The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1896, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1896. 21 e —————————————— Some Points on a Famous Runner BAIRDS BIOGRAPHY OF LAWRENCE E. MVYERS THE GREATEST ALL AROUND RUNNER THAT EVER TROD THE CINDER PATH * As the years pass and recede behind us we are conscious of great changes taking vlace, but in no affairs of life do greater changes, in consideration of time, take place than in athietics. BEach year as we take up the record tables and observe the improvements made we naturaily wonder whether there 1s any comparison between the athlete of ten years ago ana of the present day. In some respects I concede that improved methods of training, better cinder paths and experience of a general character have contributed to great im- provement. But notwithstanding all this I am constrained to believe that there was one runner in the past who was equal to if not superior to any man who now treads the cinder path. That man was Lawrence E. Myers of New York. To write this man’s athletic history is a most interesting task, and more of a pleas- ure than a task; and for the benefit of those who enjoy athletic anecdote and reminiscence, and the young aspirant to athletic honors who is anxious to learn by the experience of others, I have decidad toundertake the biography of this remark- able man. Many years ago, while preparing the material for my *‘Record Book,” which made me the official handicapper of the old National Association, 1 came across the publication where L. E. Myers was ga- zetted to the sporting worid. This was in November, 1878. He did not win; indeed Ido not think he even gained second place, but it was a beginning—and such a be- ginning! That winter he ran frequently in Madi- son-square Garden—an old amusement hall, similar in some respects to our Me- chanics’ Pavilion and since torn down. Here he did not achieve distinction, but he gained experience, occasionally winning races and sometimes losing. However, as spring crept on his speed increased until tie was recognized by allas a coming man. On May 30 of that year, 1879, he met Edward Merritt, who had won the championships at either a quarter or half a mile for three successive years. The old champion beat him, bat it showed observing men thata new quarter-mile runner was clamoring for recognition. Nothing daunted by this defeat the youne man kept to his training, and by the 4th of July was running in magrificent form. Patrons of athletics were looking forward with delight toa race between the subject of our sketch and W. C. Wilmer, holder of the quarter-mile record— :52 1-5—but this was frustrated by an accident to the latter. During August ana the early part of September, 1879, he kept steadily increas- ing in strength and speed until he reached the 20th day of that month, the most wonderiul day in athletics that haa ever been known. On that occasion a full set of scratch events was given, like a cham- pionship meeting. In all seven records ware beaten, and two of these were accom- plished by Myers. The 220-yard course was almost exactly like the Olympic course—a sharp curve and a long home- stretch. A year before Wilmer had ac- complished the distance in :22%. On the occasion in question Myers ran it in :223 without serious trouble. After a rest he was called out for the 440 yard. At the crack of the pistol he left the mark with unusual alacrity and started down the homestretch, for the track was five laps to the mile and gave bim one lap and about ninety yards to cover. The spectators, except his inti- mate friends, thought he was running 220 yards—at least they could not understand such a rush but on that process of reason- ing. When he reached that mark, how- ever, he went by it with long, powerful strides that electrified the audience. Al- though it was supposed to be a race, there being other competitors, no one paid any more attention to the others than if it was an exhibition by the fleet-footed runner from the Manhattan Athletic Club. “When Myers reached the last curve the astonished audience began to realize that he was running at a pace hitherto un- dreamed of by the amateurs of the world.” 8o said one of the sporting journals of the period. As he was rounding said curye he began to feel that something was wrong with one of his running shoes and men- tioned the fact to & friend standing inside the track as he passed him in full caseer. Just as he entered the homestretch, 90 yards from home, the shoe mentioned flew off. The only difference noticeable was a slight twing as the naked foot struck the caroon cinders, but the great athlete was in for the record of the world and not 1o be deterred by such trifles as this. The homestretch even increased the wonder of the audience, for it was marked by a dis- play of strength and vigor entirely unex- pected in one who had traveled at such a pace. v The onlookers naturally waited in breathless anxiety for the time, for it was apparent to the most indifferent observer that something remarkable must have been accomplished, but when the result was announced, and all present realized that they had witnessed something far superior (o anything ever achieved by the amateurs of the world, the excitement was intense. Myers had run the quartier mile in 49 1-5 seconds, or about a second faster than the fastest time ever made by an amateur. One week later was the occasion of the annual championships of America. Myers easily won the 220-yard and the 440, and when it came to the half mile he had to fuce once more his rival, Edward Merritt. The struggie did not last long, however, for the coming man won easily in 2 min. 1 2-5 sec., the best on record. From that time no one ever seriousiy attempted to dispute his supremacy at the quarter and haif miles. The following spring, 1880, Myvers ran 1000 yards at Elizabeth, N.J. Tune time for the full distance I do pot remember, something like 2:18, but the time for 880 yards or one-haf mile is very clear to me. It was' 1:59, and the best amateur rec- ord in America at that time. The Engzlish recorc was then 1:57)4 and remained so until Myers changed it. The record for one mile was 4:37 2.5, and Myers was induced by his friends to un- dertake the task of lowering it. Accord- ingly on May 30 he made the attempt. It was a scratch race and his competitors were soon left behind. Thus bhe had to travel the unusually long distance alone. He persevered gamely though, for game- ness was one of the native characteristics of the man. The last lap was very severe on him, for his stomach was never strong, but he finished amid the enthusiastic en- couragement of the spectators in 4:29 3-5. On July 17 Myers made a serious at- tempt at the half-mile record, and if his quarter in :491-5 startled the athletes across the Atlantic, as well ason this, it is not difficult to fancy their astonishment when he made the distance in 1:561-8. His fame as a runner was now firmly es- tablished. However true the last statement may have been, the public were scarcely pre- vared for what happened on the 18th of September. On that date, In a bandicap race, he ran two heats in 10 seconds, equal- ing the amateur record of the world. Some have contended that he got the best of the start on that occasion, but as I saw him run in 10 1-5 that fall I am inclined to believe that the published time was about correct. The great bugbear of that period concerning sprint running was the con- stant accusation against prominent run- ners that they “stole’” or beat the pistol. Fortunately the introduction of the crouch start has «liminated much of the old dis- cussion and bitterness. On BSeptember 25 Myers perfo rmed a feat at the championship games, at which I was a spectator, that has never been equaled on either side of the At- lantic. On that alternoon he won four events—the hundred in 102-5, the 220 in 23 25 (on a curve), the quarter-mile in 52 seconds, and the hulf-mile in 2:043-5. I believe the quarter was the last event, as the time is the best of the four. By tnis time Myers was acknowledged asa won- derful man, not only at individual dis- tances, but as an all-round runner. Cer- tainly no man ever lived that could dis- play such a string of records, and before 1 have completed this littie biography 1 will demonstrate that in this respect he was the most remarkable man that ever lived. « The following year the Manbattan Ath- letic Club decided that Myers should go to England. Accordingly an agreement was made with the London Athletic Club; and in May, 1881, with E. E. Merrill, the champion walker, accompanied by Thomas McEwen as manager, the party sailed for Europe. I will not dwell on the performances of Merrill, as that will come under the head of another story. I can- not recall the many performances of the American runner while in England; suffi- cient to say that his first victories were among second-class men as far as he was concerned, for I remember that he re- markea in one of his letters to a friend, which he probably did not expect would be published, that they ran so slow he could scarcely help stepping on their heels. Nevertheless his quarters were run inside of fifty seconds, and his half miles inside of two minutes—about 1:58. At the championship games of England, beld July 16, 1881, Myers experienced on one day the bitterness of defeat and the grandeur of victory. He was foolish enough to enter the 100-yaid run. His reazon for this, in ali probability, was conhdence, born of ten seconds twice in one day. But very likely another matter had a great deal to do with his action. If LAWRENCE E. MYERS The Greatest All Around Runner That Ever Lived the half-mile was set to be run before the quarter, Myers would not feel like having that much taken out of nim, even 1if it was only two minutes. On the otuer hand it would seem strange for the great all-round runner, who had 1un 100 yards in 10 seconds twice in one day, to decline to run in England’s championship. At any rate, he was beaten in his trial heat, and he wax not even permitted to run in the final. Some say that he stumbled at the start. I never asked him how it hap- pened, and have always been sorry I did not do so. The final was won by W.P. Phillips in 101-5. The man who beat Myers in his heat was, 1 believe, J. M. 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These circumstances had elated the former and aroused the latter. They stood on the mark, fit to run for a king- dom; and so it was figuratively, for on the result of this great contest hung the cham- pionship of the amateur world. The race began at the head of the backstretch, mak- ing a course somewhat like a horseshoe. Down the backstretch the two raced atthe crack of the pistol, and when the curve was reached Myers was at Phillips’ shoul- der. Around the curve there was no per- ceptible change, and when the home- stretch was reached the rivals were prac- tically level. I do not think it requires an extraor- dinary imagination to conceive that won- derful scene; the tens of thousands gath- ered about the track and on the grand stand shouting for England or America according to their nationality, taste, prejudice or friendship; the two fleet- footed runners anxious to uphold the honor of their respective countries—surely it was a subject for a master hand with the brush! Assoon as the men were well into the run home Myers began to draw abead. Steadily he increased his lead until within twenty-five yards from the tape, when he looked around in & manner that indicated plainly to the audience that the race was not only won, but won easily. Phillips finished with his long, powerful stride, but was completely exhausted. I have heard it stated that he was five yards be- hind; by others that his time was 49 2-5. As these two statements substantially verify each other I have always accepted them without aaditional testimony. The best English record was 50 2-5, and when the time of this race was announced as 48 8-5 it naturally created quite a sen- sation, although not much surprise. Myers’ American record being 49 1-5, made practically in a run against time, it was not greatly to be wonaered at that Le shaved three-fifths of a second off in such a race, but it trod so closely on the vime-honored professional record of But- tery (483) that it made each Englishman catch his breath. As stated before, it was thie greatest quarter-mile ever' run, for al- though Baker has given us a record run m a straightaway against time of 473, while Tindall—and one authority says Bredin— has run over there in 4834, which is the merest fraction inside of the Ameri- can's time, yet in these performances here was not the exciting and unusual eatures that lent such intense interest to the great international race. . % In order that there may pe no misun- derstanding concerning the record for hammer-throwing credited to Kdgren in last Sunday’s letter, let me say that the distance as stated is correct. A throw at Secramento of about 147 feet cannot be ccepted, as the laws of athletics dis- tinctly say concerning recoras: *‘The Amateur Athletic Union will not recog- nize any new record unless made in open competition,” and this was not. GEo. D. Bagp. In Trouble Over a Watch, Herman Gol.»icin, & young man, was con- victea yesterday by Police Judge Low of petiy larceny. He stole & watch and chatn from J Britterlin, a lodging-house keeper at 765 Mis- sion street, and pawned them with M. Rosen- berg, at 726 Howard street. Goldstein re- ceived but §1 on the waich and chain and then told the owner he couid tell him where thie property was. Britierlin demanded his iewelry from the pawnbroker, but met with refusal, tne result of which was that a warrant was secured for Rosenberg’s arrest for receiving stolen prop- erty, DR, TEED DEFIES ALL HIS CRITICS Ready to Confront Them All in Defending His Belief. His Religion a Warfare on Sensuality, and He Will Keep It Up. Denounces as Cowards Those That Employ Slander to Create Public Prejudice Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, the man who has been accused of wrecking homes by teach- ing his peculiar religious beliefs, writes TrE CALL the follor ing létter defending his religion and defying both clergy and Iaity to meet him openly and publicly dis- credit the principles he advocates: To the Editor of the San Call—SIR: You have kindly and generously offrred your cotumns through which to unswer some of the villainous and libelous attacks upon my character and reputation by the press of America and the world, which, allow me to say, is the first opportunity of he kind that has fallen to my recourse in the ten vears in which I have been subj ct to puolic abuse. I have been interviewed 500 times and as many times have I uniformly extended cour- tesy 10 préss representatives and as meany times, with few exceptions, have I been mis- represented and viified, whether owing to the mediocrity of the news reporter or the per- sistent determination of the daily press to ruin v opportunity to existI will not attempt to aflirm. 1 ao not object to an open, square and manly fight in whicu I am at liberty to stand in my own defense and I am ready to meet the slan. ders of my enemies and can meet them suc- cessfully if I am allowcd an equalopportunity. In reply to the most common charge against my public effort—namely, that I am in the habit of breaking up families, which the or- dinary reader of the daily paper construes to mean that it is my custom to mee: the wives of husbands and entice them to sever their marital relations, I sey emphatically that nevar in one insiance in any way, private or pub.:w :"&'e I suggested or hinted” at anything of the kind. Husbandx are as liable to become interested in my re igious teuchinas ux wives, and oppo- sition to my doeirine is &s common 1o wives as husbands. A siatement to the contrary is a vil ainous and vicious libel. No religious system was ever promulgated and propags'od that dld not mest opmontiee and that has not interfered with the tamily re- lations of the world. When the religion of Jesus the Christ entered any family and through its zeal Wrought upon any memoer 1n conversion 1o its propaganda it sepurated the fumily and Lrought upon the advocates of the religion the hema of those of the family to whom the religions power did not ap; eal. For this reason the Lord s«id, when he was charged with breaking up iamilics, I came to brivg asword.” “Icame to set men at vari- ance—husbends ngainst wives, and wives against. husbands, parents against children and children against parents, brothers against sisters and sisters acainst brothers.” The propagation of his religion had this effect upon society. Jesus kiew that this would be its influence, and, therefore, declared 1t, and for this with otfier ressons the couservative churen of his duy instigated his crucifixion and murdered him, He was led as & iamb to the slaughter, but not till he had made a vig- orous und aggressive onslaught upon the vil. lainy, hypocrisy and desiructive tendencies of his day did he succumb to the inevitable, Is it right for me to teach t tobacco, profanity and sens family or.out of it sre immoral influences? Is it right for me to declare tuat the mental mediocrity of this age is largely due to excos- sive indulgence in seusual plesspre? Have I amoral and lefll right to offer my protest against the dissipation of the sexual energies prostituted to pleasure and consequently to the depletion of mind and body, when through twenty years of my medical practice, before entering the ministry, I had the opportunity to know the causes of premature menta! decay. and could scientifically and conscientiousiy attribute such decay to its legitimate and specific source 2. I have the right and will ex- ercise it in making war upon the sensuality of this age 80 long as God gives me breath, if it breaks up every family relation in the uni- verse, It is for the public deciaration of these principles, in part, that I am condemned. ar as the propagation of my religious views is concerned, and their conformity to the genu- ine gospel of the Christ, I am ready to confront }Eunuc.y all the clergy and laity in the world. he cowards dure not meet me. Their strong- ext argument lies in the tongue of siander and the prejudice they are able to awaken in the community in which they operate. Every advocate of the reiigion of Jesus Ckrist from the Pope of Rome down to the common evangelical declaimer announces himself called and ordained of God. Thisis not blasphemy, but if Dr.Teed should say, “Iteach by divine authority,” he is a blas- phemer. The man who has the truth derives that truth from God, and if he declares it he does so by wer from on_high and by autbority divine. y conflict, with the present thought of the world resolves itself to the one question, ‘‘Are my religious, scientific, social and financial proclamations correct?”” 1f they are, then I persist in my right to exercise the religious and social liberty enunciated in the deciara- tion of principles professediy guaranteeing to every citizen of an ostensibly free government the right to religious liberty, My religion is not in agreement with the modern churches and with modern Christian- ity. Itis, however, in accordance wiih the religion of the Lord Christ. My demonstration of the cellular cosmogony is geometricaliy accurate, and will stand (he test of true sclence when alf the modern end scie tific_ fuois are dead. Respectfully, CYRUS R. TRED. HAS T0 TAKE THE STAND Mrs. Tessie Fair Oelrichs Pre- vented From Avo.ding the Fair Trial A Subpena Blocks Her Avowed Plan. Depositions of Lawyers to B: Taken, The adaptable trap of the law has been set for and sprung upon Mrs. Tessie Fair Oeirichs and she will be compelled to stay right here in S8an Francisco and give her testimony in the Fair will contest when the case comes up again for trial on Octo- ber 6. She will also be compelled to pre- sent berself at the Crocker builiing next Saturday morning and submit to another | legal formality, when Charles E, P. ilipps will take her deposition, aiong with the depositions of Miss Virginia Fair and Mrs, Nettie R. Craven, all of whom bave been served notices requesting their presence. This move, checkmating as it does Mrs. Oelrich’s avowed 1intention to absent her- seli from the City during the prospective trial, add« public and social interest to the developments of the case., and particu- larly to the prospects of entertaining tes- timony. Bat the list of persons subpenaed does not end here. Deimas & Shortridge want to know something about their opponents in the not distant trial, They have ac- cordingly rnuhr-nud Reuben H. Lioyd, Russeil J. Wilson, George A. Knight, Thomas G. Orothers and. W. 8. Goodfel- Jow to be present before Mr. Latham to- morrow morning and go on with the taking of depositions furnishing informa- tion on affairs of the estate, Tnis is done to facilitate preparations for the aciual contest in court, which has been set for earlier date than counsel expected. pit AL s Tab ity Lamp wicks soaked in yinegar some twen y-four bo nflxr: ine called into use wiil give a cle: me and a steadier light than those not so ¥ BE ENDED HS O L The Rev. E. Unaugsh’s Story of an Ugly Battle With a Cobra. The Snake Committed Suicide From Sheer Chagrin — Remarkable Experiences in India. The Rev. E. Unaugsh, who has been for thirty-nine years a missionary of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Madras Presidency, India, is at the New Western Hotel. He has had many curious and extraordinary experiences in that part of the country. “I have hunted a good deal at different times,” said he yesterday. *'I never both- ered with the Bengal tiger nor the chee- tah, neither have I hunted for lions, for there arenone there. But I have gone out after and gota good many antelope, elk and various kinds of fowl, including the plover. There is a good assortment of such game there, and you can kill more than you want almost any day, but of course it’s a shame to kill more than you can use. ““There are enormous numbers of snakes there, and many of them are very poison- ous. Some are extremely iarge. I always sought to keep clear of them as much as possible. Despite your best efforts, how- ever, you cannot do it. “I was in the Kishna district in Madras. Through this district, which has 31,000,000 people, flows the Kishna River, one of the greatest rivers in India. Along this river are to be found some of the worst of the reptiles. **‘Amone these reptiles is the cobra, and this leads me to tell you of a peculiar ex- Feriencel had there, which illustrated a act which had never been made plain be- fore. I hLad gone to one of our school- houses and was informed that a cobra was somewhere in the house, It had been seen, but had in some manner gone from view, yet it was explained tnat it did not appear likely that it had got away. “Thereupon I instituted a search. I ex- amined right and left every where, turning over the seats and icoking about in all di- rections. But I could not find the cobra. Tuen I took another look, and tinally over in a corner [ saw a mat, one of.t:e kind | vou see here, that is brought from the Orient to wrap things up in. “l went over there, and with a long stick instituted a search, and there in the mat was the cobra. He wasa good big stff fellow about four feet long, and when he saw me he rose up straigut from half his body and showed tight. His hood was distended and he showed his fangs, ready for business, “I didn't want to be bit and L backed away. Then he got down and would have got away if he could, but I wouldn’t let him. I gotout at the door and barrea the way. “The best way to kill the cobra is with a rattan stick. The cobra, strange as it may appear from his size, has a weak back, and if you hit him with a stick of this kind it sort of paralyzes him and he will get down and be reasonabiy quiet. “Bo I got a rattan stick about four feet long, and, keeping my distance and watch- ing my chances, I got in a body blow on the cobra that laid him out. He wasn’t dead by any means—just partly paralyzed —and be floundered around in a half help- less way. “I managed to get him out on the ground where the people could see him and while | hud him there he made sev- eral attempts to use his fangs on those about him. But it was all futile, and then Isaw a thing which exceeded in_ strange- nexs anything I ever saw. He bit himseli about half way in the center of his body, down and in a few moments was dead. e committed suicide.” |CARRIAGE ROBES SPECIAL SALE —OF FINE— BABY CARRIAGES. We are overstocked and must close o at agreat sacrifice. Regular Price. Sale Price. $15.00. 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