New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
SIMPSON PROVES
HURDLNG KING
IN GARDEN MEET
Missouri Student Appears
to Have Every Record
at His Mercy
Bv A. c. CAvAGNARO

Sob Simpson was crowned as one OF
"a greatest hurdlers that ever lived by
his remarkable performances at the
Aillrose games held at Madison Square
arden last week. 1t was the big
armcr boys first appearance indoors
81 he East, and, although his skill and
n, d over an outdoor track was known,
i as believed that he would not fare
ell over the board floors. However,
brilliant feats arc now history, as
- the eleventh time within nine
his this University of Missouri stu
has broken hurdle records.
seventy-ysrd distance, it was
- Pit. would affect Simpsons speed,
b e proved that he was as invineible
A. istances below 100 yards as in
% tests. In both the high and the
'o .urdle races Simpson met the best
o. ,on. Simpson failed to knock down
rle hurdle. skimming over them
ess than an inch to spare.
Missouri students work showed
cost Of the hurdle marks now on
ooks are at his mercy. He will
btedly compete in the senior ma
championships at the ed Regi-
~ Armory on Marcn II.
running of Joie Ray, Of the llli-
no thletie Clup. was another feature
AZ iMillrose games. The style and
ST of the Chicago boy won the ad-
mir on Of the local athletic experts. .
: s victory IN the one and half
mil. IN was especially pleasing to him,
own 20 the fact that he led home
Jchr W. Overton. Of Yale. 1t can be
ssid n Overton's behalf that he was
not n condition 20 follow the killing
nae. set by the Western runner.
Rl5 and 0verton will come together
in tne Baxter Mile at the New York Ath-
letie Clubs games at the 22d Regiment
Arncry on February 10.
T6f record for the mile is 4:1Sh,
hel5 ~ Abel +. Kiviat, and this will
hkx'v sc broken when this speedy pair
nssr gain.
he versatility Of 10 G. LOOMS, the
Cr;eSRO Athletic Association grey
aeynG, was again in evidence at Madi-
son SQUARE Garden. When Loonis was
not eontesting in the sprints or hurdle
races. he was busy with the running
high Jump, taking his leap, and later
turning for the track events.
.se local A. A. U. will soon have
..nother.stAr sprinter in its ranks. He
is none other than George B. Dernell,
Of the Boys Club, who one year ago
wss unknown in athletics. Dernell
Jumped into prominence in the recent
indoor Junior national championship
games and was anchor man on the
Eastern relay team at the Millrose
games.
Dick Remer. the gray-haired walker
OF the New York Athletic Club, rs at
-sseat displaying great speed Thu:
seven-mile national champion received
q start Of 80 seconds from George h.
Goulding in the two-mile Millrose
event but the latter never had chance
so catch him.
Although entering his thirteenth
wear for national honors, Jack Eller,
the policeman athlete of the l1sh-
American Athletic Club, is as speedy
as ever. Eller has been truly re-
markable athlete. Since 1904 he has
won a national championship every
year, either indoors or outdoors. In
the seventy-yard event. against Simp-
son, LOOMS, Murray and others, Eller
showed that he was not as yet has
BEEN" being led across the finish line
by Simpson by a margin of inches.
Too much competition may cut short
the career of Earl W. Ely, the tow
headed runner of the University Of
Pennsylvania. At the Millrose games
Eby competed in no less than three
gr7leliinR races.