Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — IRA DAVENPORT IS HONORED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IRA DAVENPORT IS HONORED

James E. Bullivan Picks Maroon Star as Greatest 440-Yard Runner in United States. An all-American college track team has been selected by James E. Sullivan, secretary and treasurer of -the Amateur Athletic Union. Like the allAmerican football teams, tbe selection has no official significance t and Is merely Mr. Sullivan’s rating of some of the best college athletes in each of the ordinary track and field activities. Ira Davenport of the University of Chicago is placed in a class by hin> self in the 440-yard run. Fourteen men arte named and it la notable that seven of them are from colleges on the western side of the Alleghenies. \ The team chosen is as follows: 110-Yard Run —F. L. Ramsdell, University of Pennsylvania. 220-Yard Run—R. C. Craig, University of Michigan. 440-Yard Run—l. N. Davenport, University of Chicago. 880-Yard Run—Q. H. Whiteley, Princeton. 120-Yard Hurdle—W. A. Edwards, University of California. 220-Yard Hurdle —C. P. Gardner, Harvard. One-Mile Run—A. F. Baker, Oberlin. Two-Mile Run —T. S. Berna, Cornell. ~ Running Broad' Jump- 1 - J. Wasson, Notre Dame. ...» Running High. Jump—K. W. Burdick, University of Pennsylvania. Pole Vault —L. S. Scott, Leland Stanford University. Putting 16-Pound Shot—J. Horner, Jr., University of Michigan.

Throwing the Hammer —Lee Talbot, Pennsylvania State' College. Cross Country Run —T. P. Jones, Cornell.

Ira Davenport.