Sport: Hot Feet

Runners ran, jumpers jumped, weight-men heaved and swung their weights, all in the rolling Orange Mountains of New Jersey. The Newark Athletic Club was holding a three-day National track and field carnival, the annual junior and senior A. A. U. championships, on Colgate Field, West Orange.

Charles W. Paddock, of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, journalist, student, Chautauqua lecturer and sprinter, hotfooted through his 100-and 220-yd. paces creditably, tied the world’s record for each. The 220-yd. record, 20 4/5 sec., is Paddock’s exclusive property. For 100 yd., 9 3/5 sec. has been sufficient time for several hotfooters.

In the “century” dash, Paddock was vying with an old rival, Loren Murchison, of Newark, and both were out to trim “Al” Leconey (Meadow Brook Club), who had claimed a new world’s record of 9 2/5 sec. for a race, down wind, he had run the previous week at Allentown, Pa. Murchison led to the last ten strides, when Paddock flashed by. Leconey took third. Murchison also led Paddock at the start of the 220, was 3 yds. behind when Paddock snapped the worsted.

Murchison slept on his defeat, stepped forth on the last day of the meet, smashed Paddock’s world record for 250 yds.

F. Morgan Taylor, of Grinnell College, la., evoked plaudits with his low-hurdling. Joie Ray, onetime champion miler, straggled in the ruck in his race. The Illinois A. C, by assiduously piling up second and third places, won the National team title with 40 points; New York A. C, 33; Newark A. C, 31; Boston A. A., 20. Newark A. C. took the National junior title.