Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
ATHLETES QUIT THE CANE
About Half of Olympic Champions
Now in Harness and Training.
NEW BLOOD TO THE FRONT
Team hat Defeated the Athletic
world r. Now Scattered Broad
east over the Land, Although
Some stiIl Train,

Some StiIl Train,
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-About eighteen
months ago the Amateur Athletic union.
after a series of tryouts OF various sections
OF the country, selected a team to repre-
sent America at the London Olympiad. It
proved to be one Of the greatest collections
of athletes ever gathered together to fight
for a common cause. and easily defeated
the rest Of the athletic world.
That was only a year and a half or so
ago, and yet today not more than two
thirds of the members OF hat team are
actively interested In amateur athletics.
One Of them, John b. Taylor, jr., one Of the
best quarter-milers tha ever drew on a
running shoe, is dead. Some few have
turned professional. Almost a score of the
others have found that business and ath-
lctics do not mix and have given up the
game.
II Yank Robbins is sincere in his deter
mination to quit running, athletics will
have lost every man who represented
America in two events-the 11O-meter
hurdles and the 40O-meter flat race. In
the former four Aforementioned c..
Smithson. Johnny Garrels, A. B.. Shaw and
w. e. ~Rand-qualified for the final heat.
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are following different careers. The last
heard of SmIthson he was headed for
Columbia, with the intention of
taking up a farm under the homestead
laws.
The 400 flat race had three Yankees
in the final-"Yank" Robbins, ]. C. Car
penter and John b. Taylor, jr. Taylor
died of pneumonia about a year ago. Car
penter has not appea ed in competition
since his return from England, and only
the other day Robbins declared that he
had chased his last medal. This announce
ment, however, is not taken very seriously.
Other events have not suffered so much,
but there is hardly one that has not lost
some one. Take the sprints. Nat Cartwell,
a point winner in both the 100 and 2OO-meter
sprints, has turned professional and Is run
ming as such in England. Jimmy Rector's
parents objected to any further participa-
ton in athletics on his part, and he re-
tired. Recently he Joined the Missouri Ath-
letic club and may represent the st. Louis
club in future, but for a long time he did
nothing. Dan Kelly hasn't been heard
from and Lawson Robertson is a profess
sional trainer, handling the disclaimer
lean Athletic clubs track and field repre-
sentatives.
HiIIman out of Running.
Harry Hillman and Charley Bacon ran
for the United States in the 4OO-meter
hurdles. Hillman recently left New York
to become coach and trainer of the Dart
mouth university athletes, and it's Just
about a tossup whether Han ever returns
to the races. He has done little or no train
ing for a long time, and 1t is even longer
since he has appeared in competition. He
has settled down and hasn't as much time
on his hands \as he used to.
America grabbed off more than it's fair
percentage of points in the pole vaults.
but could not call upon the same men to
repeat. A. c. Gilbert OF Yale and Eddie
of Cornell tied for first place, but
both have left college and neither has had
time to keep up with the procession since
graduating. Gilbert is out on the coast in
business.
Ralph Rose, another champion from the
far west, is the next thing to being on the
retired list. He is either studying or prac-
ticing law and hasn't pulled down a medal
in a long time. Probably If some of his
records were upset he would jump in again
and hoist them a few inches. But Just now
he has too many other things to think
Of to devote any time to putting the shot.
G. K. Dearborn, another weight man, has
$3.50 NhANN a oACAN llllAG n6 HOlu lnb
worlds discus record, but Sheridan robbed
him of that honor and since the Olympics
he hasn't been very much in the lime
light.
Two of the marathoners-Johnny Hayes
and Tom Morrissey, turned pro long since.
Some of the others, Mike Ryan and Lewis
Tewanina, for example, are still plugging
along in the amateur ranks. Roy Welton
and Joe Forshaw, our other Representatives
in the Observation-Disclosures race, have
dropped out.
Coming back to the shorter distances,
there are Harry Trube and @. A. Dull.
college men both, one hailing from Cornell
and the other from Michigan. Trube is
down in Connecticut and may go back to
training next summer, but 1t is doubtful.
Dull graduated from the Ann Arbor insti-
tuition and left his running togs behind
him.
Many Of the big point winners are stll
left, but one rafting good team could be
made up from the ranks OF those who have
either given up the game or have turned
professional.