Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

334 Track Athletics so that he had to kick the shoe off and run the last one hundred yards with one shoe off and one shoe on. Of the three watches at the finish one showed 4 7t seconds, one 4 7-f seconds, and one 47f seconds, so that the authenticity of the record of 4 7-! seconds is more than established. Wendell Baker's record held for over ten years, until broken by Maxwell Long of Columbia, but between the two there were many good quarter-milers. Dohm of Princeton, Shattuck of Amherst, who won the intercollegiate quarter in I 89 I in 49! seconds, Downs, Wright, Sayer, Merrill, Vincent of Harvard, and Jarvis of Princeton, were all first– class men. Burke of Boston University, and later of Harvard, immediately preceded Long as national champion in the quarter mile, and in 1897, indeed, before Long attained his best form, Burke had the pleasure of beating him. Burke won the quarter at the national championships in that year in 49 flat, the year before he had won it in 48f seconds, and the year before that in 49f seconds, a record quite enough in itself to estab– lish his reputation as one of our best and most consistent quarter-milers. In addition to his quarter-mile running he won the half mile once at both Mott Haven and the national champion– ships, and he added to his list of victories at the Olympic games in Athens, and at all sorts of athletic meets throughout the East, and particu-