Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-05

NEW YORK. 1t is already assured
that a large number of the athletes
who carried the shield of America
with honor in the Olympic games will
do the sensible thing and hang up
! their shoes, retiring, in many cases,
as worlds champions. Chief among
! those who stoutly declare that they
will never run another race rs Ralph
G. Craig of Detroit, who was success
I ful in both the 160-meter and 200-meter
races. Craig finds that he has won
the highest honOrs in the world, both
at home and abroad, and that he
would have nothing to gain and ev-
erything to lose if he kept on racing.
linen there's business. Craig is
young fellow, whose ambition in life
lies far above the cinder path, and he
is anxious to be on his way. Craig
won at the Stockholm Olympiad, the
race most sought by the ancients-
the 100-meter run. According to an
Gent custom, the intervening four
years between the Stockholm and Ber-
lin meetings should be called the
Olympiad Of Ralph Craig. We mod
erns use the term Olympiad to denote
the games themselves, whereas it real
~ applies to the fOur-year period COM
contests.
Reidpath Through.
The winner Of the 400 meters, Char
ley Reidpath Of Syracuse University,
is another American world beater who
will race no more. Reidpath receiv-
cd on the night of his victory a cable
request to run an exhibition quarter
mile for the benefit Of the citizens of
Buffalo, which is his home town. Reid
path will probably comply with this
request, but after that he is through
for good. Reidpath is a graduate of
the engineering department at SYRIA
cuSe. and he will at once dig in to
work out his career in his chosen pro-
feSSlOn.
Ira Davenport of the University of
Chicago. who finished in third place
in the S00-meter run but One-fifth OF
d second behind Meredith, the record
breaking SChOOlboy. also declares that
he is through with athletics. He may
let down. gradually by running in a
few unimpCrtant races. hut his career
in the championship line is finished,
he declares. Davenport will enter the
plant of a biz automobile concern this
fall
George BonhaS l.; another Of Amer
iCa'S great runners who says he IS
about through with the Cindcr path
BOnhag wants 10 end his career with
d championship victory, and with that
object in view he may train for the
indoor championships next fall. Bon
bag has been running ton years. and
he has made d record equaled by few
distance runners in the history of ath
letiCS. He will continue the study of
engineering at Columbia University.
and enjoy life a little on the side
something he has ont been able to
do for several years, because of close
confinement to business. study and
running
Lewis TeWanima. the gritty little
HOpi lOng-distanCe man who finished
we'll up in the Stockholm Marathon,
will never run another re. if he
lives up to his statement mi de on the
Finland the night after the Marathon.
Lewis is hard man TO get state
ment out CT Most of his answers are
decidedly brief. but the scribe was
able to make OUT that the HOpi. who
has finished his course at Carlisle, is
going back to his native country. Arl-
IONA, where he Will take up farming
Lewis admitted begrudginsly that he
may get married. too. Anyway. he
says, no more Variations tor Lewis.
America will also soon lose thrOuCN
retirement the greatest and most con
sjstent jumper that ever wore a shO"
Albert l.. GutterSOn Of TIE Boston
Athletic Association and University OF
Vermont. GuttrrsoN. life every other
American who saw the OIympiad, was