The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-08

INC WlSOOn OF tndt DOuN, nut is also
a substantial recognition of the eff.
flcicnt services rendered by these two
appointees during the last Olympiad
in London in 1908.
Matthew p. Halpin, captain of the
New York Athletic club, who managed
the affairs of the American athletes
during the olympic games in London
four ear ago. and who has just been
:eappointed manager of the American
Olympic team for 1912. knows the
business n of athletic affairs from
a to lizard. and then Il few laps he
You'd. Matt" will have charge of the
troublesome detail stuff and see that
Uncle Sans boys get Il square deal all
around after they kick up the foam
past the Statue of Liberty. and when
it comes to u%nraveling a tangled skein
of conditions and worrisomc detail
that would have the average man
thinking himself b~aldhcadcd. Matt
can give any guy in the business a few
laps of a handicap and beat him to
the tape,
Mike" Murphy. everybody knows
Mike" the dean of all athletic train
erS and the man h invented the Sys-
tenn for training and developing atll-
letcs that is now considered de trop
In the best circles of the athletic
world.
The a who raised American track
atnIeticS from an aiSo-ran in COMPARE
son with the track stars of Europe to
the supremacy of the athletic world,
and who for a period OF ten Years,
When American athletes werc making
the wonderful strides forward that
nave compelled the stars OF Europe
TO cat their dust. developed every
champion that tho American cindcr
path has known.
Olympic Trainer in 1908.
Mike was selected as trainer and
coach for the American team that
competed in the London Olympiad of
OF inns International athletic classic
a Uncle Sam been represented by
such a finely conditioned and we'll.
advised bunch of athletes us at Lon
uon III 1909. The success Won by the
American team at the London games
was largely due to tho efficient work
OF Murphy. and in the selection Of
Mike TO again serve in the capacity
III trainer and coach for the 1917 team
at Stockholm, the Olympic COMMITTEES
Is acknowledging recognition of his
'hlcient and valuable work i'm this ca
pacltY during the international con-
tests of 1908. With Matt Ualpin and
Mike Murphy in charge of the two
important ends of the coming OLYMPIC
contests, Your Uncle Sammy can lust
lean pack and light his old corncob
WIN inc assurance that if his boys
n exclusives excitement in
Stockholm next summer it is lust be-
cause they haven't the stuff on the
team, that's all.
IN the entire history of athletics.
from Hector of Troy down to Mel
Sheppard, there has never been n man
VINO mas attained such an eminent
position in the conditioning and dc
Neloping of athletes as that occupied
NY NIKE murphy. Systematic training
n development of an athlete was
practically unknown when Mike first
lacked the job back in 1876. an ath-
lete S success then being large depend
eHt upon his natural ability. and Mike
originated the present systematic
method of athletic development and
trough it UP to it's p~rcsent-day.
science. When Mike tackled the gam.
ne began TO athletes out of
raw material instead uf waiting tin
tneE had beer made before handling
mem, as mad been the custom with the
le" trainers who had been in tho bust
ness before him. lind he has practical
~ made nearly all the greatest
that American rack ana
field athletics have known.
Murphy's Lifn study.
Track athletics and the dcvelnpmcnt
OF athletes have been the life study of
Mike Murphy. and not i'm tho wide
world To-Day IS there a man more
skl!ied IN a knowledge of the tech
nlque of the game. style. track gem
etralship. ETC.. or more p~erspicacious
IN seeing the physical needs of n
particular athlete who happens TO
come under his watchful eve. He has
uncanny knack of picking cham
plonship timber ont of untricd raw
material. in this respect being to
american track athletics what Connie
MACK is to baseball.
america owes to none other than
Mike Murphy. the afthcr of the pres-
ent system of conditioning and train
ing athletes, her grabbing the suprr-
macy in track athletics from England.
VINO twenty years ago was considered
unpeateablc on the cinder path. In
tne eight Years intervening between
,a'- ana 1900 the period in which
anisrlea made her most gigantic
s,rldes IN track athletics. Mike Muir
pnH developed every champion of the
spiked shoe in America except Hollis
Ter or Harvard, and it was these cham
plonS OF Mixes who Tut America on
the map OF the athletic world. Mikes
success with the system that he orig
mated for the development of attn
ietes has rcvolutionizcd track attn
ietics IN America. and has brought
the preparation OF athletes for a
campaign up to a science
An example of Murphy's ability to
recognize latent talent and develop
material is shown in his develop
ment OF MaNcy Long. the champion
uuarter.mlier whom Murphy declares
be the best quarter-miler he ever
saW. Long WAS a bicycle rider when
MURPHY first picked him up. and had
never performed on the cinder path
wore a spiked shoe. Mike took
l,im 70 a track in New York and in
nuced MIN to try the work. and after
watching Maxey teal down the tract
on MS first sprint he remarked that
had at last discovered a hamnio
Long was then necessarily
and faulty in his style and en-
dangered no records i'm the perform.
G Mike taught Maxey Long the
technlque of the game and deveIoped
nlm into the best quarter-miler in
country. a"
announcer example of Murphy's sue
cess with raw material is shown in his
development of John Flanagan. the
champion s%hot-putter and hammer
hrower. who couldn't throw the ham
.ner 100 feet when Murphy first got
MIN under his wing. AS a matter Of
!act. Flanagan was nothing bnt a
oiG husky guy. whom possibly any
Dillet tosser who had been sra bhins
lunch on the scrap pile at the steel
lpl!l could have distanced with the
ights but Murphy taught him the
game n worked with him one sum
tneI' developing him into one of the