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...hammer - Captain Hickok, Chadwick and Cross; mile walk - Thrall. Richards kept out of football last fall and has been resting all winter; it is hoped that he can get back his old-time speed of 1893. Certain it is that Yale has been in sad want of a winning sprinter during the past year. Besides the dashes, Captain Hickok is the most in need of men in the half-mile run and mile walk. Woodhull, the half-mile man, is in college, but it is said his father will not allow him to train. Thrall is expected to do well...
...yards novice was the first race to be run off. It brought out a very clever sprinter in Brown of Amherst, who won the finals in 4 4-5s., with Green '96, second, and Goldmark '94 third...
...University of Pennsylvania has engaged Bryan, the English sprinter, to train the men for track events...
...nucleus of Yale's Track Athletic Team has also been chosen. The men are mostly new candidates, who have not "won Yale sweaters" before. The only very promising sprinter is W. M. Richards son of Professor Richards. He has good endurance from his experience as substitute full-back on the eleven. There are two other good men for the half-mile run and for the 440 yards dash, G. M. Laughlin and G. S. Frank. The fastest man for the quarter-mile run is H Chubb, though Butterworth is a good man. Scoville and Morgan will run the mile...
...Lathrop makes it his profession to train the candidates for the Mott Haven team. The success of this team forms an instructive contrast to the failure of our crews. Moreover, the trainer of the crew need not necessarily be an oarsman himself any more than Mr. Lathrop is a sprinter. An intelligent trainer can make himself master of the art of applying ones muscles to an oar without himself actually excelling in the art. Such a trainer might be sent to England to study the art of rowing in an eight oar; for it is reasonable to suppose that something...