Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics in the Colleges 289 the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Associa– tion. This was organized by faculty representa– tives of eight of the leading Middle Western colleges. Other colleges were excluded in order to bring the entry list within reasonable bounds, and to make more certain the enforcement of eligibility rules, and track athletics were at last set upon what seemed to be a permanently healthy basis. During the years in which Middle Western track athletics were enduring these growing pains, a number of star performers appeared from time to time, who carried their successes to the East and even across the water. From Iowa, where there had been a great deal of interest and activity in track athletics, came, in 1895, John Crum to win the hundred at Mott Haven in ten flat. Crum was credited on several occasions with better than even time. In I 897 Rush of Grinnell was credited with 9-t seconds in the hundred at the Iowa intercollegiates, and with 2 it in the two-twenty. Maybury of Wiscon in, the next sensational Western sprinter, won the amateur championship two-twenty in I 898, and he was credited repeatedly with having beaten even time in the West. Maybury, however, not only ran for money at Minnesota picnics, when he was too young to know better, but he competed, unfortu– nately, as a professional after he had made his u