Athletics of To-Day 1929

Athletics of To-day sity met Yale at New York on October 5th and were defeated by eight events to three. Two weeks prior to the holding of the above match a contest of even greater importance had been decided in New York City between the New York A.C. and the London A.C. It was a broiling hot day, but that circumstance did not prevent some 12,000 enthusiastic Americans from making their way to Manhattan Field on that famous 2rst of September, r8g5, to see their countrymen make a remarkable attack on records and achieve a signal victory. I have not space for a full description of that epic struggle, nor even of the wonderful quarter-mile race, in which the great American runner, T. E. Burke, defeated the plucky Oxonian, G. Jordan, by inches. Let the perform– ances speak for themselves. World's records were made in the 220 yards, 2ri secs. ; Half Mile, r min. 53! secs. ; Running High Jump, 6 ft. 5~- ins. ; and equalled in the roo yards, gt secs. The other results were 440 yards, 49 secs. ; r Mile, 4 mins. r8l secs. ; 3 miles, IS mins. 36! secs. ; 120 yards Hurdles, rsf secs., which would have been a world's record had the winner not knocked over one of the hurdles; Long Jump, 22ft. 6 ins. ; Shot Put, 43ft. 5 ins.; and Throwing the Ham– mer (old pattern with wooden handle), 137ft. 5} ins. No matter how strong a team the L.A.. had got together, it is doubtful if they could have overcome the world-beaters of the New York A. ., but it is only fair to the London club to state that they lacked the services of E. . Bredin, half miler, F. E. Bacon, miler, Denis Horgan, shot putter, . B. Fry, who, two years before, had rai ed the world's Long Jump record to 23 ft. 6! ins., T. M. Donovan, another great (( lepper," and J. M. Ryan, who was v ry nearly the equal of 1\1. F. Sweeney, the high jump record breaker of the New York meeting, for Ryan himself accomplished 6 ft. 4 ins. in Ireland in the following month. The meeting of September 2rst, r8g5, was undoubtedly the first impulse to the international matches which have now become so general. For example, the yearly triangular match between England, Ireland, and Scotland finds its counterpart