Sporting and Athletic Records
MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS UNDER this heading a number of sporting and athletic records have been alphabetically arranged in a series of short paragraphs, as not requiring separate tabulation. Angling Fly-casting with over-hand salmon rod not exceeding 20ft., J. ENRIGHT cast 147 feet (World's Record) at Wimbledon Park, 9 May 1896. With 18ft. rod, J. J. H ARDY, 140ft. 3in., at Scarborough, 12 August 1895; J- ENRIGHT, 138ft. 6in,, at Scarborough, 12 August 1895 > H. W. H AWES, 138ft., at New York, 23 May 1888. With 14ft. rod, J. ENRIGHT, 124ft. 2in., at Scarborough, 12 August 1895. With 11ft. rod (10 oz) single-handed, H. W. H AWES, 102 feet, at New York, 25 May 1887. With 10ft. rod (502), R. C. L EONARD, 95 feet, at New York, 24 May 1888. With single-handed trout-rod not exceed ing 1oft., E. S. SHRUBSOLE, 90 feet, at Wimbledon Park, 9 May 1896. Baseball Largest number of innings flayed in one game, 25, FARGO v . GRAND FORKS, Devil's Lake, N.D., 18 July 1891. Throwing baseball, 133 yds. Ift - by J OHN H ATFIELD at Brooklyn, N.Y., 15 October 1872. 193 13
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