One Meet: Eight Records

For the past three years the U. S. indoor track season has wound up with a Record-- Party at Dartmouth's Davis Field House in the New Hampshire hills. For the express purpose of breaking records, the season's fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce track--with Dartmouth runners acting as pacemakers. There, two years ago, iron legged Glenn Cunningham ran his amazing 4:04.4 mile. Last year Negro John Borican set world's indoor records for a half-mile (1:49.8) and 800 metres (1:49.2). Last week, at Dartmouth's third record-smashing jamboree, 1,500 onlookers saw not one or two, but eight world's records fall:

> Negro John Youie Woodruff, loping around in nine-foot strides, erased the records Borican set last year. His 1:47.7 clocking for the half-mile and 1:47 flat for 800 metres were even better than the outdoor marks for those distances made by Briton Sydney Wooderson last summer.

> Negro Jim Herbert ran the fastest quarter-mile (0:48.4) and 400 metres (0:47.9) ever recorded indoors, his time for the quarter at long last cracking the mark of 0:49.6 established by Long Tom Halpin back in 1913.

> Negro John Borican erased a 15-year-old indoor record when he ran a three-quarter-mile in 3:01.2.

> In a mile relay, a New York University quartet (Stanford Braun, Jim McPoland, Harold Bogrow, Jim Herbert) chalked up a record-breaking 3:15 flat--and set a new indoor record for 1,600 metres along the way.

> In a half-mile relay, the same N. Y. U. team (with George Hagans replacing Herbert) entered the record books with a clocking of 1:27.7, bettering the old indoor mark by four seconds.

Two days later, while track fans were still chawing over these whirlwind times, bespectacled Chuck Fenske, winner of seven mile races in a row this winter, ran a paced three-quarter-mile on the University of Chicago's indoor dirt track in 2:59.7, smashing all records indoors & out.

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