Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-09
Princeton Has
Lad Expected TO
Lower Record
Experts Think He Can Snatch the
Laurels So Long Held by
Duffy.

NEW YORK, Jan. s.-For years the pos
sibility of any sprinter ever running 100
yards In 9s seconds unless greatly aided
by the wind on a down grade has been
the medium of long dissertation by scien-
lists, former athletes and athletic critics
galore. Some few there are who will ad-
init that 1t can be done, but a vast ma
jority OF them declare that 9AS is about the
limit.
Now appear three men, all of them we'll
known to the athletic loving public, and at
least two OF them in a position TO give
weight to their words, who declare hat
Princeton university at this present minute
harbors a kid who, given time, should
lower the time first made by Arthur
Duffy.
T.. T. Pendleton of Berkeley Springs, Va,
a freshman at Princeton is the pros
pective record breaker, and Jim McCor-
mick, head coach of the Princeton foot
ball team last year, and one of the great
est fullbacks the game has known; Pop
Lannigan, trainer at the University of
Virginia, and old Bill Foley, who is in
charge of the track team 1T the George
town university, are his sponsors. AL
Copeland who, up to last summer coached
the Tiger team, also looks upon Pendleton
rs one of the coming champs, but does
not go SO far as to predict a record break
ms career for him.
T'cndleton gave more than a hint of what
might be expected of them wheny as a
schoolboS, he ran for the Episcopal high
school, and four times scooted the cen
tury in even time. Flying the same colors,
he made a record of 222s seconds for the
200. He has the ideal build for a sprinter,
standing five feet nine inches in his socks,
and weighing in the neighborhood of 16C
pounds.
Nor does he confine his athletic ac-
tivities to the cinder path. He stars at
either base ball or foot ball, and was cap
tain of the freshman eleven at Princeton
last fall. He hadn't been on the team TIVE
days before the coaches opened their eyes
and took notice, and before the season
was, over they declared him the greatest
quarterback Princeton has had in years.
Lannigan and Foley are not. men to ex.
press such an opinion of a runner if there
were not some grounds for their belief
Foley has turned out some Of the greatest
sprinters and middle distance men. thi,
country has ever had, He coached Arthur
Duffy, the first NAH ever to cover tn,
century in S9S seconds, Bonnie wefers
perhaps the greatest Splinter the worlt
has ever known; Billy Herman, Seitz and
many others, who Won points for the
Catholic school when Georgetown was
real power in athletics.
Lannigan has long been known as thu
wizard of southern collegiate athletics
His University of Virginia teams hav,
been sweeping everything before them 70
years past. He developed Jimmy Rector
looked upon for a short time as the tastes
man in the country at 100 yards, and VIII
might have given the sprint record a
least a mighty serious jar had he not beef
forced, by his parents, to quit the game.
Pendleton hasn't nearly reached his full
, developments. He is only a little past l
} years of age now, and should not be at hi
best for a couple of years, If then. Wit
the sort Of training he might be expecte,
to receive at Princeton there is no tellinI
what he may do before he winds up hi
collegiate career.