Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-05

field of the best half-milers in the
world. Now Coach Curran has an
other sensation in A. S. Robinson. He
is destined, it would seem. to bring
more fame to Mercersburg. So far
his performances have been little
short of marvellous, and he is being
watched with the keenest interest.
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Recently the tip was sent out that
Robinson was faster than Meredith,
but few were inclined to take much
stock in the assertion, although the
information came first-handed from
the reliable Coach .Curran himself.
But the time came when the proof
came in the eating of the pudding.
Last week Robinson was starter in
the Pennsy meet, and the word was
passed to hold your watches on Rob-
inson." The result was amazing, for
the checkers caught the boy for
the quarter mile in as S-5 seconds.
which was better time than Meredith
made in the same race the previous
year. 1t was a grand performance,
and it appears as if we will have to
look to Mercersburg for speed mer-
chants at a mile and under in the
future. With Meredith admitted to
be the best half-miler of the day
and with Robinson showing unmis-
taxable signs Of a conner. the U. S.
A. should worry, so to speak, when
the next Olympic games come around
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Although Young Robinson has
shown amazing speed as a quarter
miller and has covered the half-mile
distance in phenomenal time, just at
present his best performances are in
the hundred" and "two-twenty." On
Friday of last week in the Penn State
meet he won the 100-yard dash in
9 3-5 seconds, and later on created
a new worlds record of 20 As sec
onds in the 220-yard dash. His abil-
ity to sprint and still carry his speed
UP to half mile is evidence that he
will be most potent factor. nursed
and carefully handled as he is sure
to be by Coach Curran, In the athletic
world for some time to come.
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There's an old saying that If you
make good in New York you have
made good everywhere. And that is
so to a very large degree. Men in
nearly every walk of life, big men and
famous men, rush into Gotham, bub-
bling with ambition. sure of success
in their own exalted mind, only
to find that the great metropolis
cannot see them and does not want
them at any price. Such has been
the fate of many, but none more SO
than Luther McCarty, the most pro-
pitious white hope of the white hope
brigade. McCarty burst into New
York like a storm out of a clear sky
after his sensational victory over Carl
Morris, and 10! and behold! he
emerged out of his very first battle a
Joke in the eyes of the populace.
Young and strong and full of vim,
and looking the part of champion
in the making, he failed dismally to
display a mastery over poor old Jim
Stewart. who was probably selected
as just the man against whom Luther
would shine to the best advantage.
And when he was given another
chance-always "another chance" Is
generally the cry-this time against
the cratic Jess Willard, his failure
was even more dismal McCarty
wouldn't do at all, at all, was the
almost unanimous opinion, and Nc
Carly, roasted alive. as the saying
goes, 'cussed" his critics and declared
he would never fight in New York
town again. That's what they all say,
if you'll only stop to recall other and
similar instances. and McCarty is nc
different than the general run OF
human beings.
But like the cat, Mr.. Luther Nc
Carly came back, this time. though
in the light of his recent prodigious
showing in the West, with what he