The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-08-15
AFRICAN SPRTNTER
LIVES LIKE PRINCE
Walker Has Valet and One Other Attendant
and AEwayS Travels First Class

| No. there's nothing mean about Reg.
! Walker. that South African sprinter. He
lives well and gets his living dead easy.
too. AS told in a New York paper a fort
night ago. Walker has sinecure Job
with a millionaire mine owner down in
South Africa He draws good pay. comes
Gown to the Office at 10 IN the morning,
and leaves at 3. Just now Walker is tax
| ing a two-year vacation at full pay that
was forced upon him by his employer. 80
that he might 60 a-sprintiug round the
world
Now coWe to us tales about the splen-
COR in which Walker travels about Eng
| land. appearing here and there at track
meets. Bill Coe, the Boston A. A. shot
/ putter. has run across Reg. time and
again abroad. and he says that no prince
| ever went IA better style A valet. If you
/ please, waits on Walkers every need
! presses his clothes. aids him to dress.
/ bah jove, and makes himself useful in a
/ thousand and one ways Then Walker
4 has an attendant we almost forgot
who rubs his masters racing muscles
morning. noon. and night This fellow
carries the grips and does all the low
brow work that the valet cannot descend
/ C.. Walker and his suite travel first class
! wherever they 90, live at the best hotels.
and eat OF the very finest that the land
| produces.
And He's an Amateur.
The above is a fair sample OF amateur
Ism as It exists in England to-day. And
the Britishers are sneering at the quality
Of the amateur standing of the men Uncle
sam sent 10 the London Olymplad last
summer! Suppose J. P. Morgan or J. D..
Rockefeller were TO hire Martin Sheridan
q work" for him and then turn the big
Cclt loose with an unlimited wad TO tour
America. attended by a valet and other
servants. living At swell hotels &c. How
long do you suppose the Jim Sullivan
crowd would stand for that?
Can any one deny that Walker Is max
ing his good living out OF his running?
And can any one pick an American 1903
Olympic winner who has a job from
which he is excused with full pay for two
years TO go on an athletic tour? Go
through the list There's Sheppard He
can't get of from the customs service to
- more than tep hours away from Phila-
delphia. Ewry IS in the navy yard in
Brooklyn six days a week. Every day he
Is away costs him real money. Martin
Sheridan lost his pay on both the Athens
1906 Olympic trip and last years jaunt 10
London. Charley Bacon. the 4O0-meter
hmdler. gets his bread and butter lithO-
graphing When he's away from the shop
there is no envelope for him on Saturday.
Right through the entire list it's the
same way.
When a BritOn stops working.
When a man attSins the title OF world
beater in England that's the end Of bust
ness and work for him. J. w. Morton.
the English champion Splinter, was here
in 1905. He made no secret Of the fact
that the "swag' was good in King Ed
wards land. and openly ridiculed the
Yankee athletes for running for mere
medals. Morton travelled about in much
the style that Walker does, only not quite
SO swell
Alfred Shrubb, the greatest distance
runner Britain ever produced. was elected