Evening star., 1923-01-07
A. A. i. APPROVES
81 NEW RECORDS
WeissmuIIer Brightest Star
With rs Marks Set in
Swimming Last Year.
\ Jew YORK. January 6.-The
VI Amateur Athletic Union,
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/ n Jew YORK. January 6.-The
M Amateur Athletic Union,
through Louis N. Goldsmith.
! chairman OF the rules committee, to-
| day approved fifty-one record break
| ing performances, forty-seven in
swimming and four i'll track and
! field events. made last year. Thirty
three OF these marks will go down
as American records, while eighteen
will be registered as noteworthy
performances, a category including
| feats under conditions or over dis
tances not recognized as standard.
All of these performances are in
addition to about 100 others in track
and field and swimming to which Of
! fetal recognition was given by the A.
A. L., at its annual meeting last No
! vember.
The predominance of swim
| ming marks is due chiefly to the
! individual exploits of Johnny Weiss
muller of the Illinois Athletic Club,
| one of the most sensational aquatic
performers of all time. The Chicago
star is credited in the new list with
| twenty-five American records. twen-
| stroke swimming, over distances
ranging from so to 500 yards, bring
ing the total number of new marks
he has established within the past
year to forty-five. These do not in
performances. Eight more of which
are added to his string in the new
compilation.
Weissmuller also helped to estab-
lish an American record for the 400
the Illinois Athletic Club team, of
which he was a member, setting a
mark of minutes AZ 2-5 seconds
at Chicago last March. The other
swimmers of the quartet were Harry
Hebner, Perry McGillivray and A.
Siegel.
With McGillivray, Siegel and w.
L. Wallen of the Illinois Athletic
Club. .Weissmuller aided in a note
| worthy performance for the 160-
yard relay event over short course
Of l minute 16 seconds, also at
Weissmullers individual records
were established in meets at Chi
cagO, Columbus, Louisville, Homo
lulu. Philadelphia, Milwaukee, In
dianapolis and Atlanta.
Three American records and six
noteworthy performances are credit
ed to Miss Sybil Bauer, premier
back stroke star of the Illinois Ath-
letic Club, at distances ranging from
so to 400 yards, and established at
Beach. y. Y.
Other notew orthy performances for
men include two back stroke marks
at 200 and 400 meters, established by
Harold Kruger of Chicago at Mil
waukee, and a 44O-yard breast-stroke
figure by Robert Skelt of the Illinois
A. c., over a-short course at Detroit.
Two of the new American track
and field records displace standards
recognized last November.
Through a confusion in data sub
mitted to the rules committee, the
Penn State College quartet was err
roneously credited with a record of
minutes 544s seconds, two-mile in
door relay, at a meet here February i,
1929. Investigation revealed that this
time was seconds faster than that
actually made, and the record now is
placed to the credit of the University
of Pennsylvania team, which hung up
mark of Z minutes 55b seconds at
an indoor meet here March IL. 1922.
The members of the record breaking
quartet were Larry, Brown, George
Meredith, ]. C. Holden and Z. Nc
Mullen.
The other record changing hands is
the indoor running high jump stand
ard, Leroy Brown of Dartmouth,
leaping feet AZ inches at a meet
here March IL, 1922, to replace the
mark of feet AZ inches, made by
John l. Murphy of Notre Dame,
February /. 1922.
other Marks Approved.
The other two records approved
are:
Four-mile relay, outdoors, four men,
each running one mile, IL minutes
46 second, made by University of
Illinois team (Howard Yates, Bruce
Patterson. Gordon McGinnis and Rus
sell Wharton), at Drake University
relay carnival. Des Moines, Iowa,
April 90, 1922.
Javelin throw, with javelin held in
middB, 202 feet 9h inches, made by
Miltcn Angler, University of Illinois,
at nrake relay carnival, Des Moines,
IoWau April 2Ss .1222