Records

In Manhattan, Lloyd Harm, unsmiling Nebraskan, ran four furlongs (880 yards) in 1 minute, 51 and two-fifths seconds, which was three and one-fifths seconds faster than the former world's indoor record for this distance which had stood for 24 years, and four-fifths of a second faster than the outdoor record set by Ted Meredith.

In Kansas, 100 nervous-nosed jackrabbits were packed in crates, railroaded to Aiken, S. C., turned loose, last week, chased by hungry beagle-hounds and by 25 rich society people on horseback.

"To attract attention to Colorado" the Denver Post last week organized a mountain lion hunt, to be advertised all over the U. S. A special train will take the hunters out of Denver to the mountains where the lions are. Guns, duffle, will be provided at low prices. The Post will pay $25 for each full grown, dead lion.

Howard Hill, archer, using a five-foot bow that weighed 175 pounds, shot a 24-in. birch arrow 391 yds. 1 ft. 11 in., in Miami, a world's record.

In a 75-foot pool in Manhattan, George Kojac broke the world's record for a iso-yard backstroke swim. His time was 1 min. 39 and 3/5 sec.

"I think my car might make 300 miles on a concrete course" said Captain Malcom Campbell after leaving Daytona Beach where he had driven at the greatest speed ever made on land (TIME, Feb. 27).

"I think it is possible for a human being to pole-vault 14 feet eight inches" said Sabin Carr of Dubuque and Yale when asked to talk about his record of 14 ft. 1 in. (TIME, Mar. 5).

"Cropping a puppy's ears doesn't hurt any more than docking a horse's tail" said one C. R. Williams, vice president of the Great Dane Club. He was arguing against the bill introduced in the New York and Massachusetts legislatures to prohibit ear-cropping. "Has President Williams ever had his tail docked?" countered an advocate of the bill.

A shrivelled, sunburned man named Charles Seiditz, 67, arrived last week in Miami in a fourteen-foot rowboat in which he had rowed 1,500 miles from Battery Park, Manhattan. He started on October 23d. "When I was young," he said, "I was a sailor. Now I run the Edgemere bathing pavilion." (Edgemere, Long Island.)

Jimmy Eliott, ballplayer, joined the training camp of the Brooklyn Robins in Clearwater, Fla., got on the scales. He found that he weighed 230 pounds. Frightened, he tried to reduce, cut out bread, potatoes, went to bed without supper, worked harder than any other ballplayer, felt lighter, better, got on the scales again next day. He weighed 235 pounds.