Evening star., 1915-12-30
BLANKS SENT OUT
FOR A. A. j, MEET
Junior and Senior Track
Championships to Be Held
in New York.
DEATH OF TOM SHEVLIN
ASTOUNDS SPORT WORLD
Untimely End of Great Yale Grid
iron Star Occasions Pro-
found Sorrow.
BY II. G. BYRD.

The entry blanks for the National Anna
and senior, have been forwarded from
New York to all the colleges and ath-
letic clubs in this section. The Junior
games are to be held at the 18th Regi-
ment Armory, New York, January %,
and the senior at the ed Regiment
Armory, March IS.
The following events will be contest
ed in both classes: Sixty-yard run, 300
yard run, 600-yard run, 1,O00-yard run,
two-mile run, two-mile walk, seventy
yard hurdles, standing high jump,
standing broad jump, running high
jump, sixteen-pound shotput, running
hop. step and jump; relay race, first
man to run 44o yards; second, 220;
third, $50, and fourth. one mile.
Whether any local athletes will take
part in the championships is impossible
to say. There are some men in the local
colleges who probably could make a
good showing in one or two events,
though they are few and far between.
1t is questionable if there is an ath-
lete in Washington, outside the COL
leges and schools, who could place in
either the junior or senior competition.
When news came yesterday of the
death of Tom Shevlin it struck Yale
men in Washington and all followers
of sports as being almost incredible.
No one could seem to realize that the
man who a short time past whipped.
drove and cajoled weak Yale eleven
into beating Princeton could be still
in death; that Shevlin the masterful.
SheVlin the strong in mind and body.
had ceased to be. The suddenness of
the occurrence caused feelings of in
credulity. and then of even greater sor-
row when it was established beyond
doubt that the news was true.
Tom Shevlin generally has been re-
garded as the greatest of all ends. His
play on the Yale eleven in that position
in 1902. 1903, 1904 and 1905 earned him
the distinction of all-America man each
season. And at Yale and elsewhere,
when a great end is developed, it is
customary to say, Yes, he's great
end, but not as good as Shevlin" Shev-
| lin also won his "Y" as member of
| ball team one year. Since leaving Yale
as graduate. he has returned on two
occasions and whipped foot ball teams,
apparently hopelessly outclassed, into
good enough shape to win victories
over either Princeton or Harvard.
Perhaps no more fitting tribute to
Shevlin has been, or will be, paid than
appeared in the New York Tribune this
morning, written by HERBERT Reed. II
follows:
tom Shevlin was a masterful mana
veritable human dynamo as DR.. Harry
L. Williams, one of his, warmest frie>>5s
called him only TueSday, when his
name came up. He had abundant char
and so much his own that one could
not meet him without being strongly
| attracted or strongly repelled. In most
cases 1t was the former.
N1f g
perhaps his dominant characteristic-a
confidence that those who did not know
him well called egoism. But there was
something about the way he talked
about himself and his work that com
manded respect and left no feeling OF
irritation
Those two days that it was my privi-
lege to spend with him in the Yale
bowl last November, as he tried to
metamorphose the Yale foot ball eleven
will never be forgotten. A feeling al
| most of intimacy was formulated. sc
quick was he to make one feel at home
and at ease He hid nothing; he gave
much: he demanded much
Tom shevlin was a natural psycholo.
gist He knew just when to rage, just
when to purr. He possessed to high
degree the happy faculty of under
standing men and of determining when
the pressure must be applied with driv-
ing force and when the tension must
be relieved with quiet and encouraging
words. Because of this he was ever
the master.
Coming down from New Haven one
day last fall, he said to me: Il have
never met the man J could not either
! thrash or outtalk" These words give
an insight into his remarkable person
ality, as it implied confidence that was
overpowering. And yet he knew how
to listen and how to absorb. sift and
| turn to his own use suggestions that
he drew from others. He was deep
student of anything in which he inter
ested himself. and far more in econom-
les and the big things of life than OF
foot ball. through association with
which he was so largely known in the
east.
When looking ahead or talking of
plans for. the future he usually
prefaced his remarks with the words,
IF 1 live" On ono occasion he fol-