An extremely popular and handsome man, Jones worked long hours on his studies, played basketball and tennis in the summer and ran as a pastime.

On May 27, 1911, Jones ran in the IC4A championships at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium in Allston, Massachusetts in front of 12,000 spectators.

His time: 4:152⁄5, a new amateur world record, finally surpassing Thomas Conneff's 4:153⁄5 set 16 years earlier.

He spent the summer playing baseball and tennis, won the IC4A cross country championship again in the fall, then tied for first in the mile with a 4:203⁄5 at the 1912 IC4A.

Besides Jones, the 1908 Olympic champion Mel Sheppard was entered, as was the speedy Arnold Jackson of Britain, and the promising miler Norman Taber from Providence, Rhode Island.

[4] In the end, Jackson prevailed in the final, held July 10, with Kiviat and Taber so close an official camera needed to be consulted to determine who won silver.

[1] Jones, out of the medals, won his third IC4A cross country championship that fall, then ran an indoor mile in 4:194⁄5 early in 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.