NEW WORLD'S RECORD IN HIGH HURDLES FOR DARTMOUTH

For the third time a Dartmouth undergraduade has broken the world's record in the 120 yards high hurdles. In 1895 Stephen Chase of the Class of '96 ran the 120 yards hurdles in 15 2/5 seconds, phenomenally fast time for that period. This record stood until 1908, when A. B. Shaw 'OB lowered it by 1/5 of a second, this constituting also' a world's record. This record did not stand long, but it has again been substantially lowered by Earl J. Thomson '21, who set the world's figure at 14 2/5 seconds at the Intercollegiates in Philadelphia this spring. Speaking of this performance the Pennsylvania Gazette, the alumni publication of the University of Pennsylvania writes as follows :

Outside of the keen competition which featured every event, the most notable performance of the day was the making of a new world record in the 120-yard hurdles by Earl Thomson, of Dartmouth. In the semifinal heat he equaled the record of IS seconds, made by F. S. Murray, of Leland Stanford, in 1916. In the final heat he skimmed over the hurdles and won by 3 1/2 yards from Walker Smith, of Cornell. Smith had been set back a yard for a false start, but neither he nor any of the other contestants were in the same class with Thomson. The Dartmouth man reached the first hurdle a yard in advance of any of his competitors, and this advantage he maintained until he was a good three yards in front when he cleared the last hurdle. In the final dash for the tape he increased his lead to nearly four yards. It was the greatest bit of hurdling on record. Not only was it three-fifths of a second better than the intercollegiate mark, but it was one-fifth of a second better than the time of Robert Simpson, of the University of Missouri, who covered the distance in one of the western meets in 14 3/5 seconds.