Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-12-18

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!. RECORD M ks
Women's Athletic, Have
Rapid Growth in fitted
States During y.
BY c. D. Lockn'

Although the Anne -Ncar vomen's
Olympic team did not WY he first
International! field and Fix meet Z
held in Paris last August, ~ Of the
adaptability of the Amerft women I
to sports is manifest in t~he1cords OF
the International Wome1 Sports
Federation for field II n tn events
which. have just been issue :, Paris
ana reached athletic aut ICES in
this country. The cfmpila \ shoE's
that OF ~ worlds Record ,ade' by
the fair sex, twenty-one o bem are
held by American girls.
Tw%enty-nine Of. these rel ds were
established in 1922, and md o. them
at the Olympic games, VIII were
won by England. with AM ica Sec
ond. This one fact. besidee he COM
pilation of the first cone Extensive
record Of feminine perform ces. re-
fleets the rapid. growth q Lthletics
among women.
Czecho-Slovakh Sec . 4.
Next to the United Sta in the
number Of individual BIRDS is
Czecho-Slovakia with teri records.
England has nine. France$ght and
Finland one. Listed sepftely by
the federation are five w<d's rec
ords credited to German When ath-
letes, three of which reprint bet
ter performances than those ecogniz-
ed on the list which excl es Ger
many. A.
Because athletics among bmen il
a new thing and records We only
begun to be compiled. It is turat to
suppose that they will be b en- with,
great rapidity in the next v years.
AS n matter Of fact, third II those
listed in the federation's re$t which
includes performances up 4Septem-
Der IL have already been(e5ken in
the United States by Anlos an. girls
in competition. another prk Of the
rapidly developing aptitud6f femi-
nine contestants in field Id track
sports.
Miss Sable Breaks I }. +
Miss Cametia sabiesaf N ark. N,
' j., one of the stars Of the merican
international team, broke of the
MARKS lowering the 80 &rd high
hurdle standard from 9 sed Ids to
As seconds and set. a neJdistance
of 8 feet, 3 3-4 inches for q stand
ing broad jump as comparePw with the
previous pest mark OF II meters
labodt 8 feet. 2 inches.) Nil Eleanor
Churchill Of Exeter. NH, kcounted
for the other new record by& hrowina
the baseball 244 feet, 2 IA ches. I'd
compared with the old mar pf $685.
meters (about 21S feet.)
Because most Of the evI ia nav.
BEEN adapted to femihAae C petition
iew OF itne performances ca be COM
pared with those made by IN. Thu
Women's standard for thex00 yare
dash in II 2-5 seconds, whiNthe hes
time for men is 8 as 'sed de. II
the high jump the women's ord O
Lao meters (about 4 feet( inches
is nearly two feet less than he mem
record Of s feet, z 5-16 inhe..
America Taking kld.
America is taking hold o,women'
athletics in the same thorokh man
ner that characterizes this Suntry II
all sports. An associations4 the fai
sex In sports has beep orgaized an,
affiliated with the NationarAmateu
Athletic association, Which will dea
that i andes the athietis Of tn
mems associations.
Witha>ae scheduling Of cenpetitio,
between different girls'lscuR in TIN
east 1t wifi be nbut a short II befor
professional men coaches trai,
girl athletes in the same ma r. tina
e are handled. Always. low +
adopt new and thorough: -ainin
methods, it will be but a yekl ~r tw-
until theAEuropean WOMEN teams Vii
take second place to the Uni,ed State
in the, Olympic games of tn, fair se
as 1t mas for past years in cotrpetitio,
among the men.
gt All in East.
Just now nearly all the wo ath
letes are In the east. This ,caus
most Of the girls SCHOOL, nd al
women's athletic clubs are in ne cas-,
Just ow-quickly sport among wome,
will, spead- to:the west is hard To say
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