Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-17
i'm and such men as Thorpe and Sher-

him and such men as Thorpe and Sher-
| dan.
| Reports which seem reliable are to the
| effect that kraenzlein is to receive "a sal
| AIRY of $1,000 annually for "A period of
/ five wears. This is easily the biggest sal
| AIRY that any athletic coach has ever re-
| ceived-in fact. about twice that which
| the highest paid coaches in America have
| been able to draw. But il kraenZlein does
what the German Olympic commission
| expects of him. which is to direct the
| national pride of the German nation into
| its athletics, teach them the American
system and land Germany among the
top-scorers. he will have earned his sal
AIRY and satisfied his employers.
kraenzlein is splendidly equipped for
his position. In the first place. he has
an athletic reputation second to none.
Ills performances when a student at the
University OF PENNSYLVANIA have never
been equaled or approached by any in
divdual athlete. While he specialized in
only two events. the hurdles and the run
ming broad Jump. he was equally expert
i'll nearly every event on the Olympic
program. In the high hurdle he has a
record of l. seconds-a world record.
which he shares Jointly with Forrest
SmithSon. In the 210-yard hurdles he
made the world record of 23ss seconds.
which still stands. although equaled this
year by Wendell of Wesleyan. In the
running broad jump he still holds the
intercollegiate record of ~ feet ~ inches.
- Ildih WHICH at tfldt tIiiit was d WOi
record. But Kraenzlein was not only
record breaker at these three events. lie
was almost as proficient in all the sprints
from ~ yards To the quarter mile. lie
has a record of -, seconds for 100 Yards.
Of - seconds for 30 yards, and 497. sec
onds for the quarter mile. He was also
capable of doing six feet in the running
high jump. and had equally good marks
in the various weight events and the pole
vault
In the three years that he competed for
the University OF Pennsylvania in the |.
q. a. A. A. A. championships he scored
~ points. In 1898 he won both the hur-
dies and was third in the running broad
jump. In 1899 he again won both hur-
dies and the running broad Jump. lie
did his greatest work in 1900 when he
scored - points. the greatest total ever
made by an individual. He won both
hurdle races. the 1o0-yard dash and was
second in the running broad jump. II
was that summer that he competed in
the Olympic games at Paris Here he
won both the 12O-meter and 220-meter
hurdle races. the running broad jump and
the G-meter dash. He was the only
man who ever scored 10 points in a sin
gle Olympic meet. NJ. W. Sheppard and
Martin Sheridan have each scored in
three events. of which they won two,
but KraenZleins record still stands I'M
equaled and unapproached.
KraenZlein's problem in Germany will
be a difficult one. The German people
are gymnastic rather than athletic. lhey
have plenty of societies for the promotion
of gymnastic work. and in addition to it
the schools have similar training. but
the science of track and field athletics
has not been developed. The German
Olympic commission has been trying to
awaken the people to a realization that
since they are to entertain the athletes
of the world in 1916 they must be able
to take care of themselves. and that it
will be national disgrace If they do
not give the other nations of the world
fight for the championships.
This means that Kraenzlein must con-
duct a campaign of education and will
have to have a number of assistants in
all parts of the nation. The experiment
is an interesting one, but in engaging
a man whose nationality is German, who
was a world champion athlete in his own
day and who received his instruction
from Mike Murphy, the worlds greatest
athletic teacher. it is hard to see how
Germany could have bettered herself