Evening star., 1926-05-20

cuss'on of the out outstanding feats OF
years.
Alter an attack on the record
names being inserted in the list Of
schools went into decided slump
onls ono OF tho old marks was ever
pound shotput. John Macdonald O
inches. an inch under the distance re
year previous.
Tomorrow competition. however.
should be productive of more than
one shattered mark. provided recent
performances of several OF those who
are TO take part are any basis Tor
speculation.
Many Good Field Men.
In Coleman Jones and Melvin
Young. coaches Bill Foley and Hap
Hardeu of Central and Tech, resptN'-
lively, have field men who are ca
pable or lettering the javelin throw
Of 147 feet l. Lie inches made by VII
liam roudahush "f las ern IN"
wears ago Young is credited with
having tossed the spear l50 feet AZ
the Maryland schnlasiics on May day.
while Jones. novice al the game.
added to this distance at the &C. tluh
meet by marking off ISL feet inches
with the pointed stick.
dOHn MHtt'oti8t'l, Nil' Sl''-' f'A'''NFN -
the shotput and discus throw. has
broken Bakers mark for the former
twice Within the past five weeks. His
first strong man feat OF the seq son
WAS accomplished At Episcopal ltlch
School. Alexandria. on April Is. There
he registered a distance Of 46 teet
? inches At the &C. meet last sat
urday he did even better and extend
ed his record to A. feet 1'2 inches.
Tech Has Star Runners.
In the track events the best per-
forrna noes so far this wear are credit
I'd to Tech runners. Whether or not
they will repeat tomorrow remains
to he seen. At the Penn relays Hap
Harden's mile team. although not
running in the championship class.
made the distance in . minutes 81 l-a
seconds, clipping As seconds from
the local mark that has stood since
1915 Horace Hehb. a member OF the
quartet. ran the quarter at the I
meet in 81 ; seconds.
A look at The list of records com
niled from a search of The Stars files
in 1922 shows that the track marks
for the annual interhigh champion
shin meets have Jared better than the
field events in withsta ndinc the as
saults of the Younger generations.
The only one Of the latter which has
stood since The early days is the run
ming broad jump mark credited 10
Sidney Kent. His leap or II feet =
inches was made at Georgetown heid
on June 2. 1908. In the same meet ne
won the 22O.yard fiat and hurdle
races and ran a dead heat in the 100
ward sh with Bryan Morse of West
ern.
Marks Made Years Ago.
Dick Dear of Central and Arthur
Baker. now star performer az
Swarthmore and holder of the Middle
Atlantic collegiate record for the dis
Gus throw. are the only athletes cred
tied with holding more than one loca
record. Dears I0-second century
sprint done in 1905 was euuaied bE
Morse and MaXam. both Of Western,
In later years. hut his mark of = 2-o
for the furlnne still stands supreme
Baker established his marks for
the shotrut end discus throw In the
same year. 1924. 10 the former
event he heat the mark Of al feet
1n3, inches set in 1910 by Leo
Flaherty of Eastern. His record
breaking toss or the discus displaced
that made by Jim Rirthricht of tea-
tral i'm 1923. In 1922 Birthrigh
hettered the mark set by Hugh
Johnston Of central in the year pre-
vious. and in 1923 he added 10 his
former distance of 1o5 feet inches
with a toss of 1l3 feet.
The record in the running high
jump is one that stood for a good
many years before being broken in
the 1929 games and shattered again
wear later by Adolph Bond of
Eastern, the present holder. T..
Raise High Jump Record.
George w. Curtiss of Central set
It al feet ) inches back in 1893,
four wears after the interhiGh cham
pionship competition was instituted.
Francis r. Rankin of Tech equaled
this height in 1912. Bernard Wise OF
Business repeated the feat in 1915.
and in 1922 Leslie McFadden of Cen
tral also became joint holder. The
following year. however. Mead of
Central and Clayton Of Tech tied for
first place in the jump at a height
of : feet inches Bond ia ised il
to feet s inches in the 1921 meet
Ray CARRIER. who in 1929 set the
mark for the phle vault, bettered the
performance of Leslie McFaddeu in
the 1920 competition. McFadden.
who also held the iavelin record for
three years before it was broken by
Rouda bush. vaulted 10 feet inches.
His best javelin toss. recorded in
1921, was ! AZ feet inches.
The quarter r-mile record Of 53
seconds held by II. Noble ClaGett Of
Central has withstood the assaults
of good runners for n score of years
Clagett made this time at the old
Van Ness Park in a race in which he
was hard pressed all the way by
Phelan of Western.
Flippen Beats Mark.
cred last Saturday at. the &C." meet
by Harry t'lippen of Episcopal High
School, but no local runner has been
able to approach them in a champion
ship meet. Arthur Douglas of West
ern first set a mark for the high
hurdles in 1920 and then reduced it
the following year.
Johnny Gross of Tech set the rec.
ord for the mile in a race with Bob