Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-01-23
RED-ToPPED ATHLETES.
Great Year for the Strong and Speedy
Men With Titan Locks.

Many fond mother who has
brooded over the fact that her hope
full has locks of flaming red will take
heart when she reads the resume of
athletics for 1908, and notes the fact
that the chief honors on the cinder
path this year have fallen to red
headed runners.
Who won the junior cross country
championship at Celtic park recently,
outclasSing a field of fourscore run
ners, and winning in record time a!
Why, red-headed Jimmie Lee of Bos-
ton. And it was Lee, too. the week
previous who showed the athletic
fans a streak of gameness that soft
ened the heart of every man and Wo-
man that saw the race. Lee ran the
whole last two miles in a condition
bordering on collapse, and fiopDed
over helpless the instant he realized
that he had completed the journey
Who won the ten-mile champion
ship-the very race in which Lee
showed all this grit? Why, red headed
Jack Eisele, from Newark, n. ]. Eisele
ran the fastest ten miles since the DAYS
Of Willie Days. minutes and Is sec
onds. Eisele is some game, too. II is
not so long ago that we read asout
his running the English three milers
to a standstill at the Olympic games
and giving the British athletic ex-
perts the scare of their lives. And
this after having the nail torn off one
of his big toes. Eisele ran with his
foot bandaged and suffered excruciat-
ing pain at every stride.
Who was the star of the distance
races at the outdoor championships
last summer? Why, red-headed Mike
Driscoll, from Yonkers, the Hill city.
Driscoll has defeated such champions
as Reilly of the Mohawks. Lee of
Boston, Bellars of the New York A.
c., Bonhag, Joyce, Daily and Collins
at the indoor championships he
thrilled the whole athletic world with
a performance of 9.2S 20 for two
miles on the boards.
When Uncle Sam needed a sprinter
to uphold his name in the 2OO-metre
race at London who was it that shot
away from the mark like a streak
and after one of the most stirring
races of the Olympiad, plunged
behind Bobby Kerr, the pride of Can
ada? Why that was red-headed Bob
by Cloughen of the Irish American
A. A. Cloughen upheld the Stars and
Stripes in other countries, too. He
won the 200-metre events at interna-
tional meets in Dublin, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Malmo, Norkopping and
ONONhiOllil al III NIPlOp time.
Cloughen made good on the boards,
too, by winning both the 60-yard and
75-yard indoor championships in rec
ord time.
Cornell university has a sorrel-
topped star, too. His name is Taylor,
and in another year-so says Jack
Moakley-he is going to show a brand
Of running that will startle the whole
of athletic America. Taylor was prob
ably held back in the fall. Moakley
knew that he had a winner in Captain
Young and saved the new star for
another year. At that Taylor materi-
ally aided Cornell in winning the in
tercollegiate cross-country champion
ship by racing home in fourth position
close behind PAUL., the university of
Pennsylvania champion. Taylor was
the second Cornell man to cross the
finish line.
Jim Archer. the Irish American
sprinter, is another read-headed run
ner who is good. OF late Archer has
been off his form, but look up his rec
ord and you will find him a Junior
champion in 1906. as we'll as the win
ner of many handicaps in lightning
time,