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Show YANK ATHLETES LEADING WORLD U. S. Holds Most Track and Field Records; Great Britain Second NEW YORK, F-b. 20. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Athletes for tho L'nitod state" hVd th world as holders hold-ers of track and field records. An analysis of tbe latest list of world's records, accepted by the International Aniatonr Athletic federations, shows that out of some 00 odd standard events, tho best time or distance hai been made by American athetcs in 3 7 contests. This number, a trifle more than one-third of the entiro list of accepted records, Is also greater than the combined total of any two other nations. LAI R WALKING I I INT6 America's nearest competitor to the honor of leading the world in tho matter of record holder, is Great Britain, whose athletes have marked ehs best time or distance in 2S events. Denmark and Finland arc third with seven records each. No other nation na-tion approaches the Versatility of tllfl American athlete for the United States performers have established In nix out of seven groups of competition competi-tion Into which world's records events naturally divide themselves This country is without a record holder in the walking events. In which Great Britain and Finland hold all the records America is tied with Great Britain In the running records, each nation haing 13 to Its credit. The 1'nitod States holders ar cr.n-tlnedMo cr.n-tlnedMo the sprints and shorter distance dis-tance runs. (Jreat Britain's stars hold a majority of the long distance records. UPPEAR IN AJ.M Those records as published in the Official Athletic Almanac, wore adopted at the conference of the L A. A. C. last May. Since that meeting meet-ing several American and foreign j athletes have bettered records now . listed but these cannot be officially considered world's records until ac-I ac-I ceptcd by the I. A. A. C, which ac-: ac-: i eptance may be delayed another six I months or a year. Such an example Id that of tho running broad Jump credited to P. O'Connor of Ireland. I with a leap of 24 feet 4 inches, made ! In JltOl. Thlr rei ord v :j - surpassed last July when E. C Gourdln of '. Harvard Jumped 2 6 feet three inches In the dual meet between Oxford-Cambrldgo Oxford-Cambrldgo vs. Yale-Harvard at Cam- liriileo. Taking the records as they appear tin the latest official list, however, It is shown that the American athlete j is hotter in more events in the record rec-ord list lhan any one other nation-1 allty. Every record from 100 yards to a mile Is held by a United States athlete: from two to 25 miles English Eng-lish runners hold sway, although most of these times were made in the early i I nineties. In metric running records Finland, Sweden and Franco hold ill but the sprints, which go to Amorl-I Amorl-I can athletes. Walking records are ' bed by pedestrians of Creat Britain. Canada and Denmark. CAN i GETS HURDLES ; Substituting Gourdln's new record in place of O'Connor's, all the Jump- inp records are In the hands of Am-erloan Am-erloan athletes and the same Is true of the weight events. Finland, Swc- 1 dsn and the United Stntes divide honors hon-ors in the discus and Javelin competitions. compe-titions. Canada gets two hurdle records, rec-ords, as E. J. Thomson of Dartmouth college, was born fcrOSS the border. All others are held by United States hurdlers Of the 10 relay records eiht are held by American teams; one by a Creat Britain ciuartet and the other by a Swedish combination. |