Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1926, Page 47

SP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, MAY SPORTS. 47 14, 1926. Mile Is Best Test of Running, Declares Ryder, Track Coach at Boston College CONNEFF WAS IDEAL TYPE OF ATHLETE AT DISTANCE Ran Hard From Start, Makmg Most of Strength in Early Part of Race—Route Offers No Rest or Chance for Recuperation. By the Acsoriated Press OSTON, May 14 do your running while vou Ryder. Boston College track ¢ T'he particip enuine mile r " he said, in dis occurs after the first guarter, it until the final quarter This happened last M.\\ gerty of Har\anl won the I C. time of 4.25 7-10. primarily a fast 600-yard man, he ¢ proaching the finish. But for the ru fied by the designation of miler A truism of nts in most one-mile races hold back and decline to run at Philadelphia, ] A. A. A. A. one-mile championship in the This was good generalship on his part because, foot-running is are strong,” in the opinion of oach. “to make fast time, Jack cussing this competitive feature. “A would seem by mutual assent, lasting when sworth C. Hag being ould wisely defer the issue until ap- mner who feels he is properly classi- to tolerate such a loafing race simply means he is loath to take his medicine—he refuses to run an ideal onee mile race. "It s foo early at this writing o, estimate whether an ideal mile con test will develop at the intercollegiate competition May 2% when the mile | will he run for fittieth time in this meet Conneff (¢ the at Runner. “The first one-mile race [ ever wit nessed vun on the ald d track in Cambridge In August 1893, The great Tommy Conneff w the scratch man in a one-mile handi. cap and won. He ran the first half mile in two minutes flat. The total time for the n 5. He had no move run him. He ran as fast as he could while he could “In 1876, the 1. . A, A, A, A, mile was won time slightly under 5 minutes until more than 30 years later was the race run in 4 minutes seconds. Then came John 1 Cornell, who 413 broke the record which still running the mile in t was an average of than 7 vards per sec. e inches in the mile mean in time ne Condition Needed. “There is no athletic event which demands such excellence of physical condition as the one.mile run, when run correctly. There is no rest, no recuperation. The sreat chance for Conneff. when asked how he feit while | hard one-mile race. described like this: ‘At the quarter the half T am weak, and quarters I am dead to the o 1 am tire &t the thr world." BIG TEN TRACKMEN PRIMING FOR MEETS, By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, May 14 Conference track on the touch: week end competition, ragular and two dual sin, Ohio State, €| West- today Eight ern were puttinz for grueling neets Arbor over to Blo Indiana. The quadrangular meet at Columby ranks second only to the Big champlonship games and. by reason of their sweep of the indoor quadrangu lar events, W men are rated favorite: udged by past performances, n edge at Ann Arbor and Indian. win .the Hoosier meet, Holmes | Tep | s expected to |SCHOOL RIFLEMEN IN TITLE MATCHES |+ High school riflemen their series of outdoor matches for the city championship with a pair of dual en | zagements on the Camp | Simms range at Congress Heights. open | tomorrow | Central meets Western in the open- |\ |ing tht at 8 o'clock, and Eastern and | Tech teams take to the range shortly after the noon hour. The first match is likely to be the most keenly con- tested. as Central's shooters carried off the indoor championship and West- | srn’s line-up includes Prescott Blount, {who recently won the individual in- loor crown, Teams of six men will fire. The rourse is 200.yard slow and rapid fire, | 100-vard rapid a 00 slow. 3 With the “C" the attention of a majority of high | school athletes and fans, the number {of other events on tomorrow’s card is small. Western's base ball team meets the Marvland freshmen at College Parl play at listed, avy. Two tennis matches are Devitt going Military Academy. to Staunton (.onmml evel town’s freshman b dl\ The T Streeters verdict o avenge a 9-to-6 defeat suf. fered earlier in the se: s with George all nine yester Vs, Catholic men at Brookland and St nandoah Military nchester is today's I ball program. Central fresh Iban's v dem: at astic base IN CUP TENNIS MATCH AIALMO. Sweden, May 14 (®) sweden won three singles matches, | Switzerland one doubles and one < match, in the secondround of pean division. Q2 i Switzerland won from | Malstrom of Sweden in a hotly con- tested match which went the’ limit, i1 6 - 64, | Wallenberg of Sweden defeated match, 4—6. 61, 6—1, 6—1. 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