Arizona republican., 1911-12-21
SCHOOL
 ATHLETICS Great Preparations for Inc
 Track Meeting
 CANDIDATES IN TRAINING Daily Work of Trainer J. E. Lewis and His Company of Probable Champions - Boys Are Working Hard in Various Lines of Sport.

John F.. Lewis. the trainer for the i high school, says after training his ] youngsters for about twelve days that [ the high school will have a vGy good
 track team in about another month,
 and that the squad is getting down to
 some very gruelling work in order to get in best trim for the track meet with the Indian school in the middle | oc January.
 This is regarded as valuable dope. as the coaches are the most reticent 1 human beings in the world about giv ing out any advance information on the condition of their ,eams or their impressions of them. There is a sort of handed down philosophy among coaches that it is bad psychology to let the athletes know what kind of an opinion is maintained of them. oth
 er than that they arc not absolutely hopeless for the positions tO which they aspire.
 And as the coach is the most con Servative fellow abou: measuring his team. always chosing to give out dope that would underValue his team rather than Overvalue it. his statement that prospects are bright. must be accepted as significant.
 The training thus far. has been done oi the high school grounds with oc- casional hikes around a section of the town, when the trainer has taken the entire squad for a limbering-up. About twenty-five boys have been out in suits every night, and until the last few days have undergone a general workout. receiving incidentally a few lessons in proper breathing and in Ob- taining a proper stride. chiefly in or der that the trainer may know which events the aspirant is best fitted for. before special training is begun.
 Some have already shown special aptitude for a particular event, and are being coached as to form and as tC the best economy of their energy. An appreciation of these apparently insignificant points makes the differ erce between the ameteur and the professional. just as a knowledge of the small points of a baseball game distinguish a big leaguer from a l 'brusher. and it is this knowledge that wins track meets as well as ball games.
 Trainer John F.. Lewis is as capable 1 man for this kind of instruction as there is in the territory. and has turn | ed out some notable athletes and it | may be he will turn out some more. if l the material is in the school.
 
 and 40 yard runs, Will COrpstein. 1 HOlsinger. Chipperfield. Stover Isaacs | are showing up especially well. on the !, quarter mile Stover Isaacs and Tweed | are both doing work which promises l much worth, as is John Creighton on { the half mile. Charles Orme already | equals the territorial record on the l hammer throw, and is doing well with ! the shot Holsinger also and Marshall | Broadway and Tom Gear are heaving I the weights in good form and will | doubtless make a place on the team.
 So far it iS but a squad. The mat ter of a selection of a team will oc- cur in the early part of January. so the trainer can devote the rest of his time to the men who are tO meet the Indians some day between the 18th and goth of January. Later in the season the team will take trips to other towns and will compete here against visiting teams. while plans are being made for an interschoolastic meet in Phoenix as the climax of the track season at which il is hoped all the high schools in the territory will send teams.
 4 fiVe-mile race between Charles Swiggett. a former high school boy and Edward Craig a student in the Normal school at Tempe will be run at the Fair grounds at 10 o'clock Christmas morning. in which a num- Der of other ameteurs may enter Swiggett says he can run the course in 30 minutes, which is a little nore than a minute behind the pro- 'aSSiOpgl time