Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03

I ,4 In track athletics. 1915 was bril- liant one and several new records were added to the already long list
 on the A. A. D. books. Old figures which seemed rigid and had stood the attacks of hundreds of athletes top l pied over and formed the outstanding features of sporting accomplishme I the best athletes in the country has been picked with reasons of selection I which follows:
 There may be some surprise that Joe Loomfs is picked for the best 100-yard sprinter in preference to Howard Drew. Loomis is. given the position not only because of his high-class performances but also his consist ency. In the Central A A. U cham pionships he did g 4-5 seconds. and Francisco, he won in the same excel- lent time. Had Drew been in as good 1 shape as he was last year he would probably have won. but he had more kor less difnculty with his leg, in which I he pulled tendon at Stockholm in 1912, and was not himself.
 There was not consistently high classF sFman in the 220-yard dash. Drew and Morse, of Brooklyn; Smith, of Michigan; Meyer. of New York, and better than 22 seconds. But with Drew
 uncertain and the others not excep-
 tfonalIy fast, the honor is given to Morse, of Brooklyn, who cleaned up most of the best men in the East, and
 won the event at San Francisco in 21 1-5 seconds.
 Meredith Supreme in Two Events.
 J. E. Meredith, of the University of Pennsylvania, is picked for the 440- yard dash by unanimous consent. Meredith won virtually every scratch f11 kI,<, intercollegiate records of AS seconds, and with slight wind at his back also equalled the worlds straightaWay
 record of AT seconds Dismond, of Chi cago. was almost as. fast, and so
 were Wilcox, Of Harvard; Willxie, of Yale; and HaIpin, of Boston. but Mer- edith had something on them all. Passing on to the half mile, Mer- edith also deserves first place, al- i thought he did not compete in the event at San Francisco. Meredith is 1 the worlds record-holder, with a mark of 1:52 1-2f which he made at l Stockholm in 1912. He proved that The had lost none of his marvellous speed when, after winning the quar- l ter mile in the I. c. A. A. A. A. cham. fresh field of men in the half-mile, in 1. 54 2-5. Furthermore. he beat Campbell, of Chicago. the A. A. U. victor at SanFrancisco, in a special
 race in New York. Campbell deserves 1 to be ranked second
 It is not so easy to decide the mer- it's of Norman Taber, the former Brown star, and Ray, of Chicago, for the mile. Taber is the holder of the worlds paced one-mile record of
 4:12 3-5, performance he made at Boston last summer. Ray, however, beat him at San Francisco, and in ad-.
 Gition: has to his credit AIS 1-5
 mile run previously at Chicago. The l.place is given to Taber, for the req [ son that he ran three races during Eastern A. A .U try-outs did a mile Fin 4:16 2-5:* Ray deserves to rank Second
 The two-nnile run did not figure
 much in A. A. U. meets, and the hon. or in this event is given to D. F. Pot. I ter; of Cornell, the. eastern interco1- llegiate champion. Potter. could have kmade a new American record had he realized how strong he was As it
 twas, he did 9:27 1-5, and ran his second mile faster than his first. flames Kohlemainen. the great Fin nish runner, now competing for the Irish American A. C.,-i is the only A, A. U. man in the same class with
 Potter and Hoffmire. of Cornell. and tOverton, of Yale.
 kohlemainen Stands Alone. | In the five and ten mile runs there is no one in the same class with Kohle- mainen at his best. These distances are not run by the college men. except
 in cross country fashion. Similarly,
 walking is no longer a college event. and the club men carried off all the honors here. Edward Renz, of the Mohawk, A. C., the A. A. U. champion of 1914 and 1915. easily leads the field. Taking up the hurdles the factor of. consistency enters strongly into call
 culation. In the 120-yard event Fred Kelly, of the University of Southern California. and Robert Simpson, of the University of Missouri are the leading candidates. Both did 15 seconds dur l ing the year. But they met twice, and each time Kelly was the winner. Kelly won the event at San Francisco, but he was disqualified for knocking down four hurdles. However, he was the
 most consistent hurdler of the year. Ferguson. of the University of Penne champion, who did 15 2-5 seconds also deserves mention. First place in the
 low hurdles is given to Ferguson, de- spite the fact that he did not win the l I. C.. A. A.. A. A. championship. Un- doubtedly he would have won it had he not fallen in his heat In his other performances he made the best time of the year. Bill'' Meanix, of the Boston A. A. and Harvard, was the best quarter mile hurdler in the eoun- itry and was not beaten during the season.
 Consistency in performance again determines first place in the running high jump. which is given to A. w.
 Richards Of Cornell. It is true that
 Richards was beaten at San Francisco i by Horine, the former Leland Stan
 ford star, and by Wesley Oler, of Yale, l in the I. c. A. A. A. A. games But Richards beat Oler in two out of three l important rneeta establishing an aver age Of s feet, 4 1-6 inches for each D0rfoFTuaUce.i In the indoor games of Ithe I. Q. A. A. Richards did feet. 1-e inches, equaling the collegiate and betterfng the intercollegiate rec ord At the Pennsyivania relay car- n!vsl he Gid feet, inches, while in; ] tte intercollegiate championships he 1 did feet 1-2 inches. though beaten Iy OleSs of Yale, who cleared 6 feet. 4 f-2 inches. Not only did Richards make tke best jump of the year, but :! # afs n:S p4rformances were averaged