Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics running the sprints for Harvard, and he and Mr. Cuyler were friends. Just before the games were called, the rubber who was accustomed to prepare the Harvard sprinter for action went over to the Yale quarters, presented Mr. Wendell's compli– ments, and begged to be allowed to apply his skill upon the limbs of Mr. Cuyler. The offer was graciously accepted and Mr. Cuyler's rubber forthwith sought the Harvard quarters and begged to present a similar courtesy to Mr. Wendell. It was an agreeable outcome of this exchange of amenities that Mr. Wendell won the hundred-yard dash that day and that Mr. Cuyler not only won the mile run, but broke the record and set up the figures of 4 minutes 37-f seconds, which were not bettered for seven years. H. S. Brooks, Jr., ap– peared in 1882. He was a big man - six feet and over in height, and he weighed nearly one hundred eighty pounds -but he won both the hundred and the two-twenty at the intercollegiate that year and the next, and in 1884 he beat the Harvard champion, Wendell Baker, by a hair's breadth in the hundred. Brooks ran against club amateurs also, and he was one of the few men who had the honor to beat the phenomenal " Lon " Meyers. The race was a scratch two-twenty run in r 882 at the New York Athletic Club games. Of men such as these Yale had reason enough to be proud, but it was not until 1886 that the" Mott