The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-23
RECORDS SHOW
FINE ADVANCE
IN ATHLETICS
With Few Exceptions,
Every Mark in Field
Sports lis Bothered
90 Aeeociated Press. }

New York, Jan. 23.-The remark
able advance made in track and neld
athletics by American performers In
recent years IL strikingly demonstrat-
ed by the latest charts OF the Anna
teur Athletic union. With the excep-
tion OF two or three events. the rec
ords show that almost every stand
ard contest has repeatedly been bet
tered during the period since the
early sos when the A. A. u. was or
ganized.
The 10O-yard dash record was cut
down 2-6 of second in a tribe less
than thirty years. Between 1888 and
1918 1t was broken twice. and no less
than. eleven sprinters participated IN
breaking or tying the time. In the
220 dash. IS Of second was Topped
on the time in a similar period, the
record being broken twice, and eight
runners receiving credit for exceed
ing or equaling the previous oiocktng,
The quarter mile event Is one OF the
= dell Baker ran the 40 yards in Al IA
seconds I'm 1885, and in 1900 Maxey
Long reduced the time to AZ seconds
fiat. Since that date no Splinter has
ever equaled this performance,
Half Mile il Battered.
Coming to the longer distances, the
half-mile run has been bettered twice,
Ia seconds having been cut on the
time made by Lon Myers in 1885. This
letes are credited with tying or
breaking the record. In the mile run
As seconds marks the improve
ment. w. @. George ran the distance
in 1889 in AL rs, and in turn Tommy
Connefr, John Paul Jones and Norman
Taber each clipped the time until, at
present 1t stands at 412 S-S. the
hye-mile record has been broken
three times and equaled once since
So SIS seconds. The ten-mile run
shows gain of 1.56 is since
1885, the record at that date having
been bettered three times.
marks the gain over the l20-yard
night., In 1891 H. L. Williams did
is ass and in 1915 r. Simpson estap-
Mshed the present figures OF "a go.
record was broken four times, and
tied four times. At go yards. the
gain amounts to full second: This
second was cut OF by A. G. kraen2-
but never beaten. The one-mile walk
has been improved to the extent OF
/ 3-5 seconds since "Cinders Murray
stepped the distance in 6m 20 S-5 in
1888 IL was not until 1911, however,
that George Goulding, the Canadian
walker, heel-and-toed the distance in
e.28, and no other performer hss
squaled those figures since.
Field Events show Better.
The field events also aftord some
remarkable examples of the improve
ment in athletic competition. The |
running high jump mark has been
moved up 3 6-16 inches since 1887
when w. B. Page cleared it. in. |
Eddie Beeson holds the record at
present with It. z 5-16 in, but In the !
Interim Mike Sweeney and George
HORNE held the figures Of their day, /
thus proving factors In the climb OF
the Jumpers. The broad Jump shows |
an Improvement of 1 It. IA in In |
1886 the figures stood at % II. in. |
made by Malcolm Ford, and between \
that date and Meyer Brimstein's rec |
ord leap of a. It. IA in, the records |
we're broken 1--WE times by four dtner-
emit broad jumpers. The hop, step and /
jump shows a gain OF 1t. Ia In,
between 1884 and 1911 when the ex-
isting fgures were established by Dan
The pole vaulters also kept raising
the bar steadily from the day when
Hugh Baxter did IL It. 3 in, In 1887.
Mark Wright now holds the record
with 10 IT. IA in, but the original
height has been improved upon no
less than seven times and tied once.
In the weight events IA IT. lis ina
mark the gain between Jueckberners
heave OF IS ft. Ia in, with the Sc
lb ball and Matt McGrath's 40 It.
& as In. made in 1911. The shot put
gain amounts 70 IT. / In, having
thirty years The discus throw was
not established until 1897, and the
first figures were held by q. III. Hen
neman with lis IT., in. In 1912 the
present record of LAB IT., 9 Ia in, was
made by Duncan, but during these
proved no less than seven times and
IN each case Martin Sheridan was
the athlete to better his previous
throw