The Washington times., 1910-06-04
MANY STAR ATHL ETES
LOST BY ORDINATIONS
Coy Ph1bin Fish Dawson Paul. and Tobn Viii Re-
ceive Degrees From Their Respective Colleees at
Commandments This Week

Maine; Martin. Of Tufts. and DeMott.
of Lafayette
Anr there are track Ell. too. who are
wearing the spiked 81 0es for the last
time IN college compe- tons PAUL. of
pennsylvania, holder { Z the mile inter
colieSlate record, minutes Il As sec
onds, has already run his last race for
the Red and Blue His consistency as q
performer has been remarkable, He
never lost one match race in a scratch
competition since lie was q SchOoIbOy
at Mercersburg until Bernrl, Of Cornell,
set up a new American record OF
minutes % 20 seconds 20 two miles
and broke the record held hv another
great graduating track f.t.lete-J. p.
Iayior, also of Cornell. who ran the dis
tance in minutes z So 81 conds at last
years intercollegiate.
Is Still Champion.
Taylor is still the An erican intercol-
leGiate record-ho.der. and, though not
a consistent performer like PAUL, he is
highly representative of the form in
distance running taught al Cornell by
NOakley- TayIor's defeat OF PAUL in the
mile at the Intercollegiate was fitting
climax 10 q brilliant running career
Harvard loses a star IN the graduation
OF Can't. G &. Little. 4 man who showed
remarkable pluck and versatility. When
a foreign growth IN titles wrist pre-
vented him from putting the shot. his
special event. he turned at once TO broad
jumping. and became unusually prof
cient- Another example Of resourceful-
ness in a graduating athlete is that Of
Gardner. OF Harvard. the crack low
hurdler. who. when Foster. the cham
plon. Splinter. suffered a breakdown;
went INTO the 1Oo-yard dash in the dual
meet with Yale and cove ed the distance
in 10 seconds Foster. 4 he completes
his course in three years. as he prob
ably viii. may also be reckoned among
no Al - H..
ing on. along with sherman of Dart
mouth. RamSdeN Of Pc nsylvania. and
Roberts OF Amherst
JaDtaiE Moore. o. Princeton. an old
Mercersbury boy. and a pole vaulter
able 10 negotiate a height Of ~ elve feet.
ordinarily. Is another star athlete who
VIII be lost from intercollegiate meet
! inEs by graduation
Penn Hard Hit.
Turning to football again. one finds
I that the Pennsylvania eleven suffers
| almost as heavily by graduation as even
Yale or Princeton. Eleven members OF
| the 1903 varsity football squad have
worn the red and blue for the last time.
! They are Captain Miller. Eraddock
| Dietrich. Lamberton. Terrier, Burns,
/ Marks, Thaye-. Ramsdeu Che sprinterl,
! ana Eurdic6- While Penn was some
| what below her usual standard last
| fan. IL must be obvious that the loss OF
| a full eleven OF ''F'' men represents q
| calamity were the game Of football set
1 forth for -he coming season more near
, ~ similar 10 the garle which has eX-
| listed hitherto
At Dartmouth, in edition to Captain
| Tobin. the veteran tackle, Lang L
Bankhart, an end. and Brady get theil
| sheepskins this month Brady. while
/ not a remarkably fine football player
| was and is one OF the finest college first
| basemen who have played baseball. and
/ he was also one OF the cleverest basket
/ bail players at a college where the
! sport is well developed and encouraged
| during the long winter months.
Brown University Will miss an All
I America end when the college football
! nelds are marked out again KIT Reg
/ nier will give no more exhibitions OF
| brilliant, speedy, down-the-field football
/ Racquet and German, veterans Of the
/ Brown line. depart also.
Two Brothers Stars.
| Harvard loses. besides her football
/ captain, a really extraordinary athlete
in p. Wilmington. brother Of the varsity
J captain-elect, and like him. too, a
| wrestler and oarsman. Neither OF the
! Wtthingtons had played much football
] as schOOlbOys. but the natural aptitude
! for athletics enabled them 10 learn the
/ game and play it on equal or almost
/ equal terms with men who had had the
| foundations Of their football knowles q
1 drilled into them at AndOver or Exeter
/ Hill or HOtchkiss. Mercersburg or Law
| ~enceville-
/ Harvard loses Gil Browne, too. and
/ also L. Houston. These men were good
/ ends and knew plenty Of football by the
/ time their football careers ended.
| The list Of minor college stars who
| graduate is long. and IL embraces men
who could surely have made places for
| themselves on the big university teams.
! eBsides the baseball players 10 whom
! reference has been made, such football
! players as McCaa, Of Lafayette, and
/ NoOrhis, OF Pennsylvania State, stand
( out. McCaa was a wonderful punter, q
rugged Iine-plunging back OF the old
/ fashioned type, and a defensive player,
alert. Shifty. intuitlve. VOOrhis, strong
/ open-feld player that he was. made a
! speciality Of drop kicking and place kick
/ ing
! The smaller colleges IN New England
! suffer heavily Colby IS Unlikely TO ind
another Ralph Good in q hurry, al
/ though Ralph's brother, Roy. is an ath-
/ lete not TO be moderated. Trinity keeps
/ nine of her remarkably fast and strong
} first eleven OF 1909. Yet can III AFFORD 20
/ lose Henshaw and McElroy, since she
/ has but a comparatively small number
/ Of students who may replace these men.
| in losing WelCh and Cassidy at the
| tackles, Vermont loses the strength of a
I line which for four years has been a
| thorn in the side Of Dartmouth, and
/ Slavin, a back-field player, will be a
{ hard man to replace anywhere or under
| any rules Of football. Wallace. of Tufts,
\ was an extraordinary thrOwer Of the
forward pass in football.