Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-05-20 | Page 10 | Thompson Plans to Break Sheridan's All Around Record

H THOMPSON PLANS TO H BREAK SHERIDAN'S H ALL AROUND RECORD H rcd Thomson, who won tho all H round championship at Chicago last H all, says ho is most anxious to com- H oto again for the title and that he is H low In training at Princeton. H "The biggest reason for causing me H o wish to enter tho all around meet H i ' this year Is not the lure of tho gamo, H in t to feel that I have had a fair Hl jhanco at Sheridan's record' says H fhomson. Hl "It is a very easy thing to argue from Hl l qualified success In the past to an H unqualified and unfounded success in H hc future, but I feel fair in thinking hat I will be ablo to score 800 points," H lays Thomson. In explaining why he fell short of the Hj vorld's record, 7.335 points, Thomson H )a.ys ho met with an accident at Los H Ingcles that forced him to quit train- ng lust year. "Ono month before the meet a pole H "iroko with me, and In the spill I enap-H enap-H '- led a rib. So the time that I should Hj avo used in training I had to use In h "est. In consequence I spent five days mmediatcly before the championships H 'regular training. H "This will be my last attempt." says niomson, who is a theological Btu- Hl lent at Princeton. "I do not care par- icularly for athletics in general, but H iollevc I con make a ecore In the all H trounds that will better the record by H A few hundreds of points."