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Show MEREDITH AND SIMPSON STARS Farmer Boy From U. of Missouri Mis-souri Went Over 120 High Hurdles for 14 3-5 Seconds. New York, Nov. 4. Bob Simpson and Ted Meredith are the two bright particular stars of the outdoor athletic ath-letic season just closed, it Is despite Meredith's several recent defeats across the water, when he did not perform anywhere near his usual standard. Of course, with every year that passes tho difficulty of bettering records rec-ords steadily increases. The statement state-ment that the run of track material this summer was as good or better than over seen before is therofore not inconsistent with the fact that only two world's records fell. Simpson, the farmer boy from the University of Missouri, certainly achieved the most glorious performance perform-ance of tho summer when he went over the 120 high hurdles for 14 3-5 seconds, a record which will probably probab-ly be accepted by tho Amateur Athletic Ath-letic union. He had done 14 4-5 seconds sec-onds in the national championship at Newark, when not in top condition. Borke World's Record. Simpson broko the world's record for tho 120 hurdles five times in as many months and also equalled the best figures for the 220 low hurdles. Meredith early in the season bettered better-ed his own world's record for the half mile when he hung up a mark of 1:52 1- 5 In a dual meet with Cornell at Franklin Field, May 13. The A. A. U. Is still investigating the authenticity of this record by the Pennsylvania flyer. Four timers caught him in the figures quoted and a fifth made him one-fifth second faster. fas-ter. Several weeks later Ted repeated his 1916 feat of winning both tho quarter quar-ter and half mile titles in the intercollegiate inter-collegiate championships. In the 440-yard run, around one turn, Meredith was timed in 47 2-5 seconds, which will probably be accepted ac-cepted as a world's record, for there is no accepted mark now on the books for a single turn. Hurdling took Its place as the foremost fore-most division of track athletics during dur-ing the year, for Fred Kelly and Earl Thomson both, did 14 4-5 seconds, while Fred Murray beat Simpson over th6 120-yard three-foot hurdles in 14 2- 5 seconds, clipping four seconds off a record that had stood for more than a score of years. Kelly Came In Third. all-around championship, won by Avery Av-ery Brundage of Chicago, with Alma Richards second, and then later won the pentathlon championship contest at Travers Island under the auspices of the New York A. C. Thomson put himself to the front as a great athlete when he won the hurdle race in the allaround championship cham-pionship in 15 1-5 seconds, bettering the standard by three-fifths of a second sec-ond and making a revision of the point table necessary this year. Charley Hoyt of Grinnell College entered the running with the othdr great athletes of the year when he equalled the world's record of 0:21 1-5 for the furlong dash in the Drake College relay carnival last spring. Georfce Bronder, the Irish-American A. C. boy, broke the American record rec-ord for the javelin throw when he won the national championship at Newark with a toss of 190 feet six inches made by H. L. LIversedge of California on April 11, 1914. Jim Lincoln, Lin-coln, the New York A. C. representative, represen-tative, also broke the record when he finished second to Bronder with a heave of 189 feet 9 1-8 inches. |
