The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Scholastic Stars

The interscholastic track season now
drawing ito a close revealed no greater
sensation than Eddie Swinburne of De
La Sale Institute. the fastest middle
distance runner in, this neck of the
woods. and perhaps the fastest school
boy at 440 and $50 yards in many
years.
Swinburne will be graduated from
prep school next week and will enter the
freshman class at Yale University in
the fall. Old Eli will receive no, better
championship prospect. Experts in the
game. including Bernie wefers, Sr.. who
discovered Eddie and has coached and
trained him for four years, believe that
after a year In college he will be doing
I'm. 55s. for the half mile.
Swinburne needs competition to make
him extend himself. something that no
schoolboy has done in the last year. His
most recent performance was a victory
In the handicap half mile run at the
New York A. G. games in I'm. So lbs.
starting off the Is yard mark and
competing in a rain. Eddie sports the
colors of the Winged Foot Club and
will compete for that. organization in
the Metropolitan and National A. A. U.
junior championships before resting up.
He is now below his normal weight OF
1S0 pounds, distributed over six feet of
his person.
Unbeaten during the last indoor and
outdoor season, Swinburne has turned
in some sensational performances. He
has accomplished 2m. LBS. for the half
mile and so Ass. for the quarter out
doors and SO 3-5s. for the quarter and
I'm. 1-5s. for the half indoors. His
SO 3-5s. equaied the city record. his
Pm. LBS, made on two occasions, bet
tered the metropolitan indoor record by
2 4-5s., and came within 1-5s. Of the
national scholastic mark.
For two years the De La Sale relay
team has been supreme. and Swinburne,
anchor on the quartet is the main
factor In It's supremacy. The team
was unbeaten in thirteen races in the
192i-22 season, won It's class event for
the second time at the Penn carnival
in 335. establishing a new record for
the class relays, and in 1921, the same
four set national record for the med
ley relay at the St Joseph C.. c. meet
indoors. At the Penn games, SWIM
burne's time for the quarter was 0:5O
4-5. the first time. that New York
schoolboy had gone below 81 seconds.
Later. that same day he covered the
half mile in the two mile relay In
200 1-5.
In the national indoor championships
this year Swinburne won the half mile
title by 20 yards. making 2:02 is on
ten lap track. At the Clinton indoor
games. he made Cecil Cook take second
for the first time in more than year.
equaling the cnty record OF 0:53 3-5 AZ
the Princeton Club indoor meet he won
the half mile In 2:02 1-5. breaking the
record by 2 As seconds. He won the
private schools title at $50 yards and
won the Yale interscholastic $50 in
| 200 2-5. breaking the record
Swinburne started at Fordham Prer
In 1918. and, after two years transferred
| to De La 'Salle. A newcomer to the
track pastime, he answered Wefers'i
call for candidates. and in his first race
J at the Princeton Club indoor games In
1919 he won the 500 yard run for novices
and later was placed fourth at the N
| Y. ". outdoor meet In 1920 he won thu
quarter at the ". Y. u. meet, placed
second in the Princeton Club indoor
half mile, fourth In the Princeton out.
door meet and ran anchor on the vic
torious relay team in the Penn carni.
val, making three times that he has
been on winning relay team In the
Penn meet.
He shot to the front In the 1e2O-192l
season. won all his indoor races. was
beaten twice outdoors by the fast Tnr-