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This Day in Monitor & Discipline–February 22
1882 – With 120 miles, James Saunders wins NYC’s 24-hour race & $100 prize
http://planetultramarathon.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/the-history-of-the-6-day-race/
1911—The 4th version of the Millrose Video games was held in entrance of 5,000 spectators on the Thirteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,NY (on a Wednesday).
The NYAC’s Harry Gissing was the winner of the 1000-yards, the featured observe occasion, in 2:18.8.
The ten-mile handicap race, a crowd favourite, was received by T.E. Nelson in 1:04:39.4 (with a 2-minute handicap. The race began in Tub Seaside, with the final 2-miles going down on the observe.
The meet, which included a 5-mile bicycle race, was placed on by the Millrose A.A., at the side of the Wanamaker retailer chain.
Gissing was certainly one of many athletes who had been featured in a buying and selling card collection that was revealed by the Nationwide Licorice Firm.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/23/104820440.html?pageNumber=10
1916–Binga Dismond runs 51.0 and upsets Ted Meredith within the 440y on the Video games of St.Antony, which had been held on the forty seventh Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,NY. Dismond went on to turn into a famous doctor in Harlem.
http://question.nytimes.com/gst/summary.html?res=950DE4D9103FE233A25750C2A9649C946796D6CF
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2594046/
1958—Browning Ross, the “Father of Lengthy Distance Working within the U.S.”, organized a gathering on the Paramount Lodge in New York whereby the Street Runners Membership of America (RRCA) was began. (From Gary Corbitt).
http://www.rrca.org/; http://www.rrca.org/about/historical past/
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Ross
NY Occasions Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/sports activities/browning-ross-74-founder-of-road-runners.html
1959—Ted Corbitt (2:38:57), representing the New York Pioneer Membership, wins the Cherry Tree Marathon, the precursor to the NY Metropolis Marathon. This was the primary marathon the newly shaped Street Runners Membership: New York Affiliation carried out. The race had 12 starters and 6 finishers. Corbitt can be the membership’s first President, with Vice President Joe Kleinerman (Millrose AA) and Secretary–Treasurer: John Sterner (New York Pioneer Membership). The membership had 47 members in 1959, and at present is over 60,000. Corbitt would turn into generally known as “The Father of Ultramarathon working” within the U.S. and took the lead in creating a system throughout the nation that certifies {that a} street race course has been precisely measured.
The race began and completed in Macombs Dam Park close to Yankee Stadium, working north up Sedgwick Avenue alongside the Harlem River and looping again once more 3 times.
Corbitt’s Profession Stats (Marathons/Ultramarathons):
(From Gary Corbitt, Ted’s son)
1964–With prepster Gerry Lindgren setting a quick early tempo, Australia’s Ron Clarke went on to set a World File of 13:18.4 for 3-miles on the U.S. Indoor Championships at Madison Sq. Backyard. NY working legend Pete McArdle completed 2nd in 13:32.8, whereas Lindgren set a Nationwide H.S. File of 13.37.8 in third place.
As quoted in T&F Information, Nebraska freshman Charlie Greene, giving an early indication of his legendary showmanship, informed Bob Hayes earlier than the beginning of the 60-yard sprint, “You’ll need to run 5.9 to beat me”. Hayes did simply that, working the primary 5.9 in historical past. Greene ran 6.0 in 2nd to equal the earlier world report.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault (Hayes Function)
http://www.si.com/vault/1964/05/18/615621/how-fast-is-the-fastest-man-alive
1969—Main from the gun, George Younger ran 8:27.2 for two miles in San Diego to equal the World File that was set on the identical observe a yr earlier by Australia’s Kerry Pearce, who would run that point once more in Seattle in 1971. Younger additionally broke Jim Beatty’s American File of 8:30.8, which was set in 1964.
1980—Mary Decker (Slaney) set a World File of 1:59.7 for half a mile on the Jack-in-the-Field meet in San Diego. Her time of 1:58.9 en route for 800 meters was an American File.
Kenya’s Mike Boit received the Males’s ½-mile in 1:47.9 to equal the World File that was set by Australia’s Ralph Doubell in 1969.
One other World File was set within the Males’s Lengthy Leap, with Larry Myricks reaching out to 27-6 (8.38).
No report within the Males’s Mile, however it was nonetheless a high-quality affair, with Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi (3:55.5) profitable a detailed one over Eire’s Eamonn Coghlan (3:55.7), New Zealand’s John Walker (3:55.8), and Germany There’s
Thomas Wessinghage (3:56.4), with American Steve Scott (3:59.3) ending fifth.
