Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics Mott Haven in the spring of 1885 with a jump of 5 feet 11-f inches; the following spring with 5 feet 11-! inches; and again in 1887, although in this latter year he was called upon to do only 5 feet 7-i inches. None of these records repre– sented Page's best jumping form, and, therefore, although his 6 feet 4 inches stands as the col– legiate record, his best Mott Haven jump has been surpassed several times. In the spring of 1887, at the Pennsylvania games, Page cleared 6 feet 1 inch, making a new American and colle– giate record. Page's remarkable six-foot-four jump was made at the Pennsylvania fall games in 1887. The meet was a testimonial given in honor of Page, as the champion high jumper of the world, and he appropriately used this occasion to put his record where it would remain for a good many years. The same seasons in which Page won at Mott Haven he also won at the national amateur championships, his best performance at these meets being in 1888, when he won with a jump of 6 feet t inch. In 1887 Page went to England, where he was almost as invincible as he had been at home. Jumping from turf instead of hard clay, he tied at the English cham– pionships in 1887 with G. W. Rowdon at an even 6 feet, and at the Irish championships with P. J. Kelly at 6 feet 1 J inches; and later at