The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-13

last year. They will all be In college again.
80 that Harvard 10 we'll enough of for
veteran material, let alone any men from
the freshman team Of this year.
ished second in the championship. this
gan, who was third, have chances to
compete again in the games. r. W.
Hitchcock. 10, Of Cornell, who was in the
finals. but who did not run to form. also
what a race this should be with d, p.
Ranney. 'l2. of Harvard and H.. NJ. Sawyer.
IL, Of Princeton, available for II. Sawyer
is indeed the fastest man In the colleges
for the quarter mile at this time. II he
holds up to his promise it will take n host
OF good goers n a rafting fast pace to
beat him to the line.
All but one of the placed men in the
half mile run this year will be gone next
time. A. +. Beck, Pennsylvania, who was
first; C.. NJ. French. Cornell. third. and
II. A. Splitter. Yale. fourth. are seniors
this year. The second man. w. c. PAUL,
10, of Pennsylvania, is the new captain
Of the Red and Blue team. II will be re-
called that PAUL fairly gave away this
race to his team mate. Beck. after he had
won the mile in record time. It L. con-
sidered a fair prediction that PAUL will
win the half mile and mile next year If
he keeps anything like the form he has
shown this season.
PAUL, although now in his second year
in Pennsylvania. is more like a veteran
athlete than anything seen in the colleges
in years. In 1903, and that is some time
back, he was the man h was close up
to Melvin Sheppard when that athlete
won the mile in the Cornell i~ntersoholastic
games in close to 4 minutes % seconds.
PAUL has been competing steadily ever
since. m as one athletic trainer phrased
it "he knows an awful lot more than any
OF the men he tackles nowadays"
There will be left In the half mile q, H.
Whiteley. 10; l.. Frantz. 10. and W. NJ.
Laird, II, OF Princeton. a trio from which
one man should be produced who can run
q better than a ~presentable half mile.
All these men have done 1 minute So
seconds or so and one at least should be
able to come away down under that
with an even break in good fortune. II
Whitley could get in a full year without
meeting with physical misadventure he
would be able to turn out a cracking half
mile.
PAULA. NEEDS hETTER COMPANY.
In the mile run there will be in next
time of this years point winner PAUL,
G l. Tower. 10. Michigan, third. and DC.
May. 10. Michigan, fourth. W. l., Mctiee,
%. Princeton, is out. He finished sec
ond 1t is sincerely to be hoped that
the other colleges next year have better
men than they did this time. so that PAUL,
given good weather and the condition
he was in this time. may have company
for a greater part of the distance. This
athlete. who set practically all his pace
in the race at Cambridge. had no possible
encouragement to go faster than he did,
As far as he was concerned IL was like
doing a time trial. He had the excite
ment of competition for about sixty yards,
for any mile runner can go sixty yards
with another no matter how fast.
ErDrn chat frint an pnttn una all ulnnn
and had TO make the time OF the race
Just what he chose. That he could have
made q RECORD hat would nave surprised
the world is conceded. 1t was too bad
that IL was not q handicap race, with
MCGEE of Princeton out about forty yards.
cious work in stringing out the others
PAUL probably would bave got up to win
in something surprisingly like Connects
figures. Any athlete who finishes a
race run in such time and under such
conditions of pace as fresh a. was PAUL
certainly deserves to he regarded as the
greatest this country has produced in the
distance line.
Perhaps e season n OF the Cor
n~ellians will be in shape to do something
against PAUL, but unfortunately Young,
who gave promise Of great work this
the Red and Blue athlete this time. There
are plenty Of men still at Cornel who
should develop. INC out of NJ. S. Jones.
4. C. Bean. c. $. Degolyer, n. Ebersole
and L.. r Bogert. all juniors at present,
Moakley ought to be able to get some one
to give PAUL. a contest. II may be, too,
that next year Jaques OF Harvard will
have learned enough about running to
come down around APO for the mile, or
perhaps under that. SO that he can extend
the Pennsylvania ayer for the early part
of the journey in any event.
TAYLOR SHOWS
In the two mile run the only one of
the four men who earned points who will
not he in college next year is Gayle Dull,
the Michigan track captain, who ran
a splendid second to p. j. Taylor Of Cor
nell when the red haired Ithacan was first
in new American record figures. Taylor
has another year to compete, and with
! the experience that he is bound to get
before the next intercollegiate meet il
seems fair to expect that he will go even
faster than he did this time. In his race
at Cambridge he did not run with any very
great judgment. He won chiefly on his
power and speed. A man who was able
10 go anywhere near as fast as he might
have been able to fox him out of he race,
but as he did win these speculations are
hardly worth while.
DUH more than mad up for any OF the
mistakes of last year by his race at Cam
bridge and proved conclusively that he is a
very fast man. He was not beaten any
great distance by Taylor and was trying
every inch OF the last quarter mile. Tay-
lor has a bigger and easier stride than the
Michigan man and had that much natural
advantage on him. The third man in the
race was jacques, the Harvard sophomore,
who beat out F.. c. West. 10, Of Michigan,
Jaaues did not run a good race. as he APP
peared to be doubtful Of his wi powers at
all times. 1t may be that he needs a great
many more RAJ es before he can be SURE of
himself. and it may be too that his early
season campaign. which involved running
both the mile and two miles every time
he started. was too much for him. He Is
a very young lad and probably cannot
stand as much az the older and more sea
soned men whom he met.
4 Until a new group of distance unn
is developed out of the incoming classes
il is likely that these three men. Taylor,
Jaaues and West, will have the edge or
those at present competing. IL is GER
tain that Jacques will make an improve
ment next season, and as soon as he gets
a bit more confidence in himself and
learns that the way to run a race is not &c
hang back for a finishing sprint but TO be-
with the leaders at all times he probably
will do q lot faster performance and viii
be a formidable contender in the inter
collegiate games.
The situation is plain at this time that
distance running in this country has
, made vast Improvement in the colleges
and whereas in the sprints the fields 81
capable men were not nearly 80 large