New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
GREAT DUEL LIKELY IN
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
England and the United States
Almost Sure to Fight'Out {
the Issue.
TEAM HERE WILL BE STRONG
Record Holders to Face Starter
in Almost Ever1 Event, and
Outlook for Victory
Is Bright.

an h'SIHdiiOHdl dUel IN an athletic sense
netWeen the United States and Great Brit
ain is likely 10 follow at the Olympic
games at Stockholm, Sweden. next July. in
the fifth renewal of these ancient Hellenic
sports In spite Of the fact that England
has taken leaf out OF Americas s book by
the appointment Of trainer to supervise
the work of the British team and has al
ready shown an industry totally unlike that
ever displayed before. the United States
expects to be returned the winner The
American team will consist OF more than
two hundred athletes who will take part
in every event on the programme. The
English team. it is estimated. viii number
fully two hundred and fifty athletes
OF course there will bc other nations.
but, with the exception OF Sweden, they
are not expected to cut heavily into the
scoring Of England and the United States.
The American committee already has ar
ranged the prelimlnaries for the selection
Of its team There will he three tryonts'
one at San Francisco for the Pacific Coast
athletes another at Chicago for the mid
die Western men, and another AT Cam
bridge Mass, for the athletes of the A.
Jantic seq board The team will sail from
this city on Juno Il, under the direction o'
Michael 9. Murphy and Matthew e. liai-
pin. as coach and manager.
At this writing it is possible to eiNH a
fairly accurate statement OF the mon VINO
will form the nucleus Of the America"
team great many Of the men Wh" Won
bonors at London in 1908 have Kept IN ua'"-
ing with the idea Of becoming canulud'c9
for the 1912 team. Some Of these havc ''l-
- -, tho vVsvside. but not a few OF them
have retained their athletH shl' ,. en- :" &c
.Ir.ost certain to find places number ol
haNrc
s,,c. tho 1905 meet, and the Americans -,
rrot,ably depend upon the he"''i'O''
majority OF their points
ror ,q,c 100 metres the Americans d'e W
v.,,aar,t ". rpon Ralph {. Craig. the FORMER
I-riyorsitv OF Michigan m1@co'lesi"'
.,a,,rio,,. snrinter, although he may not oo
~. 80 90 ,,nete at the last moment 'IdIe
- o,radueted from Michigan year aSO'
~ a. u,o.estiona bly, the fastest sprlHle'
-. .ho I-,,ited States has had since ''o
-. 80 Arttrur Duffy. and as an all aroui'N
.L.or ra is even better than Dufy. 1"o
- oso at the intercollegiate charhPloii-
.,tns C-rsie won the 22o-yard dash IN 4 10
ards inst eoualling the world Iecoiu
.oL,ished in 1896 by B. J. Wefers. Las'
= the same games Craig won the IV'-
- doeb In - seconds. eduallnG 'he
Intercollegiate record. and then or 'op
,ut~~o, +ba onward dash in Il 10 secohuS'
a,,,uo his own intercollegiate anu
....I5,s racords He is a big man ana ca
80 % erv number of double perform
snces. x.. ,bis
Next 70 Craig the best spr1nters t'''s
so,,,tr1, can produce are Gwyn Henry anu
.,,,.b Never. Last year Henry ran num-
-. of ,oo-vard dashes in 10 seconds anu
hasa record of % seconds for 20 yards.
passing on TO the quarter-nile. the lasU
80. roan in America is probably IL. D.
Young. of Amherst. the present lnterc'n
eiate ouarter-mile champion In the coi-
Ieee sames last spring Young ran the ois-
tance in 4s4-5 seconds. equaIins the inter
collegiate mark. Davenport, OF Chlcaso' Is
.,o,her sterling uuarter-miler. and likewise
bas record of IS 40 seconds he' now
ever istbetter at half a mile. Ihere are d
number of club men, notably Gissins, oI
New York. and Sheppard, the 800 ana Low
metre OIvrnpic champion. who are capaDie
Of doing close to 50 seconds
With the present arrangement OF the
nlvrnpic programme the Americans DO not
,rnect TO allow their middle distance run
nars +o double up in the half and one mile
runs. In 1893 these two events were so lar
snart thai Sheppard was able to run IN ailo
ain both. but that hardly seems likely this
year. .
Unless Sheppard can beat him. the fastest
ha,f-riler in this country is j. T. Jones'
- Cornell. There is. of course no question
about the immense superiority or Jones
nver every other runner in this country a'
mile At the 1911 intercollegiate chaH-
rionsbips Jones established new world
amateur record OF 4:15 2-5. IT was forty-nVe
r,,pntes later that he started in the half
mile run and won it with ridiculous ease
In 1.s44-5 It was the unanimous oplhloii
~ the critics who saw his double perform
ance that II he had started fresh IN the
half-mile he could have run in l:oz or pet
ter. Jones, howeveV, Is likely 10 be useu
IN the one-mile run. where his services VIII
he more in demand. Sheppard has SHOWN
unusual form la the half-mile ever since
The 1908 Olympiad. In nearly every one ol
his championship races he has won IL III
time better than 1:55. The wonderful way
in which he has retained his form has oeen
continual surprise to his admirers
In addition to Sheppard this country VIII
have some good half-milers in kiviat' OF
New York, who has done l:6o Putnam OF
Cornell with a record of 1856, and DaVen-
mort of Chicago, with a mark OF Loo 40
Probably there are another dozen men with
records better than two minutes, so that
the United States should be well repre-
senied in this event.
f In addition to Jones this country will
have some first class men in the one-miie
run. Either Kiviat, Sheppard or Hedlund
can run the distance I'm 42O, while at the
last intercollegiate championships there
we're two men besides Jones who were un-
der 4.90 They were w. c. PAUL, of the
University of Pennsylvania, the former in
tercolIegiate champion who did 4l1 40 IN
1909 and Hanovan, of the University OF
Michigan, a newcomer, who in his hrst
year OF intercollegiate competition was sec
ond to Jones in All PAUL has been grad
uated from Pennsylvania and has not COM
peted since.
Americans are likely to find themselves in
difficulty Berna, of California, Is the pres
emf intercollegiate two-mile champion, with
a record of 9:25 Is. Not more than two or
three other men in the whole country can
run the distance in $3.50 or better. BonhaS'
who was a member OF the American team
t., fo0s Is the best OF the longer distance
runners while two other men, Kramer ana
Collins both Of New York, have shown a
great deal Of speed from two miles TO hYe
In the 11C-metre hurdle race this country
nrobably will depend upon the college men.
The fastest hurdler in this country now
scems TO be w. A. Edwards, a student Of
the University Of Pennsylvania. Two years
ago. at the A. A. u. championships, Ed
wards won the event In IS 1-5 seconds. de-
fcating Forrest smithson, the 1908 Olympic
champion. II IS not known at present
whether or not smithson will be candi-
cate for the 1912 American team. In addi-
lion 10 Edwards. the United States may