The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-05
THE GAMES AND TIE TEAM.

In considering the methods and
makeup of the American team at the
Olympic games in Stockholm, Mr.. Ed
ward Bayard Moss, in Harper's Week
ly, shows that the members OF the
team are still young, and that most
of them may reasonably be expected
to be good for the Berlin olympic
games four years hence.
The winning membership of the
American team was made up in small
degree from the great colleges. The
larger colleges made but poor show.
ings in the triumphs, Carlisle being
ahead of all of them. The smaller
colleges came out distinctly superior
BY comparison But it was not college
men alone that went to the makeup
Of this great team. The majority OF
them are Just entering upon their
athletic careers. James e. Meredith,
the Mercersburg Academy school boy,
Of nineteen, Alma Richards OF the
B. Y. L. at Provo, winner Of the high
Jump. is but twenty-oue, and did not
participate in athletics until about
year ago. Lippipcott. who broke the
Olympic record for the l00-meter dash,
is freshman at the University of
Pennsylvania. and CASTOR Strobino,
who finished third in the Marathon
race. els but a slip of youth who
did not take up long distance running
until late in. 1910
The team was made IN upon thor
oughly comprehensive basis. There
was a search of the country for ath-
letic material James Thorpe, a Sac
and Fox Indian, of Carlisle, proved to
be the greatest all-around athlete In
the world Howard p. Drew, negro
sprinter, is bell boy in Springfield
hotel; but his career is ended because
be broke tendon in his right leg in
the semih final of the 100.meter race
at Stockholm.
In Mr. Moss account, he devotes
race:
When Macarthur, the South African 20
liceman. came staggering into the Stad-
q
perat ature close TO 100 degrees. the winner
OF the Marathon race, he was followed
within less than three minutes by Git
shaw, his teammate. and then CASTOR
shield In that terrible and torturing run
over the rocky roads adj ia cent TO Stock
holm, all but twenty-seven OF the sew
enty-odd starters had fallen by the way
One death and dozens OF runners pros
tra,ed were recorded among the contest
ants. Yet when the dnal count was made
Il WIS found that OF the hrst eighteen men
10 finish ten were Americans. All but
two OF the twelve United States starters
finished the twenty -five-miie run. and the
10000 spectators sweltering In the super
heated Stadium ceased their cheering 70
wonder at the athletic prowess Of a coun-
try which could develop record breaking
athletes for every form OF competition
Universally the credit for the great
American triumph at these games at
Stockholm is given TO the methods and
discipline Of the American team All
the members were steady, strictly at
tentive TO orders. and kept themselves
in FIRST class condition all the time.
Their team work was pbepomenally
good. and won the admiration of all
beholders.
There is no doubt but that even
greater things will he expected of
the American team which will go to
Berlin four years hence. But il is
quite possible that The Germans,
securing the German possessions of
the world for athletic material, may
bring some OF the Watussi jumpers
from East Africa. These will easily
eclipse all other high Jumpers in the
world if the account Of them given
by the Duks of Mecklenburg is to be
depended upon, for he says that the
best jumpers of the Watussi cleared
the bar at eight feet, five inches on
their running jumps. No other nation
could hope 10 compete against that
sort OF performance. And so, If the
Germans are enterprisinp enough 20
bring in those Watussi jumpers, they
have one Of the great Olympic evcntt
nailed down 10 start with.