The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-11
Lawmakers Leave for Lynchburg
Fans Find 1t Hard to Believe
That They Have Winning
Team-Jackson Has
Future-Tennis Sea
son Is Open.
VIRGINIA STATE LEAGUE
Games To-day.
Richmond at Lynchburg.
Roanoke at Portsmouth
Norfolk at Danville
Nv p. J. GRIFF1TH.


James A. Rector. .ttie Virginia Flyer"
must be sent to the Olympic games in
London. He has brought fame and
glory to the University of Virginia
athletics. OF all track events. the 100
yard dash is the most spectacular and
the most coveted, and by smashing the
worlds record at the fifth annual
Southern Intercollegiate meet at Char
lottesviile Saturday. he has sprinted
before the public eye as the greatest
OF short distance runners in history.
East. West. North and South. his
record-o IS seconds.has flashed, not
stopping at the shores of the Atlantic,
but travelling by cable, so that already
the lovers of outdoor sports in England
and other countries have looked twice
and conceded the palm to America, and
to the South, and to Virginia.
TOO much cannot be made of this
human space-eliminator's performance.
It is the first worlds record ever won
by University Of Virginia student,
and will perhaps cause more comment
than any other record ever broken
anywhere.
There was quartering wind that
aided Rector slightly. and the time
may not be allowed by the a. a. u,
although it should be, as 1t was not
sufficient to help him. However, even
II it Is not allowed, Rector can un-
doubtedly repeat the trick again with
out trouble. as he ran on soggy track,
and the university cinder path at It's
best is never very fast.
But the space due this brilliant run
ner for eulogy must be taken up with
an even more important topic: he must
by all means represent the University
Of Virginia in the Olympic games.
On April ED special dispatch was
received from Charlottesville saying
that, at the urgent request of his
father, who Is in i'll health, Rector had
Withdrawn his name from the entry
4 list of Olympic candidates. AT the time
this news came as a great shock to the
Virginia student body, and was Sc
we're blow to the Splinter himself, who
had sat his heart on going to London.
4 But nav, barring accidents as Rector
has proved beyond a doubt that lie can
outclass any sprInter in the world, 1t
would be a great mistake to keep him
from running for minor reasons.
1t is the devout hope of every South
erner With n drop of sporting blood in
his veins-and what one has not got
plenty?---that tho news Of his sons
record will act like q tonic upon Mr..
Rector, ST., and will induce him to feel
willing to let the sprinter cross the
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the worlds best athletes-this much
Mr.. Rector owes to the South
However, Il am convinced that argu-
naent Is unnecessary. Mr.. Rector who
Is n prominent statesman OF Arkansas
has by now received stronger and
more personal reason for changing his
mind, Tho appeal of his sons record
Is In his hands: it is sufficient.
Virginia and the South In general is
proud OF young Rector, and II neces-
saw will charter the Lusitania for his
personal transportation across the
), pond, 3
Fans are stil unable to realize the
baseball situation, The lead held by
the Lawmakers seems too good to be
true, and the results OF games played
they read twice over and then give III
trying to believe that 1t is actual ant
not fancy, 1T is II psychological phe.
nomepn that the brain is unable to
accept any very bad or very good new