The Portland daily press., 1896-04-04
HERBERT B. JAMIsoN.

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FRANCIS A. LANE. HERBERT B. JAMESON.
fray the expenses of the voyagers was
raised, and the excellent team which is
now representing Princeton and America
at Athens was Immediately put into Wig
orous training.
At this action of Princeton, Boston's
ambition was again spurred, the pride of
the B. A. A. was touched, and the sum
necessary to defray the expenses of the
Boston team was at once forthcoming
And SO brawny quartet of bright young
men, accompanied by Manager John Gra-
ham, came down from "the Hub" and
Joined the Princeton team at New York
and sailed with them on the Fulda on the
21st day of last month.
The four Princetonians who were chosen
to bear the colors of Old Nassau" Garrett,
Tyler, Lane and Jamison, are worthy of
the honorable task to which they are COM
mitted.
Robert Garrett, Jr., captain of the team,
Is a native of Baltimore, and son of
Robert Garrett, formerly identified with
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He is
an all round athlete and holds the college
record for putting the 16 pound shot (40
feet) and for high jumping e feet inches).
He has entered the shot put, discus throw
ing and bar vaulting events in the Olym-
plan games and his friends think will win
them all.
Albert G. Tyler has made his mark in
various contests. He excels at pole vault
ing, to which he has almost exclusively
devoted himself. He holds the Princeton
record for pole vaulting of 10 feet 10 inches.
He played right tackle on the football team
last year. He has entered in the pole vault
ing event in the Olympian games and ex-
poets to break his own record.
Francis A. Lane is wonderful fellow
in the world of athletics and has made a
remarkable record. At Wittenburg acad-
emy, in Springfield, O., where he prepared
for college, he won the all round champi-
onship two years in succession. He Is the
fastest sprinter at Princeton. Last year he
repeatedly breasted the tape at 100 yards
in 10 seconds. He is entered in tho 100
meter equivalent to our 110 yard) race in
the Olympian games.
Herbert B. Jamison, who was chosen at
the last minute to take the place of Calfelt,
who was unable to go, has no great record
back of him, but is a young man of great
promise. AS a racer he will probably score
some victories for he is very feet of foot
He will do some short sprints and also try
his luck in the 400 meter race. Mr. Jami-
son is of the class of '97.
The tough sinewed Bostonians are all
we'll known to the amateur athletes of
America. Burke, Clark, Blake and Cur
tis are formidable men when met in the
athletic arena, and John Graham, the man
ager, is the one who can spur them to the
exercise of the utmost limit of their pow
erS.
Thomas E. Burke the international 440
yard champion runner, will be in July 81
years of age. He weighs 144 pounds in
condition and Is 5 feet II inches in height.
He was born in Boston and is a graduate
of the English high school, He made his
athletic debut at the games of the Suffolk
A. c. July 4, 1898, when he won the 40
yard novice race on poor track in 58 As
| seconds.
At the indoor championship of the In
terscholastio A. A, March II, 1894, he
won the 600 yard run In / minute 90 2-5
seconds, which record stands for the asso-
citation at the present time.
Ellery H. Clark is student at Harvard,
and as he Is a high scholarship man he
went with the team with the consent of
the faculty. He has been prominent in
| athletics for several years, and his per-
fornances have been very creditable. AL
| though he has participated in about all the
handicap meetings apd won many tro-
phies, he is probably known much better
as an all round athlete. His work at the
New England Amateur Athletic union
championship last season was remarkably
| fine. He scored 5,645 points against Car
| penter' 1850. In the championship games
of the maritime provinces last summer he
won five first prizes and broke several rec
ords. He will be entered for the high and
| broad jumps, the hop, step and jump and
| the hammer, if this last event is added to
| the programme, as Is possible.
Arthur Blake will be entered in the
| 1000 and /, 800 meter runs, and also the
| 80 mile run from Marathon to Athens.
| He became known to distance runners in
| 1889, when he engaged in cross country
runs. He has mile indoor record of
minutes 80 4-5 seconds, made when he
won the indoor championship of the N. e.
| A. A. u, two years ago
Thomas P. Curtis, the hurdlor, is COM
paratively new in athletics. He was born
in San Francisco. He is the son of an
army officer who left the west in 1892 and
removed to Boston. He won the 45 yard
! nlgn hurQlo nGnQlcaC race OF inc D. "A. A.,
beating Stephen Chase, the world IS cham
pion. While Curtis has not had a chance
yet to show himself at his best, those who
are familiar with his work feel confident
that he will come away from Athens with
| an enviable record.
Manager Graham of the Boston team
also took along with him ". w. Hoyt, s
promising young athlete, who may have {
try at the polo vaulting prizes. He is {
Harvard man, class of '9s, who has made
speciality of pole vaulting. His 10 feet
6A inches at the indoor interscholastiC
championship of 1894 is still record fol
the Boston schools
From the above records it may be seer
that while the American contingent i!
small there is good reason to believe thai
considerable percentage of the prizes ar
likely to be captured and brought back by
the doughty boys from this side of the
great waters.
After the vital question Of location and
the requirement of means for the material
furnishings of this great arena had been
settled the subject Of next 9reatast inn