The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-26
HIGH SCHOOL HAS STRONG NINE;
ANNAPOLIS-WEST POINT GAME OFF.
Cadets and MidshiImen Will Not Meet on the diamond This Year
and the Annual Football Game Is Also in Danger - High Did
Coed Work in the Game With &. Il. C-AutomObne Tests
arouse Interest in the East Ma Run Proves a
Feature.

play next Thanksgiving Day. why they
don't have to And there the matter rests
Although there Is no hope for the annual
tdseSa4 meeting. students at both ~institu-
tons are enteavorinS 20 arrange the an
nual football contest in hopes Of keeping
the classic event from being cancelled. II
is not believed that their efforts viii b
crowned with success. however.
Marathon race from Ashland TO Boston
last Monday. forty completed the twenty
i've mile course and finished in reasonably
good shape. The showing was extraordinary
considering the fact that this branch of
athletics has been in vogue IN this country
ONLY since the year following the revival
81 the Olymplan games.
John =. Lorden OF the Cambridgeport
gymnasium team won the race. covering
minutes twenty-nine and four-ifths see
onds. putting up a grand race. He waited
behind. while John r. Cafery OF Hamilton.
Ontario. AMI Samuel A. Mellor of the Mo-
hawk Club. New York. ran themselves ia
eNhaUStoa- Cahrsy was forced TO orop
cut. entirely Frustrated. ten miles from the
tEtSh- wnIle Aiellcr went ahead seemingly
With somssh.rg in reserve
Two mites from the finish Lorden chat
ierGed NeHC-- The latter was unable TO
respond, and. though putting up a game
struggle. was. Se9ten BY six minutes in the
run 10 the fnish. Next came Michael
Spring OF the. Plstime Athletic Club OF
New York. who finished twelve minutes be-
hind the leader. while Frederick LORI OF
me Mohawk Cir was fourth. forty sec
The remainder OF the field struggled in
az intervals OF a few minutes. and tho
majority finished in good shape.
In the tests OF last week to decide the
An ertcan representatives who will compete
IN the Bennett cup race for automobiles. To
be run in Ireland next July. Percy Owen OF
New York. L p Moders of Cleveland and
Alexander WInton Of New York were Sc
tests were held Monday on the six-mIle
stretch OF road near Jamaica. Long Island
Alexander Winton had already been cho-
sen as one OF the contestants. and two mora
were TO be selected.
H l Hardness. son of the STANDARD .oil
millionaire. one Of the challengers. failed
20 put In an appearance He started from
Brooklyn for Garden City at 4 a. m. with
a chauffeur who he said knew the road.
Two hours later in a little cross road. near
Jamaica. the Harkness car struck a rock
and SMASHED its water tank II was hluleG
back TO Brooklyn for Tera-rs.
As there were only two places to be filed
IN the American team and only three candi-
dates. the eclipse OF Mr.. Hardness eIimi-
The eo auJomcbilists who had journeyed
out TO Garden City and put Up with a wink
or sleep snc . o'clock breakfast, had a dis
George l. Scott. II. W. whipple and Dave
H Morris. the Race Committee of the Au-
tOmobile GLIB of America. had charge OF
the trials.
Sunday afternoon found Messrs. Owen ard
MOders at Garden City In the gray dawn
every road leading TO the old Merrick turn
pike was misty with dust. and neither
plesdingS, nor threats could keen the course
clear. and every time owen or Mcders sent
his long. low. rakish racer laundering after
a record some irresponsible runahout o.
touring car was certain to get in the way
once Moders. cutting the air at close to
a mile a minute. would have gone straight
through a -ouring car crowded with men
and women but for his liEhtning-like work
at his lever and brake
That was his only real try OF the morn
ing. and II tangled 10 his water pipes and
cylinders. But his big S-horse-poWer Peer
less was an experimental machine. and its
arrowlike-daxh over the macadam until
blocked by interference satisfied the COM
mittee-
With Committeeman Scott holding the
watch beside him. owen covered the six
mile stretch from a starding start in
7.2 IS
His best two miles was in 2:ls 2-5, and
try as he might. he could not send his stur-
dy little car along faster than 16 2-5 a mile.
These figures are far behind the records.
but 4 the Race COMMITTEES Is to be be-
lieved. no attempt to beat records was
made.
Albert Champion. astride his famous four
cylinder motorcycle. covered I'VE miles in
six minutes. and was moving like a Mause-
bullet when a valve vent wrong.