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FASTEST TIME FOR MILE ON BIKE.
q 571-5 SECONDS, MADE % YEARS AGO
ON BOARDS BEHIND LOCOMOTIVE
BY ROBERT w. MAXWELL
Sports Editor Evening Public Ledger

used to the streets, but have smaller
front wheel than rear This Is not because of additional
speed but because the smaller wheel and inverted forks
allow the rider get closer to the motor PAGER Some
times the the motor stands with bent knees and
when this happens the bicycle rider is handicapped by the
wind. Even little thing like that is likely to lose
One night Madonna fired two pacemakers because they
didn't stand straight their machines.
Riding at such dizzy pac" is strenuous exercise, but
the athletes do not to mind It.
Five minutes after a hard fifty mile race says
Carman, II feel just fresh as when started and
don't feel tired except in the wrists. My legs never
bother me at ALL"
The for this is the get into condition and
stay that way They don't have to train except in the
actual Carman rides least three forty mile
events week. and says that's just enough to keep hin
in top shape Once he rode nights in succession
but this too much and he cracked under the strain
"When the starts" he says, II begin my
training by taking long rides. ride from New York
to Boston distance of 2S5 miles and ride from eighteen
to twenty hours at stretch. also take long walks,
get plenty of rest and very careful about my diet
FTER that, all vou need is ono race under
"A your belt and vou in condition for the
entire summer You hare TO wOrry about
condition. You've GOT to Je in shape or you
cant stand the pace"
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THE international imbroglio between
l. our Uncle Samuel and one Jona :
than Bull has now. reached an acute
stage.
Taking only the main events OF the
year to date we now find them neck and
neck az the yacht races get under way
in what may prove to be the decisive
test.
Great Britain got the first jump in
the Pennsylvania relays. This left
point to her credit. =.
She came back with a sweep In golf
when her Mr.. Tolley beat Bob Gardner
and when her leading professionals lett
Americas open champion floundering
In the whins and bunkers quite num-
Der of strokes to the windward.
At this point our tennis team stepped
forward and reversed the program. Til
den and Johnston. aided and abetted
by Williams and Garland. romped
through the pick Of British tennis
players without turning n hair. The
margin was too decisive in the London
and Wimbledon championships to even
call for an argument.
Princeton's fine track team followed
up this achievement by beating Oxford,
thereby evening up the track reverse at
Philadelphia.
Taking in golf. tennis and the track
industries the standing Of the two ma
tions to date is practically as follows:
Events. Won. Lost. Pct.
United States. 4 2 2 500
Great Britain. 4 2 2 500
Next In Order
THERE are now two international
l. conflicts of unusual interest i'm
pending. These two are the yacht races
for the Americas Cup and the 1920
Olympic games.
The Resolute and the new Shamrock
are now on the verge Of deciding the
next international contest. There will
be no grandstand replete with spectators
yelling "Attaboy" or even "Attayacht"
in this next affair. but in spite Of that
II Is surprising how many noncombat-
ants are closely interested In what will
take place.
The Olympic results follow the yacht
races and these will leave the interna-
tional standing fairly complete unless
our tennis team Is overthrown in the
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up in the quarter mile race. Eby will
concentrate in the 1880" Saturday and
new figures may be expected.
Philadelphia Hopes
Philadelphia quota for the games
will leave here tonight on the Federal
Express and will arrive in Boston TO
morrow morning. Meadowbrook lends
in the number of men entered with thir.
teen, and the Wanamaker boys are sure
o make creditable showing. Last wear
MeadowbrOOk got in for only three
points, but with such men as Barron,
Lever, Meehan, Brown, Woodring,
Maxam and others they gather a numb Z
of counters. ~
Last season the games were won BY
the New York A. c. on n four point
margin over the Chicago A. A. The big
town club again is the favorite for the
team title, but there will be much more
competition from all over the country
this year, and the winner most likely
will not be able to collect forty six
points, as was the case year ago.
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FiUe Leading Batters
in TWo Major Leagues
AMERICAN LEAGUE
LOCAL BOYS WIN
Hartman and Clark Triumph In
Olympic BoxInq FInaIs

:, New York. July Jurisdictions FOR ,ho
United States Olympic boxing team wcre
MADE here last night. when semifnaI and
nhai boutS were held in a half dozen cia sSau
I ne winners Of the finals In the events
VII be sss!sned places with those selscteS
IN IN trials last night in the l7s-pound and
heavyweight classes anu
benny Bass, representing the Curtis cour-
uE club Philadelphia. lost the judses' de-
,'S'9n TO Frank Di Gennaro. OF the PauIist
!l2,Lound class. Summaries: VI '"e
ll?-pound class fnais-P. Ziyic, w,,,ov
a, a. &c g. Pittsbursh, defeated Frank Di Gen.
@ @naro Parlist a. c., Now York, Judges' de.
lls'pound class. nnals-Earl L. Hart.
man hermann Institute. Philadelphia. de-
Lehted stephen Gustin. South Boston. judges'
u",,ision after an extra round
l-n'pound class. hnHls-Jack ZiyIc Will
Inow a; C., Pittsburgh. defeated George d.
E'GneI T. ). navy, Judges decision
l60'pound class, hnRls-Frank Cassidy
0@anam Association. New York, defeated
judges decision "'
=, ll7-pourh class. fnals-w!llam Clark
H"Trmhnn Institute. Philadelphia defeated
JACK Bradley, Pastime A. c.. New York,
Judges decision
:, l6O;pound class. fnals-sam Lagonla.
T"w York, won by default from Lieutenant
Joseph a. Cranston. u. S. A.
Clifton Heights Profs (away). first class
JuIy ~ open. J. Il. Gallagher. Clifton
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Several Records Virtually
Sure to Go in National
Track Championships at
Cambridge
BY EDWIN j. POLLOCK

. pRoVIDED the cinder path at
Soldiers Field, the playground Of
Johnny Harvards undergraduates, is in
Its usual splendid condition and pro-
v1ded the athletes of Uncle Sam per-
form according to their rated ability TO-
morrow and Saturday, several new rec
ords will be printed in the 1921 Spald-
ing's Guide.
The best athletes America has TO
oner In track and field sports will show
the results of weeks Of preparation and
training when they compete for the
National Amateur Athletic Union cham
pionships and for the honor of repre-.
sentlng the Stars and Stripes in the
o!mpio games at Antwerp next month.
One record that surely will be in dam
ger IS the mile time of 1 minutes II -
seconds. These figures were made by
Joie Ray, the marvellous distance run
ner OF the Illinois \. c., who once again
ls waiting to take a crack at the mark
hay unquestiOnably is the miller of the
age and if conditions are right 1t would
not be great surprise to see him
crack Norman Tabcr's world record Of
minutes II 80 seconds.
Little Beyond Ray
A no less authority than LawsonC
Robertson. coach of the University of
Pennsylvania team and one Of the as
sistants to Jack Moakley as trainer of
the Olympic runners, believed Raw
capable of bettering the worlds figures.
Ted Meredith some time ago stated that
Ray can do 4.10.
The 100 and 900 time for the
championship meets now stand at 8 A.
? and Il 20 seconds. Followers Of
Charlie Paddock, the flash from the
coast, figure that he can at least equal
both of these times, If not beat them.
Then there's the high jump figures,
now at q feet 3 3-1G inches. Landon,
the lean -limbed leaper from Yale. who
holds the intercollegiate championship,
has been lifting himself over the bar at
feet 4 inches consistently this year
and there is no reason to believe he
cant repeat.
Landon Has Confidence
Landon has learned much in the last
year. Previously he was inexperienced,
and although he had the ability, he
laeked the confidence and could be rid
den out of first place Talk falls off him
now like peas off knife.
Back in 1915 Don Scott. the Mis-
souri, 4. c. half-mier, set the $3.50"
championship time at / minute 81 sec.
onds. Philadelphia and Chicago have
one candidate in the person of Earl Eby,
who Is likely to shatter that mark on
Saturday. Eby will represent the Chi
cago A. A., but Philadelphia has claim
on him as student of the University
0f Pennsylvania.
Lawson Robertson voiced the opinion
Nrjor Il the intercollegiates ON Franklin |
1el Hthat Eby might get Meredith's |
~ ! 1913 In the college hah mile. |
IN & hut his strength was tpken
,6z.<<<f IS
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The candidates for the American
olympic team Will have the following
records the best ever made in an A. A.
Sr,dsn dEna,rpaVinShip, !or hrssts N the cam
0''u7' ''i".s morrow ana saturday
o,iSard ieSard dash-o los. ,.
is57. E"Tus' a.. a.. tTUv' ,Mm,' p = rmeiers'
1905.
220-yard dash--22 POS.
L. ]. Wrfcrs New York A. c.. 1897.
44O-yard run-Is 4-5s.
I. e. Burke Boston A. A.. 1905.
BO-ynrd run-I;54
Don Scott Missouri a. c.. 1915.
OnemIIe run-4,IA2-5
Joie Ray, Illinois A. c.. 1919.
Tw0-miIe run-IOO8 Is
A. Grant. New York A. c.. 1904.
Three-mIle run-I5:18 4-5
rIra,i,S 90 ''o'
c Poras ite pnihe u run-S1iSo
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was a victory for newcomer in cham
pionship circles. c. ]. H. Tollcy.
G V. Rotan lost his perennial"
claim to the Texas title this year.
Another title that passed into new
hands was that Of Rhode Island ANA
teur supremacy. in which +. VI. Han
cock defeated J. A. Gammons . up in
the thirty six hole final at Wannamoi-
sett. Jess Sweetser, OF Yale. took
over the intercollegiate title. w. NJ.
Reekie, the New Jersey amateur.
Looking at the other side of the story.
there are found among the seasons title
winners such past champions as Roger
Hovey in the Connecticut amateur, Mrs.
II. III. Barlow in the women's eastern,
as well as in the Shawnee invitation !:
Mrs. Quentin Feitner IN the women s
metropolitan, while Miss Harriet s
Curtis. although winning the Boston
women's championship for the first
time. was former champion in larger
way. having once captured the national.
Miss Elizabeth Gordon also success
| fully defended her Rhode Island title.
One for Book
Praise IL you will the victory Of
Francis Ouimct over Vdrdon and Ray,
and last year over Evans; sing the
| praises Of Bob Gardner in the British
championship, or George Duncan in
the open; wrcathc the deeds Of your
other golf heroes in words and find
praise for other glorious golf matches
of the past and present, but give me
word, pray, for this match.
It did't mean so much to you and me
but to G. l.. Barnes and w. w. Wat
son, Sd, It meant everything and they
gave their all to the conquest.
Neither Is taller than a full grown
brassie and the number Of ounces it
weighs is about the number of their
years respectively on this earth.
They were the two outside bets in
the junior championship Barnes
turned in card of 1S5 and Watson
scored 16S. Neither made the fifth
fight. So til"y played Cor a special
prize. Both had played lot of golf
in that qualifying round, all the shots
in the bag in fact, and then some.
Record Round
With firm lips and shining eyes they
tecd off. Watson played spotless golf
on the. first hole, halving It with neat
seven but then he cracked. He ran up
DO strokes for the next eight holes, and
was eight down at the turn.
1t was then Barnes's turn to weaken.
The best he could get was half in
IL on the tenth. lie was dormie, how
ever, and Watson blew a short putt
on the eleventh which gave him a 12
to an II and the match was over. They
finished it out and Watson was trying
right to the end.
At the eighteenth flag their balls were
about the same distance from the pin,
say two feet. Barnes would have holed
out.
Wait second" warned Watson,
stcrnly. "Caddy," he demanded as he
turned imeeriously to his bag toter,
who's away?"
Watson then missed his fourth putt
and frownCd over his card.
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it was three laps
to the mile.
W lille this
performance never
has been put down
in the records, 1t
probably is I h Q
fastest mile ever
ridden on a cir
cular track by a
man on n bicycle
behind a motor
paced machine. 1t
also is the fastest
mile ever ridden
by Carman, for
after that the old
track was torn
down and a new
six lap track con-
structed. His best
mark on the new
speedway was one
mile in one min
ute.
Every time
there is a race at
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NE night down at Point Breeze Velodrome four years
~ ago, Clarence Carman rode in match against
Ddier, Linart and Wiley. Near the finish he put on
srint and his fastest mile was timed in 5S 45 seconds.
This before the size Of the track reduced and
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Brownies Desire Game

- Due TO a sudden cancellation the North
class home club. charl1s Cunninsham. iio7
Tioga street, or phone Yiosa ciso after $50
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the vclodroue and the riders speeding around
the track somebody starts argument about the world
record for mile bicycle 1t has been hard to dig
up the dope, but here it is.
About twenty three years ago rider named Murphy
said that under proper conditions he could ride mile
minute his bike. At that time bicycle riding all
the rage and the streets held pedal than
automobiles at the present time. Bicycle meets were
held all the country but the athletes of the wheel
just got and rode without any protection from the
wind.
3 Therefore Murphy's claims that he could travel n
mile minute not taken seriously, for the best mark
made at that time was :45 behind human pace.
The year Major Taylor, riding behind steam
dem, rode mile in minute 10 seconds in Chicago.
However, Murphy given a chance and he made
good. passenger locomotive brought into and
q huge wooden windshield built side. A board
track built along the rails and with flying
and riding behind this windshield while the locomotive
with the throttle wide OPEN Murphy rode a mile in
81 1-5 seconds.
THIS tods such hazardous cork and the rider tcas
4 forced to take so many chances that crcr
has expressed a desire 10 take another try at tho
mark, and a result Nile Minute Murphy's'
record still stands.
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MACKS SIGN SCOUT

DOC" Barrett to Look 'Em Over 70,
Connie Mack
Williamstown, Mass, July 10
'Doc' Barrett, who has looked after
the physical welfare of Williams Col.
lege athletes for the last twenty years
has signed as scout with Connie
Mack'S Athletics. lie left today on his
first trip, which will take him to tht
Canadian League. in quest of biz
league timber. Barrett formerly secuted
for the Giants and was trainer for the
Yankees for many years.
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Carman to Try for Record

ODEFORE the summer is I shall try to beat
- that mark" said Carman the other day. "If
cant do 1t the circular track, know do it
straight, level road with automobile front of me-
While 1 in condition l going after that old
record"
1t still strange that bicycle
ride sixty miles per hour but it is being done
almost every time there is u paced race. This Is
because the riders protected from the wind and there
is nothing to hold them back. The man on the motor
cycle stands straight up and a human wind
shield The legs and the body shed the wind the
water dashing against rock, and the behind is in
q dead calm.
II has been noticed that the bicycles are not like the
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NEW MARKS PROBABLE
IN Il. s. TRIAL TESTS
Olympic Candidates Viii
Shoot at These Records

The candidates for the American
Olympic team will have the following
records, the best ever made in an A. A.
U. championship. for targets In the Cam
bridge trials tomorrow and Saturday:
The Irish standard., 1920-01-24
Certificate
Campaign Now On

delphia, where organization has also
been perfected down to the smallest
electoral unit, the cities and towns Of
Pennsylvania are rapidly completing
their plans. In other States. as for
example New Hampshire, Vermont,
Nebraska, Idaho, New Mexico. word
has been received that they we're all
ready to start. In other States the
State and local chairmen were debat-
ing Ghether they would be able to
begin the canvass on January IL or
whether, because of various deterrent
influences, not least of which is the
cold weather, it might not be better
to defer the effort until q slightly later
date. In several States the campaign
period will probably be in one OF the
early weeks OF February.
Perhaps the most formidable of the
difficulties to be faced arises from
the fact that it liz physically impos-
sible to supply the demands that are
made for particular speakers. IL
President DeValera could in some way
contrive to multiply his physical ex.
istence about fifty fold it would be
possible, in the course Of month
or two, for him to appear in person
at all the places where his presence
is earnestly desired. Frank P. Walsh,
Harry Boland, Rev. DIR. Mythen, Rev.
Mr.. Lovejoy, Lindsay Crawford, Liam
Mellows and others whose services as
speakers are tremendously in demand,
would also find life much easier IL
they could he in score or so of
places at once.
The Protestant Friends of Ireland
have been swamped with demands for.
speakers ever since the campaign
opened, and especially since the ar
rival Of the delegation from the north
eaht CORNER. One difficulty about this
is that Coote and the Ulster clergy
men move rather slowly, and there is
natural reluctance, with the spirit of
fair play at the base of it, to discuss
that phase of the subject until they
have had a chance to appear II 1t 10
known that they are scheduled for any
city. Their presence in the country
is we'll known, however, and their AZ
Continued on page ~
The Irish standard., 1920-01-24

Charlemange emperor, down to the
end of the reign of Boniface VIII
(1303) is the epoch Of the greatest in
fluence of the church on the political
life of the nations. Again and again,
during that period, emperors and
kings laid their quarrels at the feet
of the Pope and accepted his judg-
ment as arbiter; and innumerable
cases are recorded of their coming to
Rome for settlement of controver-
sizes regarding the investiture of pre-
lates and rulers, in matters of prop
erty, regarding the Crusades, in cases
of insubordination of spiritual rulers,
in the granting of fiefs. when questions
Of supremacy were involved, and in
many other instances, not to mention
those concerning the validity of mar
riages, etc. One may form whatever
judgment of the Papacy one will; the
epoch from 800 to 1903 marks period
of history during which the church
put into practice what is now being
attempted.
Preservation Of Freedom.
A Supreme Judge of the type rep
resented by the Popes of those ages,
who set bounds to the ambitions and
caprices even of kings and emperors,
would likewise be the safest guardian
of the liberty of nations. Freedom,
liberty-frequently the watchwords of
those who seek to overthrow public
order-are precious, priceless gifts,
and must be safeguarded at all costs.
But liberty is not license, or freedom
from all restraint. Order is child
of liberty, and its helpmate is wise
restraint. Such restraint must never
by tyranny, whether it be the tyranny
of the autocrat ruling by force, or
that of the Jacobin mob.
History teaches us that occidental
Europe enjoyed an unparalleled meas.
ure of liberty, while in the East
Roman Empire and later in Russia
arbitrary absolutism reigned. The
chief reason for this difference in de.
velopment lies in the fact that the
West had the Pope, and the East did
not. The logic of this contention rests
on the fact proven by history that
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A Uniform Desire to Make the Drive
Both Thorough and Etfieient-Prot-
estant Friends Of ireland Swamped
With Demands For Speakers.

The American Commission on
Irish Independence are now able to
give the assurance that the bond
certificate campaign is actively in
progress all over the country. The
work of organization is farther ad-
vanced in some States than in others,
but in all there are city committees
actively engaged in the preparation of
lists and the recruiting of workers.
AS might have been expected, the
most rapid progress has been made in
those States where there have been
numerous meetings during the past
year, where there has been plentiful
publicity, and where the various So
cieties friendly to the Irish cause have
been active. In such places 1t was
only necessary to name campaign
period and the campaign organization
required produced itself with surpris-
ing speed. 1t did not take long to
learn, however, that this desirable
condition does not exist in the same
degree of perfection in every State,
with the result that the work of prep
aration has had to be undertaken from
the beginning, and those in charge
have asked for the delays they feel
to be necessary to enable them to
perfect their machinery. The uniform
desire is to make the campaign very
thorough and efficient once it is un-
dertaken.
Probably the most forward in the
matter of preparation are the terri
tories around New York and Phila-
delphia. The active boroughs of
Greater New York, as Is we'll known,
contain more people of Irish descent
than are to be found in many South.
ern or Western States combined. In
these five boroughs every election dis
trict now has its chosen leader, and
most of them have their precinct lead
ers chosen and at work. The same
is true in the New Jersey cities near
by, and also in the cities and towns
Of Connecticut. Based upon Phila
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Cleaner Fun AdVO-
Gated for TOilerS

women out of saloons, and that is
much in its favor. My pet aversion is
the typical saloon or public house as
we see it in England today. Men and
women are, l suppose. driven to it in
seeking relief from the sordid slums
in which they are forced to live. God
knows, they have little enough hap
piness.
1t is a bold thing to say, but l de-
clare frankly that the only pleasures
we in England have to offer the peo.
pie in the slums are immortality and
drink, and until we do something bet
ter for them we cannot hope for a
speedy regeneration.
Take the ordinary public house or
saloon of today, with its bar, jag en-
trance and woman's rooms. 1t is bad
enough to have to pass these places
when the doors are swinging ON their
hinges. But what must it be to be
driven into them.
Better Pleasures Needed.
All l can say is that men must have
so-called homes utterly unworthy of
humanity when they are forced even
from a slum attic to find pleasure in a
bar where the atmosphere Is reeking
from the fumes of drink and the
smoke of .shag tobacco. 1t is high
time we provided pleasure houses and
refreshments less unworthy of Chris
tian civilization.
want to see trysting halls SO
splendidly lighted that in the summer
they may be open to trap the sun
beams. 1. want room with palms
and shrubs in it, and fountains play
ing and marble tables galore, where
a father may take his wife and chill
dren. Let there be some song and
music, bright and diverting and lei
the family party IvCfvats -i,ssis &c:
work after rest and play.
Clubs for Workers Favored.
Let us give the workingmen ant
working women club in which they
can lounge, read, feed and smoke a:
the leisured classes do in Pail Mall o.
Fifth avenue. We are brothers ant
sisters all, and all sections of the
community, according to the meas
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