Sporting and Athletic Records

ATHLETIC MEETINGS 25 Event High Jump Long Jump Pole Jump Putting the Weight Distance ft. ii 6 1 22 Name University Year n 1 u 2% Un. of Pa. 1896 Columbia I 8 QI 42 J. S.Winsor V. Mapes C. T. Buckholz Un. of Pa, Yale Yale 'W. W. Hoyt 11 1 /a W. 0. Hickok Throwing the Hammer ^ 13 57 1 /s [1895 1895 1895 Woolwich v . Sandhurst Sports—Record Holders Event M, 100 yards run 1 li mile run 1 /a mile run 2 1 mile run 4 2 miles run 10 Hurdles (120 yards) High Jump 5 Long Jump 21 Putting the Weight 38 Time f. S. IO'/S 5 1 "/s 1 39% 17 *U ib'U Distance ft. in. Name University Year M. R. Portal Sandhurst 1880 V. K. Birch „ 1894 1894 W. A. de C. King Woolwich 1894 E. O. H. Newcombe „ 1893 C. J. L. Allanson Sandhurst 1896 A. C. Harris „ 1894 T. C. L. Thomas Woolwichj {*• 1893 7'/* V. Savile Sandhurst) A. F. C. Williams „ 1896 C. A. Sykes Woolwich 1889 The Athletic Sports of the R.M.A. Woolwich have a unique claim to distinction in that they are the oldest annual sports held inEngland. Every year their programme contains a Strangers' Invitation Handicap of quarter of a mile " to commemorate the first recognised Athletic Meeting d Previous to 1894 the hammer was thrown standing without run or follow. In this style W. O. HICKOK also holds the Inter-Collegiate Record with a throw of noft. 4 1 / ? in, in 1893,