Athletics of To-Day 1929

Athletics of To-day I mile, run in 4 mins. I3 4 secs., took both the I,5oo metres (4 mins. It secs.) and the Boo metres (I min. 53! secs.) at the Antwerp Olympiad, Ig2o. Nevertheless is it equally true that Ted Meredith, U.S.A., although beaten into third place in the Olympic 400 metres (437 yards I6 ins.) at Stockholm, Igi2, won the 8oo metres in I min. 5I 1 ~ secs., finishing out the half mile in I min. 52! secs. He still holds the world's 440 yards record of 47i secs., and until Ig26 held also the half mile record of I min. 52t secs. Then again the present official half mile record holder, Dr. 0 . Peltzer, Germany (Picture No. 2, Plate g), holds also the soo metres record, I min. 3t secs., while D. G. A. Lowe (Picture No. 3, Plate IO) , Great Britain, who beat previous world's best when he was def ated by Pcltzer in the A.A.A. Championship half mile of Ig26, holds th world's 6oo yards record of I min. IOf secs. (Ig26), and in Ig27 and Ig28 won both the 440 yards and 88o yards English han1pionship titles, and captured the Olympic 8oo metres in rg24 and Ig28. There is also Lloyd Hahn, Boston A.A. (Picture No. 3, Plate g), who in Ig27, was the outstanding runner of the American indoor track season, hi b st p rformance b ing that in which he eclipsed Dr. ltzer's I,ooo metres record by returning 2 mins. 26f secs. Early in Ig2 h knocked a fifth of a second off Peltz r's half mile record, and later was credited with a new half mile record of I min. 5If secs. He ran at Paris in Ig24 and finished sixth in the Olympic I,500 metres; among those who beat him wer th two ambridge blues, H . B. tallard and D. G. A. Lowe. At Am t rdam, Ig28, when Lowe made a new Olympic record of I min. SI ec . Hahn wa fifth. Half mil rs, ther for , ar of two distinct types. The one class, men like A. G. Hill and Melvin h ppard, who have str ngth for a mile and sufficient sp d for a half mile; and the quarter-miler typ , who hav the gr at sp ed of the sprinter and just nough enduranc to carry them through the longer 88o yard distance. n the whol I think that th latter class have the gr at r chanc of br aking r ords, f r -v ith achy ar that passes the quart r mile partakes mor of the natur of a sprint