Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-27
new STARS ARE
CRACK ATHLETES
Great Finds of the Year
In the Shape Of New
Material

The crop of athletic finds" for the
rich one. Cracks have been unearthec
in the sprints, distances, hurdles anG
weights, who, with little more
strength and experience, will prove
worthy successors of the existing
champions.
Every year sees a certain number
of these phenoms turn up, but. 1907 is
far outstripping her predecessors.
Perhaps the best of all the years
finds is Lee Talbot, the Kansas City
youth who studies at eMrcersburg
academy. He has clearly proven his
world superiority with the 12-pound
hammer, and besides is giving the best
men in the country hot fight with the
16-pound missile. Talbot shows rare
promise as a discus thrower, and is
expected to succeed Martin Sheridan
as the worlds champion at this sport.
Anther lad who has sprung suddenly
to fame is F. ]. Bellars, a Jerseyite,
who represents the New York Athletic
club. Practically unknown at the be-
ginning of the year, Bellars has in a
bare half-dozen races taken a place
in the front rank Of distance racers, He
won the Junior Metropolitan champion
ship at three miles recently with ri
diculous ease. During the last mile
he merely trotted along, exchanging
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friends in the grandstand. Bellars is
one of the strongest junior runners
ever seen, and his future looks to be
bright with promise.
The South has dug up a flyer, too
in young Ramsdell, the University of
Texas Splinter, who gave the great
Cartmell such a scare at the James
town college championships last
month. The Pennsylvania champion
was forced to run the hundred in mine
four" and the furlong in "evens" to
show the young Texan the way. Co
lumbia university brought out a pos
sible champion in George Hoyns, who
was unheard of before this year.
Champion Bonhag put the o. K. stamp
on Hoyns early in the indoor season,
and Hoyns vindicated his tutors judg-
ment by getting away with John Eisele
the Princeton champion in a mile race
and in no indecisive manner, either.
To prov? that Hoyns was a find" it is
only necessary to recall that fact that
while still novice the Columbia boy
was dong miles under 4:35.
The athletic sensation of the year at
Fordham college has been j. ]. ClCug-
han, who won the 220-yard dash at the
junior NETS" Cloughan, who is a big
lad, showed class in his very first eff
fort. He had strength to burn and a
space eating burst at the finish of
his races that BODIES i'll for his older
rivals in the sprint races. Unquestion-
ably the classiest boy sprung at Celtic
Park this year is F. N. Riley, the lanky
middle distance runner. The thir-
tenth regiment of Brooklyn dug up
Riley somewhere and put him into tn"
two-mle relay race of the Seventy
first regiment meet last winter. Riley
ran peach race and at once took
second place with the back markers.
In the junior NETS" Riley ran a mile
worse than Alb 2-5, and it Is safe to
rate him as fast as 1928 under perfect
weather conditions.
Matt McGrath and ]. f. Kear are
ooked upon as the finds" at Players !
sland this spring. McGrath threw the |
L6-pound hammer over ITO feet in the |
rain at the New York Athletic club |
games. That's good enough to rate |
aim as top-notcher. Kear has sud
lenly jumped from mediocre Splinter
% a cracking good hurdler. His squirt |
n form started in the late indoor sea-
son, and has kept up ever since. He |
IAN fly the high timbers in 16 seconds
low, and is moving fast in the low
hurdles as WELL