never can speak of him without
laughing. But then Sally always did laugh on almost any provocation.

[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]

So far as is known, no schedule of interscholastic track and field
records has ever before been printed, and although the table published
in this issue is as accurate as can be made under the circumstances,
still there are doubtless a few errors scattered around in it somewhere
that will be discovered by sharp-eyed readers in the very near future.
If the latter will inform this Department of the mistakes as soon as
they are found out, the table may be depended upon to be absolutely
exact the next time it is printed--and it certainly will be offered in
better form. To-day I have been obliged to put two bicycle events and
two hammer and shot events on the list, because the interscholastic
associations in the various parts of the country are about evenly
divided in the choice of distances and the use of weights. I have left
out entirely such acrobatic events as the hop, step, and jump, and
throwing the baseball, because they are not athletic, and do not deserve
to be recognized on any interscholastic programme. Perhaps a year from
now the school associations will have come to the conclusion that, take
it all in all, it is really better to have a uniform measure of
efficiency in sport as well as in anything else, and then a comparative
table will be of more value.

INTERSCHOLASTIC RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1895.

Event. Record. Maker.

100-yard dash 10-1/5 sec. F. H. Bigelow.
220-yard run 22-2/5 " F. H. Bigelow.
440-yard run 50-3/5 " T. E. Burke.
Half-mile inn 2 m. 4-1/5 " J. A. Meehan.
Mile run 4 " 34-2/5 " W. T. Laing.
Mile walk 7 " 17-3/5 " A. N. Butler.
120-yard hurdle 15-3/5 " A. F. Beers.
220-yard hurdle 26-1/2 " Field.
Mile bicycle 2 " 34-1/5 " I. A. Powell.
Two-mile bicycle 5 " 18-2/5 " Baker.
Running high jump 5 ft. 11 in. S. A. W. Baltazzi.
Running broad jump 21 " 6 " C. Brewer.
Pole vault 10 " 7 " B. Johnson.
Throwing 12-lb. hammer 125 " R. F. Johnson.
Throwing 16-lb. hammer 11