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or l.5&. He got away In front and set
a heartbreaking clip. running the rest Of
the Held Into the ground. SCOTS style
OF front running is the Meredith style.
and showed the Mississippi boy to be q
real runner from the top Of his head to
the soles Of his feet. No smuggling back
for pace and making the other fellow do
the work for Scott. Just q bling. bang
battle all the way.
Scott broke trail from fagfail to f,nlsh
and set such a grueliing clip that he ran
the legs or and the hearts out Of his
rivals. Make no mistake about Mr.. Don
Scott Of Mississippi, sub. being a real
middle distancer. With more competi.
tion-there are few meets held in scott's
section OF the country and Don rets the
benefits Of little competition-Don might
be able to make the sports foliovera Tor.
get ali about the rreat Meredith.
KNuatr,ck At Ds.aAvsut.~e
but great as Meredith scott may
De as half milers neither one OF them
mad much on Chariey fitzpatrick. winner
OF the na'f mile AZ the memorable inter
Nationals. Chariey outciassed the Held
ana turned IN the remarkable hgures OF
:53 go. three-hfths OF a second faster
than Scott won In a week ago. Char
s S"s " sS"
OF competition.
There 10 Out little DOUBT that on the
day Fitzpatrick hung up $50 20 he could
have made even faster time. Part OF
Charleys athletic apparel became dis
engaged and he had to come down the
lasts part OF the homestretch practically
with the MOBILES on. There was no
iny for Mort Hi.hon' Rch sto,, and
J. II. Abeel. Jr.. were the checkers
Ivan Myers TOOK the mile event at
Newark In &22: ConneR o the mile
at the International IN 4:ls l-6. and
then went out a few minutes later and
logged to victory In the three mile In
10 :3S l-b. There 10 no comparison be-
W Myers and Conner as milers.
Tommy. In fact stands without a peer
among American MIXERS. win the one
exception OF John Paul Jones. norman
Taber. &I2s4 all. IN the writers
opinion never was the equal OF Connen
n Jones. Taber did not make his
4l2N In a real race. nut was heIpea
ny a specially arranged hanuicap WIN
runners out on far marks Tor the sole
purpose OF furnishing pace, we con-
s!dered John faui Jones the greatest
miller OF all time exceeding even W.
George. the great f1neish pro; we WINK
Jones was Cohhen superior. put w turn
we he''eSe conner was tne :uper'or "
Taber.. now crediteA VIII the world :
record.
Recently some OF the oiu tuners were
tanning In Sparrow Roberfsons Nest
and the IS International were pe'ns
talked over. Charley fitzpatrick was
among the bunch. The cohNersauo"
turned on Tommy conner.
MAJ, u.s~sl. ro-.v
will you ever forget the TWO races
Tommy Connen won that DAY ca,
canned marcy r"or n.'r .o.
on the banks OF the Pas,g RIVER. IN
,h,no q, ,hs I,n,t.d state. cavalry
-rha ,.u. ,,,,,. Ir,.bmsp led an ad-
vsn,urou. ,ife after quitting athletics.
He went into the army and carried a
~. o., ,-n,,a CO.. IN ri, sort. NJ on, Of
~. rian.. ramo,nher getting a
80 49, htn, from For, 81. Michae,s
\. go. rnni. sanr,v.. ,urtbes, north
-. .ns M. nov, 7 heard Of Tommy
a."y 80 T,;,,nn;r.s
Wa ~. - ii,,in fellow -, reiterated
"a "a ,h.r vent on. put vii,
70 90 forvo, ,ho.e two races ne wor
NJ ,h. ,rtorna,,onsI., He and Georg,
or,on ,sd I,,y.tans ono OF the creates,
,,,i.r. Ir1,and ever nroduced. 10 thu
mn. darn lis -, .ased
.ar. - ronmy wsr, ont and
-" ~. ,hr.s rn,is in ,5 .as IL. win.
80 Su 900 rards from wilkens IN,
unsushman Horan tho other English.
ama n,ys.,, n.ore the other starters
u ~, -" hod s,artad i, the half mil.
n."'toys,,. md we're somewhat cooked.
NJ. 10, ,S ~ ,ar bcbipd In IN,
D"u ..aaS. ,ha, ther. was mo need o
80: 800. ns.n,,a MIS- A.Is g., mil,
~ "a .tamipa and heart enough
. ~, .rd rim = ala shinR three mile.
W 49,"
VI"
-. -. u~com q.
There Is one man among the present crol
OF athletes for whom even none OK IN
most ardent OF the oldtimer sports TO!
lowers can go BACK among tne cnalh
pions and dig up a counterpart Ste''
Chase. the lanky Dartmouth hurdier
who won the 100 yard nigh hurdles a
the Internationals In a great race WIT
Godfrey Shaw. the famous Englisi
fence flyer. in 10 20 seconds. vas a won
derful timber topper. but Steve cahno
be c!assed with BOD simpson WIN
showed three otner truly re",arh'pr
fence flyers the way over the parrler
IN IA a. seconds.
Bob Simpson Is the greatest hlsI
hurdler OF all time smitnson, hraeI"e
I lein, A. h. SHAW darre's: he''y, hons y
!, the present or past nuro'Ins W.
car compare WIN 'he s.alwar, "a
, sourian. simpson IN une ms, pa,
, tall, powerful hish fp". up sou'n. Ia
the ideai puid iot muI".eI ~"
second place, ne mas ~. a