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first of The ly placed in e best of its ; La Fon- American toe summer? dng shame ng dame. to each comer please. ie, RALPH ROSE OLYMPIC AC MARTIN SHERIDAN MELVIN SHEPPARD 1AAC LeA. A.C. Coprrient. 1011, by the Naw Xork Herald C2, AM richty reverved.) 4 F the man lives who can wateh unmoved the break- Ing of a world s athtetic record he must be Incking in warm, red blood. There Is something so wonderfully stirring about the thought that the best of achleve- ments of lmndreds of one timie champions have been Jaid in the dust that one can hardly help joining the en- thusiastic crowd as it rises irresistibly to Its feet, eager to voice its tribute to the newly crowned king with rousing cheer and. frenzied handclap. But, with it all, how many in the excited throng really appreciate to its full worth the value of a world's record? HoW many realize the amount of gruelling work, the constant sacrifices. the bitter dis- appointments that are the lot of the fconoclast before the goal Isreached?. It is only those who have themselves trodden the hard path that lt;now of the hardships that have to be endured, of the obstacles and pitfalls in the way, of the shattered hopes of those who have fafied-and-tasted the fruit of defeat, often through no lack of merit. Everything militates against the record breaker. Numberless seeming trides may set at naught his best efforts. Any little passing body allment a slight cold, a braised muscle, a strained tendon is quite sufficient Every time a record Is established the Amateur Ath to kill his cbanc s. Unfavorable conditions, such as Jetlc Union requires affidavits properly signed by the a head wind. chilly. weather. a poor track or soggy referee, measurer, judges and time keepers before tak- ground, will also handicap him beyond hope, and 10g cognizance of it. If the athlete has proved by pre- the danger Is ever present of even the best perform- Vious work his probable ability to create the new fig- ances being thrown out on technicalities by the n- Ures these affidavits are deemed suffictent, but inthe flexible censors of the record committee of the Ama-: Contrary case, or if the officials are not well known, teur Athletic Union. f every detail is carefully dissected. On and off the cry is raised that the present craze The Dan Kelly Record. for new standards is causing the authorities to ac- Thus, when Dan Kelly was credited with having cept qnestionible marks. Bat what an.absurd and run 100 yards in-9 3-5 seconds, the committee was unjust calumny this is - If-angthing, the athletic not satisfied with the turned In, although they tribunal sins by too much rigidity. A doubtful record were in perfect order, bec: has as mich Ikelihood to pass the examining board Newcomer. Question blanks were immediately sent to all the officials, asking them to state what expe- elt h unchallenged as the-Biblical camel to squeeze through 10 Ss. ng ad in the posttion in which they the proverbial needle's eye. The trouble is that some aq served. Also, the mesurer was requested to give persons appear to be unable or unwilling to realize rtic to bis:.qualifications, the tape he had that. sports are progressing, that long ice, the used and his reason for asserting the record was cor introduction of sclentific methods and the growing tect. The timers. were required to tell what stop thes th 1d, : tendency to speclalize have increased tenfold the pos- 711 er baa ae cee snake... whem they hed. sibility of turning ont better men tn every way. These blanks were returndl, so clearly and con Poor athlete Handicapped tight and left. devoting vincingly filled that t was Impossible to offer further the best years of his life to. the elusive pursuit of objection and the mark was accepted. Note, on the other hand, what the syst m accom- nd scepticl : ae a me, ee Only 5 doubt- a Dticism piishes when everything s:not just so. Just before when he touches su: the Olympic games of 1908 another 93-5 second ree Protests Generally Unfounded - ord was applied fo- from New Orleans. Once more A recent episode wili give an ded of how unfounded the blanks were sent out,-and not a single one of them was ever seen agaln. z the protests generally are and how ungound at times Careless and Incompetent officials have been the the. opinions of even the best jndgea Not long ago cause of losing ser vet earned standards to the prominent college coach became convinced, for un- Sei paviatie read Coe Ie wt anna enown reasons, that the running records being estab: (T20 at Mt ished at Celtic Park by Melvin Sheppard, of the Irlsu- Cr 1991 in st. Louts, C, M. Daniels, of the New York American Athietie Association were beyond the Athietie ctun: taal dust tokes ato the champlosahip ter s ability. Being on frlendly terms with James E. Saas Sullivan. of the Amateur Athletic Union, be Gecided two pundred and twenty yard rice. When the stare to mention the matter to bim, and frankly told tim. ers pistol sent the men off on the punishing sprint that, having com faith in the integrity of the twenty watches. were snapped in unison, and with officials. hie had come to the conclus Park track must be short. Mr. Sullivan likes nothing better than to have sup- posed Irregularities brought to his notice and-he, mad up his mind to settle the point then and there. ll tell you what, he said to the visitor, I value your opinion so highly that,1 would be glad ff you would personally Investigate the case for me at once. *Kred Itublen is in the next room and I'll ask him to accompany you. He fs a elvil engineer and thoroughly qualified for the task. He will measure the track in Sotr presence and you can then report results to me. The coaclr welcomed the opportunity to prove Bis wention and the two went away together, A couple 7 hours liter Mr. Sullivan's telgphone bell dled. Dhis is So-and-So, sald a volce at the nerenid:- I just.called you up to say that ll never estlon wr Amatey? Athletic nicn record again. ve uieasured the track carefdlly twice, and both tiuies found it a Uttle longer, distabce, instead of hurt. Other doubters would soon be converted were they 1 tw take the trouble to look Into. the methods of the Record Committee, A case in point will best iius- trate How minutely any unusually high class or um Ukely performance Is Investigated. he came, rapidly Itereasing bis lead, and i apparent that the.old mark was doomed. Wir last touched out In 2m, 441-5s,, lowering Bill Fecord, the news xpread ike wildfire ana the went mad witn enthusiasm. But the. joy was of short duration. Agitated om: clals wore seen talking excitedly to one another on the. float, and before long the announcers megayiliae bet lowed the distressing Information that, one of the keepers having falled. to catch the perfotmagve. the record would not stand. It mattered not that x fozen competent experts were ready to take thete oaih nt the figures were correct, rulex forbade taking thelr testimony and the record had to be rejected A just s Kelly was. practicatly- It was at the Olympic games class and new figures were expected of bim in the fiat the C itic eayer anticipation-the spectators saw the contestants, the first leg of the one hundred and ten yard course in a: swirl of foam, turn In serried ranks and Strike for home. J7'hen the pace began to tell and soon Daniels blond highd was seen to forge to the frons-his tong arms flashing in the sunlight. Nearer tq never became RECORD BREAKER NY Snares and Pitfalls Mark the Path of the Strivers for Supremacy in the World of Sometimes Fails Purely by Untoward Mischance and praiseworthy decision, of course, but Daniels and the sport suffered by it. A similar occurrence was- hronicted in-1910 on the track. It was at Celtic Park on September 5. John Heller, of the Insb-American Athletic Asso- ciation, negotiated a 280 yard Might of low hurdies in 2985 seconds, as against Schwegier s former stand- ani of 3145 seconds. But only two watches were clicked and the mark never found its way into the Amateur Athletle Union book, Luckily Eller has since Improved his form, and a few weeks ago he was credited with a record of 291-5 seconds for the event. Omicial neglect and incompetence take other forms, too, In the summer of 1908 W. R. Dray, of Yale, ex- ceeded by a couple of Inches the pole vault record of 12 feet 9 Inches, held by himself, at a mect in Con- necticut, but those in ebarge had forgotten to provide steel tape, and wher the performance came up for investigation It had to be set-aside, for rules do not allow the acceptance of heights measured with a tape labi to streteb. 3 That same summer, if memory serves me right, H. L. Trube, of the New York Athletic Club, was moving in great style and his previous breaking of the indoor one mile running record gave hope of his scoring out doors. In the chamrplonshtp, held at Travers Island, he had his chance, but the Isp counters made a mistake A JOHN ELLER TAAC and stopped the race before the fuls qtstedes Bad been covered. It bud to be run over again, of course, an Trabe's chance-wass cone. Like happentags nilght be quoted by the score, but let it saifice to mention Just one case in each in- stance. Hard tuck and viifayorabie conditions have oftea bech espousilile for the lows of records. It ts the cas- tom in, high jmnying to place upon the har a white handkdrchicf or cloth, to permilt the contestant to bet- ter judge bis Tea. In one ur tie fiiuoor inects a rouple of years igo Harry. Porter, of teint to clear record Leight, and sic: War had been, insecure: plaged nied that, housts fie me the alr produced by his thods 3 ddiserchie anil tlbs was enongir te twine the imullug atter bi. Me Lalled iy Els next trials Had record could not be recognized. beeauusethe breeze was thought to have helped him. Stepped-balf mile indoors in 1 minute 5645 seconds, jport Gallant Effort PLATT ADAMS NYac H PORTER ' LA Ac lent cause to deny record to him. Again, on Octo ber 9, at Celtic Park, he threw 142 feet 2 inches, but stiff breese was blowing, yet although eyewitnesses say that its direction hindered instead of helping him, the authorities decided against im. Recently he put out the discus 141 feet 4 inches in the face of a Tight wind, and, all other conditions being favorable, it 18 likely that the mark will stand. Inaccuracies of missile has more than once proved fatal to athletes in the Geld-events. The fraction of am inch in length of handle or a simall part of an ounce in the weight are never overlooked by the sharp eyed officials. But in these msiters the man himself 1s to blame so let them pass. It has happened at times, however, that the circle from which the. contestants threw was marked too small or too large. In the for : mer case the chances of a foul are increased, render ing more dimealt a record apd in the rlormance, latter the Amateur Athletic Union refuses acceptance, so that any error, made one way or the other, always works to the disadvantage of the ambitious athlete, fegesor wet ground is a handicap that - tossers frequentiy heve to contend with at Travers Island Matt MeGrath, of the New X Athletic Club, was primed for a record with the six- teen pound hartmer, 2nd tn one of his throws sent tis leaden sphere some three feet beyond standard dic- tance, Unlnckily, bad rained ia en ee and the throwing lt; rele was slippery. jeGrat foot. slid abost gn tuck over the line, and th judges called the foul on him: Had conditions been ideal he would probably not only have escaped the foul but even further. So many factors enter. Into. the. soneideration tn a record breaking that we should be only too ready to aeciaim the victor. The combination 1s necessary of an athlete at his best (which, contrary to public opin- fon, is a rather rare occurrence) and ideal conditions neither unfavorable, for then a record is sposstble, nor in the least favorable, for then to out- ward influences is attributed the high standard of the performai nd the authorities will not accept it. certain, the reader will realize the difficulties in the path of the record breaker. He Is indeed deserving of: out highest admiration, so let us handclap and cheer enthusiastically with the rest when he succeeds, for he has earned our plaudits. r HIM THAT GIVES GITS. 7 ISS SOPHIE, a pretty product of Pittsburg, who writes bright things for the literary market, loves epigtams, and one of her favorites is, Him that gives gits, or words to that effect. Whereof: herewith is one reason: ar Among the Uttle kindnesses that Sophie has to her futiire credit, as well as present, is giving 5 a week to a worthy woman and her dependent famliy Somewhere near Pittsburg. This she sends from New York by check with extreme regularity. In, oeension, last Chrisumas, say, the woman 8cill word to her benefactress that if she would send her - 2.50 at once she need not send the usual 5, as she wanted the money for a special purpose and she ; would find a way to get the 5, as she already bad part of t. * ee Miss Sophie forthwith sent a check for 7.50, al though she was mcking some effort herself to keep: up with the charitable procession. Still she in the epigram and was willing t: take a chance: And see how If worked out. That sa .e week she received. from am editor a check for exactly 7.50, with the ex- planation that im maaig up her account for the pre- vious heck he had overlooked seven and a- hait- dollars worth of epizrams. That sounds ike fiction, perhaps, but if there is one thing that Sophfe can: not do she can do many things tt is to prevaricate; and this story comes direct from the lady herself. As also does this one along the same lines and Is more tecent: Sophie has a stenographer, a young and pretty New England girl, whom she found out of ment, of, at least, not with employment yielding. a fair lying wage. Now, lo, Sophie didn't very urgeutly need a stenographer, nor was she able to pay. extravagant wages when she did have one, but-sne didn t want to: e the girl subject to the temptatic +. + that go-with iusufticient pay, and she agreed to give her a place, temporarily, if 3 a week was enough to meet her expenses. The girl said It Litee dollars more than she was receiving and she could get along on it very comfortably. The job was to continue only seven. weeks, because that would bring the time up. te the date of Sophie's summer departure. A rapid cal- calculation showed that she would have to curtail her own expenditures 56 u lest some good luck brought returns, but she was willing to help.a needy sister, and the girl went to work, i Within a week, as before, Sophie had 9 letter from the editor of a magazine out of town which had been holding up a number of contributors; sev eral of whow Sophie knew, nnd none of whomn was sanguine of eyer getting auything for ber claim. The editor wrote that be regretted the fnancial condi- tlor of the magazine and feared that sume of the creditors would have to wait a long tine, but he felt that an extra effore should be made in her case aud he mansged to-get a cheek for all the magazine ow nelosing it to her. The check called for en the recipient looked inio its face-she gt; Into spasms. Now, If anybody of any tells Tt that there ts no more in. the 1 EE that gives gite than in any one of he thar und well enough in print, she will . rie And no wonder, The Lap.Counters Made a Mistake and .. Stopped the Race Before the Full Dis- tance Had Been Covered the officials been less carpless a new Indoor standard would have been created. A stroke of bad luck robbed Platt Adams, the New York Athletic Club all round athlete, of a world s mark in the broad jump. In 1910 at Celtic Park he spanned 24 feet 11 inches, beating M. Prinstein : record of 24 feet 7 inches, but in landing he unfor- tunately brushed the ground with his hand at 23 feet 9 Inches, and although the judges could find no flaw in the Jump and allowed him the, latter distance, the High winds have caused many performances to be discarded,-and probably on several occasions without reason. One may-take as example Melvin Sheppard's 800 yard run in 574-5 seconds, made in July, 1910, which equalled Burke's world figures. It was rejected A few days later he reduced the time to 57 3-5 seco on the way to 600 yards. which leads to the belief that the other performance was most likely a fair cue. Technicalities frequently stand in the way of the athiere. in- March. 1910, M. Kirjassoff, of Yale, sxcord time, but te wus competing in a relay race, and this made the mark unacecp+able. Officials Hard to Satisfy. Weight tossers have tribulations of a like nature, and others Wesides. Martin Sheridan, of the Irish- American Athletle Association, can tell something about It. He appears to have the knack of hurling the discus further and further at will: otherwise he might well feet in ignant. He tas thrown the Greek missile to record listanee time and tinie again, only to bave liis perforbtanees rejected: on xo other. ir ter, 1919, at Bexter Park, be sent the wooden 2 feet 1 inch, bettering his own standard of 140 foot 3 inches, but ft wax claimed that the teld had a slight downward slant. and alchouzh this was not ptible to the averaze mortal it was t suf: ise 1
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