New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-15
Time for Fifteen-Mile Hike
Is Bettered by Over
Eight Minutes.
rOIJR OTHER MARKS
GO BY THE BOARD
Old Dick Remer Sets Pace
Which Aids REM to Hang
Up New Figures,
By CAVE.

American walking records st FIVE dis
..... were broken by large margins
!, ~. hf,een-mile New York and New
,,-.v state championship, held upder
=. direction Of the hTomas Lynch As
,.lsnon a. Celtic Park. Long Island
r.v. Yesterday afternoon. From the
,l.vsnth mile to the end the old marks
v,rs shattered, the hfteen-mile record.
,hlch has stood for thirty-six years
s,inr the last 20 succumb.
Four OF the marks went 70 the credit
fiddle REM. Of the Mohawk Athletic
Club. recognized American champion.
Rsnr's notwithstanding win was due
,,n,iderably 70 the determined fight
,,s Of James ". Plant. Of the Long
island Athletic Club, who finished sec
,,d Plant gave REM as warm tussle
4. has featured their many hard meet
j-vs on the indoor tracks during the
wst winter.
7, was practically stride for stride
hiring the last few miles. with an
s,e.sional switch IN the pacing posi-
tor Plant was so burned up" at the
srsh bv his hard efforts. that he was
barely able 90 cross the tape.
The new performance recorded by
REM was 2.O6:06 3-5 and greatly re-
Suced the former BEST figures Of 2:14:-
a. made By Willie OKeefe on the old
williamsburg track back in the halcyon
Ssys Of lSSO-thirty-siX years ago. In
finishing TWO and four-hfths seconds
later. and some seven yards in the
wake o. the new champion, Plant was
himself well within the old perform
tnee.
Two q the other marks established
~ OKeefe in the race in which ne set
he l5-mile record were also obliterated
By the new title-holder REM was
clicked Sc passing the 13-mile point IN
1865. erasing s minutes and 80 sec
ends from O'Keefe's time. At the end
Of the next mile, the fourteenth, REM
was timed in az 1:56;20, minutes and
IS seconds faster than the old perform
tnee.
Ren1's other record was at the elev-
tnth mile, which he turned IN l:2S:5l,
displscing the previous best time Of
l:s5:06, held by Willie F. Hart since
May q, 1884.
Plant also got into the record break
inT column when he led REM by two
Yards az the twelfth mile in 1870,
,msshing the former time Of 1:45:55,
hung up by Eddie D. Lang in 1884.
Remer Responsible.
The wholesale wreckage OF records
was primarily due 10 the killing pace
Of the gray-haired Dick Remer. now
unattached. who exhausted himself so
that he had 70 retire at the end of the
tenth mile. The oldest athlete IN &C
tive competition tore the heart out Of
many of the other thirty-seven com
petitors as he fairly burned up the Gin
ders. heading the field around the
track from the start until he wilted.
He soon forced many Of the unhard-
sned pedestrians 70 retire 10 the inside
Of the track, painting heavily.
REM and Plant both succeeded IN
passing Remer at the end of the ninth
mile. and the fight for the premier
honors was on. IL was nip and tuck
ior the greater part Of the distance up
to the fourteenth mile, when REM in
reased his speed and shot into a hve-
Yard lead.
he increased this to some fifteen
ards on the beginning Of the last lap,
shsn Plant called into play his reserve
strength. He made Unexpectedly good
progress on the swiftly moving REM
iid was able 70 cut down the lead 10
seven yards. Both reached the finish
Inc badly burned up b. their hard
nee
Following far behind. for third
ionors. came william J. McFadden, rep
wenting the New York Athletic Club.
Es covered the distance in 2:14:47 3-5.
George Urlaub. Of the American Walk
cs' Association and Frank Kieser,
winner Of the City Hall-to-Coney Isl
and race Of the Morningside Athletic
Club. were third and fourth, in the
respective times Of 2:14:59 Is and
2l6.20S-5 They were the only other