ATHLETIC RECORDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23699, 4 July 1940, Page 5

ATHLETIC RECORDS

PERFORMANCES IN AMERICA Since Glen Cunningham ran his amazing 4m 4.04s mile at the Dartmouth track meeting. which concludes tho American indoor track season each year, tho Dartmouth gathering has boen generally regarded as a record-breaking meeting. This year eight records were made. A negro, John Woodruff, Improved on records a fellow negro, John Borican, had sot lost year in tho half-milo and tho 800 metres. His lm 47.7s for tho half-mile and lm 47s for tho 800 jnetres wero even better than the outdoor times set by the Englishman, Sidney Wooderson, last year. And Borican. not to bo completely outdone, broko a 3 5-year-old indoor record when ho ran three-quarters of a mile in 3m 1.25.

Another negro, Jim Herbert, ran tho fastest quarter-milo (48.45), and 400 metres (47.95), ever recorded indoors, his time for the Quarter at last beating tlio mark of <tn.(is established by Tom Tlalpin in 1013. Then, in a mile relay, a New York University quartette, Stanford Braun, Jim McPoland, Harold Bogrow, Jim Herbert, made a record-breaking 3m 15s. and set up a IGOO metres record whilo on their way. Later in tho day, with George Hagans replacing Jim Herbert, tho New York University team again entered tho record books by clocking 1m 27.7 a for tho half-milo relay, bettering tho old indoor mark by four seconds.