Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Distance Runs and Distance Runners 343 in 1899 and 1900, and in 1903 at the Traver's Island track he set the American amateur record for this event at 9 minutes 2 7! seconds. He won the amateur championships in the five-mile run in 1902, in the two-mile run in 1903, in the mile in 1899, 1901, 1902, 1903, and in the half mile in 1900. None of these races was ·won in phenomenal time, although the performances were all respectable enough; and by them and by ex– cellent indoor work the younger Grant is down on the books for all time as a successful and con– sistent long-distance runner. His older brother, on the contrary, never won at the intercollegiates, although he carried the Harvard colors for sev– eral years, and except for a five-mile dead heat, which he ran with his brother for the amateur championship in 1899, at Concord Junction, Mas– sachusetts, and some minor successes in cross– country runs, his name scarcely appears on the record books. Yet, when he first appeared on Holmes Field, at Cambridge, he was looked upon by the undergraduates as a sort of prodigy from another world, not governed by the ordinary laws of fatigue and speed, tireless and invincible. The first morning he came out on the track, if we remember correctly, and was told to jog an easy quarter or three-eighths, or something like that, he clipped out a half mile in 2 minutes 3 econds, pounded on with unabated enthusiasm in to the