Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics 1902 record of 6260 points, comes third. The best records made in the various events were as follows: one-hundred-yard dash, 10-g- seconds, by Ford, in 1886; putting sixteen-pound shot, 41 feet 5 ~ inches, by Gill, in 1900; running high jump, 5 feet IIi inches, by Gill, in 1900; half– mile walk, 3 minutes 50 seconds, by Gunn, in 1901; throwing sixteen-pound hammer, 122 feet St inches, by Clark, in 1903; one-hundred– twenty-yard hurdle, 16f seconds, by ] ordan, in 1891; pole-vault, IO feet 4i inches, by Powers, in 1899; throwing fifty-six-pound weight, 2 7 feet 7i inches, by Gill, in 1900; one-mile run, 5 min– utes 25f seconds, by Gunn, in 1902; running broad jump, 21 feet 8! inches, by Powers, in 1899; and quarter-mile run, S4t seconds, by Ford, in 1886. All of these performances, except, perhaps, the mile, are respectable; several of them are as good as the average winning performances at college games of men who make a specialty of one event. When a man on the same day can put the shot 41 feet st inches, jump within half an inch of 6 feet, throw the fifty-six-pound weight 2 7 feet 7} inches, together with competing successfully in seven other events, as Gill did in 1900 ; or throw the hammer 12 2 feet St inches, the fifty-six-pound weight 25 feet st inches, walk the half mile in 3 minutes 54 seconds, and run the hundred in rog-