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to the men from whom he had started
away. He was nearly, II not surely, the
best runner in the race, but threw away
his chances by an ill Judged piece OF run
ming In the relay meet however he per-
mitted his opponent from Dartmouth ito
pass him. link then took a sleIghride in
back OF the Dartmouth man while the lat.
ter acted as a wind-breaker. Then he came
away when the stretch was reached and
won easily from firing rival. More races
are won with heads than with feet
1t Is right that some consideration should
be given to the man who made champion
ship team possible at Columbia This is
the first time since the relay games were
established many years ago that Columbia
has had a champion team. In 1898 a team
composed of Johnny Clark Frank Steven
Homer johnson and Maxey Long, won in
the class race, defeating Cornell and some
other colleges. But that was in the class
just behind the championship lot made up
then OF Harvard. Yale, Princeton and
Pennsylvania The succeeding year Co.
lumbia was beaten In the same class by
Syracuse.
The men at the college give high praise
for the championship team to Joshua B.
Crooks, who has been in charge OF athlet-
les In the local institution for the last two
years. He had personal charge of the de-
velopment OF three of the four men on the
Columbia team. Benton Saunders, Anthony
link and George Hoyns were trained by
him. Ferris HetheringtOn had some in
struction under Ernest Hjertberg, the
former trainer OF the Columbia track ath-
letes Crooks has worked hard and quietly
He has had to contend with all the prob
lens that a Columbia trainer has to con-
tend with.
The field on which the men have 70 train
is inadequate. The track Is small, OF about
six laps to the mile and in poor condition.
Il is no place in which to Mt men for races
on larger tracks. because Il destroys all
their sense OF distance In races on the reg
ulation quarter-miie paths Every condi-
ton which other college trainers look upon
as things 10 be accepted as a matter OF
course are unfavorable TO Crooks Those
who predicted when he FIRST took his posi-
ton that he would one day turn out as did
John F. Moalley OF Cornell, are beginning
10 believe that their prediction was not far
from the facts In the case.
Harvard's English she'll.
The proposed acquisition by the Harvard
crew Of a new rowing boat which comes all
the way from England has caused not a
little comment among rowing mem The
Yale oarsmen In particular regard the move
with dlsfavor and Captain Ide. the varsity
crew leader in the New Haven institution,
says that he believes that n Harvard
sticks TO the English boat beating IL In
store fer the Crimson. That is as may be,
but "a the casual observer It appears very
much as II It would take more than an
English boat 10 defeat Harvard II the
Yale boat cannot do Il, Il Is far from likely
that Harvards own shell viii
Captain Ide is OF the opinion that what
is going to hamper the Cambridge Oarsmen
is the new arrangement Of seats and out
ringers. or rather. 20 be more accurate.
the. absence Of outriggers. The British
boats are arranged unlike those In the
United States. 30 that the seats are not IN
direct line. but on opposite sides Of the