Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Hurdling and Hurdlers 3 s 7 Detroit Athletic Club, 0. F. Copeland of the Manhattan, F. C. Puffer of the New Jersey Ath– letic Club, all sixteen-flat men, kept up the pace for the n_ext few years until, in 1894, with Stephen Chase of Dartmouth, the college athletes began to compete on even terms with the club hurdlers. The same men did the winning in the low hurdles, and Puffer, who, running with a strong wind and knocking down five hurdles, made a record of 1 sf seconds in 1892, captured the low-hurdle championship in that year, in 1893, and in 1894. In 1893 he won in 25f seconds. The high-hur– dle record at Mott Haven was carried below 17 seconds for the first time, in 1899, by Herbert Mapes of Columbia, who won in 16f seconds. The record has never been allowed to slip back again. Among those who maintained or bettered it were Williams, Van Ingen, Cady, Perkins, and E. ]. Clapp of Yale, Harding of Columbia, Con– verse of Harvard, Chase of Dartmouth, E. E. Morgan of Stanford, and the seven-league-footed Kranzlein. In the low hurdles the Mott Haven record was first forced below 26 seconds by ]. P. Lee of Harvard, with his 25t seconds, in 1890. Here, too, the record has not gone again above 26 seconds, and Lee's time has been bettered nearly 2 seconds. Fearing, Bremer, and Willis of Harvard, Williams, Perkin , and Clapp of Yale, all have won championships at Mott Haven.