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Cady equalled his record of 16 seconds for the 120 yard hurdles on the cinder track. Hatch of Yale surpassed his best previous record of 162/5s...
...turf race the hurdles were stationary, being firmly imbedded in the ground. This is English style, and the general opinion is that the Americans should adopt it, for there is much less danger running on turf than on a cinder path...
Hurdles, one on cinder and one on turf, L. E. Pikington and W. M. Fletcher...
...yards hurdle race, which will be run both upon the grass and upon the cinder path, will be watched with great interest, as, in a measure, deciding the much mooted question of the relative speed of the American and English styles. The English style is on the turf, over hurdles firmly fixed in the ground, which bring the runner to sudden grief, if he comes in contact with them. This is radically different from the American style of loose hurdles set up on the cinder path. Englishmen claim that it is necessary to jump higher at the English style...
...will represent the University of California on the cinder track of Manhattan Field in the Mott Haven games, May 25, have been selected. Ten men will make up the party: Frederick Koch, a high jumper, shot putter and half-mile runner, is the captain, and with him will come Patterson, broad jumper; Edgerton, hammer and shot man; Merwin, mile walker; Torrey, low hurdler; Dyer, high hurdler; Bradley, half-mile runner; Barnes, sprinter; Woolsey and Dozier, broad jumpers, the latter being also a wheelman. Their contests arranged for are Princeton, May 11; U. of P., May 18; Mott Haven games...