Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — STAR ATHLETES FOR DIRECTORS IN ARMY [ARTICLE]

STAR ATHLETES FOR DIRECTORS IN ARMY

Y. M. C. A Takes Four of Prominence for Work in France. They Are Crowdis, Princeton Crack; Sullivan, Olympic Runner; Dunbar, Well-Known Bowler and Dwight, Yale Coach. Four athletes of prominence have just been recruited by the national war council of .the Y. M. U. A. to go to France as directors In the army schools of athletics. They are: Edwin Crowdis, oldtlme Princeton football star; J. P. Sullivan, Olympic runner; Alexander Dunbar, one of the best-known bowlers In the country, and B. H. Dwight, Yale baseball coach andtonnls player. Edwin Crowdis is a preacher by profession, and left the pastorate to volunteer for “Y” service abroad. He was “Big Bill” Edwards’ running mate on the famous Princeton football team of 1899, which defeated both Harvard and Yale. At that time he was one of the best-known baseball men in collegiate athletic circles. / . ■— Sullivan is a member of the IrishAmerican Athletic club, In New York city, and from 1906 to 1912 he held the American record for the mile run, 4 :22. He was a contestant from the United States in the Olympic games at Athens and London. e Dunbar made a national reputation as a bowler and is regarded as one of the topliners in that branch of sport He is. also an excellent billiard player. Dwight is a Yale graduate and in his student days was coach for the baseball team at that university. Since his college days he has become prominent in tennis circles. As “Y” athletic directors in France they will instruct soldiers in boxing, football, tennis, baseball, running, hockey and other sports.