Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)
Distance Runs and Distance Runners 339 raced and won only once at Mott Haven, and then, probably because of his inability properly to judge pace and his habit of loafing in the first quarter, he won only in 1 minute S9t seconds. Hollister's 1 minute 56f seconds made at Mott Haven in 1896, therefore, stood as the intercol– legiate record until equalled in r 904 by E. B. Parsons of Yale. No half-milers have since come up to step into the seven-leagued shoes that Kilpatrick and Hollister wore. Burke, who was one of Kilpat– rick's contemporaries, lasted long enough to win the half in 1898 at the national championships, and at Mott Haven in 1899. The latter race was won in r.58!, but Burke was more particularly a quarter-miler and his best work was done at the shorter distance. J. F. Cregan of Princeton, who won the half in r.58-g- at Mott Haven, in 1898, on the same day that he won the mile in 4.23}, was one of the best middle-distance men who have come up since the record was made. Cregan had the build and the look of the typical half– miler, but he went in most seriously for the longer distance and he repeated his Mott Haven victory of I 898 in the mile in 1899 and r 900. These three consecutive victories, in the times of 3 1 d 2 h . 4.23 5 , 4.25 5 , an 4.24 5 , are t e most con 1stent record for high-class mile running ever made at Mott Haven. George Orton of Pennsylvania,
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