Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

310 Track Athletics breaking men. At the intercollegiates, before the little whirlwind appeared from Georgetown to take the hundred four years in succession, Cary, Ramsdell of Pennsylvania, Crum of Iowa, Wefers, and Tewkesbury and Kranzlen of Pennsylvania had all done IO seconds flat. Of these, in addi– tion to Wefers, Crum at least was supposed by his friends to have beaten even time on other tracks. In the two-twenty, since Cary had set the record at 2 rf in 1891, W. Swayne, ] r., of Yale, Ramsdell, Crum, Wefers, Tewkesbury, Lightner of Harvard, had all done 2 2 seconds or better, and W efers had lowered the record for the longer dash to 2 it seconds. Close on the heels of these first-string men, and themselves first-string men in their own colleges, were and are many fast runners - runners like Richards of Yale, Jar– vis of Princeton, Maybury of Wisconsin, and any number of others whose work cannot even be glanced at here, who ran during the nineties and are running every spring now on scores of cinder paths in times that thirty years ago would have been thought phenomenal. In the sprinting class, and yet in a class by them– selves, are those runners who have the peculiar ability of attaining extraordinary speed for all the short distances up to fifty or seventy-five yards, but who have never run with equal success in the regulation longer sprinting distances. A number