Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Sprinting and American Sprinters 305 Evart Wendell, Brooks, Sherrill, Lee of Pennsyl– vania, Luther Cary, and Wendell Baker. The work of Meyers will be more fully treated in the chapter on distance running, and it is, perhaps, sufficient in this place to give merely a brief sum– mary of his performances in the sprints. He is credited with a record of sl seconds for fifty yards, made in New York City in 1884, the conclusive authenticity of which has sometimes been doubted ; with Duffey and others he divides the honor of a record of 6f seconds for sixty yards. Although the times made were nothing extraordinary, Meyers won the amateur championship in the hundred in 1880 and 1881, and in the two-twenty in 1879 and 1880; and in a general way it may be said that he won repeatedly in the sprints against the best men of his day, both in this country and in England. Malcolm Ford, who could acquit him elf with credit in almost every track event, although he was not a phenomenal performer at any of them, won the amateur championship hundred in 1884, 1885, and 1886, and the two-twenty in 1885 and 1886. The times made were only tolerable, but they ' are worthy of notice a part of a really remarkable athletic career, which included the winning of the all-round championship four times, and a successful and practically continuous parti– cipation in competitive athletics for over fifteen years. Westing of the Manhattan Athletic Club, x