South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-03
BY ED HUGHES.
The TamOus Sports CartOonIst.

one of the most significant cases
Of war pOrfiteering we know Of is
that of Fred Faller. now a promi-
ncnt member of the Dorchester
club. Boston Mr.. Faller II seems,
has actually established himself as
one of our greatest athletes and he
owes nearly all his success, like
thOusan of merchants and manu-
facturcrs. to the great war. Before
he left these shores. Mr.. Faller was
practically unknown in athletic cir
CleS, although ne had been striving
desperately for recognition for
nearly eight years. Today, his phys
ical conditions having been i'm
proved forty per cent by constant
drilling, Mr.. Faller is the natiOna!
ten mile Champion distinction he
never would have avhieved in nor
nal times simply because there is
no similar form. of athletic training
to that of an army in war time. If
that isn't profiteering, well miss our
guess.
War PrOfitecr.
Fred F'aller is an athletic war
prohteer, but the real story If his
success is the old theme-persever-
ance The Dorchester club runner
has been buffeted about on the sea
of athletics for nearly eight years
by the winds of mediocrity and fail
ure. Even his closest friends, wit
Messing Fred's downfalls so many
times. had long since given up hope
f1r him as a runner. But Faller
never abandoned the idea that he
was designed for a champion in
some branch of athletics. II was
oil
was good and he had the conforma-
tion which should produce speed.
But he seemed to lack the latter as
well as unfiagging stamina At the
outbreak of the war, Faller, after
years of athletic competition SEEM
ed farther away from athletic re-
nown than ever.
First To Fall In
Faller was one of the first TO go
overseas and from. the first fall in"
whistle. army routine began is work
of physical transformation in the
Bostonian's makeup. FIR O m a
slender ganglinE youth he became a
broad shouldered powerful yet 1.-the
mUsoled specimen of virile young
manhood The hardships of war
supplied him with the two things
he had previously lacked--strength
and stamina.
The first proof of Faller's regen-
Grafton was in the modified mara
thcn in the inter-allied games at the
Pershing stadium, France. Although
Jean WeT1meuleu of France won the
event. Faller finishing second, put
up a wonderful race, the best per-
Torrance he had ever staged at the
time.
AmazeS Friends.
Corning back home Faller amazed
his friends by winning several bic
events and exhibiting a form they
had hitherto never dreamed Faller
possessed. Fred was we'll thought
of as a contender for the national
10 mile honors in the Brooklyn a.
a games last October when ne left
Boston TO try for that honor. But
no one believed he would outclass
tho field including champion Charlie
Pores. as thoroughly as he did. Fal-
Ter actually forced Pores 10 quit
before half the distance had been
run and had little trouble defeating
Terry Halpin, Frank Zuna. Frank
TittertOn and James Plant.
Faller is expected 10 break the
English supremacy in the five and
ten mile events at Antwerp this
year He is even being considered
rs a marathon hope and If he elects
To lope a few extra miles the Bos-
ton war profiteer" will make IL hot
for the best long distance men in
the world