SPRINT RECORD
FASTEST AMATEUR ON TRACK FOUND AT CHICAGO HUNDRED IN 9 2-SSECS CHICAGO, Sunday. Prank Wyckoff, University of California, was timed to run the 100 yards in 9 2-5 sat the national collegiate track meeting at Chicago yesterday, not 9 4-ss, as cabled. This performance is claimed to be a world’s record. The official world’s record for 100 yards by an amateur is 9 5-10 s., credited to J. V. Scholz, R. Locke and C. W. Paddock, all Americans. Wyckoff s time would be 1-l Os. faster. The world’s professional record is 9 3-Bs., established by Jack Donaldson at Johannesburg in 1910. This is l-40s faster than Wyckoff’s. Donaldson’s record was electrically timed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 994, 10 June 1930, Page 9
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114SPRINT RECORD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 994, 10 June 1930, Page 9
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