Evening star., 1935-07-26
3 WORLD MARKS
| TIED OR MATCHED
owens, Peacock, Torrance
and others Are Recent
Developments.
BY ALAN GOULD.

Associated Press Sports writer.
n YEw YORK. - Eye witnesses
M thought the record-breakine
" peak had been reached ir
\ 1882 when the cream Of the
worlds athletic crop blasted q score
of track and field records In the Los
Angeles Olympics under as nearly
perfect conditions as any competition
has ever known.
They figured the Olympic track the
fastest OF all time, but they overlooked
Princeton's hard baked, deeply rock
ballasted cinders. They considered
the pace extraordinary, which is was
but the Cunningham Bonthron and
the Peacock Owens rivalries had not
yet moved into the headlines. And
So within three years after Los An
geles, 1t is a certified fact that %
world records have been broken
bettered or equaled. including marks
in a dozen OF the standard Olympic
events.
During the last three years, in fact
the competitive pace has been faster
and more startling than 1t was be-
fore or even during the 1892 games.
Some Were Kids In '32.
OUCH record -smashers as Jesse
- Owens. Eulace Peacock. Keith
Brown, Bill Bonthron, Jack Torrance
and Walter Marty were not even par
ticipants in the last international
games. Others, including Glenn Har-
din, Glenn Cunningham and Ben
Eastman, were beaten In the Olympic
competition.
Eastman and Owens have given
time and distance their worst beatine
in the last two seasons. The former
Stanford stars comeback in 1884 re-
suited in successful attacks on three
records. including the S80-yard run
At the same time he was finally given
credit for the 440-yard mark Of 46.4
seconds which he had registered In
March. 1892.
Owens, in a single afternoon at Ann
Arbor in this years Big Ten cham.
pionships, tied the l00-yard record
Of o. and eclipsed the world stan.
dards for the broad jump. 220-yart
dash and 220-yard low hurdles. Hi:
best lateral leap measured 26 feet
S14 inches. but he was beaten in the
National A. A. u. championships BY
Peacock, whose winning Jump of %
feet inches also bettered the ex.
isting world record.
Is New. Approved Marks.
HERE are the world record perform.
ances made and officially ap.
proved since the 1882 Olympics:
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100 200 -MEffffRss Mfiffss pSss-5e:aos e.au,l.,. b,
500; ;METER RUN-I:o2. by Ben East.
500; :, T4sp RuS-l:os.a, b, Ben East.
500 eMEsrEa RuN-1:4s.s t.au.l.,. b,
sso:YARp ktN-I:4s.s. BY Ben East.
1.css;SASD RuN-a:Io. b, Luigi Bee.
Nv MIIs LII IkuN-4:os.7. b, Glenn Cunning.
n'ni H,sco-srFER . T nuN-s:4ss. b, Bill
sossasS?s s.ooo. Mf+Ek y 4 Hhus-s1s4. b, H.nr,
a.MILE RpN1ls:o1, b, volm.ri 1.o.
si J4vELTN HTfHiRow-e4s fee. inches
by Matti JArvinen. Finland
DISCUS THROW-171 feet 1131 inches
BY Harold Anderson. Sweden.
SHoTPUT-57. feet l inch. by Jack
HIGH JUMP feet sa inches. by
,7e046 points. BY Hans
Sievert. Germany.
FOLLOWING are the marks yet to
be passed on by the international
A. A. F. for inclusion in the world
record books:
100 YARDs-O:e4 teQuals,, by Jess,
see YARbs-o:ao.s, Jesse Owens
aso:YARD Low HURDLEs-O:ee.s 8. b,
Jesse Owens. q. 8. A.
POLE VAULTS feet 5h inches. b,
BROAD JUMP-26 feet, 81 inches b,