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Setting of New World's Record for the Classic Mile on Cinder Track and
Endins of the Baseball War Made Year Memorable in the Annals of bport
resented and the other? nowv
two month? ?
s toa ding th? charge, ?et the p
But? sariy !r ?'? <
cavtd In ar. BoetOfl a id Petroit svi
on to the front and fought out
issue.
Th? Tiger?, using the heavy art'.ll
of Cobb, Crawford and Vearh, mad
brave assault, but Manager
had too many good pitcher? to
?topped. With Wood.
Fotter and Leonard he had flea atj
and the?? flv? ?tars were pitching
a first class ball elub in other re.?pe<
a ba'.l club arith on? of the great
outfViis ever gathered, In ?peak
L?wl? and Hooper.
Detroit and Boston wen far In frc
after Aug-utt, but while Jepnings'aeJ
plsyed first cla?? ball, not even r
powerful attack ws? strong enough
crash through th? Led Ko? d?font
80 It fell to th? lot of Beaton to ent
h?r fourth club In a world ?erie?, an
true to Boston tradition, her *
again. toi
? n ?r.tries have won world char
pionehtpa without an overthrow r
corded.
In th? 191B ??r?a? th? P.*d So* bet
th? Philli?? a? they had beaten th
Tiger? by the fine pitching of Shor
tot and Leonard ar.d
cutfirid work of Lewi?, Speaker an
:er.
\ while Red Bf? n'.t'hers did (Tea
work, it might be ?aid that Im'Ty Lewi
beat the Phillies almost alone. II
drove In eight of Boston's twelve ram
led ' .; with an average o
a:: i I off at lea?t flv? rhiladel
fihia tal Um by remarkable catche? ii
Bald. A? Philadelphia lost fou
game? by on? run, th? valu? of th'
miracle play of Lewis can b? fairl]
well estimated.
The li'15 eerie? wa? ? blow to Phi'a
Aalphia'a stardom, a? the groat
ander, picked a? another world aeries
hiathewsun, won only one game, and
.vy slugger,
- slump ?hown by these two,
matched again at the heroic work o:
Lewis, wa? quite enough to aCCOUnt for
the losa of four out of five games. It
only by a narrow squeak that the
it one victory across.
The Federal League rae? wa? ?ven
closer than the National. Into the
?tretch went t hlcago, St. Louis and
?lurgh came at a fast clip, the
i od by the fuct I
old Chicago favorites- Joe Tinker and
Fielder Jene? -were piloting two of th*
club- rive the 1st
? the Chlf? ? B hales,
. tatting leaders were hard to dis?
lodge last season.
Pennant Winners
for 1915 Season
Laaoaa isi?. tain.
Nari?r.al. Bwtri ,irt?hl?
U .P nil ad ?Iah I a liovlon
? .ladlarapolli I I a|?
?tlor.aJ.p-pvl ?MM tuRil?
As?'?_Mllwauka? Mlnr.taeotl?
'. I ?'janU?? hsrT?orJ
? >i i tj-u\i< Si? Ortteo?
s ? traun*.Laa ? -.mi?
''?t? .Clul-a B'.fi?ri?wtiO
'??'? .Haust?? War?
Wa?t?r?.Slati* City 0?? Moins?
Cwitril Ami.WntirlH burMrjt??
Canadian.Ottawa Ottawa
.0*>t?n t. ? surtI!?
?Ji?rTn?r? .-Ouluth F ?ro?
iMvbtat? .Ji-'.t??r? Oltea
W??tern Aun.Oklahoma Denis??
?jWsaia nasssrtSi
...... Paveases*. M?iin?
NiMinuk? bttls.(.rand Islaa? Bratrlea
literal? Alabama. ..Salm? Nawmaa
Virginia blata .. . s?rt?l? Ro Ji> MaunS
Twin City... ...-? *.r?port, M. H.
f.a| . Valdott?
Blu? Rid??.- f rimarlo*
American League for the ninth conaecu
.age of 870. near
he < ollin?,
j hb also broke the
I base rur.ning record,
record ?ra?
? reas Cobb ran
ant up to ninety six. It wa? a
? year for Tyrus the Untamed, as
he also broke Wagner's eight-y?ar
- . .-?cord.
the N'u'ional Larry Doyle at last
. .lake tfaubert. who had led
:.rs befor?. Larry
liah with Luderu.-i.
rat baseman, but the
? pped on in front with
? rage of .'?~'> by some fine fr??
I la last two games.
Bonny Ki-.rf ?gala led the Fed? at
aa Mage? giving his team
uaufl had a fine
g that his I? 14 work was
no one-year flash.
? ... wns the best pitcher
in the American League, as Joe Wood,
: above him, failed to work In
as many gamee. Shor?, Foiter
I the best average? in
fames won and lost. In the National
eague Alexander waa king of the trib>-,
far in front, with only Mamaus, of :
;rg, and Toney, of Cincinnati,
even to ne c nsidered with him. Ms
maux proved to be the big pitching find
<if the )ear, a? 1915 was his first cam?
paign.
of the most remarkable features
National League play was that
Carey, of Pittsburgh, led the base run
nith only ; j ? :. . Is. whereas a
yenr or two ago McGraw had at least ?
who could beat this mark.
War Deals Rowing Hard
Blow as a World Sport
The European war dealt a hard bio
to rowing aa a world ?port For tl
first time in the history of the pastim
the English Her.ley, the claasic of rov
ing ? us postponed. No worl
championship graced American oars, i
in lili, when the Junior elght-osre
crew of Harvsrd University won th
hllenge Cup on the Thamei
defeating the picked teams of Gres
<.:id the Continent. In th.
count- however, the sport fiourlshe(
J?t \ P ?-'on, preside-1 a
the Nationsl Association of Amaten
Oarsmen, is the authority for th
statement that more young me!
manned the ?weeps and ?cull? in opei
competition in 1915 than in ?evera
years past.
?rest centred around th
college oarsmen, and In the '
tions of learning Cornell, time-hon
ored monarch of the Poughkeepsl<
course, and Yale atood out. Court
s men returned to the'.r own afte
being forced into the background it
1M4 by Columbia, and won the Var
s:*v race on the Hudson River after i
race w.th Lela-.i Stanford which wil
?jred.
On the Thames Liver the ?one of Oil
Eli saaaahad down the eourse to u
ea"T v;~'ory over the cr: rnson-ela*.
eight of liarva- ?1 schoolbov?
took up ' .
New 3ol won the
char ? Harlem B
i'ay.
Cornell ? el i -vie praatig? of
ern cr?'. s by defea ?? Leland
after a terriric battl?.
The race was in dot the last
quarter of a m le, when science and
overcame the courage and
i of the Pacif.c Coast champions
prow of Its
over the lin? a few fee: in front.
??:cuse was third, la: |
?hails, the lea I a, cham?
pion? of H'l 4, and I la, the
-r-up, again finished together, but
?>ngth? in the rear after be
?? race from
le mark. I ate was
i and 86 3-5 sec
? ? triumph over !! rvard was
It -vus ei ? e Blue
by a i
down, hurled their frail craft over th?
line some six or seven lengths of open
water in front. They covered the four
;- '.irse to 20 minutes and 24 sec
which was 12 3-5 seconds faster
?;ine made at Poughkeepeie
by Cornell. Furthermore, it placed Yale
ahead in victories won. In the forty
nine regettas held Yale had triumphed
in 25 and Harvard in 24. Yale, more?
over, swept the river, capturing the
freshman race and the Junior Varsity.
freshman crew of Syracuse Uni?
versity, which won at Poughkeepsie,
nai o:.e of the best f!r?t-ye_r crews
ever seen on the Hudson River. It was
of Varsity timber, and, indeed, It beat
the first boat in many race? and time
? before the regatta,
Ihe National Association of Amatoor
Oarsmen ht'd its annual regatta on
onaetieut River, at Springfield.
.gust 13 and 14. The oarsmen or
Doluth Roat Club carried off the
laurels, winning about ovary rac? in
thev started. They wer? ?n
. to t?ie rowing championship of
the year, ar.d proved or.ce more their
superiority over th? bet craw? of the
i an boat club?, which used to do
about as they pleased.
Hob Dibble, the (anadian ?need mar
ve'., wo:; the diamond sculls in eonclu
l -:ng Jack Ke'.'.y, of the
r Boat ' lub, of Philadelphia.
Walter Hoover, of Duluth, won th?
.-??mile dash.
i national charnplonshlpe ware
won by local oaramen. Q. Waldo Pmith,
uller, of the NVv York Athl?tio
' red th? association single
till cleverly, defeating; Hoover, tne
-. marvel. Henry B?H?r. of th?
? olitan Rowing Club, of this city,
?'.? the banner in the inter
rle scull?.
?ring Ibj New York, however, 1? far
from flourishing. There is no course
] ol the name, and until one is
conditions will not change great?
ly. To row over th? fetid, filth-laden
waters of the Harlem River is to court
? ?.y fevers, while the Hudson
- ti rough to the point where row?
ing becomes a precarious pastime for
all but strong swimmers. Th?re Is
some talh of constructing a cours? at
.-. !'ay, and the rowing enthusi
r.ope fondly that action la
I t taken in the ntar
Jamas A. Pl'.klngton 1? atrongly in
favor of making the interschci] .???
race an annuui feature. He hopes in
ay to interest the younger gen
10 in th? sport.
Many New Records by
Trotters and Pacers
IIarri?KS racine, for the season of
I > | ?
Gran !
I as one of the most *
I years If.? total -
? . ? rials.
? ? ? .
fa?', per' ' -
I SU]
1 the
number of r.orset ?? k-- ? starts
?
?
' ?
: harness I
i race me?
- n the
i
- .
g Op
of n ; ? ?. 's v. era ?x
lUCceSS of the season ???
?
I
aa?*>d piafsaalsasllj ca i?m'j?iu,
y
Th? ten members of the Grand Clr
Detr it, Kalb:
?r.a!. New York.
Hartford, Syrec i-e. i eluaabus and Lex
k?pt iedding racing ?tables
I - ? ?? n weehs and dlfltrib
I winning horsee the ?urn of
? a shade over $32,000 a week
of ' I days each.
Th? amount distributed fall short of
the total ai . lue of the s'aV.e
announced, due to un?
avoidable declara':otis causi .1 b] bai
?vea': ? ? icing to a greater
?
that sevan
g 1:1 f:>r special
?1 ?mated as regu
.
' such turf
Will?
iam a' lattonally fast horses
?? ?? an i
pacer? contested on th? Grand Clr
a larger number than usual, yet.
?rith the tota! for
? that the season
?. as r : the number
of art
Ne.v - '- ???? il fig
' the ]
e h'T
Of leading stables, ?rich as
and McDonald,
?natarallj captured Ui? lion'? ?bar? ?f
Players Who Made Their Mark in Baseball
the purses, as they handled the best
performers of th? season, vet the dis?
tribution among other drivers was
aidai than usual.
A world'? record of winning on the
American liarneii turf in one ?ea*on
was mad? by Peter Scott. 2:?f>1*,
driven by Murphy, his total on the
Grsnd Cireult being $3?>.2S5, ?gainst
the former mark of $35,700, made by
Baden three year? ?go. Adding $14.
410, hi? ?Innings at the Exposition
meeting, Feter Scott closed his season
with ? total of $50,69\ a record r.sver
before equalled ?y ? trotter in one rao
lr.g season and not likely to be.
In point of extreme ?peed, the ie??on
ws? remarkable. Sev?nty-?lx trotter?
entered the 2:10 list, Just one les? th?n
Iba record of 1914. but while last year
seventeen former 2:10 trotters reduced
their marks, this year the number w?s
twenty two. At least 112 pacer? en?
tered the fast list, and this total may
be increased, a? the official figures will
not be known until the trutt.ng year
book Is Issued.
More than twenty new world*? cham?
pionship records were marl? th:s season,
some of them ?urpriflnfe'ly fast. Pi
rectum I, owned and bred In New York,
?et the world'? pacing record In the
open st l:5o*4, o reduction of \\i sec?
onds from his own former mark of 1:51,
while William, driven by bis owner,
C. K. G. Billings, an amateur, j?ced a
mile to wagon In l:5?>H, s redaction of
two ?econd?.
P?t?r Velo, EiOa, also a New York
bred and owned hors?, set a new
world'l ir.arK fur a fuur-year-old trot
ting colt, while h? equalled th? a
trotting stallion race record of 2:0.2
and trotted thre? more heats at that
notch. Mary Putney, bred by Vti? late
L. V. Harkness, reduced the world's
record for a three-year-old trotting
rac? filly from 1:07% to 2:?.r>4, whil?
Volga tied the world's record of 1.07%
for a two year-old trotting filly.
Peter Mac, driven by a man eighty
two years old, his breeder. Captain
Iiarld .^haw, of Cleveland, trotted to a
new world's wagon record, amateur
driver, in 2:03 4. Many other cham?
pionship marks also were recorded.
The sport for the entire season, both
on mile ar.d half-mile tracks, wai above
the general average of cleanliness and
rum scandal, as shown
by the recent trials before the repre
(tentatives of both National and Ameri
can Trotting Aaooeiationa The gen
srsl system of conducting the sport
Improved ovsr former years.
The time allowance rulaa und?r
which non-winners of r?ee? ?offered
no penalty fof eligibility to races.
proved a boon snd helped to Increase,
th? number of part'eipant? in al
?vpnts. Changes In thil and other im?
portant rules of rar'ng lav? already
been recommended for adoption by the
turf co:;gress-s of both parent assouiav
?toaa,
Soccer Football Gains
Recruits by Hundreds
Jtsdf.tig by the increased number of
club? representing the vsriou? sections
of the country la the annual cup tie
eompe':'.;on of th? United States Foot?
ball Association, now pending, ar.J
about to enter upon its third round,
the gam? of ?ocrer football Is more
than holding it? own In thie country
end Is gaining recruits.
The United States Football Associa?
tion, the governing body of soccer,
now in the third year of its existence,
has coin? to ?Lay, and under the foster?
ing care of such men as John A.
1' ?'?>?, of Pawtucket, It. 1.. the presi?
dent, ami Thomas \V. Cahill, of New
Vork, the secretary, is mair.iy respon
?ib> for the healthy condition In
which its follower? find the ?port to?
day
the associations has had Its up* and
downs, and only as recently a? Novem?
ber of this year there were indica?
tion? of an epproarhir.g gtorm, which,
kowever, wa? aafely weathered. The
?eat of government ?hs formerly in
Ne* Jersey, in and hround Newark,
:r.e aid American Association
ktill hold? ?way and continue? to
attract hue crowd?.
11'- trees through the sus
n. of oficial! of the New Jersey
all Association, following Indi
i reel action in para Itting prof? -nionals
to piay in more tl.i.:. or ?; leaf 10, con?
trary to U. S. F. A. rules. The sus?
pensions ordered by the emerpency
committee were upheld at the council
meeting at Providence, where nrrnness
combined with tact were successful In
? sr a threatened break.
les the two orsranuntlons re?
ferred io. the Natiei ni Football I fir?',
'
! !
' .'W > <? rlt Bl
arid the Sew York r'.'"''. f
In addition le college?
anil high schools, all c
combined aoUvU?oa ?? eoccerduin ta s
degr?? that ha? not been experienced
before on this side of the water.
The National Challa - , -v*
emblem of the I
Association, pasaed into Ihe pose?
of the Betl
?ucceeded th? Br
the winner in the tirst season. The
Baal match took place on Taylor Field,
l.ei.igh University, Rethlehem, IV I
where th? n?w chumpions scored a I I S
1 victory over tne Brooklyn <
who for the second tlm? had become
? *. In the i-ene? now oil
t::c^e team? are still in the running,
whereas the Brooklyn ? ?
been elimina
The Brooklyn Celtics made a un?an?
record, in that they were finalists aiso
in the cup tie of the American Football
Assoc ;< won
by the Scettiab-Amerieanai of Newark.
Ihe Celtics succeeded in canturing the
New York State championship for the
th rd time in succe ? the
Continentals took the cup of the South?
ern New York Football Association.
The championship ? ' th? ' ?? onal
League went bark to the West Hud
sons, who iIj.'?hci I th? Brooklyn?. In
the Metropoi.tan League the Hudson
?lavan preved ?ucces?ful, and
r? ?ron the
? ? ?ap?nt
Athletic
Ship of the :
the Creeoenl shalleags ti annual
? e Itercha
ueven, of i 1 ? .? ti m??o
won the matci with New Y. --. p ? ?
?ylvania was victorious in th? intercol?
legiate championship, and Curtis II.gh
took the high school supremacy uwi?
from I .
land won the intern. ?
. the Pr isocla
?
the viet
Yo-l^ ? ;
'h- '. .? I . ?
?
. vea after a tie wuh Bay
Ridge. _
Winning Owner? on
the Eastern Turf
?L, g. Thompson.....I6S.?71
Aognst Belmont. 50.003
R. T. Wilson. 40.391
H. C. Hallenbrck. IMM
Andrew Miller. 22,310
James Butler.IMM
Greentree Htable. 17..Wi
Quln.y Stable.t7jMi
Glfford A. Uorhran. 11,721
R. F. Carman. 16.333
J. E. Darla. 15.005
H. C. Bedwell. 14,973
John E. Madden. 13.030
John O. Talbott. 11,475
Thomas Hitchcock._... 11,435
Dsre I>eai7. UM*
Srhoyler L. Panwna. 11,070
Edward Heulte*_. 10,3311
teptaln E. B. C'aaaatt..^.... 10,0V,
Emll Hers. 10,030
?Not Including $23,159 won by
Borrow end Regret In Kentucky.
Racing Again on High
Road to Oldtime Glory
Thoroughbred racing passed snother
milestone on the high road t? its one?
time glory ?nd glamour in the year now
edging out. On? more track, that of
th? Metropolitan Jockey Club at Ja?
maica, cpen?d its long closed gatea
and added a fortnight mora of sport
to th? seaaon.
The crowds returned, too. Th?r? wa?
a marked incress? In the ?ttendsnc?
at th? Aqueduct snd Jamsics meetings,
but Belmont Park, always popular with
the racegoers, ?urp???ed them slL On
rial ?>ay mor? than 80,000 p?rson?
ta?s?d through th? gates of the W??t
chester Racing Association's eourse
This Is s high wst?r mark sine? th?
day that Colin won the B?!mont Stakes,
back in 1908,
The month long meeting at Saratoga
Spring? was successful beyond the
hopes of the most sanguine, surpass?
ing ?ven those golden day? at the up
si te track that the old ti santa lov? to
taik about.
Th? amateur meetings st Piping
Reck, Belmont Park Terminal and on
the estates of IL P. Whitney snd Jo?
seph E. Widener added the more color?
ful and intimst? touch to racing lack?
ing at the bifger tracks.
The three associations in Maryland
reported at the end of last month that
their spring and fall meetings were the
best both In sport and In point of at?
tendance in many seasons.
H. P, Whit.-.ey, who, because of the
death ef hi? brotber-ln-law, Alfred
Gwynn? Vanderbilt, leased bis racing
Stahls to L S. Thompson, head? ? I -
list of winning cwners, with mor? than
%. I ,1 00. Of tala, ? M ??*? won on
the Joekey track?
|
I'.egret contributed ?at
I6'j by th<
? |
made up the
. . ..
from among their fellows an ! I
records were b' I lo Roomer,
idol of the ? y racegoer-, re
papular, if
I on the East
Ilia rar? in th? Is .
which he
and Marmot,icon by the
one of the
I annals of
) apart,
...
.'
them ? aad Para
an ana :he lUvre d? Grace*Han?
nen sii i
I ?ar, but in
impo?! . I giving away weight in big
\eral races, moreover, were
track, f ?" ?hieb, ne has
?
Il i . Regret alaa earned
her right to a pi
?
? ? -
?' .
?Ida oi the ?
?mm* ?*??.__? . .._i
>
8tromboM, wirb the double crown of
the Metropolitan and Suburban, to?
gether with five other stakes of lesser
Importance to his credit, brought much
of the racing honors for the year to
the stable of August lle.mor.t,
Pe'hsp? the most notable hgnre on
the turf wa? Sam Jackson, the "come?
back" horse. The se"en year-old ?on
of Garry Herrmann Kavello II broke
down In 111), and after a year away
from the races returned to es'.
re?! greatness, lie ran third in the
roan a:, i Brat in several minor
handicaps. To set the seal on hi? worth
he wen the Mount Vemon Handicap, st
on? mile, In the amar.'.nir time of
1:86 4-5 on July 81 at Aqueduct.
Thli time was only one-rtfth of s
?econd behind the world'? record, set
by Btromboli In 1914 at Belmont Park.
but Sam Jackson'a race wa? run around
two turns.
Well up on th? list of the really food
older horsej seen under colors was H.
P. Whitney's Borrow, which captured
the Kent lelrj Handicap! Tartar, wh'ch
beat Boamer s head and won R. I
?on h'< trat Brooklyn Handicap; Ai ne
M. and the ill-fated Norse King, whica
broke a leg la the Suburban and was
destroyed.
? of the three-year-olds, with the
exception o: Regret, lived up to their
IS of the year before. The F:r.n,
thrown in for good measure when H.
C Hallenbeck bought Iron Duke for
a fancy piice from John F. Madden,
? St the best of the lot earlier in the
in. The black ?on of O^den?Li?
vonia won eight stake?, ir.cluding the
Wither? and th? Belmont, anj $13,S55
in purses.
Sehujrlaf L. ParsorV? Phosphor,
sr of the Carter Handicap; Cap
B. Caaaatt'S Trial by Jury and
11- W ill, more than an ordinarily good
pister, were the most consistent of the
others.
H. P. Whitney held th? whip hand
Il ' e t'-'o year-old division.
H.s Thunderer, the unbeaten broth?
er to Beirret, won the Futurity from
the Brookdale-bred Bromo and four?
teen other food or.es. Dominar.'., a
?It by Delhi - Dominoes, won the
ites Hotel Stakes, the Sara
.. and the Hopeful, meeting
beating the best of his afl
heralded Kentucky
colt, Bulae.
Thundi rar and Dosainaat stood out.
?here was ( flieh bred
? annint I.a iy Hamburg II;
Adroit, a Illy whieh a : with
the faste?: ?ix : . year,
? Belmont
embrs ? snt
. east
off from I . inn, beat all
the full, snd
? ? it el
?? broufht ? ?? I
I not wit >r by
1 fills of
?.a ealt b]
?Madehen, ':? won the
' irial and the Great Ameri
-? ? :'>>r !:. T
ff. The
: be said fur J . ;der'?
\. lek.
H. II IK ??.'?! Rnrjile T.vMie. a four
?
Oruei ...
I and Plentj mpers. II?
a su through I
I
? ?
i y.
K I
bue. ........ . .?...?i fti? w? liaxrj La
11Montagne) ?nd Kehtoh, ?bowed well
in th? ?eason and won theii
owner a 1 >? sum. August Beuaontfs
m woo the '"ra ? Rational ll or.?
: i '. her fe? starts of the y?ar.
Rai | and fared badly, and
was stopped altogether to France he
? of the war Most of the tracks
' in England were turned into camps or
- uid th? matting* woo cur?
t? led or aoapdonad For the first
; tim? sine? 1TM the Derby wa? not ma
: over Epsom Downs Th? New Derby
, v.at transferred to Newmarket, Th?y
w?re won by Porar.in sad Brow g,.
?in, th? former ownej by - i Jo?l??
th? latter by J B. Joel, ?ho ?a?inuj
the winning owners for ti? i*?so?
As was true the y.-ar be?-,-? ?'v^
was a dearth of really g.ud Jock?.. ??
thto country. Tommy McTaggart su.?
at th? head cf the li?t in asCE
mounts and mad? a name for r:a,v?
. handling of two-year-old?' jtf
Netter, i '' the older school, ha i th? !
rhuadetar, R*'gr?t,'Borrow ti
Dominant, th? big winners of t?? ?w
:.ey String.
Record-Smashing Year
for American Swimmers
ny L DE B. HAKDLEY.
Th? amarlng srrowth of ?wimn
? during the year passing into htst
> w'.'h th? setting of nln? world'?
ords, marka it b?yor.d question as
most progressive ?port fostered In
country.
Not only did American roen in
practically all the national and mo?
ths International records, thereby
talnlng world leadership, but won
stimulated by the official recoguitlor
the Amateur Ath'.etlo Union, ente
the competitive field with enthuili
and placed to their credit performan
which, at the recent rate of lmprc
rr.ct.t, should in the near futurs t
them ?upremacy over foreign rival?.
Among the year's lead.ng featu
may be classed the sensational sprl
lag of Duke Kshansmoku, of Honolu
the mlddls distance swimming of U
Lang?r, of th? Los Angela? Athli
Club; the back ?trok? performance?
j Harry* Hebr.er, of th? Illinois Athl?
Club; the tremendou? Increase of a
I testants In the tcholaitlo and colli
ranks; the appearance of a new car.
late for International honors in H
bait Vollmer, of Columbia and the N
? York Athletic Club; th? fsnersl 1
rmvement among exponents of aqua
? r.d jrnr.ce and the ?ueceasful ?fforta
j the National Collegiate Athletlo Asi
? elation to standardize Varstty wsl
? sports throughout th? United States.
Duke Kahanamoku displayed start!'.
speed over phort course?. In op?n w
ter he shattered three world's reeorc
ng 50 yards In ?3 second?, 1
jards in 53 1-6 second? and 220 ysr
in 2 minute? 29 second?. In a 76-ya
bath he broke two more, crawling 1
yards in 54 2-5 ?econd? and 220 yards
? i*cS 26 2-6 ?rconds.
Langer took up th? iconoclastic woi
where the Hawaiian dropped It t
established international standards <
5 minute? 32 1-6 seconds for 449 yare
la open water, across tide, 110-ysi
course, and of 6 minutes 13-4-5 ?econc
for 500 yard?, in a 75-ysrd pool; t.i?
he lowsr?d the nstlonsl 880-yard en
' one-mil? marks to 12 minutes 6 second
j and 24 minutes 59-2-5 seconds, respe?
I tively, over s 110-yard course, acroi
! tide.
Hebner once more clipped the world
! time for ?wiremlng 150 yard? on th
back, placing it at 1 minute 63-3-5 ?e<
onds for a 75-yard bath. He also bel
t?r?d twolee American free-style r?c
ords, bat most of them st intermedlaU
unlisted dtstsr.c*?. His ?00 yards in
minutes 62 1-5 seconds and 6Su yard? t:
11 minute? 14 1-5 seconds, 2u-yaxd pool
are the exception.
Other contributors to the free styl
table of standards were the following
Arthur Raithel, Iillnoi? Athletic Club
40 yards in 18 4-5 second?, -0-yarc
bath; Perry McGUllrray, Illinois Ath
letic Club, 250 yards In 2 minutes 60 1-?
seconds snd 800 yards in 3 minutai
2? 1 5 seconds, 20-yard bath, and Her?
bert Vollmer, New York Athletic Club
1,000 yards in 13 minutes 59 3-5 sec?
onds, 80-ysrd bath.
In relay racing six world's records
wer? wiped out. Raithel, Mott, Hebner
a*. 1 McOiliivray, of th? Illinois Athletic
Club, swam 20? rards, fifty yards ?ach,
In 1 minute 42 2-8 seconds, and with
Vosburgh replsclng Mott went 400
yards, 100-yard relaya, In 8 minutes
45 3-5 seconds. Vollmer, Ramme. Ne
rich, O'Sulliran and Bennett, of the
New York Athletic Club, travelled
f.fty yard? apiece tn the total time of
2 minute? 10 2-6 seconds, and Belli*
'.hen completed 300 yard? In 2 minutes
'17 1-3 ?econd?, setting another s?and
: rd. Vo'.lmer. Nerich, ?'Su'?lvan,
Kamm? and Wheetlsy alto lowered the
erd ligure* to 4 minute? 63 8-5 eec
onds. Finally eighteen of the Mercury
Foot sprinters negotiated one mile
-?een swimming 100 yards splece,
tne elghteei.th sixty yards) In 18 min?
uses 1 j 4-5 seconds, slicing about a half
minute off the old mark.
Sterling work was don? try th? long
distance swimmers. Bud Goodwin, of
?he New York Athletic Club, won the
Exposition three-mile championship In
1 nour 42 minutes 83 2-6 seconds, the
fastest performance ever chronicled at
rhe distance In open water. Charles
Durborow, of Philadelphia, swam across
fhe Virginia Capes, under most trying
conditions. In 10 hours 67 ?eeonds and
World's Swimming
Records That Feu I
Out? KaHaaajcak? JO rare?)
?Dus? Kaltaaamaka <'00 ,?r?s)
Dus? Ka/iaaaa?ka IM tarta*
'Ouka KaftwiaiKoky I >vn!,l
Ou>? Ka???amo?u > rmi|
l?d) Laaiw 1440 ?ami .
'Luit La?i?r i s si nana) .
L ju> Laut? asu ?a/st?) .
LaSU La?aw (??? rila) .?.
?rmitrmttm I? FS yart ???1.
though h? fsiled to lana, owing t? rfc
breaking se?, he a<" -, S0?SI?1 til
wholedistar.ee. Honrj Hirea, a Best?
youth of ?:ght??n, broV* by ?boa; UlJ
an hour the r. for the Boita?
Light course, reducing t to 14 rein H
minute? 30 ?? - Tota,??,
other Rostonian, made I - ; ?turn tri?
over the ?am? reut? ?*?*'??>
onds, and not o PiVslVy
ir.ark?, but bettered th? Amarus! ?n
.ord of 14 hour? 15 ml ite? for ?ss>
sinuous swimming "w'>t?ft ?f
Spring Dak?, N. J, swam ;:.? ti.rty
four mi!*? around Manhattan lalaaeV?
a feat never before tf^"*rlls?s? H
13 hours 45 minutes.
fa concluding the r?r1?w of tYtt
style swimming, mention r.eerfi ii nao?
, i twe IN yard pert rmanea of Hirbtrt
Vollmer, In the New V<>rk Athlet!? Chah
pool on December 4 11? was clock*?1
in 54 4-5 seconds, fa?H-r tim? by tv?
seconds than ever mad? by RaitaaL
Hebner and McGillivraj the r??*??tt
American Sprintera, ri the urn? p?4C"
Laureis in breasl Stroke swirea???
were garnered by Michael McDerw??!
of the Illinois Athlet!? lab, ?h? er)
his owi ? '.Ou rank
to 1 minute 13 2-6 *-? ads, Zayinl
ba'h, and his 100-yard aura, tan* ??a
ditiona, te 2 i i c?r.ds
Tii? championship in th? Plaasn fgj
? wa? captor?d tv J B ruga
Cincinnati, but the year's best mark,
78 f??t, went to the cre.i.t of Cnlf
Redmond, of Chicago I I ?verattl
Arthur McAieenan, Jr, cf th? *w
York Atkletie ' Ink, pr od th? aaa
?killed fancy div?r iprir.gteu?
work, and hie team State, A.barJ
I'.mue?, demonstrated his s j [ rvtascr I?
high diving.
Roth ?occer and college water sa*
gain?e] popularity and mad? manr a?
crmte. In tho former game th? I.iiitu
Aiiie*!- "i captured tas uni
in the latter Princeton l'nlvetTtv ?ol
it? fourth consecutiv? champonship
In all around ? lliisek
Athletic Club ?cored th? most polio)
indoor?, the N?w York Atkletfs Clu
outdoor?, In open natiora! competi???,
while th? fight ?mong the C" leg?? n?
?ulted in a triple tie between Celta?
bia. Va!? ?nd Pennsylvania, sod Inte?
scholaatlo honor? were ???lly captan?]
by th? Rrooklin? High fchootj if B?
ton.
Of the fair swimmers wh? ?cnl?v?l
fam? in 1916 the foremost w?w hftos
Olga Dorfner, of th? Ph:!ad?l; ? T.r>
gemeinde, ?nd th? .V:.?-i Lacy Fn?
man and Claire Oalllgan, of M S'??
tion?! bYomen?s Ll fes a y;.-g I.e?gu?,Kie
York branch.
Miss Dorfner ?printed BO jtri? ?
SO ?-5 ?econds lOo yarn ? ?rarhun*
In 1 minute 9.1-6 second? so : I r?ru
110 yards open water I rat I? J
minutes IS 1-1 seconds Tr.? frit matl
i? a world's roeord, the i?coa<i IM
third bell | nal : itai :?rdi ??if
close to world figures, ?hen condition
are consid?re 1
Mi?a Freeman ltd <<" fard? h !
minut?e 47 ?econ is, ISO yar is It I"
minute? 45 oacondi and M Ma m
85 minute? 37 ?ecor.ds, ol] new Am?''
lean recor ;s. Th- I ira IOS VUS t*^4
in an 8C-yard bath, tl - atteS tw? ?v?#
a 110-yard stretch, scroll current
Miss (?air? (ia?k-nn eoneluirwlf
d?monstr?ted her - y ?t dl**
tances greater thai * lj ???'"J
d?f??tlng Mis? Freeman, th? r*em
holder, in s two m. ? r?c? H?r dm
only missed stand its tosSSJSl
the ccur?e wa? : I I isnift?
It i? worthy of ? '
thru? ?t?r? steppe I ? I ??"H
in nvi-summer, fafia? ' ? Beck?*
had broken the f .rid i rer
ord in Honolulu, Il M Centn!
had lowerod the I ??"< Jj
: figures s ? 'i*rp***
Rr?ck had bettered the MO-I ' '
Tnis ?peedy tro hail? fn ? Saa SSnw
' The best gdr! farcy |*MH M tit
mist ?nd the neetion ?' l???tsr?alf|w
mainel uns?tt ? ; " ? ^"f".1",
Bsrtlett. of New fork ! ? boon ptca*?
ss the Eaatera and ?'?
Dorothy Becker ai ' . v.
Team honor? f( - ? nsg?ni
awar-ied to the 1 ' * w \>
gemeinde in sw:n ? '?5' '.
tion?l Wom?n'? Life?? t !.??**? '?
.water polo. -,
Rise of Jess Willard
Feature of Boxing Year
- 4
By IGOR.
It has been a remarkably quiet year
in boxing. Jess Wizard's unexpected
defeat of Jack Johnson for th? heavy
weight championship of th? world
.s alone a* the one event U I
?ny degr?? of tongue wagging. Jess
knocked out th? hitherto Invincible
black at Havana before a $60.000 hou??.
Johnson was an overwhelming fa?
vorite becaa?? of ail unbroken chain
? i i f
fifteen yearn or more. The fact that he
Paris and
London ?inc? his defeat of Jim Jef
< -??< ? Ml to
1> when th? question of the white man's
i nsc
He floored Johnson after the grcn'e.s,
black man since Peter Jack-on had
..ly started on the road to com
collapse.
IS been almost a year sine? the
r ? Xnu?as cowboy won his title lie
has mad? thousands of dollar? as an
; .
?. M mue! In fact, that he eras
??? I if ap hu eoateaets a th
Webe? and Fra/.ee, the two men ?he
Inaace i the Basaaa bout. jf--< iiandtd
? lump -turn ?ail to have
Jack I Brief, the man who promoted
the. Iwuik. 4fid 'Lam Jttaas? wtn.lrd>
manager, are the sal sat? ? "
famous "Willard S , .
championship because I ' SS '**????,
a foul agHinst Kid Willias?? j*
promises to be a SSerrfipa? oV,r. _. J
njr*s claim Williams >^s ,h':;*Vrt.?
take tha m.f'er te the courts U Jg
continues to maks capital of tb? l.
?
was declared the * :
Since th? bout the :
thist he gave no ? ,r
'
ich as the . * . ,.
M ar? iaU? '" ???I
any on? el?e had no ] ??' ,0. kjgl
- ? ?, earned in S ewsJeess
on the ' ?.
ims has Just ?ngaged V[*jj
round heat *t New 'M r ''* , i?aav
Btplad "for the ! "'"'VseaM
pieaehlp of th? ?arid'* ????'?u.r\Jiij
Burns That h? will go on PV^
Krtls's demand? until they I : * "^s
la a regulatlasi Queen sherry ?'?r,,*,
rit. Treis*
Harry PeJlek, m?r?ger far i"JJI
U k'lsh, always safe.- .
in all lieh* t
s whleb raid ti '
?
be glee :1 .ik
.:
slways stipulates in bis "r"1 .^sj
ttammni tai ha iaa't guuu w BVj