The Washington times., 1913-03-06
CAMPBELL WOULD
MAKE NEW RECORD
Wants to Better Running Mark
Over Route From Baltimore
to Washington.
HE is MEMORIAL ATHLETE
Local Marathoner Anxious to
Set Up New Standard for
City-to-City Run.
HE is MEMORIAL ATHLETE
By KIRK c. MILLER.

Johnny Campbell. of the Memorial
Athletic Club. win TRIP to better the rum
ming record from Baltimore to Wash
tngton early next month. The present
record for running that distance is S
hours II minutes 8 seconds.
Starting from the Munsey Building.
In Baltimore. Campbell will pace the
distance over which the Times-News
marathon runs have always been held,
and which is an official route-having
been accepted by the Amateur Union.
Campbell wants to carry a message
from the sporting editor of the Balti-
more News to the sporting editor of The
washington Times, and IL is very likely
that he will go through with this idea.
he has already selected four trailers.
who will follow him in an automobile,
together with an official who will be
named by the South Atlantic branch of
the Amateur Athletic Union.
Spirit Is Aggressive.
Campbelrs determination to establish
. higher mark over a course which so
many athletes of Washington and Bal
timore have paced, is taken by follow
ers Of track athletics here as the most
aggressive spirit that has ever been
shown in that branch of athletics.
Campbell represents a club which has
always adhered to and promoted clean
sports-and its runs and meets have
been prime movement in the local
sporting fraternity for years. The fact
that an Independent athletic club, which
has a smaller following and far less
announcement from the public than a
school or college, should produce an
athlete with such ambitions. is being
commented upon by many today.
Seldom do clubs of an Independent.
and self-supporting nature boast of
such aggressiveness as Campbell dis
plays in the foregoing announcement
have been won In long distance runs in
this section during the past five years
When his Amateur Athletic Union con-
nections permitted. he has invariably
competition. His method of competi-
ton Is of the fairest. and his cleanly
tactics when under way nave been the
admiration of officials and spectators
alike
Has High Records.
Campbelrs record in recent marathons
and modified marathons rank among
the highest. In the Fourth Annual
Intercity run from Laurel TO Washing
ton, Campbell was fourth TO cross the
tape. He covered the distance, twenty-
m1.ee, IN : hours "a minutes and l ser
ond. The year following Campbell
paced the same distance, from Laurel
to Baltimore, in twelve minutes less
time. Again he finished fourth.
So far this year. the Memorial ath-
lete has participated in three ten-miIc
runs, all OF which he was the first to
throw up his hands 10 the tape ON
New Year Day, Campbell ran at Bal
dmore, in the Baltimore Sun race. HIS
dme was 81 minutes and 81 seconds
Four minutes and forty seconds were
clipped from that time by him in the
Memorial Club marathon held in Wash
ington on January Is. His last mark
in the II. A. c. run on February s. was 50
minutes and So seconds The third event
Of this nature tc be held by the Men,
orfals this season is slated for April
I:. 1t will be a closed event and a
few days after this race. Campbell will
try to lower the Washington to -BaIti-
more mark.