The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-13
PAUL. WILL TRY
TO LOWER RECORD
Pennsy Flyer Entered in the
Federal Games.
CARLISLE INDIANS COMING
Glen Warner TO Send Down seven
Clever Redskin Athletes, Among
Whom Is Tewanina, "A Member of
the Olympic Team-EntFy List
Largest In History of Sport.

When the last runner in the final relay
race on the evening programme OF the
Federal indoor games shall have crossed
the tape on the track in Convention Hall
Saturday, the curtain viii fan on the
biggest set OF track and field events
that Washington has ever seen. Five
hundred and ffty-six individual athletes
from nearly one hundred clubs. schools
ana colleges Of four states and the Dis
trict Of Columbia are entered In forty
nine events. including twenty relay races
With a record which has stamped him
as the fastest AmeriCan-bJrH mile run
ner. ". {. PAUL captain OF the Uni
yersity Of Pennsylvania team. intercol-
legiate champion and record holder. viii
make an attempt In the Federal games
20 create new American record for the
oEe-mile run. This attempt will be made
IN a special 0ne-mile handicap run, in
which the number Of entries Will be
limited 10 six or seven men. Tire track
will be accurately measured with a steel
tape, and every precaution taken 10 make
| the conditions conform 10 the require
ments of the Amateur Athletic Union
|
record.
Remarkable Race.
/ Il was in the intercollegiate champion
/ ships al Cambridge last year that PAUL,
/ in the most remarkable race "a the HIS
| tory OF college games. ran one mile in
I minutes l. - seconds, not only set
ting ND new figures for the distance but
making time which no native son has ap-
/ preached With the exception Of the
( first @00 Yards. PAUL made all the pace,
running the first quarter in = % seconds,
going 70 the half in 2.C3. reaching the
I thTce-quarter mark ia 3l1, and finishing
without any effort at sprinting in new
] record time PAUL also has record Of
l.55 for the half mile. and 9.22 for two
miles That he is Just now in prime con-
dtion is evident from the fact that in
the last relay of a two-mile race against
I Yale in New York two weeks ago he ran
the half mile in 2.m. winning the race
! for Pennsylvania, and again in Buffalo
/ on February S. when he ran the same
/ distance three-ffths Of a second faster
/ IN similar race against Cornell which
/ the Quakers won easily
/ The present indoor record Is 419 As.
made in Madison Square Garden, New
/ York by H. L. Trube Of the New
| York Athletic Club. February l&, 1873.
Besides PAUL the University Of Penn
/ sylvsnia will be represented by seven
teer other men. who have been entered
in all the open handicap events on the
/ Quaker team are Burdick and Lane in
/ the running high jump. the former with a
/ record Of feet ? inches. and the latter
with a mark Of feet II inches and
/ Baker formerly Of Swarthmore. a point
winner for two years in the intercoHe-
giate half-miIe championship, and a
strong running mate TO PAUL
seven Indians Coming.
Glenn Warner. coach Of nationwide
fame. has entered in the Federal games
seven doughty Indian athletes from the
Carlisle school, four of whom viii run
on = one-mile relay team. Leading the
/ file 81 redskins will be Louis Tewanina.
member of the Marathon squad Of the
American Olympic team last year and
with 4 record well inside OF ten minutes
FOR the twO-mile run. IA which he will
compete next Saturday night. With him
in the same event will be Fred Pappsn.