San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-20
WINTER ATHLETIC ACTIVITY
PROVES THERE'S NO LONGER
CLOSED SEASON FOR SPORTS
Lawrence Perry, in Annual Resume of So-caled "Off
Season." Finds 1t Was Characterized by Unusual
Number of Brilliant Exploits and Record-break.
ing Performances, With Greatest Advances
Apparently Made in Swimming

/ 1-mile walk-Willie Plant. Morn
ingside A. Z.
One and seven-eighths Mile Medley
Rclay--New York A. L.
Winner of Point Trophy-lllinois
Athletic Club, Chicago.
Outstanding events in the winter
track season included the appearance
of a runner who bids fair to be OF
material assistance TO the United
States in her hopes for winning the
marathon at Paris. He is Frank Zuna,
Jersey man, member of the Mill
rose Athletic Association of New
York. who not only won the Laurel
to-Baltimore marathon in March but
established a new American record for
the distance of 90 miles $50 yards.
His time was 2 hours As minutes
30 2-5 seconds. The former record of
2 hours, 4S minutes. % 40 seconds
was held by Albert Nicholson of East
Portchester, n. y. Nicholson finished
second in the Laurelto-Baltimore
race. beating his Swn former record
by nearly three minutes and Clarence
II. Demar Of Melrose Hillside. Mass,
was third. The Millrose A. c. won
the team trophy.
Murchis0n i'm Limelight.
Another outstanding runner of the
winter was Loren Murchison of the
Newark A. c. Murchison was by all
odds the best Splinter of the winter
and, his comeback helps our chances
abroad. Running in the senior
Metropolitan A. A. U. championships
he equalled the worlds indoor 100
yard dash record in ten seconds flat.
At the Penn A. c. track carnival in
Philadelphia he equalled the worlds
forty-yard sprint record of % sec
onds and in the national indoor meet
captured the 60 and 300-yard runs. In
all Murchis0n won more than a score
of victories.
Louis Clark Of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity came into prominence at the
annual indoor meet of Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore by breaking
the worlds 100-yard indoor record. do
ing o As in his semi-final heat. In the
final he ran the century in ten sec
onds flat.
Running in the annual meet of the
Boston A. A.. Joie Ray of the Illinois
ter mile. capturing his third leg on
tht 'uDs Dul n INV
of 4 minutes Is So seconds. Later.
Joie made new worlds record for
the 1500-metre run of minutes l 30
seconds.
Karl Christensen Of the Newark
A. c. equalled the worlds record in
the 45-yard high hurdles. doing six
seconds flat. this in the semi-final
heat. Karl Anderson OF Chicago Won
the final in the same time. elk seconds.
Georgetown won the Catholic College
relay AM Dartmouth won the twa-
milo relay. f. F.. Myers If the Chi
cago A. 4. established new figure
for the indoor Eole vault bv winning
his evaEt fiom scratch with n mark |
u IL ;ed. 10 inches.
In the National Junios 4. A. L. |
meet held in Buffalo. Il. T. Moore of |
Columbia clipped . 10 seconds from
The record in the two-niie run held by |
n. s. Helms. of Lafayette High |
School. Buffalo. Moore's TING was
D.33 Is. Chester Bowman Of Syracuse
squaieG the record for the GO-yard |
run, his time. 6 % seconds.
intercollegiate Sports.
In the college domain the Following |
winners in various sports were estab-
ishcd:
individual intercollegiate sabre
Clarke. West Point.
Eastern intercollegiate basket ball
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