball 80 feet az inches, which is.
l foot PA inches better than the old
record. Abel r. Kiviat, another Irish
American representative. broke tha
worlds indoor mark, 1000 yards. by
/ two-tifths of a second, doing the dis
tance in 10 4-5 seconds, experimenting
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onds.
Howard p Drew, the Springfield
High School negro, equaled the
worlds record of rs yards held Jointly
by Luther Cary. Bonnie Wefers and
Archie Hahn, covering the distance in
| Z 3-5 seconds.
j. Wendell. the big Wesleyan Uni
sersity hurdler. equalled the indoor
championship record of rs seconds,
in the 70-yard hurdle race, in both the
! final and in his heat. John Eller, of
the Irish Club, was second.
KohIemainen Drops Out.
| William j. Kramer, the national
cross-country champion. won first
honors in the two-miles event. Kra-
mer took the lead at the start and
held it all the way. Hannes Kohle-
mainen started, but dropped from the
race after completing mile. He was
in bad shape. having a severe cold.
Harry Smith stopped two laps later
Kramer, with Oscar Hedlund, of the
! Boston A. A., drew away from Louis
Scott, and Holden, of the Yonkers Y.
M. c. A.. and with two laps to go
Kramer drew away from Hedlund
and won by twelve yards. His time
| was minutes 10 Is seconds, a new
indoor mark. The old record min
utes 20 4-5 seconds, was held by
George Bonhag.
Six speedy middle-distace flyers
went out after the 600-yard title. o.
De Grouchy, New York A. G.. was
allowed to lead the field for three laps,
when Kiviat worked up into the lead
ing position In the last lap he was
challenged by James C. Meredith. the
/ University of Pennsylvania crack.
! The pair raced neck and neck in the
last lap, the Quaker on the outside
! striving to speed ahead of the Irish
American. The latter was able to
hold his lead and after a fierce strug
gle won by a yard. This gave kiviat
his second championship of the meet.
The big entry list In the 300-yard
run made it necessary to hold four
trial heats, with four men in the first.
/ and three in the last. Melvin w
Sheppard was an absentee, owing TO.
his recent experience in a train
wreck. The four men left in the event
after the second semi-fnal heat were
Fred Burns, Boston A. A.; w. Pack
ard, New York A. c.; J. Stebbins,
Georgetown University. and A. Pepis,i
Irish Ameriean A. C. Burns was
penalized three yards for a false
break, and Pepis was penalized six
yards for the same offense. Burns,
despite his handicap, won by good
margin from Packard, the second
man.