The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-20

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families.
Upon consultation of university
records from 1916 to date 1t was
found that the ten Tiger track cap
tains-two men held the capitancy
two years--five were ministers
sons. There is a current phrase
sometimes used, run to beat hell. |"
Perhaps as boys running about
their fathers parsonages they learn
| ed the real meaning of this phrase.
| Caleb f.. Gates, captain-elect of
next spring $ track team, is the son
of the president of Roberts College
at ConstantinopIe, an ordained min
lister, s. Harrison Thomson, cap
tain of the Princeton team in 1923,
Is the son of the late WiIhilI Thorn
son. a Presbyterian minister and
formerly president of Sierra Madre
College.
w. e. Stevenson, captain OF the
championship team in 1922, has
been mentioned as the son Of the
president Of the Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary. Carl Erdman.
captain of the PRINCETON team in.
1919, and again of the champion
ship team in 1920, is the son Of
Doctor Charles Rosenbury Erdman.
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church OF Princeton, a member of
the Princeton Theological Seminary
faculty, and moderator of the gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
Church.
The captain Of the Princeton
track team OF 1915 was Ian Doug
las Mackenzie, son of the Rev
erend William Douglas Mackenzie.
president of the Hartford The0-
All were intercollegiate champions
in their day except one. Bill Steven.
son. and he was runner-up. At the
Intercollegiate in Boston in 1922 he
was given second place to Dris.
coll. of Boston College, in the
quarter-mile. Gates won the inter
collegiate hammer-throw champion
ship at Philadelnhia this spring
with a throw of 100 feet 1OI
/ inches. Since the hammer-throw
viii not be included in the events
| OF the International meet. Gates
/ left this country at the close of
college to visit his parents in
Constantinople.
Tommy Thomson was intercoNe-
| gate 120-yard high hurdle cham.
pion in 1928. H4 was clicked in
Is 5-10 seconds. Carl Erdman won
the unusual honor of capturing two
championships in the same year
| In 1918 he won the. 120-yard high
hurdles in Is 2-5 seconds and the
! 22O-yard low hurdles in "a 2-5
seconds.
Mackenzie was intercollegiate
champion in the mile with time
! Of minutes 20 As seconds in 1915
and also ran anchor on the cham.
pionship Princeton two-mile relay
! team which that year hung up a
new record of minutes. SIS 3-5
| seconds.
Like Captain Lowe of the
invading British team, he was an
unusual sort of athlete, who
would run a half-miIe in a meet
and short time later finish
mile without any apparent effort.
Like other rules. however, this
one has its exceptions. Bill Stew
| enson has twin brothers, both of
whom did little running at
| Phillips Andover, where Bill was
captain of track before he entered
/ Princeton. Ted Stevenson followed
HIS UEOII0E " I IHICSlOuS WHII0 LON
matrfculated at Yale. At Prince
ton Ted tried out at his brothers
event, the 440-yard dash, but never
entered competition, although he
was manager Of the varsity football
| team. a member of the Senior
Council and a leader of his class.
EDon Stevenson Jared the same at
New Haven and he tried out for
| the $50. He found consolation in
making the Eli lacrosse team and
a senior society.
All three of the Stevenson boys
are going into some profession.
Bill, who has just finished reading