The evening world., 1911-05-29
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John Paul Jones's Two Great
Races at intercollegiate
Meet Stamp Him as the Best
Middle. Distance Runner That
Ever Lived.
oosyashA 1911. b. Ths Pre~ Puhiishins o..
Che Nsv Yorh WORLD.

The Nsv York World.
THE performance Of John Paul
Jones In the intercollegiate
championships IL the most nota-
BILE event OF the amateur athletic year.
When Tommy Conner ran a mile in I
minutes Is Sc seconds in 1896 the ath-
ietic sharps predicted that his figures
would stand on the record books for q
the greatest Of college and club coaches
and trainers AVE been busy trying to
bring out . runner to beat Conef's
wonderful performance. Just how won
derful Il was time showed. Until Sat-
urday no other man had come within
seconds OF II. John Paul Jones II only
twenty years Of age, and his recent de-
velopmeat Of speed la been % phe-
nomenai that no doubt before he leaves
college he will even beat this new mile
record.
The Corusll wonders haif mile. l6l %-6,
was also near the record. Running two
suoh Sreat races In q single meet marks
him - the best middie-distancs runner
that ever wore spiked shoes. Even the
famous Mel Sheppard isn't In his class.
S INV IA nhpic R6EIOTI1AnCS
were those of Craig OF Michigan. who
eQuAlled the worlds record In the 10
yard sprint. q l-6 seconds. and the
wefsrs intercollegiate record Of st-5
ssconas In the 100 yards. Here Is an.
oth9 man who will go on breaking
records In the future. Harry Babcock's
poh vault. II feet 8 s-s inches, was In tho
same class. and he IL improving steadily
and will 20 higher. d. h. Youns's quar-
tsr-mile In q <-6 seconds. T.. y. Berna'y
tWo-mns record OF 9.s i-6, Chishoim's
swo hurdle racer. and Horner's shot-put
q . Feet ~ inches. are all OF SUFFICIENT
CLASS to guarantee the athletes a place
ON the next American Olympic cam.
And 70 show that America can stiii beau
the world on track and Geld.
Hn International amateur bozins
that was held finally
at the National 8. C. saturda,
night brought out q few interesting in.
cidsnts. In the hrst bout Allen Of Eng.
land beat Rsgan Of Boston. the Ameri-
can fsatherwsight champion, nearly iii
h way. The frst two rounds were all
AnsnS. In half the third Regan, who
was game and willing. o%utpunched the
0nglhhman. but the visitor came back
a turned the tables again. The
judges disagreed n Patsy Haley. who
re6srssd. ave Regan the decision.
Whsthsr prejudice or poor Judgment
Wa behind the rsfsree's verdict. Il wa
nothing short Of outrageous.
In spits Of what they must have
thought about such an unfair decision
In the nrst bout. tho other English
boxers went ON In their turn without a
word Of protest. Albert spencelsy. the
lightweight. was next. He too got a
sample Of Haley's unfairness or incom-
petenoA According to the amateur
rAss . knockdown terminates a round.
opsncelsy was matched against Tom
Aooovsrn Of the New West Side A. c..
MooGvsrn knocked tho English boxer
Town hard with a clean left hook to
tAs Jaw. Instead Of stopping the round
Haley stepped back. The E%nglishman
looked around Questionlngly. but seeing
no gisam OF intelligence in the referees
fecs took the count OF nine and got ND
to hght In sheer desperation. The rest
OF the round was a rare smuggling match.
In the second S~penceley, who was
clever ana a fighter too. fought as II he
knew he must knock his man out to
win. He s!usged McGovern until the
latter was staggering. and finally
knocked him nat on his back In his
own corner. II Is doubtful that Me-
Govern could have risen to his feet.
But he didn't need 20. This time Haley
knew the rules. having listened 10 much
advice from the spectators. and he i'm.
msdiately stopped the round Two min
utes and a half had passed. McGoyern
got his minutes rest and came up again.
Spenceley ave him a hard beating for
-four minutes (the last being a four
mtnut rount In each bou) and this
time the Judges agreed. Spence!ey won.
Beckman OF New York beat Saunders
Of canada easily In two rounds, the
Canadian being outclassed. "Oh, you
Reciprocity" yelled a g~alleryite.
The featherwelghts were Ralph Erskine
OF Scotland and Alfred Roofe o. Can
ada. Erskine. a clever seventeen-year
Old schoo boy. won easily. Hufnagle,
the American champion, was to have
boxed IN this class. but II tho A. A. U.
10 on the Job Hufnagle may never box
again as an amateur. The Of
the show says that Hufnagle came
around to box. but in the presence of
Mr.. McKiniry. President OF the Pastime
A. c.. demanded a little too much Eek
p0hoo money LOT an amateur.
r. c. Warnes. the English middle
weight. beat Napoleon Boutilller of Bos-
ton. knocking him down in thlrty-four
seconds OF the first round. and outpoint-
Ing him thereafter. The Judges agreed
again. Boutillier was national cham
pion. He made a good fight
The crowd was feeling a little quiet
by this time. but the heavyweight bout
made up for everything that had gone
before. Frank PARKS of England met
William spengler. metropolitan cham
pion. Parks was a burly fellow, with
a large black mustache. Spengler was
somewhat skinny. but he could hght.
He outclassed the Briton from the start.
Parks didn't know much about boxing
Both OF his eyes were nearly closed Il
the beginning Of the third round. bur he
was game. Parks was punched gro2gy
and dropped In three minutes and forty
I'VE seconds OF the third round. and
opengier won.