Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 11, 1916, Page 3

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Under weather conditions almost perfect the ps ath= saw the o~ e L oty ey R WL I e dle, with & wonderful fleld facin startef, Robert Simpson of the Univer- of Miggourd finished just ahead of) Fred Kelly of Los Angeles in 0.34 46, This is & new senior record and ale though Simpson himself 5 credited with time a fifth of a second lower ¥y aces worl@'d record. gre: g0, but his specd was 1 to place him in front by ¢ margins. BELL-ANS | Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage provesit. 25cat all druggists. ing of the Corpora at Banking in_the City of ich, on| tember 11, , at 11 £ SHAPMAN, Sec'y S Now sy, NG MILLINERY C. P. STANTON 62 Franklin Street SPRI DRS. L. F and A. d. Lal 287 Main St. PRACTISE LIMITED TO Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hours 10 2 m. t0 3 2. m. PIERRE M. J. FIELDS, . ., Florist 49 Ward Street Carnations. Special Forms and Zelephouo 6 Plant: price of toe igas will ‘Ta 835 per 1,000, 3. ¥. CONANE, n2a 13 Frankia st DR. F. W. HOLMS, Dentist Shannon.Building Annex, Room A - Telephone ESI F. C. GEER, Piano Tuner 122 Prospect Street. Norwich, Phmc B11 Conn. One of orowds. that. B e A men, an this, that mark has not been offi- |usy ted, and the time he made | cantile Marine com 1 ‘probably be recognized | tapee of thei: rece athlete from | tic, Gulf and West es and Joe | Copper Though bamdked , together.. with the ‘best ball players sthey coSll secuie, New ‘London Independents wwere held safe by Enot, the.star boxman at the state hoepital, Saturday afternoon, while-his team, mates scored enough Tuns to Tetain their epotless Tecord. Apparently off days were the fash- lon as Brogan of the visiting aggre- gation and Vincent of:the home club made several errors. Stanley made a pretty catch in centenfield, doubling up at first, making the only ecxciting piay of the game. In the second in- ning Stanley In running from first to second was struck by a batted ball, knocking him out for a few minutes. On next Saturday the Fagles of Eartford ‘will battle with the River- view boys, The score Indeperaents w5 Broganes 4 0 & 3 20 Cnaughld 4 3 8 1 50110 Galllgha.rt 4 0 0 0 $11811 Coslec ~ 3 0 5 1l 31104 BMGIR 4 0 2 1 olBioneid 4 012 0 1 Bheath '~ 4 0 2 1 OVincentsy & 11 4 4 WMthSy S 1 0 5 2\Stanlever 3 111 1 Reagen.ct 4 1 1 0 0fEnoty 330101 Crankerp 4 0 0 5 0100 Totals 35 5 H15 TH 15 8 Score by ianinca: Todenendents 00000100 0 River View 0000300 x4 Bascs on Pl of Enot 1, of Cramker 0. Hit D7 oither, Pnot 1: Cranker 1. Struk out, by Enof 3By Cranker 4. Umpire, Ricy. It seems to be necessary sure the second word referring to srand 4i to make RIVERVIEW WINS AGAIN “Holds New London Independents to Five Hits—Score 4 to 1—Cleveland Dims Detroit’s Pennant Hopes—Pitt: _ burgh Makes Rattling Finish ,Scoring Six Rux‘u in the FITCHBURG UNABLE TO HIT PITCHER HANLEY Putnam Scores Easy Shutout With Hanley In the Box. (Special to The Bulletin.) Pgtnam, Sept., 0.—For _the second Sunday in successton Putnam ball team yesterday afternoon shut out its visiting ball team. Fitchburg is the latest victim of Thomas McDermott's aggregation of husky champlons and the score was 8 to 0. Hanley who was on the delivering end of the Putnam nine did not allow the visitors a smell of the ball enly two hits were made off of ollins who was pitching for burg had poor support and Putnam was quick to take advantage of all er- rors. Batteries, Putnam, Hanley and Me- Namee; Fitchburg, Collins and Green- halge. Time :40; umpire, Jjanson; at- tendance 900. EVANS GOLF CHAMP. Chicagoan Defeats Gardner in Final Tilt. The greatest honors in the history of modern golf feil to Charles Evans, Jr., of the Edzewater club of Chicago when he defeated his fellow townsman, Rob. ert A. Gardner, of the Hinsdale club, 4 up and 8 to play in the final round of the national amateur golf champi ship tournament at the Merion Cric course at Philadelphia Saturday. Already the holder of the open Hartford this year SATURDAY’'S MARKET. Shares of Eastern Railroads and Coal- ers Wery Strong. New York, Sept. 9.—The unfavorabis 0p condition disclosed by yester- day’s government report were without effect upon today's extremely active, = | broad and very strong market, except in so far as they had a tendency to check any movement in grangers and northwestern issues. ern raods, particularly VT8 | Reading and other coalers, as well as Pacifics and trunk lines, were strons, Reading scoring its hest price of the year at 112 1-2, Far more sign| however, to the Stesl, which rose record of 103 i-3. the publication of August tonnage fig- ures, which reported a very moderats 4ncreaso over the preceding month. Shipping issues also absorbed con- Gerable speculative attention Mor. ng within easy dis. nt high.records at points, while Atlan- Indies common and cance was attached, movement in U. S. 4 polnts to the new gains of ang 2 3 e lost his natlon- | preferred made _respective _record ng placed | prices of 82 and 67 on their advances - chempionship in|of 8 1-2 and 1 1-4 points. 7 hurdle cvent, where| Independent industrials followed in record of 0.24.| the tc of Steel gains 1. Republ t *| Lackawanna and Crucible Steel, : ranging from 2 to almost 6 polnts. nd zinc stocks were in keen demand, Kennecott featuring the for- mer group at an extreme gain of 2, with 2 to 5 for Amcrican Zinc com- mon and _preferred Paper shi also_augmented recent rdvances 2 to 5 points, Internat- mon, Union Bag and *ap ing marked American issues eral hours advance, Ealing The note ture of the week- ban was the decrease of n of almost $56,000,- . fortnigl ady on limited deal- par lue, agsr on call| 200 Am Steel Fdry 700 Am Td & Tol 100 Am T pr now 1200 Am Woolen . 1000 Am Woolen pr 0800 Am W P pr 7200 Amer zinc . BI0D Amer zine pr 10500 Anaconda .. ... 800 Atchison .07 300 Atl Coast Lire 6200 A1 G & W I AL G & W Iy Hald Loco Balt & Ohlo 106 Gal Petrol or 600,Can . Pac 10700 Cent: Leas 800 100 613 150 NowT 8400 Ch 1 1 & P Xy 1800 Chlle Copper .. 8500 Ciln Con' Cop 6800 Col Fuel & Iron 100 Consol Gas 100 Con' Can. 300 Com Producia 100 Comn Prod pr 9200 Crucible Stoet 800 Cubs A Suz 8700 Cuba Cano 30 Cuba Can 78300 Den & Rio G 100 Pome s Securittes # 100 Driess ora L ag0imas 700.Bde 1 by 200 Erto 3 pe 100.Gen - Miotors * 300 Gen Motorn_vr + 1000 m BT in the % o nccompanied by n SR one-third ot thc Stat %3000 Greene C_Cap 200 Guit § Steel 100 Guif & Steet 2 o7 100 Miinols Central 9100 Tns. Copper 200 Interbor Con 100:Tater Con pr. 100 Jnt Her of ) 100 Tnt Har Corp 1600 Tot 3¢ M cirs 5900 Tnt 3 3 ctfa vr 18300 Int. Paper 100 Int’ Paper pr 2700 Tnt Nickel . This was prior to | champlonship, which he won at Minn- apolls in June, he Is the first pla: Mazwell 3 Mexwell M 2 pr May Dept Store Mex Petror 1 1100 300 s0eo 1000 400 100 1300 5200 34500 Ontaric Pactie Peon Stiver Mall RR Con Gop 50 RO 00 s 18 o 400 Reading 2 pr 2000 Mep T & Steel 100 Rep 1 & Stpr 100 Sears Rocbuck | 5 MONEY. Mercant day le demand Francs, Marks, 60 silver Gov steady. Railroad bonds stead COTTON. York, Sept. 9.—Cotton future. opened steady. Oct. 15.1 1 March York, Sept. 70. futures Jan. Oct. 14.96; 15.13; March 15.36; May 15.6¢ Spot steady; middling 15.85. LIVE STOCK MARKET. New York, Sept. 8.—Beeves — Re- celpts 2,175 head; 36 cars on sale. Steers very dull and lower; no choico offered; bulls and cows steady to slow. The yards were about clearcd. Common to good steers sold at $7@8 pre 109 pounds; bulls $5@6.50; co $3@7. Ds d_beef quiet at 12 1-2@ 16c. for city dressed native side: Calves—Receipts 1,112 head: 875 on sale. Veals in fair demand and steady grassers and skimmilk calves easic The pens were cleared. Common to choice veals sold at $10.001b15.00 per 100 pounds; culls at $8.0019 grassers and skimmilk calves at $7.00 18.00; a few at higher fizure: T1- ings at $5.50@6.50. City drc at 17@?22c; country dressed at Sheep and lambs head; 18 cars on sale. lambs firm to cents _hiz pens were cleared. Common sheep sold at $4.50@7.50 per 100 1bs.: inferior to choice lambs at $9.50@ 12.25; culls at $8.00@9.00. Dressed mutton firm at 9@15 cents per pound; dressed lambs at 16@20 cents, a few at 20 1-2 cents. Hogs—Receipts 2,400 head; 2 12- cars on sale. lower; Mght to heavy hogs $11.00©1160_ per 100 pounds; at $9.50@9.75; pigs at $10.30. sold at roughs Chicago, Sept. 8.—Cattle recelpts 4,500 head. Market steady. Good to choice steers, $9.00@1L.50; veariin; good to chofco, $83.50(10.50: 20od steers, $7.60@8.50: ranse steers, $7.50@8.50; stockers and feeders, $6.00 @190; good to choice heifers, $7.00@ 9.25; ‘falr to good cows, $5.50 good o prime calves, $8.00@13. heavy calves, $3.00@10. CHICAGD GRAIN WARKET. WHEAT Open. High. Sopt ... ...188% 133 Dec 154 13y May QT 1sTR COuN. et a0 s i Moy % ©% . % o .o 53 . BY bilis | Market steady to a fraction | elther America or England to capture both national titles in the same year. Harold Hilton and John Ball, English amateurs, won both titles, but both in different seasons, while in this country Francis Ouimet and Jerome Travers won double honovs, but at different times. There was handiy a cloud in the sky and énly a slight wind blowing when the players teed off for their 36 hole matech at 10 a. m, and the conditions improved if anything during the after- noon round. There was a gallery of zully 3,000 along the course when the players drove off and it increased all day untll there was close to 10,000 present for the finish on the 33Q greens The mother of the winner followed the golfing of her son throughout the entire 8% hole battle. She shared in the congratulations and attentlon that fell to the lot of her boy when he was presented the gold championship medal by Frank L. Woodward, president of the United States Golf association, on the green where he clinched the match, along with Gardner, Corkran and Guil: ford, who recoived runner-up and semi-finalist medals, respectively. THREAD MAKERS TAKE THE OPENING GAME. South Windham Defeated by whelming Score, 8 to 1. Over- (Special to The Bulletin.) Willimantic, Sept. 10.—South Wind- ham and the American Thread com- pany baseball teams have played off the first lap of their series, the games thus far resulting in one apiece. The thread makers took the opening same at Recreation park Saturday afternoon by a 4 to 1 score, while South Wind- ham, with a somewhat bolstered line- evened up matt liwick Sunday, d by the overwhelming score of $ to L. The first game was the better of the two to wi rlthoush a larger crowd witnessed ame at South Wind- In this zame South Windham led up to the eizhth by a 1 to 0 tally, South Windham G Higi 5 ams.p ine, 1 aloo-ceunos Adims 1 y Gw Adems 1. U Joo' Nlchols, South Windham | | $2% 35 1 113200 1 Oppaltit 5 1 & 0 ofNoe H 3.Nlcnola2b 3 0 1 1 o Fourignp 4 0 0 2 o Chaseb 4 2 8 1 3 Fren $130 o Bor 2010 0| Fither 2100 of Kesinc 2 28 2 o] Totals 54 10 27 10 4 Score by forin d Two baze { Stolen bases, Jord McGRAW STANDS BY FRED MERKLE Little Napoleon Takes Bone Out of First Baseman’s Head. In the recent trade which sent Fred | | Merkle, veteran first baseman of the | | to the Brooklyn club ange for Catcher Lew stands out mere promin the preserv: of john J. Graw, manag: ing a bail pl Ltter had m famous bonehead | play of -Sept. 23, 1908. it was on that fatal day that Merkle failed to “touch | second. H Merkle, hooted and hissed by the | fans, derided by sport writers twitted by rival players, but time patted on the back by Jok Graw has held his head up ali ears and has proved to the a real ball er in spite | pse of mer the National which eazue ith In his first baseman is entirely re- | sponsible for the fact ths | 1 i gue ball pi Not only has McG to ferkle in spite of his failure to touch | ccond, but after the 1 s | serfes, when B won the | Giants through % to| catch an easy foul fiy sain | s and insisted od | for him ed {and lavghed - those two I pla but alws aw stood pat Merkle has judg. ment of his former ct When | he prepetrated the first of his fomons | i plays he was only a v w kaew that wreck whatey s for Mer! St cha stead £ ment. At in w was | ready to pat the youngster on the ba and urge him on in his offort to live down the miscue. And e did i The been work prox £ this firs £ been 1 a head: nearly e have been no more t n e ferkle has year, but mber of {major leaguer sk | consistently around |Last vear he hit jus tn and was Pr 1 “fair for a man called a bone- 7 the critical public. he | TIGERS GETTING READY FOR FOOTBALL. Have Initial Laie Minnewaska. | i Princeton Will at Practice T.ake Minnewaska X, as been sen by the Pr 2 ‘ootball man- agement for the early practica of the| even. A baseball park will be used and temporary training arrangements are being made. Tie players will as- | semble there on Sept. 11 and work will | begin tk following dav. The cand 1 dates will be under the personal rection of Couch Jim II. Rush. | _The men will return to Princeton 10ct. 6 for their first home sgame. fna—on the follow- | {ing day. Aside from the Holy Cross game, the playing place of which will | be definitely known in a few days, the | original schedule will be carried out as_follow: Princeton vs. Holy Cross, Sept. 30; North Carolina at Princeton, Oct. 7: Tufts at Providence, Oct. 14; Lafayette at Princeton, Oct. 21; Dartmouth at Princeton, Oct. 28; Bucknell at Princeton, Nov. 4; Harvard at Cam- bridge, Nov. 11, and Yale at Princeton, Nov. 18, The dropping of Lowell and Law- rence from the Fastern circuit Is a good move. These cities have been financial fallures from the beginning of the season. It is safe to say that when the Eastern circuit league is re- organized the only city retained from the former New FEngland circuit will be Waoreester. S A SR i il ‘Worth Walking a ‘Mile:to Find Them o, epo ngte Eastern Lea New Haven 2, International League. 11 weakened walked and 2iller - Elogle ent to erond o™ the |Pirates Pound in Six Runs in Fina hrow home. He counted on an infield | Frame. Score Chicago, Sept. 0.—Pittsburgh scored St. Louis (A) Chicage (A) x runs_in the ninth inning » b uvo |ariving Packard from the L {Pounding Prendergast ,m iy 17.- ¢ Smith, an Omaha recruit, r starred at the bat for the Cubs. Bur- L le Grimes, a pitcher from Elrming- Cleveland 8, Detroit 2. o., fter traight in Morton,p 3aab5.D Totals " Granes, Tur| _New Haven, Conn, Sept. 10.—The Colonials, a - semi-professional ne, defeated Brooklyn of the National New Haven Lost Out in 11th. League in an exhibition game today, 4 ST . 3 7 to 1. The lo s knocked Mails out of ageport, Co Sept. 10— : (he naReport, Gommy fert 10-With |ihe ‘box in the second inning. Dum- ning, Bridzeport had another eleventh |POIlY, @ former Yale pitcher, did ef- hour batting rally and beat New Hav. |iective work and three of the visitors’ en, 3 to 2. With two out Blake singlea | 1itS Were of the scratch order. Score: in the fenth aml went to second” on [ownile--e-- 0.8 D2 000,05 4158 Duggan's roll, scoring on Briggs | SroOKIVR ...« il S5 Sobres L Pumpelly and Waters; Rucker, e e Mails, Appleton and Wheat. 3 e ab hpo a e T T § ofpwic % 278 0 0| Giants Trim Yanks in Exhibition Game 0 O/Bzmat 3 2 3 o o] New York, Sept. 10.—In an exhibi- 0 ofBskersb & 2 3 3 3|tion game played here today for char- o inger1n 4 215 3 3 the New York Nationals defeated t susiionh New York American team by a 2 311 g 1|score of 4 to 2. PBrilliant filleding by 6 0 1 3 o|both te%ms a.:ld a home run hy B s 34 820 tals 35 11 30 31 7 |nY Kauf of the Nationals featured Score by innings Now Haven Bridgeport 000 0.1 enininger, Bresser, Nutter. Nutter, Moshier, Whalen iy & sht to taste, and deserve the roputation they have won as the % Domfortable Smoke 3378 50 53228 30 1340 1o 1210 1o Err 2 £330 R Errors Cost 2nd Place. TARL S ag rors by iy 120 o i200 30030 3000 510000 icond < 29201 first game of the s W 10131 |rtes & 2 ten innings. Nes: 1001 0f {error paved the for the first run 1900 0 in the second in but the tying 106050 run came in the seventh. Marsans 2bl o0 singled and Hartley Lit to Weaver, who| B s throw Collins, but Bddle fumbl- [ () Batted, for Stedle 4 the and Marsans nt to 1ly. w nto ex in- X » t dcbut o and played brilliantly. late of Syracuse, made 3 B nee in the box £ Two bose hits, e r Do~ 0 x3 101000 08 000100018 (g Jf Il![llilllilllill_ll I %[!h lll!mil il M l!‘!!l I_Hi' They taste like good tobacca’ 20 for 10¢ GAMES SCHEDULED TODAY Natiosal League. Brooklyn at Boston, Phtladelphfa at New York. American League. 3 Boston at Washington. New York at T St. Louts at Detrolt, Clevcland at Chicago. Eastern League. e1d st Lyon. New LEAGUE STANDINGS Leagus, T National Broolsn Philadeiphta Cincinnati t. Louis, Mo, Steele hard ) ) Cincinnatt st Louis Two base “hita, Groh, D | paeq hits, T ham, made a fayorable impression |with' Pitisburgh. Score: | Pittsburah () [ i boo a hpe x e Wamersb 2 00 0 Td i | smraies 1101 120 0f Bigbeedd 5 3 2 1 100 0 G| cart G130 218 2 of 3| hmanab 5 2 & 0 2% 0 of sianads 0100 53320 10301 5080 1344 2100 o L7y iseo 0000 Mo © 10 00 Aol Grimewp 30 0 4 vl Stamavep 0 0 0 0 1000 I's il Bit by hit ba DOYLE BREAKS BONE. Former Giant Player May Be Out of Game for Remainder of Season. v Doyle, second Faseman of the ationals, broke a. small bone in the first game at Pitts- bursh Saturda: hen his ankle tw ed while run was taken to a hospital. The injury is said to be serious, and Doyle may be out of the game for the rest of the season. |Former Yale Pitcher Holds Robbins. Leaguers struck out nine men. Score: Americans 00011000262 mings for Fall and Winter. A HEAVY PENALTY. to this tax. cation to State Treasurer at Hartford. REMOVAL The Norwich Fur Co. are now located at their new store at 45-47 Main Street, next to Shea & Burke’s Furniture Store. We are open foz business now with a new line of Furs, Coats, Skins, and all kinds of Trim- STATE OF CONNECTICUT. All Residents of Connecticut owning taxable secqrifies are liable to tax at local rates unless the State Tax of four mills on the dollar has been paid to the State Treasurer ON OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30th. The estates of those who neglect to pay this tax must pay All Remodeling and Repairing at reasonable prices. Norwich Fur Co. 18 years in Norwich M. BRUCKNER, Proprietor Balances in Banks (not in Savings Banks) are liable Instructions and blank lists sent on appli- F. S. CHAMBERLAIN, Treasurer. Cellar Stairs of the most weary. and the trouble of attending to the fire. or small quantities. No More Back-Breaking Scuttles To Be Carried Up Those THE CITY OF NORWICH GAS & ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT | Alice Building, 321 Main Street If you buy coal in large quantities you must have room to store it; if in small quantities, it is expensive. When you want to use it you must carry it from its storage place to your rance. and of all tasks that i< one When you burn weod or coal you have the hes, dirg, If you use gas you require no room fcr storage; no back breaking scut- tles to be carried from the cellar to the kitchen. fire in the gas range burns steadily and without atten- tion; it is always ready, without dirt or troubie, in large The the present day stars with the win- ners 20 vears ago. “Are the college athletes today fast- er than they were 20 years ago?” asks Duffy. “This question is being hash- ed rehashed all along the line the amateur athletic game. Ey since Ted Meredith, Bob Simpson, Ar- lie Mucks and a few more of the leading modern stars have put up such sensational _performances _ the query wil not down. But in lookins through the feats of the colleze ath- furlong runner. Burke quarter mile ra: was wonderful. id not have t event in the Hollister was 3 er. In 1595, 4-5. He could than this and 1:58 4-5. timo that the collegiate athletes were about the fastest permormers that ever happened. It was belioved that the limit of human speed and enudr- ance had about been reached, but since that year, one by one, have the ords in the different events been while it was up to this year 21 1-5 seconds for the distance In the intercollegiates this vear, but it was champion would have beaten Moore in such a race. seconds. old day Hol have done ce, bu This he stre b know letos of today as compared with those | “In the half mile ru of 20 years ago, it is a very easy mat- |day champlon Ted ¥ ter to decide. In fact, there is hard- |Shows to the front. Iy _any chance for comparison. champlon will have i« " Back 20 years ago in the intercol-{the palm over Evan leciates of 1§96 it was thought at that | Was running for Harv v rema lister ha got not his fault. There was no one in|in 9 minutes, the race who could give him a battle. | Murray If there had been the Tiger crack {15 seconds t vear, the would have equalled Wefer's time. | seconds, while However, with both men fit there is|120 yards hurdles took but little qugstion that the former|20 years ago. In 1896 rd and won PRESENT COLLEGE ATHLETES Tom Burke of Boston university on | won the quarter mile championship AHEAD OF PAST GENERATION in 1896. In the intercol lates at .| that time Tom ran the distance in 50. Botter Records in Most Events This|, 5 seconds. Not such a wonderful Year Than in 1896. berformance when compared with | Tea Meredith's run of 47 2-5 seconds Arthur Duffy, one of the world's|for the distance this year. But forget greatest sprinters, has followed the|a]] about Burke’s time in that race. Zthletes of today very closely and |He was o runner to be classed with analyzes and compares the work of |Teq aferedith or eny other double “I will not go so far as to say thate woud defeat eredith™ in al any of the old timers who recall Burke’s work on the cinder path will have to admit that t§ Boston_runnerj th of Mere- . 1t in action he was & 1. Fe had n for a quarter n the present! Teredith, again! The Quaker. o we awarded§ Hollister, who the Nevertheless, - able perform- | won the 1:66 faster time to the! down “In fact he held the record of have ing run the fastest half at Cambridge to produce the most remarkable per- |until Billy Bingham came along this formers of all. year and ran one-fifth of a second Eack in the old days Bernle Wef- |faster. But great runner as was Hol-£ runninz under the colors of | lister, Meredith by his all round con- corgetown, was the king bee among |sistency and his recent record per- the short distance men. He occupicd | formances is by far the better athlete. the same position among the sprimters | ‘Vere Windnagle of Cornell won the that Ted Meredith does among the |mile interc this year in 4:16. middle distance runners of today.|It was one of the fastest miles not o s the most consistent per- |only in the collese games but any- former over the 100 and furlong lis- | where else. Back in 1806 there was & tances that we evet had. Every time |very poor crop of milers. In fact inj that he started in a race the contest|those days 4:20 for the distance was was considered as good as settled. almost _an unheard of performance, Over the furlong distance Wefers|G. O. Jarvis of Wesleyan was the would have had more competition | winner of the mile that year, and the than in the century. Moore of Prince- | best that he could do was 4:28 4-5. Of ton showed himself to be one of the |course, against Windnagle's _run . of Gest furlong runners the college |4:15 there is mo question about the ranks ever produced. respective abilities of ihe two. The True, Billy Moore did mot run any | comparasions of 1916 are as follows: The two mile was not run in 1896, while this year Potter did it this year| seconds. dla_the 120 yard hurdles in F. 8. 0 in 24 1-3 C. Perkins in the 16 1-5 seconds, J. L. Brewer aid “the longer hurdling event in 2§ . 2-3|Nationals ... 01100101470 wsa| Russell and Walters; Scrupp, Ander- son and. ?