Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletz'cs performer. His record - the Harvard College record, and the fastest college half mile next to Kilpatrick's - was made at the Harvard varsity games in the spring of 1897. It was the writer's pleasure to run - at a discreet distance - in the race in which Mr. Hollister made this record, and I remember that everybody wished there had been some one to push him and make him do better. As it was, starting from the pole he strode out ahead and ran what was practically an unpaced trial from start to finish. It was a fine day for running and the track was perfect. Hol– lister broke the tape in 1 minute 54f seconds, and he was quite able to talye care of himself at the finish. If Mr. Kilpatrick could have been there that day and in his 1895 form, there would have been a half-mile race worth seeing. Hollister was a tall and well-built man, with more body to him than most half-milers have. When running, his back was held almost perfectly straight, a bit too straight perhaps, and the spring seemed to come almost altogether from his legs, without much aid from up above. But whatever the re– sulting picture lost in flexibility and easy litheness, it made up in its impression of straight speed and power. As one used to see him corning down the cinder path, with his back firm, arms down, and chin well in, he reminded one of an express train on a good stretch of level track. Kilpatrick