The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-12
POWERS AT HOME.
Now a WOrld-beater
Among Amateur
Athletes.
HIS LIFE AT NOTRE DAME.
His Records in Western In
tercollegiate
Games.
HIS LIFE AT NOTRE DAME.

]. Fred Powers, the local all round
athlete, who has made such a name for
himself in the central part of the coun-
try, where he is looked upon as a world
beater because of his wonderful per-
Torrance, returned to his home in this
city yesterday on the New York ex-
press at 8 o'clock.
He was accompanied by Martin A.
Delaney who has had charge of the st.
Louis University athletes for the past
few months.
Powers was seen by Spy reporter
and he gave an interesting account OF
his experiences at the Notre Dame UNI
versity ct South Bend. Ind, and the
part he played in winning the different
events in which he competed under the
colors of Notre Dame. Fred is as mod
est regarding his abilities in field events
as he was before he left this city and
does not take any great credit to him
self for the work he accomplished for
the college. He says that he is enjoy
ing perfect health save for slight cold
contracted upon his trip home. He
looks the picture of health, being
Drowned as a berry from his outdoor
work
He has competed in five sets Of games
and succeeded in winning 20 firstS and
was tied for first place several times
and finished up with seconds. He has
broken many of the records at the DIFF
ferent meets. The records he succeeded
in breaking were mostly of his own
e is
regarded as a phenom at the college, as
we'll he should be. If Notre Dame had
another point winner like Fred they
would have swept everything before
them in all the games they took part
in AS it was they won the triangular
meet in which the University of Chi
cago and the University Of Illinois
competed with Notre Dame. They also
defeated the Purdue University IN tne
dual meet, and lost the dual meet with
the University of Chicago by IA points
IT was no fault Of Powers that they
lost that meet, for he piled up 22E
points, winning four firsts and being
tied in the pole vault. His college won
the state intercollegiate meet OF In
diana. Fred outshining every other Held
athlete that competed at the games
winning first place in every event ne
competed in. He also smashed the pre-
vious record established by himself for
the state intercollegiate on the broad
iump the pole vault, shot put and
throwing the discus. The last games ne
competed in were the Western Inter
collegiate, a week ago Saturday. lie
was extremely unlucky in these games,
winning but two, first in the shot put
and throwing the discus, and was tied
in the pole vault and winning second IN
the broad jump and the high jump. In
the toss up in the pole vault he lost
the medals but divided points
In the first set Of games in which ne
competed early in the season the TRAN
gular meet of the Chicago and Illinois
Universities, he won four firsts and was
given a special medal for winning the
largest number of points. His college
won that set Of games handily. In the
dual meet with Purdue University he
also won 20 points by taking four hrsts'
In the dual meet with the Chicago UNI
versity he won four firsts in the hlgn
jump, the shot put, the broad jump anu
throwing the discus. He was tied IN
the pole vault. At the Indiana inter-
collegiate he established excellent re
cords. In the broad jump he covered u
feet g inches. In the pole vault he
cleared the bar at 10 feet inches. he
mt the shot 40 feet s inches, and threw
the discus 112 feet.
At the Western intercollegiate ne ulu
even better in throwing the discus, by
throwing the ball and wire 115 feet, ll12
inches. He put the shot 40 feet, inch
es. and cleared the bar at feet II
inches in the high jump. In the broad
iump he covered % feet 1 inch and
fraction. coming near equalling the re-
cord of % feet and 4 inches.
There was a good deal of rivalry at
the western intercollegiate games, 1t
being figured out that the University
of Michigan was to win with Wisconsin
second. Chicago third, and Notre Dame
fourth.
The work of Powers surprised the
people out that way, and upset all their
calculations. for he succeeded in plac-
ing his college in second place and
would have won if the Notre Dame
had been strong in track events. The
University of Chicago won with Notre
Dame second. and Michigan third
with Wisconsin a close fourth. The
athletes of the two latter colleges were
inclined TO believe a man who could do
slcb phenomenal work must be pro-
fessional. but were assured by John +.
Moakley that such was not the case,
as Powers was considered one Of the
best Of amateurs.
Fred saws that he is delighted with
the life at the college, and expects to
90 hack there in the fall though he has
not definitely decided. He says the
college is the largest Catholic college
in this country and is at the
head of all the athletic sports in that
section of the country.