Evening star., 1914-04-19

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on a carefully measured and tested track
and with the best judges in this country
and before a crowd of spectators who
had seen the Georgia flyer come very
close to this mark before. Hence there
was no undue surprise at his reach
ing it.
The story comes from the coast that
Howard P. Drew, the college sprinter,
who came from the Springfield High
School. and who is now in the University
of Southern California, in the dual meet
at Berkeley March 2S won from Hurd
of the University of California and Brad
ley of the Southern California in 3-5
seconds. Drew Is said to have been a
full six yards in front of Bradley who
is generally regarded there as a steady
10 1-5 performer. There was some wind
behind the runner. but how much is a
question yet to be determined.
And apropos of track sports no one
should forget the Penn relay games al
ready frequently referred to. They come
April % at Philadelphia.
The men who are making the regula-
tons for the Poughkeepsie regatta are
Bogue of Columbia, Irvine of Cornell
vversities constitute the intercollegiate
Association. All others are merely in
v1ted as contestants.
This year the four-oared race will be
substituted. This race for the second
eight will be only two miles long,
starting a mile above the bridge and
finishing a mile below it. that is, at
the regular four-mile finish. AS for
preparatory rowing events Princeton's
invitation race is the first of the col
| iese rowing contests Of the season, and
that will come May 9. The second will
phla May s. Harvard will race Cornell
at Cambridge May rs.
The Poughkeepsie stewards have de-
termined to invite only the winner of
w
terry out on the Pacific coast this
month. These three crews are the Uni
yersity OF Washington, University OF
California and Stanford The race will
be rowed at Oakland, and this fact Of
the necessity of Washington winning
IN order to send her crew to Pough-
keepsie will increase the interest. The
University Of Washington is the favor
ite and 1t is pretty generally accepted
that if it wins it will certainly send the
crew on to the Hudson.
The four athletes. three of whom
We're Californians. who started out to
make the tour of the antipodes, lasting
over dozen weeks, have returned aft
g er participating in no less than TWEEN
ty-one field days, making four Aus
tralian records and seventeen state
records. the most remarkable Of which
was that of James A. Powers Of the
b. A. A, made the day before the team
left for America. in which he covered
the mile on a grass track in minutes
IS 2-5 seconds. Whether this record will
be allowed or not is question, but it
leans won the team championships of
Australia and New South Wales. In the
latter meet they took off seven of the
twelve events in which they started,
and were placed in every event The
California schoolboy, Gaughey, broke
the Australian shot-put record repeat
edly. and at one time put the shot 45
feet u inch. Barker, another Cali
IN 10 hi h4 1T -
High School. made an Australian rec
ord of 114-5 seconds in the 12O-yard
dash and 40 Is seconds in the quarter
mile. while Templeton of Stanford Uni
Australia up to II feet 61a inches. AL
together it was quite a satisfactory
trip, and only goes to show that Cali
fornia is surely coming to be bet the great eat
ideal training ground for them.
DR.. Charles L Dana, in commenting
upon our educational system, says: I'VE 4
need not give up our athletics. We are
no more athletic than the English. but
we must teach our children to know
something thoroughly. to cultivate the
In this DR.. Dana is right, and We
might, indeed, learn something from our
athletic methods. When the Germans
and other nations take up in earnest
competitive athletic sports as they are
patience and determination into them
that they have put into other things.
Then. we shall have to look to our
laurels. Meantime 1t is our province to
make our boys and girls practice their
tasks in the school with the same thor
oughness as they are quite ready to do
boy and the collegian will go to their
extreme lengths of self-sacrifice, patience
and persistency and thus they cultivate
the powers that are necessary. but the
are not forced sufficiently to learn to
master their work thoroughly and until
our educational system does demand this
and enforce it it will be correspondingly
weak.
No one who has talked with Lincoln
Beachey can help feeling the great re-
spect for his opinion on any matter con-
nected with aviation When one stops
has performed and his seeming infalli-
bility Of action in emergencies one can
not resist being impressed with the fact
that he is peculiarly adapted to the pro-
Barbara, looping the loop. he lost con-
troll of his biplane and fell 1.6OO feet.
still he managed to right himself 400
feet from the ground. one can gather
some idea Of the GOODNESS and intrepidity
of the man. In his early days of fly
ing, he spent one evening at the writer's
house and Of all athletes that have come
unOer the writer s OOSerNdQOn, tnere
never was one who SO thoroughly typi-
fled concentration. Lincoln Beachey
never takes his mind for fraction of
second off the thing that he is doing. If
some one stepped up and yelled within
an inch of his ear, unexpectedly, when
he was concentrated on his job there
is great doubt whether he would even
turn his head or wink, and that is why
Beachey has thus far come through with
more marvellous performances than any
other man in the game
Walter Steffens, the former Chicago
star. has arrived at Carnegie Tech" and
taken on the spring foot ball practice,
which will probably last through the
month. If any one knows how to teach
the special rudiments of the kicking, pass
ing and running game 1t Is Steffens, and
he ought to give the men a good start
this spring. But interest in college base
ball around Pittsburgh is warming up
fast.
Coach Lowe of Washington and JEFF
ferson is at work with Capt. Schwab de-
veloping his base ball nine. His handi-
cap is in the loss Of his pitchers. Hayman
and Greenway, due to scholarship in
roads. so that Goodwin Is the only vet