The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-10
FEW. IO-SEC0ND ID 100 YARDS
 MEN IN SIGHT
So Deduct Experts After Care full Study of Athletic Records News of Cinderpaths.

He can run a hundred In ten sec
 onds easily! How often you hear such a remork. Ten seconds for one
 hundred yards makes the. runner
 average two yards for each fifth of
 second, fact that shows how ridicu-
 lous 1t Is to assume that any man can
 run one hundred yards easily in ten
 seconds.
 Although many runners have been
 credited with even time, we have had
 mighty few who could show sound
 figures for the distance. A fifth sec
 ond stop watch in the hands of an
 expert clocker recording even time
 does not signify that the runner did q
 sound performance.
 A man could show in his running
 fully three feet worse than ten sec
 onds and the stop of the watch
 might fall in the nick which would
 give him the benefit in time.
 The English and Scotch profession
 al timers and trainers use the Will Hams stop watch, which registers
 one-sixteenth of a second. The stop
 arrangement does not fall into nick.
 It acts directly on wheel, which prevents a performer getting any the better worse of his running. With the sixteenth divided timer the actual performance of a sprinter can be fig
 ured very close, providing the time piece is in capable hands.
 There are very few expert clockers on foot racing in the amateur ranks and possibly the fifth split watches are close enough. Still they would never do to clock a man with for his try out for a powderball handicap, on
 which thousands of dollars are al | ways at stake.
 On Saturday, July 19, and the fol- lowing Saturday, the annual games of the Police Relief Fund will be held at Speedway Park, Sheepshead Bay. Nineteen events are on for each | day, which includes running, walking | weight throwing, tug of war, bicycle and motorcycle events
 On the second day one of the events will be 100 yards for heavy
 men, 225 pounds or over; contestants will be weighed before and after the | race. The rule of weighing before and after the race was injected to prevent an occurrence such as hap pened few years ago when a 221 pound man made weight by drinking l four pounds of water, or some other | liquid. During the race he lost over l two pounds. This year the heavies
 must allow for shrinkage and reach l the finish 225 pounds or over. The writer received a. long letter 1 from France yesterday It was signed l by twenty-one of our athletes who were entered for the inter allied games. Among the signatures were l those of Lieut.. Jim Duncan, Lieut. Tetchner, Lieut.. Eddie Madden, Lieut. | Joe Higgins, Lieut." Bob Simpson,
 Capt. Andy Kelly, Lieut.. Prem, Lieut. | Earl Eby, George Brouder, Pat Ryan, Bill Spengler, Joe Stout, Tom Camp | bell, T. Spink, and Nick, the Greek l The letter was written the day
 previous to the opening day of the 1 games. All reported fit and well, ! which fact was borne out by the re- i suits shown in the competitions The senior metropolitan champion 1 ships of the A. A. U. will be held i the third Saturday in August The | local athletes who were In France | for the tnter-allied games will be | back in time to compete which will T |