The Washington times., 1925-01-21

BY night fall. for example, it is
possible that De Hart Hubbard,
University of Michigan negro and
justifiably proud of his broad jump
ing ability, may be one of the four
out of five who masticate with the
bar gums. Hubbard beat "a feet
more times than any jumper in the
world last year and as far as my
knowledge goes, finished the season
undefeated. He won the Western
conference title, the Olympic try
outs at Boston, the Olympic title
itself at Paris, and finally the
national championship.
Was he named as the best broad
jumper in this country? He was
not.
The place went to Bob Lee
gendre, Newark A. c., who broke
the worlds record by clearing q
fraction more tnan 25 feet 6
inches and then called it cam
paign. Legendre was beaten by
Hubbard, Ned -GOurdin, w.
DOwding. and Al Rose at the
National meet; in fact, failed to
place at all. Hubbard may be
pIacated by the fact that he was
named as the best in the hop,
step and jump, but I doubt 1t.
The event lacks consequence.
Another selection that may bruise
the finer sensibAities Of our hardy
athletes is that Of Horatio Fitch,
Chicago A. A, in the quarter mile.
Horatio came along like the wind
at the Olympic games in addition
to breaking the record in his heat
chased Eric Liddell right into an
other new mark in the 40O-meter
finals.
Then he stopped in his tracks.
He made a poor showing at the
United Kingdom versus America
games in London and followed it up
by finishing to the rear Of Jimmy
Burgess, G.. T. Stevenson, and Cliff
Showers at the national champion
ships.
Apparently Horatio staked himself
to one big shot and then found.
himself without ammunition.
At the same meet Verne Booth,
former Johns Hopkins entry, ran
third. behind Ilmar Prim and George
Lermond. in the five-mile run. Yet
Booth got the place in Rubien's Sc
lections. Until he ran 9:23 for two
miles the other night, Booth has
done nothing Of moment since leav-
ing college.
With Willie RitOla not cOnsid
cred because he spent most OF the
campaign abroad, Gunnar Nilsson,
Finnish-American A. c., was
named as cr0Ss-cOuntry king. The
GunTlar was beaten for the ma
tiOnaI title by Fred Wachsmuth,
but / presume he must have been
deemed to have shown the greater
consistency throughout the CAM
paign.
Joie~ Rays recent running leaves
no doubt that he still is the
greatest miller in America but, for
obvious reasons he is not named
for the place for the first time
in many years. Ray had a poor
season outdoors. and the nomina-
ton rightly goes TO teammate,
Ray Buker. Joie is placated by
being named for the two-mile dis
tance.
The remainder of the selections
are quite judicious. The four
leading sprinters are taken care
of with Bowman at sixty yards;
Paddock at 100 yards: Scholz at
22O yards and Murchison at 300
yards.
The three greatest hurdlers in
the world follow with Dan Kinsey
at 120 yards; Charley Brookins
at 220 yards and Morgan Taylor
at 440 yards with Herb Meyer
stepping in for the place at the
seventy-yard distance.
Others named include Alan
Helffrich, 900 yards; Schuyler
Enck, $50 yards; George Marsters,
1000 yards; Earl Johnson. ten
miles; Marvin Rick, steeplechase;
Clarence De Mar, marathon; VIII
liam Plant. one mile walk; Harry
Hinkle, seven-mile walk; w. /.
Reed, standing broad jump; Harry