Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

336 Track Athletics the championship class in the summer of I 894, when he won both the intercollegiate and the national amateur half mile. Kilpatrick was then a student of Union. The half at Mott Haven was run in I minute 59f seconds, and that at the national championship in 1 minute 55f seconds. Kilpatrick, also, won the national amateur cham– pionship half mile in the two following years, I 895 and I 896, in the respective times of I min– ute 56f seconds and 1 minute 57f seconds. His supreme performance, and that on which his world's record stands, was made at the games between the New York Athletic Club team and the Oxford-Cambridge team on September 2 I, 1895. There were four men in the race, F. S. Horan and C. H. Lewin of Cambridge Univer– sity and the London Athletic Club, H. S. Lyons of the New York Athletic Club, and Kilpatrick, who ran both as a member of the latter club and as a student of Union. At the start Lyons and Lewin took the lead, and the former, who was an exquisite judge of pace, ran the first quarter in S4t seconds, as he had been directed to do. Kil– patrick, who judged pace poorly, trailed Lyons, as he had been instructed, and thus finished the first quarter in very fast time - much faster than he would have run it if left to his own devices. Shortly beyond the quarter-mile mark the cham– pion to-be swung ahead into the lead. For the