Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Distance Runs and Distance Runners 337 next two hundred yards he continued to draw farther and farther away, and although Horan of Cambridge made a game rally and shortened the gap a bit in the last one hundred yards, Kilpatrick won decisively, sixteen yards to the good. His time was 1 minute 5 3-g- seconds, which broke all previous records for the half mile, amateur and professional. Horan, himself a runner of the very first class, finished in 1 minute ssi- seconds. As far as weather and track went the conditions under which Kilpatrick's record was made were perfect. The inevitable "if," which almost inva– riably tantalizes the spectators of a record-break– ing performance, was present here in the shape of the embarrassing circumstances in which Kil– patrick was placed during the race. His running clothes became deranged early in the race, and he ran the last quarter under uch vexation as was enough, in the opinion of " Father Bill" Curtis and other spectators of similar discernment and experience, to have slowed his time a considerable fraction of a second. The college runner who ha come nearest to Kilpatrick's form was Evan Holli ter of Harvard '97. Hollister won the intercollegiate half mile three years in succession, in 1895, I 896, and 1897. He was relied upon for consistent firsts in tbe half and quarter at dual games, and in team races at the winter meets he was an equally reliable