The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-04

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FRANCIS A. LANE. HERBERT 3. JAMESON.
fray the expenses Of the voyagars 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
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
mon, accompanied by Manager John Sra
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 60
feet) and for high jumping @ feet g 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 c. 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. Il has entered in the pole vault
ing event in the OIympian games and ex-
poets to break his own record.
Francis A. Lane is q wonderful fellow
in the world of athletics and has made a
remarkable record. At Wittenburg acad-
envy, in Springfield, o., where he prepared
for college. be 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 the 100
meter equivalent TO our 10 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 90, has no great record
back of him, but is young man of great
promise. AS racer he will probably score
some victories. for lie 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 81.
The tough sinewed Bostonians are all
we'll known to the amateur athletes Of
America. Burke Clark, Blake and Cur
tbs 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 3. Burke, the international $40
yard champion runner, will be in July p
years Of age. He weighs IA pounds in
condition and is 8 feet II inches in height
He was born in Boston and is q graduate
of the English high school. He made his
athletic debut at the games of the Suffolk
A. @. July 4, 1895 when be won the 44O
seconds
Al the indoor championship of the IN
terscholastic a. A., March II, 1894, he
won the 600 yard run in L minute 20 %
seconds which record stands for the asso-
citation at the present time.
Ellery H. Clark is a 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
formances have been very creditable. Al
though be has participated in about all the
handicap meetings and 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 3, 645 points against Car
penter's 5, $50. Ia the championship games
of the maritime provinces last summer he
won five drs5 prizes and broke several rec
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 /, 500 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 40 seconds, made when he
/ won the indoor championship of the \. r.
4 A. "A. u, two years age.
Thomas P. Curtis, the hUrdler, is com
/ paratively new in athletics. He was born
in San Fran cisco. He is the son of an
army officer who left the west in 1892 and
removed to Boston. He won the 40 yard
high hurdle handicap race Of the B. A A,
/ beating Stephen Chase, the worlds cham
7 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
I an enviable record.
Manager Graham of the Boston team
also took along with him ". W. Hoyt
promising young athlete, who may have
try at the pole vaulting prizes. He is
Harvard man. class of ieS, who has made
a speciality of pole vaulting. His 40 feet
60 inches at the indoor interscholastic
championship Of 1894 IS ssl4 SssOFd for
the Boston schools
From the above records it may be seer
that while the American contingent l.
small there is good reason to believe thai
a considerable percentage Of the prizes are