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220-yard dash 21-4/5 " L. H. Cary, Princeton.
Quarter-mile run 47-3/4 " W. Baker, Harvard.
Half-mile run 1 m. 55-1/4 " W. C. Dohm, Princeton.
Mile run 4 " 23-2/5 " G. W. Orton, Penn.
Mile walk 6 " 42-4/5 " F. A. Borcheling, Princeton.
120-yard hurdle 15-4/5 " H. L. Williams, Yale.
220-yard hurdle 24-3/5 " J. L. Bremer, Harvard.
Two-mile bicycle 4 " 10 " W. D. Osgood, Penn.
Running high jump 6 ft. 4 in. W. B. Page, Penn.
Running broad jump 23 " L. P. Sheldon, Yale.
Pole vault 11 " 2-3/4 " C. T. Buckholz, Penn.
Throwing 16-lb. ham'r 135 " 7-1/2 " W. O. Hickok, Yale.
Putting 16-lb. shot 44 " 1-1/2 " W. O. Hickok, Yale.

How is it possible to gauge the performances of school champions with
those of others--college-men and athletic club amateurs--when we have no
common ratio? We cannot, of course. For instance, take Beers's record of
15-3/5 sec. in the high hurdles, made at the New York Interscholastics
last May. On paper this looks very well. It apparently beats the
inter-collegiate record made by Harry Williams in 1891, by one-fifth of
a second. But it really does not. Beers ran his race over lower hurdles,
and so it is not possible to make a comparison. The hurdles used by the
N.Y.I.S.A.A. are only 3 feet high, whereas the inter-collegiate sticks
are 3 ft. 6 in. Some of the interscholastic associations use the
standard 3 ft. 6 in. hurdles, but as it was impossible to ascertain
exactly what the records were that had been made over these at school
meetings in the past, I took the fastest time over the dwarfed hurdles,
and let it go in as a fit companion for the 12-lb. shot and hammer and
the mile bicycle-race.

In the future, however, I shall give little attention to these one-eyed
records. The college associations have set up a standard of distance and
weight which experience has shown to be a good one. A sufficient number
of interscholastic associations have adopted the same standard, thereby
making it clearly evident that it is none too high for school-boy
athletes. Therefore, in making out a comparative table of college and
school records, this Department will accept the standard established by
the I.C.A.A.A. and adopted by the maj