Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

332 Track Athletics but good judgment, his friends thought, for the winning of the three-mile race could add practically nothing at all to his fame and he was fit at the time, in the opinion of such experts as Mr. Curtis, certainly to lower his own amateur record, and possibly to break George's world's record. The chance was lost, and Conneff never again attained such record-breaking form. Although our best long-distance running has been done by adopted athletes, and under club col– ors, the best men at the middle distances have been college bred. Thus it was Maxwell W. Long of Columbia who made the world's record of 47 seconds flat for the quarter mile, and only three– fourths of a second less fast was the record of Wendell Baker of Harvard. It was C. N. Kil– patrick of Union who made the world's record of 1 minute 53-g- seconds for the half mile, and close to Kilpatrick was the I minute 54f seconds of Evan Hollister of Harvard. And beside and behind such records as these is a solid background of first– class running - the running of those who were essentially sportsmen before they were athletes, and who went into the game because they thought it was fun. The quarter mile, although generally spoken of as a "run," is really more properly a sprint. It is run at almost top speed until the last fifty yards, when the runner squeezes his corks and "finishes