Records.— Championship matches have be come common in all of the northern cold coun tries. Both indoor and outdoor tournaments have been held in the United States and Canada for many years. Popular tournament places have been Montreal and Toronto, in Canada, and Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Stamford. Conn., Red Bank, N. J., and Saranac Lake and Newburgh, N. 1, in the United States. The amateur records have often surpassed the professional records for shorter distances, probably due to the fact that there are few professional racers. The amateur American records are 100 yards, Morris Wood, 9 3-5 seconds, in 1903; 220 yards, Fred J. Robson, 18 seconds, 1911; half mile, Ben O'Sicky, 1 minute, 15 3-5 seconds, 1916; one mile, Morris Wood, 2 minutes, 41 1-5 seconds, 1904; five miles, E. Lamy, 14 minutes, 55 seconds, 1910. The world s amateur records are in metres, and from 500 to 10,000 metres, were all taken by 0. Mathiesen, of Norway, at various public meets in Europe, between 1910 and 1914, with the following results: 500 metres, 43 7-10 seconds; 1,000 metres, 1 minute, 31 4-5 seconds; 1,500 metres, 2 minutes, 19 1-2 seconds ; 5,000 metres, 8 minutes, 36 3-5 seconds; 10,000 metres, 17 minutes, 22 6-10 seconds. The
professional American records are: 100 yards, John S. Johnson, 9 4-5 seconds, 1893; 200 yards, John S. Johnson, 17 2-5 seconds, 1893; 440 yards, John S. Johnson, 31 3-4 seconds, 1916; half mile, John Nilsson, 1 minute, 16 1-5 seconds, 1897; one mile, Arthur Staff, 2 minutes, 35 seconds, 1916; two miles, John Nilsson, 5 minutes, 33 4-5 seconds, 1900; live miles, 0. Rudd, 14 minutes, 24 seconds, 1896; 10 miles, John S. Johnson, 31 minutes, 16 1-2 seconds, 1894; 20 miles, John S. Johnson, 1 hour, 6 minutes. 36 2-5 seconds, 1894; 25 miles, John Karlson, 1 hour, 30 minutes, 15 seconds, 1916. All records from 30 miles to 100 miles are held by J. F. Donohue, who at Stamford, Conn., in 1893, made the 100 miles in 7 hours, II minutes, 38 1-5 seconds. Consult Browne, G. H., 'Hand book of Figure Skating' (Springfield, Mass., 1913) ; Meagher, G. A., in Skating' (1900). See ROLLER SKATE