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Show BLLLfl IB ' H m KJmrdtht. 1912. br the NVir Tort HoraJd Co. All g, rights rcAcrTMl ) eHBRE will the breaking o records in the field of sports end? That is the question on the lips of thousands of men and' UM women in tho United K States who are interested in athletics, N There must be some limit to the degree B to which space may be annihilated, but B VThere la it? Oar runners nro becoming B fleeter of foot every yenr; our broad Ik jumpers are leaping further and high H jumpers are petting the bar n notch or F two higher with astonishing frequency. n . The timo required to run a hundred Wf yards, a quarter mile, half a mile, four HK miles, is being steadily lessened, some- WK , times by fractions of a second, sometimes fK by several seconds, and it is matter for V sensational speculation where the limit B will be reached. Sometimes a record Bk stands for years unassailcd. apparently K impregnable, but then comes some licet B footed runner or a nimble jumper and the Bs sporting world is startled by a new B achievement. There always seems to be B somebody to outdo every one else in the B' world of sport. j B- . The ancient Greeks were a nation of I B; ppk-udidly dc eloped all round athletes, ,Bt but their feats were small compared to B Hie nluioat everyday performances of modern athletes. The first man to run B the famous Marathon, a Greek soldier, Hr who carried to the Greek capital the news B of the battle of Marathon, dropped dead B at the finish. To-day Strobiuo runs liis B twcntj-six miles faster than the Greek did W an after a few moments of pauling is m ready for a hearty meal. B It was expt-cted that many records would B B n l'lc accent Olympic games, and so .' B they did. Not a few new records were K earubllshed by Americans. B Indian Surpasses Greek. jB Perhaps the most remarkable pc-rforra- Kt ancc of an Individual in the last season TB of sports was the winning of both the I B Pentathlon and the Decathlon by James I B Thorpe, the Indian from the Carlisle I K Indian School. The invincible redskin J Ml ran 1,500 metres in 4m 40 1-lOs in the I ttJ-1 ?A.JJLJl.1Jtl. IMAt.tAtVMAAtMl'MfAfA: final event of the Decathlon, which closed the Olympic contests, lie led his closest opponent by 150 yards. Thorpe's activities arc not confined to field and track athletics. He is the captain cap-tain of the 1012 Carlisle football team and4ono of the fastest strongest backs on the gridiron. His goal kicking from the field is vfondcrful, and at times ho performs per-forms almost incredible feats when the ball is so far to one side of the field that it seems almost impossible to boot It between be-tween the goal posts because of the difficult diffi-cult angle. With all his speed Thorpe is so strong and hardened that it is seldom necessary to call time for him after the most terrific scrimmage. Head-on collisions colli-sions mean little to him. Incidentally, Tewnnima, who finished in the 10,000 metre run, Is a Carlisle Indian and is expected to do things on the football field this fall. The first record to be smashed wns the time for the one hundred metre run. Donald F. Lippincott. of the University of Pennsylvania, covered the distance in 10 3-os. in a trial heat on the first day of the games. This time was not equalled in the final event, for Ralph Craig, another , American, won the race in 10-i-os. Lip-pincott Lip-pincott finUhcd third. The time for the final, equalled all previous Olympic records. In thiowiug the javelin with the best hand the first three men broke nil previous records, E. Lemming, of Sweden. Jiurling the 'weapon 1UG feet '6 inches; " ' "Ted" Meredith, a schoolboy from Mercer&burg. 1'a.. surprjsed many spectators spec-tators at the Olympic games by setting two new records. Only those who' had happened to follow the sudden rise of the boy from Mercorsbuig Academy were not surprised at his performance in. the stadium Week after week in the early spring Meredith began to Improve iutcr-scholastic iutcr-scholastic records for races 4-J0 yards and SSO yards in length that Is. the quarter and the half mile. lie was young, and many followers of sport predicted that his career would be short, though glorious Then came "Mike" Murpbv, the truly : vi.-wt, vwva w''vvtvvM,' . i veteran trainer of; athletes at the University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, and conceded young "Ted" a place on tho Olympic team. Moreover, he predicted that the young man would do some effective scoring- for the United States. Meredith, who Is fi feet 9 inches In 'height and weighs ldd pounds, reminds old" time followers of the cinder path of "Maxy" Long, the great Columbia University runner, who still holds the record for the qunrter mile, having run that distance In 47 seconds. Meredith has the same build and the same leg WftlflHBBpstef- " : -. i ", k action. Also he has the spirit tlit used J to cariy "May" Ixing over the last hun-j dred ynrds at killing speed when other j runners were breaking under the strain. Until last year Meredith attended tie Williamson Trade School, near Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. He was a mediocre athlete, and no J one expected anything startling from him. When he went to Mercersburg "Jimmy" Curr.in took hold of him, and the results, show pretty plainly that Meredith had the makings of. a runner. Meredith'sj time for SOO metres, which is equivalent to S74 yards 2 feet and 0 inches, was lm. 31 9-10s. He won bis race from "Mel" Sheppard by one yard. There was a new record set for the running run-ning high jump, clearing the bar at G feet 1 inches. George L. Horine, of Sanj Francisco, who startled ihe athletic world, by clearing 0 feet S inches in practice, finished fin-ished in third place, reaching his limit at G feet 2 3-10 inches. l Richards was another big surprise for, those who expected Horine to capture the1 jumping event easily. Two jears ago hej failed to score a point in the trnck moot of the Biigham Young Unersity, at Provost, Utah. The next year he won every event he entered, and for his present pres-ent ability his Oljmpic performance speaks for itself. All the record breaking feats nt the Stadium in Stockholm weie not performed per-formed by Americans. One new world's iccord that deserve attention was the timo set for tho 5,000-metre run by Jean Bourn, ,i Frenchman. He run his distance dis-tance in luui. o beating l.j 5 bcc-onds the worlds record he himself established in Paris iu 1011. The Hawaiian Amphibian. "Duke" Kahauamokii, Hie Hawaiian "man fish," won the one hundred metre swim in lm. 21-0s., but iu .1 seml-unal Unt he swam the distance in one-fifth of a second less, equalling the world's iccord The faqt that the Hawaiian did not bctte, thu world's record iu the final suinimiuj event may bc-.-.ttributed to the fact Llut hnlf way to the' finishing lino hc turned about in the water to suney hu opponent, who were so far beTntxi that he could nave' no fear of them. Kahanamoku was, ope of the most noted and popular of the Ameritau athletes. The Kiny of Sweden and the royal family took a great interest in his rfquatic ability, Iand while the games were in progress an exhibition swim was arranged for the King. The shot put record ?tm nnotr.cr de-lined de-lined to eu, and a big surprise was 5n storo for tho spectators when "'Pat" MacDosald. the slant policeman who presides in Long- acre square defeated Ilalph Hose, holder! of the world's recorc. MacDonaid pat t!i5 shot 15 metres 34 ccntimerres. which Is shade more than 50 feet 4 Inches Tn this evont Ralph rtoa look second place, alt-o bettering the previous world'3 record. On the tennis coarlsr-althousb. of course, there is nothing in the nature of a record to Judge by the jeason has been one of upsets. The East has for some time been considered, at lca6t by the ten-nl ten-nl players of the East, as superior to the West on the court3, but this year Cali-fornians Cali-fornians have figured prominently In the national championships. Maurice E. McLoughlin, a sandy haired youth from San Francisco, was the victor in the singles at Newport, taking the championship east of tho Mississippi for the first time McLoughlin has been playing tennis since 1903 and has forged steadily to the front. There seems to be almost no limit to what training and scientific preparation for athletic contests may develop. Every time a new record is established there are certain wiseacres who put their heads to gether and declare that the Ihnit has been riaohed, bat along comes a dark horse, and upsets their calculations, and often before the performance ha's cca-sii to 'be a matter of wonder a new man betters the record' again. The new lacing for a shoe, 2.-slightly lighter material from which a runmug shoe may be mjIe, soce new iathol of packing a. tir.ck which may give It more lifo any -of thwc factors niij;hi. ccn-tribtfle ccn-tribtfle to thebeving nff of a fraction ofj I a second on a record - 1 I. P i o ft TJvo33 ore the niochp.uica! factor:, Hut take the idea o some coach abouc getting into perfect physical condition. Tit mayi hit j:pon f-ornc new jnode of diet which mnj,.be. beneficial to a, r.iunc.'.. It mnyi be only a little thing, but if tho runnerl avails himself of it day In and day tut for a year, or even six months, at rhc end of the period of training hc has al. the accrued benefits from his training. There has, been a revolution in training methods in the last twenty years, and that the revolution was justified Is shown by the figures established as world's records. No longer do men who depend upon endurance en-durance and strength to win their events cat raw meat and drink ale No "Jolly Good Ale." Ale Is considered a fattening food, and tho runner docs not want fat. He wants lean, clastic muscles, and he does not want his power of breathing impaired by U10 growth of fatty muscles in the abdomen, which often results from ale drinking. The Engli6hmeu do not train as do the Americans, and they were- far behind the United States when tho Inal scores were chalked up for rhe Olympic ?an: at BlB Stockholm. Their athletes .mokp and Bil drink ale, and they do not subject! thena- B'H selves toYnc rigid discipline and'pbjsioU B'B streTc that Aroericcn athletes endure BIB They do not nuke a i-usinogs of-trainlnz, Bul nnd the result is iiicy cr.nuot compete vith VB thoroughly lra:nv. runners and w?lebt Bl throwers i yr ' B'l "Whet wllthe iTxt year Iu athletics Hl ounr.. JcrtM?J '.11 being asked by thou- BH eAjHttrof Americans who love rh out si BBI doors. Even where worid6 records Wyr) nflil not broken the trncl men of the lost Ki- IIBI sen hnvu been ruauiag uv.gM? close to co 3K .B beet figu:M. $Ek Ralph Craijr, who won the lOO-metra vff-'l r-ny "'0-met7cniDs at the Obrnplc games, 'ir'!l ran I113 distances in 10 l-oz. and 217-jOs., "(I? ' respeetlveiy. Alvah Meyer and Lippiucott '; ran dos to him in thoso events. : SH Reidpath went 400 metres in -iSl-Js., iBI ivhich is very fast. IM'W'I F. W. Kelly's pctforraance In the 110- f pB metre hurdle race at-Stockholm-was crcd- i. 'fMH itable. His time was 151-os,, and Wen- ;" IB dell and Hawkins, who finished close bo- 1 hind him, were both Americans. t- II. Babcock in the pole vault cleared ' Vfl the bar at a height ,of 12 feet 11 inches, R il and ".Matt" McGrath threw the hammer Kl f 180 feet 5 Inches. Such a missile, well Kf diiccted, with McGrath's strength behind rfl it, would be about as effective as a can- If 1. on ball if it hit a man within a hundred St-JI feet of him. R'jl It Is a hopeful sign when many men Kl arc threatening record figures for it means B keen competition aud the best development BB possible. ffil |