Monday, Feb. 27, 1928

Records

Lloyd Hahn, runner, had not lost a race for two years. Last week in Kansas City Ray Conger beat him and beat his record for 1,000 yards with a time of 2:11. Hahn stopped running. He walked to the tape with a disgusted expression and said that Conger stuck an elbow in him at the turn. None of the officials saw it.

In New York, George Kojac, swimmer, broke Johnny Weissmuller's world's record for the hundred yard backstroke. Kojac's time was 1, minute 2 1/5 seconds. In the same meet Walter Spence with a time of 2 minutes 31 seconds beat the world's record for the two hundred yard breast stroke.

In the Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., Dutch Henry, southpaw pitcher of the New York Giants, went to a hotel dance in a tuxedo and stiff shirt while his teammates, standing in the doorway, watched him.

Captain Malcolm Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h.