Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1911 — IN THE WORLD OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Naf Cartmell Plans a Trip Around World.

Nat J. Cartmell, tne former Pennsylvania sprinter, who has been coaching the University of North Carolina track team, plans to take a trip around the world, starting next summer. He has been in correspondence with several foreign promoters and intends to run In England. South Africa and Australia. Match races are proposed with R. E. Walker in the Transvaal and Charles E. Hol way in Australia. Cartmell. Walker and Holway claim the sprinting championship. ( Harvard and Penn Get Together. Relations between Harvard and Pennsylvania a ,- e rapidly becoming more and more cordial. Soccer, baseball and swimming are sports in which the two will meet this academic year, and before long, it is prophesied', football will be added to the list. When the teams do meet in, football it will be the healing of a breach that has stood open for years. The quarrel was over reported discourtesy to Pennsylvania in the matter of a reply to a request for a renewal of football contracts some years ago. It was always denied at Harvard that a post card printed with the form used in replying to minor colleges had been sent to Penn, and the chances are that it was not done, if at all, with an intention of insultAustralian Smashes Daniels’ Record. Longworth, the New South Wales swimmer, recently clipped three and four-fifths seconds off C. M. Daniels’ record for 1,320 yards, making the distance in 17 minutes 42 seconds. Daniels’ record of 17 minutes 45 4-5 seconds was made in New York city Feb. 25, 1907, making sixty-five turns in a tank. Longworth in the present competition finished twenty-five yards in front of Cedi Healy, the Australian holder of the amateur record for IQO yards in open water, and who in turn was one yard ahead of F. E. Beaurepaire of

Victoria, ho'der of the amateur record for I.oiiii yiirds in open water. Runs One Thousand Mile Contest. Eugene Estoppey. champion long dis tance Marathon marvel of the world, recently at Venhe. Cal., finished the most remarkable endurance run in the history of the sport when he negotiated successfully the last mile in his 1,000 miles In a 1,000 hours’ race. Estoppey was picked from his feet and put on the shoulders of the mob that surged about him and paraded about the hall. Ho began the race at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. Nov. 20. and finished Jan. 1. For a thousand hours he had been running at the beginning of every hour night ami day. rain or shine, ill or well. He, ridiculed and discouraged. was persistent. Many College Men on Athletics. Connie Mack can come very near putting an all college nine in the field, and ft is doubtful If any team winning a championship has had so many college men in Its lineup. First Baseman Harry Davis attended Girard college of Philadelphia In his early days; Jack Berry graduated from Holy Cross, where his work as shortstop attracted Manager Connie Mack; Second Baseman Eddie Collins played on the Columbia university nine; Pitcher Albert Bender halls from Carlisle Indian school; .Jack Coombs went to Colby, Me.; Eddie Plank is from Gettysburg and Harry Krause from St. Mary’s, California Michigan Names Track Dates. Athletic Director Bartelme of the University of Michigan has given ont the 1911 schedules for the Michigan track team. The indoor schedule includes Syracuse in Syracuse on March 10 and Cornell In Ann Arbor on March 25 Tlie outdoor schedule follows: April 25, Pennsylvania relay games on Franklin fleFd; May 13. Syracuse in Ann Arbor: May 19-20. fnters'holastic meet In Ann Arbor: May 27, eastern -intercollegiate meet.