ATHLETICS
INDOOR RECORDS
Five new world’s indoor athletic records were made pn one -day during the. American Amateur Athletic Union’s national indoor championships at Madison (Square Garden, New York, recently. Three -of the rpcprdrmakers, Glenn Cunningham, holder >df the world’s outdoor mile record, Jesse Owens, a negro undergraduate .from Ohio, and Henry F. Dr ever, iptained titles which they won last year. Owens won the running Ipng jump with a. leap of 25ft 9jn., ponjpared with 25ft 3|in, yvhich wfin him the title last year,' and also the 60 metres -sprint in 6 6-lQscc, which' bgiit the rpcord by l-10sec. Cunning)iam coyerpd the 15,00 metre's in. 3min 50 5-lOspt:.,. against the 3 min. 52. .2-lOsec he took' last year. The 1500 metres : walk woe won by H. Cieman, of Toronto, in 6min 7 3-lQscc, which clipped. -7 5-10sec' off like record set up last year.YH. F. Freyar, a- Rhode Island undergraduate, threw the 351 b weight a distance of 55ft 3fin, apd kcat his previous best- of 5.3 ft £fn,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12538, 27 April 1935, Page 11
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170ATHLETICS Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12538, 27 April 1935, Page 11
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