Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-07
oLYMPlAp WINNERS RETIRE.
Greatest Collection of American Ath-
Ietes Have Left the Cinder Path and
the Spiked Shoe.


BY the time the next Olympiad rolls
around who will be the athletes to
represent America in the same sweep
ing fashion that the representative of
the Amateur Athletic union defeated
the rest of the world at the London
Olympiad?
That was only a year and q half or
so ago, and yet today not more than
two-thirds of the members OF that
team are actively Interested in anna
teur athletics. One of them. John B.
Taylor, Jr., of the University of
Pennsylvania one of the best quarter
milers that ever drew on a running
shoe, is dead. Some few have turned
professional. Almost a score OF the
others have found that business and
athletics do not mix and have given
up the game.
Hurders Have Retired.
If Yank Robbins is sincere in his
determination to quit running. athlet-
les will have lost every man who rep
resented America in two events-the
10 meter hurdles and the 400 meter
cans-F'orrest z. Smithson. johnny
Garrels, A. b. Shaw and w. T. Rand
qualified for the final heat. They
have all retired from athletics, and
last heard of Smithson he was headed
for British Columbia, with the inten-
ton of taking up a farm under the
homestead laws.
Yankees in the fnal-Yanlx Robbins.
]. c. Carpenter and John b. Taylor,
Jr. Taylor died of pneumonia about
year ago. Carpenter has not appeared
in competition since his return from
England, and only the other day Rob
bins declared that he had chased his
last medal. This announcements, how
ever, is not taken very seriously.
cartmeII Professional.
Other events have not suffered so
h I.n.f
not lost some one. Take the sprints.
Nat Cartmell of Old Penn, point Win
ner in both the 100 and 200 meter
sprints, has turned professional and is
running as such in England. Jimmy
Rector's parents objected to any fur
Their participation IN athletics ON his
part and he retired. Recently he join
ed the Missouri Athletic 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 Law
son Robertson is a professional trainer,
handling the Irish-American Athletic
clubs track and field representatives.
Harry Hillman and Charley Bacon
ran for the United States in the 400
sneter~hurdles. Hillman recently left
the amateur ranks to become coach
and trainer of the Dartmouth univer-
sity athletes and it's Just about toss
up whether Ham ever returns to the
races. He has done little or no train
ing for a long time, and it is even
petition. He has settled down and
hasn't much time ON his hands as
he used to.
Two of the Neutrality-suspicious.
Hayes and Tom AIorrissey-turned pro
long since Some of the others, Mike
Ryan and Lewis Tewanina, for exam
pie, are still plugging along in the am
ateur ranks. Roy WeltOn and Joe
Forshaw, our other representatives i'm
the Windsor to stadium race, have
dropped out.
Coming back to the shorter dis
tances. there are Harry Trube and C.
A. Dull, college men both one hailing
from Cornell and the other from
Michigan. Trube is down in Connec-
ticut and may go back to training next
uated from the Ann Arbor institution
and left his running toys behind him
America grabbed off more than its
fair percentage of points in the pole
vaults, but could not call upon the
same men TO repeat A. G. Gilbert of
Yale and Eddie Cook of Cornell. tied
for first place, but both have left col
lege and neither has had time to keep
up with the procession since gradual
ing. Gilbert is out on the coast in
business.
Ralph Rose, another champion from
the far west, is the next thing to be-
ing on the retired list. He is either
studying or practicing law and hasn't
pulled down a medal in a long time
Probably il some Of his records wore
upset he would jump in aeain and
hoist them a few inches. But Just now
he has too many other tlHpes to think
Of TO devote any time % putting the
shot. G. X Dearborn another WEIGHT
time he held the worlds discus record,
but Sheridan robbed him Of that hon
or, and since the Olympics he basn
been very much in the limeiight.