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4 THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 19-YEAR AR CALIFORNIA COLLEGE STAR LATEST ATHLETIC MARVE IMPROVES THORPE FEATS | IN SPRINTS AND WEIGHTS ing Pacific Coast Sensation With Little More Coaching Should Soon Be Greatest Athlete in World’s History—Hart- ranft Coming East to Compete in National Championships. By Robert Edgren. between Stanford and the University s==ee | of Southern California. He won three HAVE just seen a youngster WhO} events and finished third in the looks to me hike the greatest/rourth—a race he had never tried athlete since Jim Thorpe’s best] perore, First he won the 16-pound shot put jome of his performances far SUr-|with 49' feet 7% inches. The ground s the best work of the xreat/in the ring was soft and dusty. With ian, of Martin Sheridan and of} hard clay footing he would certain- mer all around champion and}iy have gone well over 60 feet. With ord holder, §. H. Thompson. the shot he has perfect form. He loreover, as he ‘is a college YY. | crouches low for the leap, drags his nineteen sof age, and in his} right too along the ground as he successful year in athletics under! makes it, shifts feet and drives the college coaching, unless some | shot with a full round swing of body dent prevents, within another) ang shoulder behind it ard a final flip or two he will far outclass 20%1 of the fingers, He uses the full circle ground athlete ever known. and | every time, stepping within an inch ot have broken at least hal€ 4/the front board, ard has no inclination mn of our present world records. to foui y he is a better shot putte Bruen be is an ee ee Witter |. 1 think, from his, action and the Sheridan and Dunean with the] teMendous bound he holds in leash, a his cool deliberation and perfect tim- ing, that he could easily break the Hs name is Glenn seas” taj? ]2-pound shot record any day, ahd if not before. t Fullerton, South California, ard While the his first athletic experience at Fullerton High School, where he] i09-yard das hurdle races, threw the dixcus| 20-¥ard dash Put the shot with fair suece OUTRIDES SPRINTERS TWO er he wore colors of the FEET. “ig t And here was the most am: % year he won places in the! performance of the day. The Hor and National Championshits,| was a dusty dirt track, not wetted fh performances that were god, |down and rolled like Eastern tracks in no way sensational. £ ql a too soft and decidedly siow, ‘This w Paver, A. A. U. President, looked] tre t in which the great Padd n over then and predicted that un t trained but not where he made Coach Templeton of Stanford ho| Wane : TUBER ld become a champion and al Qt tne ord-breake: Weaver, Har lartranft Was rather difident| “like a bu shot put was going on Hartranft answered the call for the anft lett the mark tory clear two-yard lead of his rivals. He modest and unspoiled. ame seerms}was running with such a stride as } a lone, Ing to send him, with Bud Houser | lunging ride that showed unlimited @ teammate, back to the Nationu!| power. It looked like a slow. stride, sy mpionsbips that will be held in}but every step was two feet longer | Youngster Has Brilliant Rec- stadium at Pelham this|than the stride of the average , . fou sprinter. ord, Having Won Twenty- Hartranf( and‘ Houser are both| Ill tell the old timers what he re- ive aces ing rie ely to break world's records with| minded me of—a Tommy Burke (us.| five Races During Bowie be shot and discus. Houser, a bigh|beaten quarter-miler of a quarter Meeting ool boy, won the National shot-| century ago), but a Tommy Burke a ting championship Inet year with | SPeeded up to the limit feet, beating the ogee invincible] At eighty yards Hartranft glanced (Ppeegh ese ie -Sivering pare McDonald. And iHartranft has} over his shoulder and saw his rivals] BALTIMORE, April 15. — Wil ahead of Houser's records, well behind. From there he ran to|Chick Lang be able to maintain the the tape half turned around at the er » set up vew LOOKS LIKE STATUE OF waist and looking back. Even at that, phenomenal syeras net up at DG PHIDIAS. winning easily, he covered the hundred | O"!€4"* tnd Bowle for the remainder in 10 seconds flat. It might have been |of the year, and especially at the | lad, six} 9 4-6 if he had been pressed at al)—| 1 j os F ; en pressed at alli—| Havre Dg Grace mecting which opens ft three in his stockings. Hel and on a slow track Wain os SH atinstion, received mors ighs 210 pounds stripped. He has| No 210 pound man ever shdwea| 7" x . t blond hair that flops around| such speed before, fea BE te head in bunel and After the hundred tbe Stanford boy io nupped over his ears. His} went at the discus, winning with 147 al width, wis aera ye ucers Of un-| feet 28% inches, a new Coast record. |inat ‘rod Stoan and Shilling could not width, his arms long and mus-|This was from a soft, dusty ring too, | {2 See chest both broad and deep far|a seven foot ring. Hartraaft's -] ride beca od athe ghuist small.) appointment after both shot and dis-]of their mounts to go to the front hs fan inned with round, bound-|cus events was so evident that 1{early in the running of a race A like ew Calves rather light inl asked him what he had veen doing in{set argue that Lung is not a rider, poreion and insteps high like! practice despite his brilliant record of the last ie of er and \e : : of a sprinter and jumper “I expectedyto do much better,” he}eleven months. During the twelve lenn Hartranft is a consideration than any other around Baltimore hotel lobbies last night. There were many who always insisted use they permitted so many Hi beads an Bega sald. ‘In the last few days of train-|day meeting which closed at Bow ney ware ee: ‘ hrowing 155 veste: wang rode twenty-five win- Greece iiey. were per, | 128 L have been throwing 155 feet up| yesterday Lang against a bank. 1 should have done|ners, an exceedingly high average. r better with the shot too—much bet-| before the very eyes of inen w eee eee ye: best l ter. 1 doit know what's t) water insist that he is not a finished product, Sh ave ever seen IM} but I'm not getting it right to-day." [nor will he be until he has learned os When I was throwing the discns|to wait with a horse ‘one was six feet six, heavy, thick| from scratch with Martin Sheridan in % sted. Arlie Mucks, another giant{1910 I never thought to sea another| ‘The majority of Tang's winning nearly equal height, broad.| Sheridan in action. Martin was so] mounts were front runners, according Aderous, built only for weight] supple that he stood facing the direc-|{o the charts, but he rode early trail- owing. McGrath, Pat Ryan and} tion of the throw, and in swinging}ers as well, and did it well, Lang thick men. Martinjthe missile twisted at waist and hips}rode his winners «against Thomus, better proportioned} until his shoulders were turned in| Owens, Wallace, Gantner and other n any of the other weight throw-}the opposite direction apprentices, say the crities, and will in the marble statues of a ee tateeim, Sump or dol srartrantt is MM only other athlete] not be able to outride the Kummers, a . cus Srie r Johnsons, Butwells an [he Stanford boy is another} = ever saw throW the discus in Sheri-} Turner ohnst dan's style. He faces his throw, and|other veterans who have saseiahley ‘ with slow deliberation twists as far] with their ccntract employers at aa Pee tn ceeding cians Co oeak Me pnancen caves did, cone Havre de Grave. It is likely that his joan hea oe the Grose" {2} around with an easy turn and shift] employer, James Arthur, will expe- A their Olympiads for ove twotng{of the feet and heaves the weight | rience greater difficulty selecting first IY Olympiads for over twelve) with the full drive of his legs and] class mounts for the youngster, be- dred years without a break and! ogy pehind it. He is not yet as|cause so many stables have theirown ht to have known what an athlete} nooth as Sheridan. There'll be ten| jockeys under cohtract. No matter feet more in that. I see ao reason| what success Arthur has, Lang will why he should not throw over 160} continue to have tho hig public fol- feet Within a year! lowing he developed at FRowle, On the day I'm describing Hart-| whether he deserves it or not. Free les. This year, with college} ranft wound up by running in the running horses leave the gate on their Phing, he has come forward with 220-yard dash—his first attempt at]toes for him, and then stay a little ing leap. that distance. He was third to Schil-| further than they can be Induced to the Spring interclass meet at|ier, fairly close up, in seconds, | under any other lightweight rider in ord a few weeks ago Hartranft| great run after competing In three Maryland, Naturally s! beginners ye 16-pound shot from a 7-foot] other events break in motion for him 49 feet, 6 inches. He threw the} Resides these Hartranft runs the 144 feet, too, winning both! 129 yard high hurdles in 16 seconds, In between he ran in the 100 high jumps over 6 feet, broad jump Z h, & sepond Ld inches in 10] 59 'rect, throws the javelin and tosses| ‘2 ®t Pimlico last year, so that the flat. starter question seems solved, so far latér in the meet with the the hammer a little, although these} 1.10 is ‘concerned. Thomas and some last have not yet been included in his a iitont lo A. C. of San Francisco he of the other apprentices have Milton's specialties. If he wanted to go for|° ' he 4 16 pound shot 50 feet % inch. e wi, [Style to learn, and it may be a wee h.\the all-around championship he'd win a 4 @ nineteen-year-old boy this . | or so before they succeed. The trainer it and perhaps clip a couple of world's sy ‘ n astonishing performance. Mae in the altace of @ free running horse shouldering Ralph Rose, holder of the| "cords ft light weight will naturally seek Lang's record of 51 feet, ever bet-| He has the thing that made little] services unless he has a competent In his first year of com-| Julian Elliott such a marvel with the] contract employee. Arthur has too on his college team, with] Shot—an amazing reserve of nerve] valuable a prize in the lad’s contract well coached years ahead,| force. When you see his easy, smooth | to permit him to jeopardize his future is within a foot of a|action, unayrried and with no effort}on no account horses in oversized record that athletic prophets} showing, you are startled by the speed] fields, and will naturally be careful psidered unbreakable except| with which the big iron ball hurtles| about his selections. He is surely other giant like Rose. And| through the air. Hartranft hasn't] rjding in better form than any boy of ig not a giant. He is no] yet come near his limit at any event,|any age who showed at Bowie, If han three or four of his team-| He is almost a novice with only a few| there's one consideration more than mWhen Rose made the world's} months of coaching and asctentifie]uny other that an old-time trainer e training behind him and this season | heeds it's the “lucky rider’’ one. He and at least two more in college} will be in demand by them. While he is weight to-day ahead may not shine as a handler of two- a Hartranft in the meet (Copyright, 1022, by Robert Kdgren,) year-olds, or in fact get many mounts, “ idan, but three inchea taller, it year he was good for about fleet with the shot, 135 with the and fair time in sprints and Lang rode well under Starter Mil- (Copyright by Robert Edgren.) HARTRANET, GIANT IN CIANT IN SUE A MOST PROMISING ALL-AROUND ATHLETE (20 YARD WURDLES 6 Peer in Woman Mayor, 80, Quits in Disgust; Couldn’t Make Reforms Stay Put Back to Kitchen for Mrs. McFadden Who’s Through, Doughnuts and All. MAGNETIC SPRINGS, Ohio, April 15—The oldest woman Mayor in the United States, Mrs. Mary McFaddon, has retired to her politics and “T won't take either, and won't be a the aged Mayor said, the job back, candidate for re-election. through I'm through, doughnuts anl disgusted with “I found out politicians,” they'll do anything and then don't, uld reform thein. few weeks, but they wouldn't stay reformed.” The only real co-operation the wo- man received as Mayor was from the Marshall Bainbridge clamped the lid on vamps, especially male variety “THROWING “The Discus - 47 FT 2 HE HAS Tossed IT SF Feet GLENN HARTRANFT, Rasy tra | MEN ARE INVITED TOSMITH-VASSAR BASKETBALL GAME contest at Seventh Regiment Armory Will Be Enlivened by Side Features. McFadden’s programme to plug leaks Vamps, speeders and other,evils; they were a, w. 0. Lat meetings,’ and there- “administration,” so what cine was thers to do but quit? ‘I decided to step down and out, Forced to Fill Bathtub With Beer, Not Allowed to Drink One Drop Sentenced to Empty 3,200 Bottles of Home Brew Under Eye of Police Captain. OMAHA, Neb., April 15.—Roy Ma- y is engaged to-day in the mel- pos Mic ae sa Jockey Lang Doesn t Know pat eiing ove dts oc hiv ah fasand uetxmde-ave yards ts's| AZOW to Wait With Mount, . embarrass him. But he can't es-| never saw any other sprinter take, a } t H I a Si n at nN e fame. The Pacific Coast is| series of tremendous bounds e e § e 8 vO > ® nevertheless be in mand than any in the distance and there will be at le man's home recently, Judge Wappich passed sentence on Mahoney as fol- st two or three be your punishment to ‘The indications empty ench and every bottle sepa- tinue to ride his quota, while dones will be standin; in conformity with a sentence Police Judge Wappick arraigned on a of intoxication and was un- able to pay a $10 fine. r explaining that of liquor had been seized at another GIRL SHOPLIFTER FIGHTS IN COURT Attendants must be inserted and when the tub is full you may let the beer flow Under no circum- stances shall you touch a drop of the brew, but shall pour and pour until ‘The Smith-Vassar basketball to be played by alumnae teams at the just on general principles. down the drain, element which this afternoon or kite flying, isn't there, though the A Police Captain stood by. legiate athletics for women alumnae have challenged the winning side to play their team on Morning- proceeds from t of tickets to be divided, as in the case the Smith-Vassar the endowment fun and maintaiped silence to protect the He was remanded to the Tombs for investigation. Elaie McCarren, thirty-three No. 242 ty-sixth Street, pleaded guil- ty to taking articles valued at 12 from Macy's, and was sent to Bedford Re- side Heights, Duhain as a target for ep gun yesterday must have been centre-fire gun was loaded with rim- rtridges, so that only two clicks Instead of as many explosions resulied drew bead op the For that reason the boss of the grey coats had a lot of tine the bones from his Chesapeake of the two col- Family Name. Mary O'Donnell, West Fifteenth fought to-day whi in Special Seasions to the Good Shepherd for Easter dress from the National Out- As soon as sentence attacked court twenty-seven No. 240 West Forty-sixth Street, who was arrested with the McCarren woman as was convicted and sent to the wokrhouse for thirty days. “ARE ALL NEW YORK CRIMES BY ‘INTERESTS?’” April 15.—Mayor Hylan's discovery that the agitation for the re- moval of Richard EB, Enright as Police Commissioner of New York was another plot of ‘'the Interes Governor Miller's attention to-day. don't want to comment on it,” “but are all the es In New York City committed by ‘the interests’ ?” game to-day, is announced to-da Mei aes was sentenced an accessory, Harden (Capt.) stealing an in the county worrying about who is going win the Harford Handicap to-day fitting Company. was pronounced and fighting furiously. She was carired bodily from owned by Bud Fisher are training at Havre de Grace. are ineluded in to-day's entries papa of Mutt and Jeff believes he has in Violinist on the strength of trials shown at Louisville last week before being placed on the Violinist's mettle during the meeting with some of the All the players are from New York vieinity with the exception Sanders, who is Pittsburgh in order James Bery, who rpleaded guilty to meshbag form gave several addresses, Probation Officer was called to a real Derby colt James Russell satd he had been unable to learn anything » but his appearance led was of a good family Seventh Regiment Armory donated for the 3 Wounded soldiers from hos- about the bo; to hte belief 1 will be tested invited to see the game and the stunts which will enliven the period between There will be of basketball will be frequent starters, himself well, THE OLDEST SHIP IN THE WORLD—THE -|CONVICT SHIP “SUCCESS” (Launched 1790) |} wit Be Opened To-Day (Saturday) “|At the BATTER And Daily Hereafter From 10 A. M. to 11 P. M. GANG PLANKS FROM SHORE TO SHIP Guides Explain Everything Here’s What You'll See! Torture Devices of the Early 19th Century, including the Coffin Bath, Branding lrons, Cat o’ Nine Ta Violinist will id a burlesque of old fashioned basketball as collesze fils used to play in in the days when were spoken Otherwise he will be sent to New York conclusion of “4 Buel is now the contract the cartoonist stable and will probably ride Violinist is the custom for eee BASKETBALL SOLONS ARE IN SESSION HERE The National Board of Approved Bia ketbal! Officials began its annual day session at the Hotel Astor ye day with a delegation of about fiv: dred present. + What is expected to be the bon contention at the meeting to-day is by far the most matter to be considered is the propos: change in the rule governing the shoot ing of baskets from foul. delegates are of the opinion that th is entirely too much scoring from {0 and has suggested fleld goals de increased from of latter years will their costumes at the jon on which men and the brothers have been permitted Smith girls play basketbail he head ushers are } lan for Smith and Miss EI Ralli for Vassar. ———_—— CECIL LEITCH PLANS TO VISIT U. S. A. AGAIN forty-five-year-old caddie and the oldest in the t proudly displayed a letter yesterday he received from Miss Cecil Leitch which ated that the English champion was looking forward with much Pier One, at “= Battery Place Black Holes, Punish- Frames, Airless Cells, Leg Chains and The most Remarkable Ship Construction, built by hand labor i almost unfathomable to Shipping Experts of to-day The Iron Maiden and scores of Torture Rel date the Convict Ship, which was built 132 years fo by Replicas of Some of the Thousands of Con- ported by England to s that even ante golf honors. Miss Leitch ared much better im the 1921 cham onship if he had pal sarried n snl volunteered the \ itleal occasions placed on the shooting of folll goals Delegates representing the East ever, are opposed to any change and a» Eastern de} plained that Cells Occup Political and Nefarious, Tra: ja a Century Ago. Official Documents Proving the Authenticity of Everything on the Ancient Vessel And Other Evidence of Man's Inhumanity to Mai Leitch has already engage Prospective trip this sumine: probable that the rule will me revieed GAS RATE HEARING! — CLOSED BY BOARD ~ Decision By Public Service Gom= mission Expected Any Day 5 Now. A decision by the Public Service Commission affecting gas rates and standards is expected any day, now that the last of the rate cases, that of the New York and Queens Gas Com pany, has been concluded by Chaire man Prendergaast, The end of the case came yesterday when William Li. Ransom, counsel for most of thé big gas companies, was cross examining Archibald 8. B. Little, gay expert for the Corporation Counsel The New York and Queens Com- pany applied a year ago for permis. sion to increase its rate from $1.25 per thousand cubic feet to $1.60, plus a monthly service charge of 75 cents. ‘The application was suspended pend- ing a hearing. 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