Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-02

will do her best in a legitimate wa.
to develop her young men for tn
contests to be held In Berlin in 1915
If the United States was in England
shoes and she hit upon the sam,
plan, no foreign criticism would checl
her, you can bet. England's idea Il
the best men for the various olympi,
| events and start In right now t.
train and prepare them for the worlds
carnival. AS long as she does not
pay the athletes and make out-and-
out professionals of them, she will
be we'll within the laws of amateur
ism. Always stickler for purity In
athletics. England isn't going to run
amuck at this late day. She believes,
no doubt, and she has said any num-
Der of times, that the u. s. A. repre-
sentatives as a whole are found and
made" which, while not exactly so.
| is not entirely false. We do find
our athletes and we make" them as
best we can. That is what England
Is going to do, and she will have
more success than in the poky old
way she has observed In the past.
American athletes are as pure, most
ly. as athletes can possibly be. There
are some who want the dough" and
there are some who won't MARBLE
unless they get the dough" There
are others, though, who are strictly
on their honor.
England, it is believed, will keep
we'll within the bound of her amateur
standing. She will, no doubt. raise a
big fund and use 1t to the best advan-
tage, but after all is over, IL her ath-
letes are no worse than ours, they
won't be very bad. If she is to make
showing she must do something big.
That has been drilled into England by
her own friends and by her rivals.
We in this country have wondered
why she allowed her athletic standard
to reach such low ebb, yet at the
first signs of life On the other side
two of our biggest men in athletics Sc
verely criticize the mother country for
the methods she plans to pursue. AS
we understand it, England is simply
going to corral q small army of ath-
letics, teach them and train them and
perfect them, as much as possible for
the Berlin Olympics. There is moth
ing wrong in that as long as she
doesn't establish a weekly payroll
from which they can draw a certain
stipend. Until we can prove that
England means wrong. let us hold our
"whisht." We are not perfect by any
means and if the Britons are to ne
judged by the record in the past they
will be as pure as we are.
O.
Athletics seem to thrive on Labor
Day. Meets were held in various
parts of the country, all with con-
siderable success. In the East par
ticularly was this the case The
greatest feat of the holiday was per-
formed by Howard P. Drew, the ia
nous little colored boy, who appears
to have the speed of the wind. Run
ming over the Charter Oak track at
Hartford, Drew sprinted 100 yards in
8 3-5 seconds, which just equals the
worlds record for the distance. He
was caught by five stop watches, and
there isn't much doubt but that the
record will be allowed, especially as
two of the. timers registered 2-5 Sec
onds for the race. The record, now
tied, was held alone by Dan Kelly, of
Spokane, and many of the readers
will remember all the fuss there was
about that mark being allowed 1t
was said among other things that
Kelly had run over a course that was
down hill and there was some doubt
and considerable discussion as to the
time being absolutely on the level.
After much investigation the record
was accepted.
c.
The fact that 3-5 seconds for 100
and the fact that Drew has accom-
plished the feat, will be received with
much acclaim in the athletic world.
AS a sprinter his equal has not been
seen in years. Only the hardest kind
of hard luck prevented him from be-
ing among the heroes at the last
Olympic games. He was over in
Sweden and in great shape, too, but
he strained a tendon in his trial heat
of the 100-meter event and was I'M
able to compete in the final. Previous
predictions favored Drew for the 100
meter and the 200-meter races. both
of which were won by Craig, who
was not, from actual observation, as
fast as Drew.
C
This little colored boy is leading an
exemplary life, and he is seeking an
education that will put him in a de-
sirable place in the worlds affairs.
From the Springfield (Mass.) school
he goes to Brown, where he is to
study hard as well as to do his best
for the college on the athletic field.
By his clean methods of living, Drew
Is setting his people an. example they
might well study. He is using his
athletic ability to increase his men
tai capacity, in which he is unlike SO
many of his race, who seem to figure
that life is short and time is only for
the moment.
c.
Just as an example, take Jack John
son, for instance. OF course, he is only