Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under Director of Field Events Kennedy, the following will serve: Pole Vault: A. C. Gilbert, Yale; Judge: Mark S. Wright, Dartmouth, Measurer. Throwing the Javelin: Allan Winter Rowe, M. I. T., Judge; James A. Leyden, Penn State, and Leslie H. Simons, Princeton, Measurers. Throwing the Discus: Walter Tufts, Harvard, Judge; J. E. Hickley, Brown, Measurer. Putting, the 16 Ib. Shot: E. L. Hopkins, B. A. A., Judge; J. R. Truesdale, Princeton, and J. B. Mulford, Pennsylvania, Measurers. High Jump: Wesley Aler, Yale, Judge; Barrett Smith, Cornell, and Rush M. Hoag, Michigan, Measurers. Throwing the Hammer; F. X. McGrath...
...sense, it is not difficult to account for the long-standing mark, because this is the day of specialists, and the furlong sprint is an "in between" event. Two hundred and twenty yards is an intermediate distance. If a coach has a real sprinter he usually counts upon him to win both the 100 and 220. As a rule, however, the runner seems to specialize in the "100" and takes a chance, as it were, that his training will carry him through the longer of his sprints "on his natural" as track...
...ninth assault on Meredith's quarter mile mark will be made on May 28 and 29 at the Harvard Stadium, and that golden anniversary meet will round out just half a hundred I.C.A.A.A.A. 440 yard races. I have been asked whether I think Meredith's record can be broken. My reply is "Yes, but" And the "but" is that the man to break the record must be a sound 10 second sprinter...
...world's record for the quarter mile, in which he was timed in 47 seconds fiat, in my opinion a better performance was made in 1915 by James E. Meredith at the National Championship in San Francisco in the Senior 440 yards, in which he equalled Long's mark, but the record was not allowed...
...mark of 47 seconds by Long was in the nature of a paced race in which two runners, P. J. Walsh of New York Athletic Club, and W. S. Edwards of Knickerbocker Athletic Club, paced him for half of the distance on a specially prepared course on the old Guttenberg Race Track some 25 years ago. Long was a marvelous runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith...