The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-10-08
% have been too short a traIning

to have been too short training
period after landing in Belgium.
He has won the junior title at
miles at Chicago, the senior five
miles at Pasadena, the first being
run while representing Camp Upton
and the last title being COPIED this
summer. In three years of run
ming Johnson has lost but three
races, while in his entire career he
has failed to place only twice.
This summer under Edgar Thorn
son colors has been his big season.
and knocked off ~ straight races
in easy fashion. On May z he ran
from Bellevue to Schenley oval, a
distance of about IL miles, and
broke the record for the course,
doing it in l hour and 3 minutes.
May 80, he ran from Pittsburgh to.
Kennywood park, about IL miles,
covering the distance in | hour 7
minutes and 9 seconds. July 4, at
Pasadena, he won the five-mile SEN
Tor championship in the fast time
of 25:52 3-5, beating such National
stars as Fred Fuller, New York;
Chas. Hunter, Pacific coast cham
junior champion, and B. French of
Chicago. At San Francisco, on July
Q. he ran a special three-mile race
against practically the same field
and broke the Pacific coast record.
On July %, he ran and won the
A. NJ A. championship from Bellevue
to Schenley oval, and broke the old
record by 3 L minutes. On July
80 he ran at Cleveland in a 10
mile race and won from a fled con-
sisting of Chuck Miller, Logan
Square A. c.; Moran of Detroit, and
Fabre of Cleveland, and Faber of
Ashtabula Here he lowered the rec
ord for the course by 10 minutes.
He beat Mellor $50 yards to the
tape at the finish. On August 13
he won a one-mile race at Kenny
wood and set a new mark for that
track August IT, he ran at Johns
town and won a five mile Marathon
and half-mile event, and later in
the afternoon ran as anchor man
This record in one season speaks
for itself and certainly establishes
Johson as one of the best Colored
runners from one-mile to 20 in the
country today The way has not been
, made easy for Johnson by any
means for he has had hard strug-
gle to gain recognition, and it has
only been throughOugh the help of
his friends that he was able to show
] his worth at the big events in which
he has completed. Last year II was
his friends that made the Olympic
trial trip possible by holding en-
tertainments and donating funds for
the trip, that gave Earl his chance
in the big meets. This year the Ed
gar Thomson authorizes financed
propositions for Johnson to meet
and beat the best in the land.
on a relay team which won. He
went back to Johnstown on August
| "a and copied a three-mile special
race against good field. On August
81 he won an eight-mile race, a
handicap affair in connection with
, the police day field meet. He finish
ed his best work of the year on
September 10, when at Detroit he
ran and won a % ID mile race,
the Masonic Marathon, against the
best field of starters it was possible
to secure finishing two and one
half miles ahead of his nearest
competitor.
Following the advice of such stars
as Fred Faller, Mans Kohlmanan,
Alfred Schrubb and Lawson Robert
son on the trip to Belgium is what
Johnson attributes to his success.
And such famous Colored stars
as Sol Butler, Roy Morris, Sandy
Evans, George Golf and Cliff Mitch
ell will have to step some to come
near the great mark Johnson made
this summer.