Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

306 Track Athletics who ran third to Owen in his record-breaking race, was, perhaps, the next most notable club athlete who did the sprints during the eighties. Westing won several amateur championships in the dashes, and in 1888 he went to England and won out in the hundred there. Of the college sprinters of the pre-Owenite period Mr. Evart Wendell of Harvard is one of the best known to the present generation. Mr. Wendell was the intercollegiate champion of his day, but his interest in track athletics did not die when the time came for him to drop out of the running, and he has never ceased to devote a con– siderable portion of his leisure to the enthusiastic encouragement of college sport. His leading of the cheering at Harvard-Yale games of all sorts has become a sort of classic. A Mott Haven event without this familiar figure among the timers at the tape can hardly be imagined, and it is believed by many careful observers of undergraduate phe– nomena that Mr. Wendell's annual meteoric ap– pearance on the winter evening when the Harvard track-team candidates get together in answer to the first call, his bringing of the glamour of the "outside world" into the quiet of the Yard, his effervescent reminiscences, and his splendid even– ing clothes have done as much to put backbone and enthusiasm into bandy-legged freshmen, and convince them that not all the eclat goes to the