The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-26

Owing to the great heat and the number
of young men on vacation amateur am
letics; were very dull during the last week.
Training is more injurious than otherwise
in such weather, especially to any enc WHO
is Just starting in. as is the case with the
ma jority of young men who have their eyes
| on the medals to he given at the Exposition
this fall. The efforts of the management
in charge of those events to get the crack
/ athletes from Chicago here to compete have
! aroused the energies and ambitions of the
ST. Louis men. as they would hate to have
am men from the Windy City take away
| the prizes when a bit of hard training on
! their part would prevent such a disgrace.
Disgrace it would be. as st. Louis has the
| material to beat any city in America to-day
if properly trained and coached. but this
does not help matters much, as so few OF
the really good athletes in this city Will get
out to win medals from any one, 10 say
nothing of competing against men from
! other cities. With such men as Charles
! Reber, ST. Clair Shaw. ole O'Reilly, Charlie
! Henneman. Gwynne Evans and Dute Cab
! anne. for the distance rurs, hurdles and ned
events not to mention the dozens OF men
| who can cover the hundred in close to tiat
| time, St. Louis should be sending teams TO
| outside meets every spring instead or wait
ing for them to come here and then be a.
most fr;ghtened out of their home contests.
There is no man in Chicago to-day wa)
can lump as far as Charlie R"ber. nut the
world.s record holder is to be excused, as
he has a large law business to attend 10
and cannot spare the time TO train reSu-
! IarIy. although Tom Aiken says mat the
! athletic barrister can clear twenty-five leet
right now. How many men in the West can
do as we'll? No other man in st. Louis can
do it, that Is sure. st. Clair Shaw says that
he may enter the hurdle events. but noth-
ing else: nevertheless Mr.. Shaw Is so hlsh-
" regarded by Martin Delaney. the trainer
of the ST. Louis University teams, that MAJ
tin will take him to the Western champion
sh;rs at Chicago next spring to compete
against such a man as Powers, the ali
1 round champion of so. who VIII represent
Notre Dame University.
The latest news from Martin Delaney,
who is visiting in the East. is to the effect
that he will return with w. NJ Moran, VIM
will enter the Jesuit institution. rms Is
certainly good news for local athletes. even
If It does mean the loss of some neuais "
"a few. Moran is a star of the highest oiue.
in the distance runs. besides being wei up
in other branches of athletics. Last sun
dav. the Charles River track. IN BOSTON.
Moran won the half-mile run from thS ptSt
of the Bostonese in , minutes . - sScohus.
This time has been beaten Often. out not oi
the Charles River track. as that IS very
slow. being made to order, about ones d
yaor on rhe inside of a cement bicycle
track. Moran won the one-mile run last
June at the interscholastic meet, this be-
ing probably his best performance. as the
prep schools of the East furnish most OF
the crack varsity athletes. ct the ChaileS
River meet a big surprise vas furl!'htu
in the defeat of Prinstein of syracuse III
the hop, step and jump. The man VINO mas
heen ughting with hraenZiein ior Two years
over tbs broad-jump record was supposed
to have a "lead-pIpe cinch' IN that eNeh..
but failed 70 get a bracket. being DeI.en
by three men, Including the man VINO was
scratch. with him. II may be That IL bFoau
Jumper is not always a good man IN inc
hop. step and jump. nut IL dC cayer se the
tWenty-four feet IN one jump should pe
beaten in the triple-style event at forty.
eight feet He should cover at least Iite cen
feet in the hop, the same in the step. ana
then only has TO jump eighteen feet - do
the forty-eight total. Dick Grant. late OF
the all-American team that Gon1peibJH liz ,a d.
ferior men, as he was forced to quit IN
the mile run before the half had been
reached.
Maxwell w. Long. the American quarter
mile champion, has scored SO many "ins
fs,n ahs nnsl mse.i f1gde at PARIS PARIS t that his us sue
cess now rivals that achieved by l. r:
Myers, who in several seasons almost
races on the other side. From 100 yards
to q quarter-mile the New York A. G. man
seems to b.. invincible, and by winning seV-
eral races at the shorter distance ne really
eclipses Myers's performance. as the latter
in his DAY was unable to take down the
numbers of the English flyer at 1GS YARDS:
In addition to the many wins ALREADY re,
ported by mail or cable the London, Field
Of August II chronicles the success OF Long
in several races at the two-day meet OF the
100 ~ ~ nlIhntr on hllp1lS y ana u
and at the Victoria C. c: sports at Stoke
on-Tren on August I. j. w. b. IeWKs-
bury, the old University Of Pennsyiyanla
Splinter. was also successful at poth oi
the above meetings.
One the first day of the Royton sports
Long won the quarter-miie handicap from
allowed long starts, in 81 40 seconds Long
ran in fine form, took at the head
Of the straight and Won by three YARDS
yards start. In the final heat OF the M
yard handicap Tewksbury, who ran from
scratch ate s:,t sGt t on s eSsn t, 1SEm Z ~ al! o "is W Won
bv four yards, in % 30 seconds from II.
Lester of Oldham. IA yards. Tewsbury al
60 took second place in the lW"-yard hanoi
seconds. On the concluding day of the
sports 1t rained heavily. which accounts for
the slower times recorded. Long won the
1O0-yard scratch race from Z. Jervis of
Manchester and c. w. Majury of Belfast
in 10 3-5 seconds. and the 29O-yard handicap
| from scratch III Is 40 SeCUiluS. .IdJUiS, VIII
is one of the best Irish sprinters, finished
second from the long mark Oh . yardS III TIE
latter event.
At the Stoke-on-Trent meeting Long ran
perhaps his best race in the quarter-mile
handicap under favorable conditions. Wat
son of Longport. who had 10 yards start,
led until within 80 yards of the finish, when
Long went by with a fine burst of speed
and won out by 8 yards in 40 3-5 seconds.
Tewksbury won the Soo-yard hurdle race
from scratch with consummate ease in the
fast time of IS 45 seconds.
The twentieth annual lawn tennis cham
pionship of this country ended Tuesday with
Malcolm Douglas Whitman the winner, he
being the ~title-hoider for the last three
years. BY winning the challenge bowl
three times. he becomes the owner. Not
many people expected TO see w. a. Larned,
the challenger, beat Whitman. The play
between them resulted just about as tennis
experts thought it would. The champion
showed steady serving, active maneuver-
ing, combined with shrewdness, in receiv-
ing an attack and Judgment III making one.
That is about all there is to Whitman's
play. but If anything more can be said
there are plenty of tennis players who
thereby. In fact, there are dozens who
have tried to emulate Whitman since he
became the American tennis champion, but
none has yet done 1t. OF Larned. 1t may
be said that he showed no lack of courage
in endeavoring to find vulnerable spots IL
the champion. He was also in good physi-
cal condition. for he was all over the court
although this was not usually the case
Wh,tman's easy style making his play less
noticeable.
The score GA. Isl 60, CO, is nothing on