Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics of Williams, while J. S. Brown of Cornell was third by half a yard. In the two-twenty Wefers finished a whole second ahead of Patterson, and his speed in the last forty yards, when he simply lost the other three runners, was probably the fastest running ever done in this country up to that time. Patterson finished in 22t seconds, Denholm of Harvard was two feet behind Patter– son, and Brown of Cornell was only a few inches behind Denholm. The title which Wefers won at Mott Haven in the spring of 1896 he defended with consistent and invincible running under all sorts of condi– tions and on all sorts of tracks. He won the intercollegiate championship in the hundred again in 1897, and at the national amateur champion– ships, where he had already won both the hundred and two-twenty in 1895 and in 1896, he repeated the feat in 1897. At this national championship meet in 1897 Wefers did 9f seconds again in the hundred and came within one-fifth of a second of equalling his world's record in the two-twenty. In addition to these well-known performances, Wefers did record time and better at all sorts of distances from forty yards up to three hundred, the latter of which distances he ran at the Traver's Island track on September 26, 1896, in 3of seconds. Wendell Baker's famous straight-away quarter in 47! seconds was probably as near as