Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1920 — REYNOLDS STILL HOLDS RECORDS [ARTICLE]

REYNOLDS STILL HOLDS RECORDS

RENSSELAER SKATER’S RECORD WITHSTANDS 23-YEAR ATTACK OF ICE KINGS. - • o The Republican "is in receipt of a letter from Earle Reynolds, world’s premier skater, who, with his family, is playing at the Shears theatre in Toronto this week. Mr. Reynolds was a happy as a schoolboy on the last day of school,. for he had just discovered that Kis onehalf mile and 100-yard records made in the late nineties, have withstood the attacks of the world’s greatest and speediest skaters since that time and that he is still the title holder. In writing the Republican, Mr. Reynolds says: “The Skater still holds the mile record on ice, made January 26, 1897, in national championship meet at Silver Lake. He also holds the world’s 100-yard record, standing start, made at Detroit February 1, 1898. Not* bad for a Hoosier to still hold these records and to be given credit as skating the fastest race ever skated on ice. These records were made in competition, and have stood the battle fire of hundreds of skaters throughout the world for a period of twenty-three years. “We sail June 16 on the Empress of France from Quebec. We play Shears theatre, Toronto, next week. We have been booked to play thirty weeks on our return from Europe, starting November 1 on the Keith circuit. A very good recommendation and appreciation of our efforts of the past year. With best wishes, ‘Skater.’ ” The following clipping from a Buffalo paper accompanied the letter: It took a search of the News files back to January 27, 1897, to prove that Earle Reynolds is still holder of the half-mile skating record in competition. On January 26 of that year*on Staten Island, Reynolds won the national championship at that distance Sn 1 minute, 14 4-5 seconds. It is so stated in an Associated Press .dispatch from New York printed in the News of the date named. The search was instigated by W. F. Haws, who says the figures discovered settle a wager of S2OO.