New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-01
Rig Crowd Sees Four New
Marks Set at list Regi-
ment Games.
ANDERSON WINS MILE
RACE FROM SCRATCH
Wright Victor in 600-Yard
Novice Run, While Lake Tri-
umphS in Bicycle Contest.

The soldier boys OF the fist Regl-
,,srt showed small regard for old age
.rs 6ecrepi,ude last night, for they
SrFo.c9 a very old gentleman about.
tieked him IS ne lay on the ground.
fsst exrir.-r, and otherwise maltreated
AIN, I'm their armory, az SAITH ST. and
The officers q the regiment and sew
.-sl thousand men and women who
ts4 gathered in the big drill hall
Locked on and spplauded the work OF
he -ecimertsl ladies. But don't get
,,Ernart. pray 10 was only the year
1oII and his athletic records that the
',or,bors az the list battered about.
NJ fou,c~ irar four times did armory
-oco-3. 60 hy the beard when the
.,Iie.es cot TO work on them. The
s0O vsrd run. the one-mile run, the
,-e-r,ilr bicycle race and the l2-pound
.bo+Drt figures were all bcttered.
!. was nearly midnight before the
,,st event on The programme was nm
SO and before the soldiers and their
t,-,;rire friends started TO dance 1915
~ .bev escorted the remains of 1914
~, nj thc door. SO badly mutilated his
og,r father. 1918. would hardly recog-
F,fteer rovices faced John J. Nc
urrb tho starter. IN the 6OO-yard
novice race. and after q nip and tuck
struggle all the way Robert Wright,
al COMPANY y. broke the worsted
about two feet in trent Of Z. J. Nc
Donald. Of Company T.. with Edward
Johnson. Of Company Vi, third two
yards back.
Wright raced into the lead lap
ard half from home, but in the last
lslf Ian he was challenged by Melon
sls. who closed with a great burst Of
srsed Around the last turn the men
ran elbow 10 elbow, but Wright showed
a surprising sprint and reserve
strength and gained slightly IN the
straight. holding his lead to the end.
The time. 1922, bettercd the former
armory record BY three-Afths Of a sec
oud.
champion. upheld his reputation for
need in the one mile bicycle race,
setting M the new figures Of 2:26 As
for the distance. the old record being
9.2s. Lake showed his rear wheel to
W. Van den Dries. ". Waeldner and
n. Fcluch. winning by twenty feet
over Waeldner. who led Van den
Dries By half that distance.
The best performance of the night
wa. put up by WillialI Anderson, Of
Company T.. the reg mental champion,
=. the one-mile race, closed TO mem
hers Of the regiment, who led home a
dozen runners in the clinking time Of
4:25. displac.ng his own record Of
1925. made Just year ago. NICK
GianskOpulos, the senior metropolitan
cross country champion, was second,
fni Mat Gels third.
After four laps had been covered An
derson. the scratch man, had caught up
with the rest of the field and was con-
tent to trail along IN the rear OF Giana-
kopulos, who was in receipt Of twenty
Yards Gels. the other scratch man,
chung closely 10 Anderson and the
Greek until the last lap, when Ander-
son shot into the lead and showed
ahead of Gianakopulos at the finish by
two feet Gels tired badly IN the last
seventy yards and was q poor third.
T. /. MatsukeS. Of Company n, at
scratch, proved the best Of the lot IN
putting the 12-pound shot, heaving the
weight a distance of a feet ~ inches,
NtAltIlNE MS NWN AtANAA VI AcRoN 49,
by 2i2 inches; Z. 3. Dorland, of Com
pany F.. with q three-foot handicap,
was second. with 40 feet and inches,
and Anderson. who had recovered from
his record breaking performance IN the
mile. was third, with &c feet and IA
inches.
One Of the events that aroused q
storm OF enthusiasm among the spec
tators was the one-mile relay race from
scratch between members Of the police
and fire departments. The smoke
eaters proved that they can run to a
fire faster than the locust swingers, for
The four men from the Fire Department
won the race by fully twenty yards.
The time was 3:40.
ID. J. Shea, Henry L. koecher, j. NJ.
GcCue and x. J. Egan ran in that order
for the fremen, while the police were
represented by NJ. J. Mulderig, j.: J.
Murphy, John j. Eller and George j.
NerZ.
shea got the jump on Mulderig in the
FIRST relay Of $40 yards and gave
Koecher a ttree-foot lead on Murphy.
The fireman set a killing pace and add
ed about a foot to the teams lead. Nc
Cue and Eller then took up the going