The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-22
RARE PERFORMANCE
BY WORLD ATHLETES
Letters from Italy Make Mention of Re-
cent Notable Track Meet Held at
Rome-Cornell Runners Won
So0-Meter Race.

New York, June 22.-Private letter
from Italy make mention Of recent
! track meet held in Rome at which some
| former prominent athletes figured in
what, in war time, was a series of re.
markable performances. The games
which were designated as an interna-
tional military track meet, attracted a
number Of entries from American ath-
letes attached to the American aviation
camp. The latter entrants did not, how
ever, find the winning of points or places
an easy affair for several competitors,
other than the Americans proved TO be
exceptionally fast In the various track
events.
Lieut.. L. V. Wndnagle, the former
Cornell half miller and championship
holder of 1916, won the 500 meter run
after a hard struggle against Lieut..
Lunghi, who formerly ran for the New
\ ork Irish American A. {. and was hold
er of the American and Canadian half
mile record. Lunghi, who is past thir-
ty, was in splendid physical condition
and forced Windnagle TO travel at tor
speed to win.
The third runner to finish was an Eng
lishman named Hays, who had never
figured in running races previous to the
war. Although in service for three years,
during which time he had been gassed,
shot through the leg and had his knee
dislocated, he was but a few PAGES in
the rear of Windnagle and Lunghi, which
rs another indication of the physical con
dition of the man who is playing a part
in the European war.
he ID ae e
these men in international athletics aft
er the present conflict is over can be fore
seen in the sprinting of Crocci, an Ital-
ian, who won the hundred meter race
from an extremely fast field in 10 As
seconds. Crocci's time equals that made
by the best of the Olympic games sprint
ers at this distance Allowing for pos
sible faulty timing, his performance was
a most remarkable one in war time,
when the opportunity for special athletic
training is lost in the greater duties
which fall to the lot of soldiers.
Officers of the United States Lawn
Tennis association have written letters
to the athletic organizations of the lead
ing colleges and universities of the coun-
try suggesting that tennis be made
major sport. This would carry the
awarding of the varsity letter TO win
lers of intercollegiate contests in the
same manner that the letter is given to |
members of the football, baseball and |
rack or crew combinations.
1t is the belief of the association Off |
,ers that the raising of tennis to ma
or sport plane would greatly increase |
interest in the game, both in the colleges /
md preparatory schools, thus paving the |
yay for the development of many high |
lass players who would continue to take |
art in tennis long after they are gradu-
ted from college.
Athletes of all ranks and types are
to the world at large that
heir training for amateur or profession
! competition in the past is an asset
which counts for much when tasks of
nusual magnitude must be accom-
lished. In this respect England's ath-
stic fraternity has been giving a good
ccount of itself, at the front and also
1 positions rarely touched by the spot
ght of publicity.
The other day King George, on a visit
} a munitions works, encountered man
machine which made deaf
ming noise. II WIS explained to the
oval visitor that il could be worked
MY by a man Of the strongest nerves.
fter the machine had been stopped for
moment, the king praised the operator
nd asked his name. He was Pedlar
almer, the prize fighter