THE OREGON STATESMAN : SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1918
WORLD RECORDS
IN TRACK FOR
1917 NIL-WAR
Year . First in Decade Ameri
can Athletes Have Not
Been Reviewed
OTHER COUNTRIES ALIKE
Little Business Is Ahead for
International Athletic
" Federation
XEWORK. Feb. 3. The effect
of the present war tipon American
track and fild athletics can be ac
curately gauged by the fact that for
the first time ia some years there
was not a single claimant for a new
world's record at the close of the
1917 season. -This Is the first year
in a decade that one or more per
formances py American athletes
have not been reviewd and prepared
for acceptance by the International
Amateur Athletic Federation. The
same situation pervalls in oAer
countries which in normal times de
vote considerable attention to track
and field sports. So far as Is known
there were but two athletes whose
records, made during 191T appear
entitled to acceptance by the I. A.
A. F. These aro Zander, the Swed
ish middle distance runner and Hack
nor. the Javelin thrower, both of
whom trained under Ernie HJert
berg. During the past year eight Ameri
can .athletic .records were equalled
or surpassed but in no case did the
performance reach a world's record
standard. In sharp contrast to this
was the work of the American swim
mers for both in natatorium. ,and in
open water the exponents of the
crawl, trudgeon and other stropes
clipped sizable slices for the best
previous figures In various events.
No less than five new records were
made under the rules of the Interna
tional Swimming Federation and
these will be duly accepted when a
meeting of that organization Is held
after the declaration of peace has
restorred conditions.
One Conference Held.
No such string of track records
for the past year Is awaiting the ac
tion of jthe International Amateur
Athletic i Federation. There has been
but one formal conference of this
organization, which followed Imme
diately after the formation of the
federation. At that meeting a long
list of worlds' amateur records was
pasesed upon and accepted and a list
of regulations drawn up for the hand
ling of any records established in
the future. This Catherine: was held
early In 1914 In France. Within a
few months the European war broke
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out and ended the activity of the
organization.
The athletic associations of tao
.countries which subscribed to the
'organization of the I. A. A. F.. how
ever, have kept careful record of ail
jathletic performances which ' merit
the consideration of the federation
and these will be submitted to that
; uuuy i no o. a . "
I the close of the war. At the pres-
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ent time the American Amateur Ath
letic Union has fifteen records wnicn
equal or sarpass existing figures an-1
these, harlng been accepted by the
American oritanixation. will -In .turn,
be presented to .the international
group for It sanction and stamp of
approval. "
Record Xot Approached.
Four of these performances were
made in. 1914 and an equal number
the following season. In 191S tie
number increased to seven but. as
stated before, the past year saw no
track or field record approaching
those already on the books. Since
1900 American athletes have estab
lished 45 records which have been
or eventually will be accepted by the
I. A. A. F. during this period there
Jiave been but six years in which
the nation's star performers have
failed to equal or better existing
reords. In 1907 was the last blank
year, previous to 1917. and if anoth
er nine years should elapse before a
recordless period recurs it is appar
ent that few of the events which
American athletes I specialize in can
escape the making of new and bet
ter marks.
The absence of a National inter
scholastic athletic association recent
ly produced a peculiar mjx-up. A
Newark, New jersey, high school
athletic association noted for its pro
gressive spirit and ability to stage
track meets upon a big scale, de
sired to .hold a set of indoor national
interscholastic ehampionsbips.School
athletes In many sections expressed
a desire to compete and it was de
cided to stage such a series. A com
mute was selected to arrange with
the governing body ( for a champion
ship sanction. No. such organixation
could be discovered and finally the
committee turned to the Amateur
Athletic Union. The A. A. U. offi
cials explained that they were pow
erless to grant a sanction as they did
ot hold the jurisdiction over schol
stic athletics and were not aware
of any organization which did. Un
der the clreumstances the best that
the A. A, U.. could do was to give
the school athletic authorities a
statement encouraging them In their
efforts and vouching for their ability
to successfully conduct such a meet.
LONDON DEFENSE
IS INSPECTED BY
CORRESPONDENT
Roads OnUide of Great City
Are Camouflaged for -Protection
'
FUGHTS ARE HIGH UP
Machines Move at High' Rate
of Speed Defense High
ly Efficient
HUNS WEARING
PAPERTROUSERS
Whole Suits of Material Sold
Men Berlin Collars
Are Costly
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 2. Paper
trousers are now beine worn by a
large proportion of the male popula
tion of Germany. Whole suits for
men are being sold which contain
practically no fabric but paper, but
the demand for paper fabric far ex
ceeds the supply. Collars are now
selling in Berlin for T 5 cents each,
and shoe laces of paper yarn are 15
cents a rair. ,
: Leather is becoming almost unob
tainable. Boots with wooden soles
are worn even by the better class,
and fri'y 40 per-cent of the soldiers
at the front are ' wearing wooden
soled sh' s. The "standard" shoes
that are sold contain only 10 per
cent leather. In many cases the
upDers are made out of old ship's
sails, tent awnings, and Impregnated
burlap'. Paper for ordinary par
poses has become so scarce that some
provincial newspapers are using low
grade colored papers'.
SOME PHILOSOPHIES.
The grave is a narrow escape from
life. '
All married women travel under
assumed names.
Some people know too much to be
lieve anything.
God calls to the busy men. Satan
calls to the idle. ,
Courage is knowledge of what w
oaght to fear.
Notions are of little use unless
translated into motions.
It's the lazy ! man who prays f o-
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CLEANS KIDNEYS
If your Back hurts or Bladder
; bothers you, drink lots of
water.
When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drues that excite the kidneys
and Irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which removes the body's urinous
waste and stimulates them to their
normal activity. The function of the
kidneys is to niter the blood. .In 2 i
hours they strain from it 500 grains
of acid and waste, so we can readily
understand, the vital importance of
keeping the kidneys active.
Drink lots of water you can't
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oharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts: take a tablespoonf ul in a glass
of water before breakfast each morn
ing for a few days and your kidneys
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made from the acid of grapes and
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Try this, - also keep up the water
drinking, and. no doubt you will won
der what .became of your kidney
trouble and backache. '
LONDON, Jan. 26. (Correspond
ence of Associated Press.) Flying
at a speed of 80 to 140 miles an
hour and at a height of 2000 to
8000 feet in one of the latest and
fastest British battleplanes, a corre
spondent of the Associated Press in
spected the outer air defenses of
London a crisp morning recently.
Few Americans have any adequate
Idea of the magnitude of thet de
fenses and their present high state
of efficiency Millions of pounds
have been spent on them and an
army is constantly employed in man
ning and maintaining them.
A motor car' took the correspond
ent to -."somewhere in the outskirts
of London," where it passed through
roads camouflaged by shrubbery to
a great aerodrome, one off the finest
in England. . This aerodrome boasts
several ; Americans among its most
efficient flyers, but it Is not permis
sible to give their names.
Upon the party's arrival England's
crack daredevile flyer yput on a
"ahow." This man, who "looks more
like a meek, mild-manner1ed dry
goods clerk than a wizard of the air,
put the machine through a series of
performances that made even those
of the veteran flyers who watched
from below hold their breath. Loop
ing the loop, nose diving, banking,
volplaning, to wlthl na few feet of the
earth and then pointing the nosei of
the machine skyward for a rise at
express train speed were but a few of
the moves this pilot went through
with his observer. When he came
down the correspondent was . taken
up in the same machine, but with an
other pilot, for a ride through the
clouds and a bird's eye .view of the
outer defenses of this particular part
of London. - ,
This type of machine mounting a
synchronized machine gun. has
earned the reputation of being per
haps the, most reliable of the fight
ing planes turned out by the British
manufacturers. The pilot on the trip
was a young member of the Royal
Flying cirps who was to ge to France
next week. The night before the
flight ne had been up fighting with
German Cothas at a height of be
tween 11.000 and 12.000 feet.
The machine rose to 8000 feet in
ten minutes. It . started off the
ground with a tremendous rush the
instant it was released. As it rose
smoohtly, I higher and higher, te
sensaJtion was rather of the earth
moving away- from the machine, than
the machine moving away from the
earth. There was a brisk wind the
pilot said it was blowing between
25 and 30 miles an hour -and the
sky was full of fast movlncr cloud.
The best view of things below was
had at 2.000 feet. Aerodromes with
battleplanes ever ready for the Ger
man raiders could be seen dotting
the landscape. Batteries of anti-aircraft
'guns could be discerned here
and there.
The flight around the outer city
was made at an average speed of 80
miles an hour, over factories' and
suburbs, a great arsenal, a famous
school and a town best known for it
American colony. Up aloft the
weather was typical of the New York
auiumnai oay. mere was just a
hint of frost on the roof tops which
made them show up more plalntly
than usual throush the li'hc mist.
All was quiet and peaceful in an
area which the presence ef the
Gothas would in an instant trans
form into a battlefront, encircled by
the barrare from the anti-aircraft
guns thousands of feet below.
After completing the circle of the
metropolis, the fighting plane slant
ed back to earth at 140 miles an
hour. "That not really fast, re-
masked the Pilot. "In actual fight
ing we often have to make 300 miles
an hour and the plane Is built to
rtand that sneed without the slight
est danger."
SILJC IXDUSTKT Uf CALIFORNIA.
Experiments have demonstrated
hat California can produce a finer
ind stronger silk than either Japan
r China," And there Is a movement
o establish a thousand-acre project
near Wyandotte, Butte county, for
the purpose of a mulberry plantation
for feeding silkworms. The : Urst
unit of 160 acres la being planted to
mulberry cutting and tt the Initial
planting realises the success it prom
ises there will be from 10,000 to
20.000 acres In that state devoted to
the growing of mulberry trees for the
silk Industry.
In a talk on the Industry, a stock
bolder in the company that Is pro
moting the work declared that there
is no fear of scarcity of. labor in thi
development of the silk; industry, as
children ; S years old can, attend to
the cocoons. The .Ideal way U the
planting of small acreage of mulber
ry trees, and the silk worms eould
be fed and gathered by the members
of the farmer's family. A man and
wife can care for ten acre of mul
berries, from which; they expect to
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Two sons have offered all
For liberty and right.
Proud of these sons was I;
Proud of their bright career.,
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. Two stars my heart to cheer.
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Alight with a purpose deep,
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Proud that they offered, all.
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