New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
Showing in Try-Outs at
Chicago Presages Keen
Contests on Coast.
RUNNING OF RAY IN
THE MILE SURPRISE
Campbell and DESMOND Sure TO
Make Things Interesting for
the Eastern Men.

Of the athletes who are performing IN
the Middle West were swept away on
Saturday when the central division OF
the A. A. L. held its tryouts to select
the team that will represent the Mid
die States at the national champion
ships on the coast next month. Per-
formances every bit as good as those
Of the best men the East has produced
were turned off in the Chicago try
out, and that there will be the keenest
kind of a battle on the coast goes
without saying.
Most prominent among these Middle
Western athletes are Binga DESMOND,
lie Roy Campbell, Arlie Muck and Joe
Ray. Campbell. despite his disappoint-
ing showing in the special 660-yard
race with Ted Meredith and Joe Hig-
gins at Celtic Park a week ago Satur-
day, showed that he is the speed mar
vel the West acclaims him BY out
running a fast field in the half-mile
and winning in l minute e4A seconds.
There is not a shadow OF doubt that
Campbell is faster by seconds than any
of the men he was matched against,
and that therefore &c was able to run
his own race without interference.
Whether he will be carried off his feet
by the impetuosity of Meredith. Homer
Baker and Higgins wnen the four meet
on the coast is the question that will
have to wait until the race is run for
an actual decision.
Although DESMOND broke the A. A. U.
record for the quarter-mile made by
Burke away back in 1896. there is
reason to believe that he will have to
do better than AZ 3-5 seconds if he is
to beat Meredith, Tom Halpin and the
other Eastern men on the coast. Dis
mond has been improving rapidly, and
his performances week by week have
shown a steady advance toward better
time. There is no doubt that DESMOND
possesses plenty of speed. but in his
case, as in CampbelPs, the greater ex-
/ perience of the Eastern men. coupled
/ with equally good speed, probably will
weigh heavily against him.
BY far the greatest surprise Of the
/ Middle Western .ryouts was the
running of Joie Ray in the mile run.
! Two weeks ago in the central champion
! ships Ray was beaten by Marceau. the
/ old Dartmouth runner, in 4:2l l-5. but
/ on Saturday he stepped out and won
the mile in 4:l6 is, the sixth fastest
mile that has ever been run in this
| country. II he is able to keep in his
present form it is not beyond the rea-
sonable to say that he will have it in
his power to make things interesting
for Norman Taber, fresh from his rec
ord mile of 4:l2 3-5 in the coast meet.
There is one marked difference be-
tween Ray and Taber, however That
Is consistency. Taber has been run
ming under 4:20 every time he tried
since his return from oxford, while
Rays AIS l-5 may or may not have
been a fash. At any rate, the race
between Taber and Ray will probably
be comparable to that duel between
George and Cummings at Lille Bridge
in 1888, when George made the re cord
which withstood all assaults for thir-
ty-two years.
Simpson, the University Of Missouri
hurdler developed in the same school
that produced Nicholson a few years
ago. demonstrated his ability in both
/ high and low hurdles, and did it in
such a way as TO leave little doubt of
his superiority over the best the East
has brought out. Simpson ran in the
same superb form which marked his
performance in the Pennsylvania re-
lay carnival in April, and when he
meets Fred Kelly on the coast there
will be a tussle 10 the death.
In the quarter-mile hurdles the West
has produced an athlete By the name
of LIGHTER, from comparative OBJ
security, by the way, who bids fair TO
hold Meanix, the worlds record hold
err, to a close finish.
LIGHTER did So 2-5 seconds, which
beat the record made by Meanix last
| year, but was not quite up TO the
worlds mark Of the Bostonian.
/ Sol Butler, the negro broad jumper,
who cleared "a feet pa inches, has
not been prominent, and for that rea-
son has been overlooked by those who
have surveyed the Middle West for
athletes. II his performance on Sat
urday is a criterion Of what he can do,
| there is no doubt that he is every bit
as good a man as Worthington, the
Dartmouth College sophomore, who
has been hitting right under "a feet
all season.
Arlie Mucks, the Wisconsin weight
man, who achieved a new record with
the discus, is not unknown 70 fame
and seems to be better than any OF
the discus throwers the East has seen
in competition this season. Joe LOOMS
failed 10 win an event, but he per.
formed in his usual good form. His
best work of the day was AS in a
heat in the l00-yard dash. In the
high jump he was beaten by Alma
Richards, Of Cornell, who cleared {
feet inches. 1t may be noted tina,
Richards is getting back into his bes,
form after a slump which carried him
through the Intercollegiate
The pendulum in the pole vault
which seems to have swung to the
West after having been monopolzed
by the East. and by Yale in particular
for so many years, kept on swinging
toward the West when Graham wor
that event with a vault Of ~ feet ~
inches Although Eastern vaulters
who will 20 TO the coast have gone
higher than this in other years, IL is
mark which has not been equslled