Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics seconds. By the year 1880 Meyers had rounded into something like what was to be his real form, and he won four American and four Canadian championships. The events in which the Ameri– can championships were won were the one-hun– dred and two-hundred-twenty yard dashes, the quarter and the half mile runs. The times for these four events were respectively : 10-g- seconds, 23-J seconds, 52 seconds, and 2 minutes 4f seconds - none remarkable in itself, but all respectable - and when it is considered that these times were made in open competition in one afternoon, the magnitude of the feat is apparent. During the early eighties Meyers met and vanquished almost every middle-distance runner of his day. In addition to his championship winnings in the sprints, which we have touched upon already, Meyers won the American amateur championship in the quarter-mile run in 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, and 1884; the half-mile championship he won in 1879, 1880, and 1884. His quarter mile in 49-g- seconds, in 1881, was the best of these per– formances, but he made records of 35 flat for three hundred thirty yards; 1 minute 31 seconds for seven hundred yards; 1 minute 44-g- seconds for eight hundred yards; and 2 minutes 13 seconds for one thousand yards. After beating every– thing in sight in this country, Meyers, went to England in 1885 and duplicated there his sue-