Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
COLLEGE RUNNERS
Do Not Want to Try Out for
Marathon Race.
DISTANCE IS TOO GREAT
Western College Conference Threat
ened With Disruption Because Of
Continued Wrangling.
BY EDWARD R. BUSHNELL.

With the exception Of the Carlisle In
dian School the intercollegiate world will
not furnish any competitors for Olympic
honors In the marathon run conducted
next Friday by the Boston Athletic AS
ISOLATION. The American Olympic COM
mittee has named this run as one of the
official try-outs for selecting the twelve
men who will represent this country in
the marathon run to be held in connec-
ton with this years Olympic games at
Stockholm. Although the committee had
hopes that some Of the cross-country run
ners OF the twenty-five different colleges
might find 1t Of interest to try for the
marathon race by general consent. they
have considered this distance too long
for them. The exception referred to is
Lewis Tewanimi, who represents the Car
Isle Indian School.
OF all the men who hope to represent
this country in the marathon, none has
made more conscientious preparations
than this Hopi Indian boy. His career
Is one Of unusual interest. He was
selected as a member OF the American
team in 1908 because he ran second to
Bellairs in the five-mile event at the
Olympic try-outs in Philadelphia. Dur
ing the preliminary training at Brighton
he showed such unusual endurance that
trainer Mike Murphy SET ulIu 10 lOllOW-
ing the marathon runners. With no
training whatever, for such a long dis
lance, he managed to hold his own with
the other marathon candidates, and as a
result he was kept out Of the fve-mile
event and saved for the marathon alone.
Here he came up to expectations fully.
and finished tenth in that sensational
race.
Tewanimi should be very much better
this year because Of his greater. age
pvn1 Svrfy 14 hnc, R1YSn SIN hat
time. He has competed in a great many
races from ten miles up to the full
marathon distance, and has probably
won more races Of this length than any
working under the watchful eye of
Glenn Warner. and irrespective of what
he does at Boston, should be one Of this
cOuntry's mainstays.
The report that De Mar, winner Of
last years Boston marathon, will not
compete this time will be disappointing
to the American committee. The pub
lished excuse of De Mar is that he has
not had time to train sufficiently for
such distance, and that he would await
a later opportunity to show the Ameri-
can committee what he could do.
With the exception Of De Mar.
Tewanimi and Forshaw, 1t looks as
though this country would have to de-
pend upon new crop of marathon run
ners. The strain Of this race Is SO
great that few men can run more than
one or two creditable races. As a re-
suit. great many marathon stars have
risen and set since the 1908 games. and
those who represent this country this
year will probably be products Of the
year itself.
Cornell's Great Rowing Strength.
That Cornell must have unusual
material for this years crew is shown
by the announcement that Coach Court
ney has displaced the varsity eight. or
threatened to do so, with his second
crew. It is said that the junior eight
has shown such splendid form and at
tended so closely to the training In
structions Of Mr.. Courtney that he has
will be better than the first one.
Coach Courtney administered this same
dose OF discipline to q varsity eight sew
eral years ago. The crew In question
year before and the eight was almost In
tact the following year When the oars
men reported for outdoor work Coach
Courtney put into another boat the junior
gatta in record-breaking time the year
previous. A little carelessness on the
part OF the varsity men and the splendid
Improvement by the juniors suggested to
the varsity eight and compelling the vet
Grams to fight for the honor Of represent
ing Cornell at Poughkeepsie. It SO hap
pened that the junior won out, and they
justified the caach's action by winning
as decisively as their elders had done
the year before.
About fifteen years ago Coach Ellis
Ward OF the University OF Pennsylvania
was confronted by almost similar condi-
tions. At Pennsylvania the varsity eight,
which considered itself almost invincible
undertook to tell the coach his duties
Ward resented this and formed an en-
tirely new crew. When the varsity men