Newark post., 1922-03-01
FEW TRACK MARKS
OF 1888 NOW EXIST
Recent Performances Indoors
Indicates Big Outdoor
Season

/, the recent epidemic of indoor
kecord- can be taken as crl-
torion of what may be expected when
american athletes sink their spikes
6nto cinders this spring, the present
bist of world records is in for a Sc
! 'kcre shake-up.
Within the past three weeks the
Antirc athletic following of the country
has been startled by an almost contln-
3uous report Of new figures for track
End field competition.
Athletes competing in Buffalo, Bos-
ton. New York and other cities swept
lway records, some of which have been
upon the books for years.
Joie Ray, of Chicago, was one of the
FIRST to set the new pace. The Illinois
Ia. C. runner clipped four seconds off
the mile and half run, and then re-
||duced the mile and a quarter record by
B Is seconds.
A few days later Ray made new
world record of 8 minutes 81 2-5 sec
binds for the 5000 meter run.
Next came sprinter Bob McAllister,
d traffic policeman of New York, who
Established new times for the ITO, 12O
13O and $50 yard dashes. Allen Wood
hing, of Syracuse University, follow
ed with a new record for the 500 yard
Run, when he did 81 1-5 seconds in the
Buffalo National A. A. U. champion
. ships.
At the same meet John Murphy, OF
Notre Dame University, set a new
record for the indoor high jump with
Is feet A 5-8 inches, and last Saturday
hight Leroy Brown, of Dartmouth,
beat this leap in the Harvard Cornell
Dartmouth triangular meet in Bos-
ton with a foot 3-4 inch leap.
On the same night in New York,
Bake DriscolI, of Boston College, re-
buccd the 500 yard run record by BE-
bf a second. Several other records
have been equalled, and still Others
at odd distances and in the relay
classes have been broken.
When il is considered with but one
exception all these records have beer
made upon polished armory floors
sa2by athletes wearing rubber solet
Saa1sh hoes tn wonder grows as to what vii
sA12soccur when the same runners are abl
Ito put on spiked footgear and adj
flength and speed to their stride OF
cinder tracks.
A study of the outdoor record lis
shows that in some twenty-odd stano
ard events vast changes have bee
made in the past thirty years. Sine
~ the advent of the amateur athlet1
union in 1888 a careful record ha
been kept upon new figures for bot
track and field events.
Last summer at Lausanne the Il
ternational amateur athletic feder;
tion revised the record list, and
analysis of the new code shoV
American athletes held more recort
than any two other nations cor
bined. Comparing these figures WI
those in existence in 1888 also der
onstrates the startling developme
of athletics in three decades.
Sprint and hurdle records ha
been clipped from fraction to sc
eral seconds. Almost nine secon
have been out from the mile ri
Two feet or more have been add
to the broad jump and pole vau
From seven inches to tifty-nine IL
is the increase in the weight ever
including the hammer, shot,
pound weight, discus and javelln.
The long distance runs have
sisted the attack of modern runn
better than almost any other depa
ment of track athletics. There
evidence with the development
American distance men for the n
Olympic games, these events n
also fall before the prowess OF
new world athlete.