The Washington times., 1925-07-29

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Drew earned his spurs principi
a high Jumper of ability also al
halfback. He was fourth in the
hurdles and ordinarily can clear
Richard S. Tennyson, general di-
rector of boys activities on Wash
ington's Fairgrounds, discussed
Drews success today and commend
ed him, as a playground leader.
''But we have several colored di-
rectors who have made good at col
lege, both as athletes and students,
he said.
civilian Hasty, who, like Drew,
made the grade with the varsity
track team at Amherst, has
charge of the Bruce playground.
Thomas j. Anderson, who throws
the 56-pOund weight. is q member
Of our directing staff. he is .
Howard man.
Anderson was fourth. in the
Olympic trial of 1920. He Won the
junior championship of the Met
ropolitan games in 1913. and the
senior championship in 1920. He
'tJohn Davis viii be on the Dean
wood playground when he, returns
from England where he is debating
for the Bates College team against
Oxford and Cambridge"
The list of athletic notables pro-
duced by the negro race in this
country has heightened RAPIDLY in
the last decade or so, starting with
Howard Drew, OF the University
OF Southern California, who on
March %, 1914, equaled the world
record for the 100-yard dash-9 3-5
seconds-set by Dan Kelly, OF the
University of Virginia, in 1905.
Ned Gourdin. Of Harvard, was the
first man to jump past twenty-five
feets which he did in 1922 as a
member of the Harvard Yale team
opposing Oxford and Cambridge.
And just recently, De Hart Hub
bard, of Michigan, established a re-
markable world record by leaping
% feet 6h inches.
Hubbard is hailed as the great
est of all negro athletes. Some
authorities believe he is destined
60 break the formidable 100-yard
record held Jointly by Kelly,
Il
make his sensational broad jump
&c was necessary for him. to
generate great speed before the
fake-off. And in an actual
sprint he has done As seconds
for the century. What might he
do, it is asked, If Hubbard spe-
cialized in sprinting?
Many dusky -hued gridironers
have won distinction. Perhaps the
greatest of all these was Pollard, or
Brown, whose smashing, brilhant
performances at halfback won him
4 place in Walter Camps all
American lineup of 1919.
The gray boards among football
fans may dispute the supremacy
pf Pollard and single out as the
greatest of them all zone Billy
Mathews. who was a quarterback
At Harvard a quarter-century ago
ana a crack shortstop on the Grim
son baseball team, or Bulloch, the
long thin-Iegged Dartmouth end who
5istinguished himself soon after
Mathews period of fame. Some
might favor the Washington and
jefferson backfie1d star of several
seasons ago, West.
The latest ebony flash across the
athletic sky is Cecil g. Cook. OF
The Salem Crescent Athletic Club
II New York, who won tnc junior
md senior 440-yard championships
AZ the recent A. A. Z. national
meet. In winning the senior title
Cook established a new A. A. Y.
record of AZ 1-5 seconds.
An interesting story of COOK Is
told by Jimmy Connolly. who re-
turned 10 Washington several days
ago after competing for the A. A U.
mile championship. He ran third.
Cook failed to qualify in the
Metropolitan tryOuts," says Con-
molly, "and il looked as though he
would be left behind when the
Metropolitan entrants left for the
Coast, all their expenses to be
paid by the A. A. L. Joe Tlet'ney
and Alan HeIffrich beat him in
the try0uts.
Cook had no money to pay his
own way. He would have been
glad to do it. He was one ter
ribIy disappointed fellow. He was
confident he could do something
worthwhile in the national cham
pIonships, believing he wasn't at
his best when he failed to make
good in the tryouts.
well, his buddies thought the
same way about 1t and they
scraped together enough money TO
send him to California. He more
than justified their confidence. 1t
was a great stunt to win the Junior
buarter-mile title on Friday and
Tn
such runners as Tierney, Helffrich.
Ray Robertson and the others for
the senior championship
Yes, the negro race is going for
ward I'm athletics, perhaps catching
up with it's intellectual progress.
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