The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-05-07
~Ton records falr At Penn games. "

TEN records falt At Penn games"
The headlines Of the newspapers raise
All interesting question OF what tl''
limit 1T mans ecd or athletic proweSS
is. How fast VIII the man in tn" year
5000 run eco yards" How fast can
tho swimmer in the Olympic of that
year swim a mile? How fast will race
horses run a hundred years from now .
Scarcely Il hiS athletic meet in the
world fails to produce some lowering OF
r,,,.,rds When Eernie VOTERS, in his
rar,"us race on old Manhattan FIELD.
crashed the go record We GaSpcI ana
t"ld zach other no person ever would do
i again. In tho next twenty years moro
thar nifty man hav" cqualcd that record
and five have been credited with beating
il; when Maxey Long shattered tn"
con meters i. seemed impossible that II
would bs beaten. Now along comes
Ghartjr Paddock and calmly rips 50
seconds of that time. We tel each other
Il will he 4 century before any one ap-
breaches that MARYLAND perhaps next
year another ni"r will tear II down.
That we are approaching the ultimate
limit of athletic achievement = certaln
but VIVA that limit IS no on" can fore
tel, The second man IN the 100 Is
certain. Trainers say that some day
somn ono will run that distance N close
to 81. seconds How d" they know Tn"
EGO limit IS slowly being trimmed down
and the records for tho longer distances
are certain to rcCcdc steadily.
Records arc records. but no ori-
clal timer ever clicked . boy pass
Ing o graveyard on . dark night.
Perhaps the greatest reduction in rec.
Ords in tho next twenty Years Will be N
the mile ard two mile runs. and in the
swimming events. tn" last tw" dc
CldeS have shown 4 most remarkable
cutting down OF time for AL distances
/. seems only :, few weeks since Jam
Handy. "th" little brown water dog.
startled thu world by his speed and
shattered records from nifty years tc
twenty miles.
Handy WAS i plump. r"od-lookinl
younGstcr. with very good arms ant
chest and small lower body. lie never
had learned 70 swim until one daE W.
won: over - the in Chicago. ltc JUS
Jumped into tho tank and swami as IL h'
had been born IN water. Frank sullivan
who now coaches PrinCetou'S swimmers
took the KID N hand and less Than ;
year later he wa> smashing w"rh
records He WAS among tn" tlrN' ~ th'
United States I" develop tho An>ricar
crawl. which WAS merely an adapt:"n 81
II" Australian crawl. and nc developed
within three years Of his first plunge
into one 81 thu greatest swimmers th'
W, r has ever known--racmG At any
distance and IN any Kind 81 water How
many records he held never figured. ~
hrld practically all the swimming 70"
ords -. tn" wnrld and that was n"
very long ago.
looked over the record book th'
other day.--anL could NOT mud HANDY rs
record holder for any distance" TIL.
times haI" boon cut ~ - rCmarkahi" Il"
gree a. every d;StanC" excepting. 81
course. tn" particular races at dlStan'"
Ike tha Er--y Beach rar" from tho Lake
View CRIB. FAR out N Lake Michigan t.
the beach. and the -. LOUIS aud ',hi
cago river swims think Handy stll
holds time records for these.
We may leave footprints on tho
sands OF tt1ne, but some follow with
bigger feet soon comes along.
The tirst big hGht "C the new Eat'"na
Association Of RoxtnS clubs Is on. Ih'
national body threaten 20 "Npsl the New
Jersey Boxing commission # II permit:
Tex Richard 10 charS" more than III
a ticket for the Dcmpsey-Carpenttel
aGht.