Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Sprinting and American Sprinters 307 eleven and the crew, as all the exhortations- of college editors and team captains and the hopes of athletic glory. The best college sprinter before Evart Wendell was H. H. Lee of Pennsylvania, who won the hundred three years in succession, in 1877, 1878, and 1879, and the two-twenty twice. Directly after Wendell came Brooks of Yale, '85, who as a freshman won the Mott Haven hundred and two-twenty in 1882 and captured the latter event again in 188 3. Brooks weighed something like one hundred eighty pounds, yet he managed to do sot seconds in a quarter, and defeated "Lon " Meyers from scratch at the New York Athletic Club games in 1882 and in 1884 in the two– twenty. Wendell Baker of Harvard, who also ran at this time, was an unusually pretty runner. He lacked but one inch of six feet, and in running trim he weighed a trifle less than one hundred forty pound . Although Baker never won the hundred at Mott Haven, he was good, when in his best form, for ten seconds flat, and he cap– ture1 the two-twenty three years in succession - in 1884, when he brought the intercollegiate record down to 22-f second , and in 1885 and 1886. The quarter in 1885 went also to Baker, and in that same year F. M. Bonine of the Uni– versity of Michigan won the hundred. It was the first time an athlete from a Western college