Evening star., 1917-05-20
CASEY JONES UNIQUE
IN ATHLETIC ANNALS.
Conditions Under Which He Took
Second in Relay We're Most
Unusual.

STATE coLLEGn. Pa. May 30
When Howard Berry. Penn's great ath-
lete. won the pentathlon at Phil
adeiphia The the a crowd pl,. howled the the
all the glory was not Berry's. It
was learned that the man who fin
ished second In the big relay classic
worked under conditions that made his
feat one Of the most notable perform
For Casey" Jones. Penn States
foot ball and track star, contested in
the pentathlon under conditions that
would have killed the chances of any
the question whether Berry would
have won had Casey" not been half
exhausted before the contest started.
*Take Dambly."
Being a real sportsman, Jones passed
| up his chance to go to the relay carni-
val when he gave his place on the State
College team to Dambly, a teammate.
Jones and Dandy tied in the trials
held here several days before the meet
at Philadelphia.
Take Dambly," said Jones. to Coach
Martin, who had proposed that the two
men toss a coin to select States repre-
cred too expensive to take both men on
the trip. Dandy is a good man, and
he has been trying for the team longer
than ]" urged Jones. He said he would
get there somehow, even If he was
Thursday. the day before the meet.
Jones. in company with Bob Higgins.
captain of the Penn State foot bali
eleven. left State College to bum his
way to Franklin Field. They rode in
Bellefonte, where they jumped a
freight headed eastward. Before they
had gone ten miles they were discov-
cred by an alert trainman and ordered
a water tank. and soon boarded an
other sidedoor Pullman, only to be
dttched by another brakeman just out
side of Lock Haven. But another
freight train came along, and they
played safe by riding the brake beams
to Williamsport.
There the passenger train which car
ried the real Penn State track team
overlook the two bummers. and when
the passenger train pulled out for Har-
and disheveled, were riding on the
steps Of the Pullman coach in which
their teammates were peacefully Sleep
ing. Right into the Harrisburg sta
tion they rode, half frozen, but still de-
termined to get to the relays.
Rode on the Steps.
lege trackmen stuck his head out of a
window and discovered the pair of
real tramp athletes. This was about 4
o'clock in the morning. When the train
pulled out of Harrisburg this member
of the team slipped out on the plat
form. raised the trapdoor over the
steps and in slipped Higgins and
Jones. Past the slumbering porter they
crept Silently they crawled into
berths. their mates willingly crowd
ing over to make room behind the cur
tains. There Jones and Higgins rode
noon they hiked to the athletic field.
Jones was tired out. He had less
than two hours sleep, and was stiffen-
ed from his cramped position under
the platform door But he toed the
mark In the road jump and leaped 10
feet s inches, capturing second place
in the opening event of the pentathlon.
Then he went to the training quarters
and took another snooze before the
next event. And that was the way it
went all afternoon-s1eep and work
and the combination worked we'll. Hig-
gins stood guard over his sleeping
companion. arousing Jones each time
his event was called.
Jones came through with flying
co1ors. He finished third in the 1900
meters, third in the javelin throw.
fourth In the discus, second in the
His performance landed him second
place. with a total of fifteen points.
two better than credited to Damb1y,
his teammate. who landed third.
After the event was over, Berry
learned of the gameness Of Jones and
went to congratulate him, but found
Jones again in the land of nod and re-
fused to awaken him.
Jones can see nothing out of the
ordinary in his feat.