On Ice

Last week a man skated one mile on ice faster than ever one mile had been skated before. Steel flashed and twinkled on the ringing surface of Lake Placid, N. Y. Crouched against the wind, their tighted legs pumping furiously over the glassy ice, champions raced together, cut crunching curvets as they carved around the corners, hammered down the long stretches with their long blades whining. Clas Thunberg, Finland's Olympic champion, nosed out Charles Jewtraw, pride of Placid, in the mile race, for which his time was world's record, 2 min. 38 1/5 sec.* Jewtraw had back at Thunberg in the 220-yard dash.

*Man has run a mile in 4 min. 10.4 sec.; walked a mile in 6 min. 25.8 sec.; swum a mile in 23 min. 34.5 sec. A horse has run a mile in 1.34 4/5 min.; a motor boat in 45 sec.; a motorcycle in 32.53 sec.; an automobile has sped a mile in 23.07 sec.; an air plane in 14.88 sec.