Sporting and Athletic Records

WORLD'S AMATEUR RECORDS 231 Time Distance Name Nationality Place Date Hours Mis Yds 48 258 220 C. Rowell (P.) British j at NevvYork| 28 ^' 82 Days z'/a 3 0 7 I 3 20 " " " 1 ^ ar ' 3 353 220 „ „ 3>/ a 397 440 J. Albert(P.) (Cathcart) „ „ 9 Feb, '88 4 450 220 „ » it 10 Feb. 88 ,93 .540 P. Fitzgerald (P.) " jGdSe«T"kj ' Ml '' ' 84 5 545 - J. Albert (P.){Cathcart) .. j""^" yoA j " Feb - ' 88 5 1 /a 589 I 54 0 G. Littlewood (P.) ,, ,, 1 Dec. '88 6 623 1320 „ » » » World's Amateur Records (i) BY DISTANCE Distance Time Name Nationality Place Date Yards H. M. S. 100 a 9 4 / 5 J. Owen Jr. American Washington 11 Oct. '90 „ W. T.Macpherson Colonial Auckland, 6 Feb. '91 New Zealand „ „ J. H. Hempton „ Canterbury, N.Z. 6 Feb. '92 ;; tl B. J. Wefers American New York 21 Sept. '95 120 6 114/5 W. P. Phillips British London 25 Mar. *82 ^,^3 „ C, A. Bradley „ „ 28 July '94 „ A. R. Downer „ ,, " May '95 ^scSULu 150 i4*/ 5 C. G. Wood „ „ 21 July '87 „ „ W. T. Macpherson Colonial Sydney, N.S.W. 4 Oct. '89 a See note (a) on page 215. B. J. W EFBRS equalled this record at Georgetown, D.C. U.S.A., on 9 May 1896. 6 At the New York Athletic Club Games at Travers Island, N.Y., on 26 Sept. 1896, B. J. W EFHRS, the American Amateur, ran 120 yards in ii 4 /»s., but this record has not been claimed on account of the wind, which, according to the Spirit of the Times, " certainly did not hinder" the runners. There is no doubt, however, that W KFERS could make this time.