Sport: New World's Records: Mar. 4, 1929

Track: 60-yard High Hurdles — Weems Baskin of Alabama, 7⅔ sec.; in Manhattan.

Track: 2-mile Steeplechase — Eino Purje of Finland, 9 min. 55⅔ sec.; in Manhattan.

Track: 16-pound Shot indoors — Herbert H. Schwarze, Illinois A. C., 50 ft., 3 in.; in Manhattan.

Swimming: 100-yard Backstroke-George J. Kojac of Manhattan, 1 min. 4/5 sec.; in New Brunswick, N.J.

Swimming: 150-yard Backstroke — George J. Kojac of Manhattan, 1:39; in New Brunswick, N. J.

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