Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-20
RECORDS OF 4. A. j. SHOW
GREAT ADVANCE IN SPORT
Quarter-Ni!e Is Notable Exception to
Progress OF Athletes OF
Last Decade.
Nancy Lo*Gs. TINE STANDS
No Star Has Even. Ticd For.y-:Sevcn
Seconds for .,;G Yards Since 1900.
Mark Wright folds Polc-Nault
Mark at II Feet I'll Inches.

The remarkable advance made in
track and field athletics by American
performers in recent years is striking
II demonstrated hv the latest charts
of the Amateur hih.ctic Union. With
the exception OF two o. three events tho
records aho:v that almost every stand
ard contcs; Nis repeatedly been bot
tered during ;hc period since the carly
eighties. when tho Amateur Athletic
Union was organized
The 100 yard dash record WAS cut
down two-iifths Of a second in tri0c lcs:
imam thirty years. Between 1883 an:
laiS IL was broken twice and no l.s.
IMAM eleven aprirtcrs participated IN
breaking o. Tying the time. In the "co-
yard dash four-hftl.s OF second was
Topped off tn tire in si!niiar period.
the record being broken twice. ami
eight runner rccniVin. credit Cor c3 :
cccdinE or couaiiuE the previous clock =
ing. The quIricr-in;ic event !s one of
the exception 20 The general rule.
Wendell Baker ran tie 40 yards -
forty-scvcn and threc-Guartcr seconds
in 1886, and in 1900 Nancy Long re.
duocd the time to forty-5evcn seconds
Tat. Since that date no Splinter has
ever equalcd this performance.
Coming 20 the longer distances. the
half nilc run has been bct;cred twice.
three and onc-half seconds having
Myers In 1885. This time vas lowered
twice and four athletes are credited
with tying o- break inG the record. In
tho mile run eight and foY--Gt;h Sec
oPds marks tie ..rI:ovcmcnt W. G..
George ran tho distance in 1882 in
<.cl 70. and In turn Tommy Connect.
John Paul Jones and Norman Tabcr
.nt II stands 4; az 3d.. Tho GTc-,r !le
record has been brol,cn three times
end cQualcd once a'ncc 1887 and the
total gain amounts "a ;ifty-ccur AMI
'1o-ifih scrond. The ;.n-rile run
shows n gain % l.5j Id sccond. since
1856, the record Of NAT dat. hay.c.
been bc:terci three times.
Marked GnIn in HureI- Record.
In tho hurdle race one and oae-sit,,
ward hight in 1891 ~ l.. williams dIi
utte"n and tour-hf:S seconds. and in
1916 i. Simpson established the pres
On; figures o! fourteen and thrce-;ff,h
seconds. DGEiue; 'hc:e tY.crty-"i& years
tho record was broken iou. Zines and
tlcd four timos. ~ go Yards tho gain
amounts 10 4 fan scconn. This second
Wa cut OF by 4 =. N.a.uz,cin u
1898. AMI has been tNd twice. ~;
ucYc- beaten. Tho o'e-rnii" x.il, has
accn improved 20 tho extent OF vlo and
;Arnc -t,th seconds since "C!udcrs'
.iu-ray stepped ;hc distance IN six
minutes twenty Mac and three ann
teconds In 1855. Ii vas not until 1911.
however, ,Eat George GoulGinr. tho
Canadian walker. hcfi-amd-;ocd the dis.
ttrce in 62., and no ocac- rcr:ornl.:
has cpualeg 'nose figure si-oc
Tho fold event also ,Horl some 70
markablc examples OF the Improvement:
IN athlcti, competition. The running
Ugh Jump marx has been moved up
1887. when ". l.. paEc cleared six fec;
four inches. Eddie Hccson holds In.
record at present. with six fnct seven
ard hvc-sirtc"nth !nchc2, but in tho
interim Mike sweeney and George rIo-
rine held the figures Of their day, thus
proving factors ~ the climb OF tho
Jumpers. Tho broad juno shows al
improvement % ono foot four AMI one
quarter inches. IN 1886 the figures
stood AZ tTeuiy-thrcc feet three inches.
made By Malcolm Ford. ard between
that date 1nd Meyer rrlnHtcir's record
leap OF TIVE -four !crt seven ar5 ono =
quarter inches the records were broken
ti1e times b: tour diTcren; broad jump
ers The h1p step and 5anp shows "A
gain OF six f2"t nine and one-Qu7-ter
inches between 1854 ard 1911, when the
existing frurcs vcrc established By.
Dan .Ahcarr.
Tho pole "auitc~e also kcpt ra.sin Z
The bar steadily from the Gay when
Hugh eaIto' did eleven fec, Eve inches
in 1857. Mark Wright now aoids the
record, with thirteen feet two and ono
quarter inches. but the original he iSht
has been improved upon no less than
seven t!msr. and tod once. II the
weight events, fourteen fec. three ard
once i@ht Inches marx Tic gain be;
lu:ckhcrHcrs inavo of tWcntr eight
feet three and oue-Iuurtcr inches "itlr
the htty- pound bali, and Matt Me-
Erath'3 fo",y foct 'iy ana three sight I
inches. mad" il 1911. The .ho;-rut gain
amounts 10 seven fec; one .nch. hav-
ing been broken six times in a reriod
OF thirty years. The GiScus-thro,r
was not established Until 1892. and the
first figures we're held ~ 9. II. Iicnnc-
man. with lie Ccct Q inches. In 1912
the 7Teson. record of 10 feet ~.
inches was made hy Duncan. bu: dur
Ing these fifteen years The figures were
improved no less than seven tines and
in each case Martin Sheridan was the
athlete to better his previous throw.
tIAMPDEN. SIDNEY DEFEATS