Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-01-01 | Page 65 | Special Edition, Californian Breaks Record

CAUFORNIAN BREAKS RECORD In Athletic Games in New York, Puts the 24-Pound Shot 38 Feet 2 3-4 Inches. Second Man Also Hurled the Weight Nearly Three Feet Further Than Old Distance. NEW YORK, Deo. 8L At the athletlo games In Madison Square garden tonlcht under tho auspices of the Pastime Athletlo Ath-letlo club, Ralph Rose, tho Californlan who rep re -T nt h .Ml. higan university and the Chicago Athletic association, aroused tho enthusiasm of more than 6000 spectators specta-tors by putting tho twenty-four-pound tthot Dilrty-elght fet 2 and three-quarter Inches and establishing a new record. rec-ord. Richard Sheldton of the New Tork Athletlo Ath-letlo club was i-cond In thla event, with a put of thirty-six feet seven Inches. The best previous figures for this event were thirty-thre foot eleven and thrce-qv.axt-r inches, made bv George Gray of tho Now York Athletlo dub In 1SS0. Charles J. Zelts of Georgetown university univer-sity won the sixty-yard handicap dash with an allowance of seven feet, and nft-erward nft-erward ho won the A. A. U. championship at sixty yards by a narrow margin, equaling equal-ing tho world's record, outdoor and Indoor, In-door, of six and two-firths seconds. Summary : One thousand-yard run, A. A. U. championship cham-pionship Won bv Charles W. Bacon, Jr . Decatur. N. V. 'lrl-h A A. Tim-. IA Throwing flftv-.slx-pound weight for height, A. A. U. champlonphlp won by John S. Burke, I'ustlmo A . New York, with fourteen fed nine Inches. Sixty-yard dash. A. A. I". rhamplon-Shlp rhamplon-Shlp Won bv Charles J. H, Zeliz. Georgetown George-town university. Time, 6 2-0 seconds. Putting twenty -four-pound shot Won by Ralph W. Rose, Chicago A. A . distance, dis-tance, thirty-eight feet two and Dtruo-Quorter Dtruo-Quorter Inches.