New Britain herald., 1926-05-11
22O YARD DASH
 RECORD STANDS
Attacks Of 30 Years Fail to
 Break It

few marks withstand the attacks of ucrformers over stretch of 30 years. Ye1 that is the case with the 220-yard dash in the intercollegiate A. \. A. A. championship, Tom Koaue, veteran Syracuse university coach. notes in reviewing the history of inc furlong race.
 The present mark of 21 1-5 sec onds was first made in 1896 by Der nio Wcfers of Georgetown. Only two mon have equaIled it in the 2S meets held since Wefcrs lowered the previous record by three-ffths of second. Ralph Craig of Michigan in 1910 and 1911 and Don Lippincott of Pennsylvania in 1913 tied Wefers' mark,
 "in a sense it is not difficult tc account for the long standing mark" Kcane said, "bccause this is the day of specialists and the furlong sprint is an in-between' event. If a coach has real sprinter he usually figures on him to win both the 100 and 22O. As q result, however, the runner seems to specialize in the 100 and take q chance, as it were, that his training will carry him through the longer of his sprlnts.
 This same theory applies 10 real good quarter-miler. One all ways expects q good '440' man to run fast 220. With a bit of speed toward the end of training the coach invariably finds his man able 10 give q good account of himself. Both Alan Woodring and Charley Reid rath, of Syracuse won I. c. A. A. A. A. 220 titles while concentrating on preparations for the quarter-mile.
 "On May 28 and May % al the Harvard stadium, when the l. C. A. A. A. A. celebrates ifs golden ami vcrsary, the 20 yard event will be held for the 49th time. The event was held for the first time in 1877, one year after the title meet was in auguratcd IL will be interesting 10 observe whether a span of 30 years will pass without witnessing the low crinE of the '22o' record. Frankly, such a development would not sur prise me.
 "Captain Henry Russell of Cornell will enter this years meet as the defending champion and naturally will be rated as q likely repeater after the form he showed in the in door 70 yard championship. Russell was two-tenths Of second away 1 frcm Wcfcr's record last year, but so were Bill Sohlick of Harvard in 1904 and Rcidpath in 1912 and 1 Woodring in 1921.
 Alfred LcConoy of Lafayette was one-tenth Of q second behind the record in 1922. the first year that ] tcuth-seCond watches were used In ] the l. C. A. A. A. A. games That was the year LcConcy lowered the . 100-yard record 10 rio seconds and the fact that he did not also . shave the 220 mark bears out my contention that a record breaking 900 performance is considered of far , loss importance than q new record i in tho loo or 40.
 ITO my mind, Bernie Wcfers was the best 22o-yardor in the hitsory of i the l. C. X. 4. 4. X. I knew him in his prime and I have yet to sco | one Of our sprintcrS whom I think ! could beat him at his best There are some who are credited with fast cr time and the difference between i Welcrs and Charlie Paddock on the watch would be a trifle over four ! J. I- . PaddocE's shoes when he set out with a four yard deficit 10 catch ] Wefors, or, in fact, Craig or LiDpin- colt.
 ''It is hard for me to compare 1 Russell of Cornell with Wcfcrs be- cause I have not seen much of Rus sell in competition. Last year his starting seemed slow. Apparently he has remediod that defect. If so, it will take some tall stepping to head him in the stadium field.
 Going back over the 22n records one finds that Harry Lee of Penn sylvania won in the slow timc of 1 23f5 seconds in 1877 and it was not until 1891 that % seconds were broke. Indeed Luther Carey of Princeton was the only man under P seconds until Wcrers made his record. This seems remarkable when We consider such sterling runner as c. II. Shcrrill of Yale was listed three times as tho winner.
 After Wcfers made his record fin
 1S96 it stood the test against such l outstanding men as J. W. F. Tcwks-
 bury of Pennsylvania, F. W. Jarvis
 Of Princeton, w. T. Lightncr, Bill
 Scaick and Reggie Foster, all of
 Harvard; Nate Cornell of Pennsyl-
 vania, now coach at Penn State. and
 F. ". Sears of Cornell a really great
 runner but one who was unfortu-
 nate All of these men were high
 class sprintors.
 "Thcn came Ralph Craig o' MichEan. jho siOwest starter for a
 good runner I have ever seen. to
 e3ua Wefers' record in 1910. Craig
 tied if again in 1911 and Donald Iippucott of Pcnnsylvaula did so in .121&. but we are still looking for
 ward for the third man to tic Wc-
 fors' great mark
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