The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-23

Moody Institution.
To take part in no interseholastic
sports, yet to produce notable intereol-
! legiate athletes-such is the unique rec
ord Of Mt. Hermon.
The school holds only interdormitorv
or interclass contests, but, despite this
handicap, numbers among its alumni a
world-renowned hurdler, who is a for
mer member of the American OLYMPIC
team, an All-America football center, a
New England intercollegiate tennis
champion, numerous captains of college
| teams and members of many other
teams.
Probably the most widely known of
Herm0n S sons who have won fame in
sports is James /. Wendell, '09, former
star hurdler and for two years captain
of the track and relay teams at Wes-
leyan.
During his college course Wendell
broke one record, tied another and won
point after point for his Alma Mater
III various track meets.
When the American team was picked
for the Olympic games in Stockholm in
1912, jimmy Wendell was given a
place, and on June 10 OF that year, when
pitted against - of the world 5 best
hurdiers in the 1l0-meter hurdle race,
he won second place and ranked as u
point winner for the American team.
Two brothers at Williams, Conrad
Ford Cutler, II, and Henry Hubbard
Cutler, -, sons of Principal Henry
Franklin Cutler Of Mount Hermon. like
wise made enviable records in college
athletics.
Conrad, the elder brother, captaincd
both tennis and hockey teams, and, on
MAY 20, 1915, won the New England In
tcrcollegiate singles championship in
tennis, also aiding Williams to take the
premiership in the doubles tournament.
This, by the way, was the first year that
the college had ever won the title.
Donald Morrison, IL, 1913 captain of
the Princeton cross-country team,
ranked among the best in the colleges.
In 1914 he captured first place in the
Hale-Princeton run. finished first against
Columbia, in which race he broke the
record for the course, and, finally took
second place in the intercollegiate
crosS-country run at New Haven III No
vcmber
c. A. Underwood, IA, likewise at
Princeton, gives promise Of making a
brilliant name fer himself in track and
lcross-country work.
Another runner Of whom Hcrmon NAV
justly be proud is T. W. Potter, Il,
track captain at Wesleyan in 1918, who
in 1914, among other performances, won
second place in the Wesleyan Williams
meet, finishing first in the mile and
half-mile runs. and in the meet with
Brown captured the half mile race and
second place in the mile event.
Albert Journeay, ex-12, University
of Pennsylvania football center, heads
the list of Hermon s gridiron products,
having been chosen in 1912 by Walter
Camp for his mythical All-Ameriea
team.
Capt Baker, Hermon, ex-' IA, of the
1914 University of Maine football team,
also received signal honors, earning a
place on the All-Maine eleven, which
is picked from the four colleges of
that state.
l.. q. Y. Watson, IA, holder of six
track and cross-country records at
Mount Hermon, won the cross-country
run held at Syracuse in 1914, covering
the distance in 20 seconds less than the
former record holder. He likewise took
first place in the two-mile race.
Two other former Hermon track men
who starred are: T. =. Hoag, ex u,
who came in second in the cross
country and won the mile race, and |.
G. Ross, second place man in the 100
yard dash.
John R. Delehanty, who, as athletic
instructor at Brookline high school,
turns out winning teams frequently, left
Mt. Hermon in 1906. He entered Spring
field college, where in 1910 he cap
tanned the football team. Other in
structors of note are f. E. Stevens, who
teaches boxing at Wesleyan, and H.
w. Buker, fencing teacher at Bates col
lege.
Walter E. Seibert, -, played on the
baseball team at Williams college for
three years and in 1916 was captain In
1914 he broke up the game with Prince
ton and Cornell in the ninth inning,
when two men were on the bases, hitting
| a two Dagger in the first game and
three-base hit i'll the latter game.
At Michigan, King, '09, football cen
ter of the Ann Arbor team, was chosen
captain of combined team of four
college departments and likewise of an
"All Star team, which was picked at
the end of the year.
| A number of Hermon men have
starred in more than one sport during
their college years, among them being
| Hsgerman at Cornell, who INDUCED in
track work, rowed on the crew and
! played in the college soccer team;
Hendrian, the halfback of the Spring
| field college eleven and captain of the
gymnasium team in 1907; Lair. football
and track star of Cornell; and Roberts.
who represented Hamilton college in
football, baseball and track contests.
/ Mount Hermon has never had crew
in fact, has no suitable body of water
/ for rowing purposes; therefore much
! credit is due three men at Syracuse
who are making good as crew men. ].
] G. Collins, E. NJ. Blanchard and E. G.
/ Hillegas, all 1914 graduates, have
! earned places in the eight-oared shell.
In strength test held at Clark college