Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-04

!! |l!std ~ Blue Coach Praises
4 sptaln syho Fsilsd = Break !
N's \ 60o. Yard RECORD
4 WAS & CLoCKED IN I'M, lis.

~ race when weather conditions al.
taken into consideration and also the
fact that on tho last turn he was forced
to run sway outside. = Lawson Robert !
son, coach Of the University OF Penn.
svlvania track team, was referring this
morning to the Penn shippers effort
yesterday afternoon to lower the COO
yard record. ); ,53 z,
Brown was clocked in I minute II
seconds o6iciAlly, although two watches
caught him in 1:1O 2.5, two others a
fifth Of q second slower, two others in
1:10 4-5 and the omcial watches in
According to the A. A. u. rules three
0fRcial watches are sutncient in race
for record, but yesterday four were
asked to take Browns time. Two Of
this number clocked the Red and Blue
star in 1 minute 10 4.6 seconds, which
record made BY Mel Sheppard back In
1910. As the slowest times are always
taken. Brown was credited with l min :
ute II seconds.
Brown himself was not at all cha
grined after his failure to break the
mark that has stood the test Of time for
q dozen years. He will 60 after the
mark again before he hangs up his shoes
at the end Of the present track season.
VIII Try Again
II haven't been training. for the
shorter distance runs since the indoor
season, and the result yesterday was q
lack Of speed coming down the straight
away" Brown said after the race. 81
thought had the mark beaten after ]
had passed an the runners. but the extra
burst Of speed / needed was not there.
My, legs felt a little tired and I didn't
seem able to get them up high enough.
with training at the shorter dis
tances which / expect to have after. this
fifths of the mark. For weeks before
the trip to England I trained hard for
the mile. Since then the half -mile has
occupied all my attention. Between( the
Monday after the meet and the inter
collegiates will try again and / think,
II weather conditions are right. that the
mark will fall" .fss1 69,,y j.
Brown was clocked for the quarter
mile yesterday in 40 3-5 seconds, an
exceptionally fast quarter mile when an
athlete still has 100 yards to 90. His
speed was terrific and had he been
forced clean to the tape undoubtedly
would have broken Sheppard's record
During the last fifty or sixty yards OF
the race Brown had no competition.
HHndicaps were given up to forty
yards, but these did not prove sufficient,
for Brown caught the field seventy five
yards from the finish. when he should
have had one or two in front of him.
Where Brown really failed was on the
last turn. On the straightaway on the
north side he caught and passed one
runner after another until at the first
turn he had all but McMulleh to get by.
At this .junctnre the athletes were well
punched and continued to run that way
all around the turn, Brown was forced
them, with the result. according to one
more than II he had been given , the
pole. h" ~
Brown, after the race, said that he
will confine his efforts in the future
entirely to the quarter and half mile
runs and will race his last mile on
Saturday afternoon at Hanover in the
meet with Dartmouth. t
N. r. Dutton, the West Philadelphia
High School runner, who had a handi :
cap of % yards, finished IL yards be.
hind Brown. followed closely by
George Meredith aud Ed. McMullcn.
DR.. Shell, Official Handicapped Of
the A. A.. u. stated after the race tina,
Brown would have broken the record
by at least three -fourths Of a second
on perfect day. "rhe wind was
slight. but 1t didn't help Brown any
The little rain did not have much to
do with preventing his breaking the
mark, but on 4 sunshiny day with lit
tie or no wind / am sure that Brown
can break the record. He is one ot
the best middle. distance runners
have seen in many years."
Brown at present holds the 100.
yards outdoor record and Is a member
of the one and two mile relay world Z
record holding team. If, he continue,
to improve his speed as he demon
strated he has In the relays Brown
should come close to breaking Ted
Meredith's mark of minute 80 2-s
seconds made in 1916.
Lawson Robertson, the Penn coach
yesterday received a lcablegram from
b. G. d. Rudd. who captained and rar
anchor on the two mile Oxford
Cambridge team Of 1920. in which HI
sent congratulations to PENIS, record
breaking team. Congratulations 4
your LAO team from our old ! :5(
team the cablegram read.
Robertson will take twenty six ath
letcs to Hanover, n. H., Friday morn
,,,. ,for thot annual dual moot ~,,ikI