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w5wuiii THE FOBT WAYNE SENTINEL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1911, flfv hlld ftw trust' guarding THOUSAND COLLEGIAN ISE of the New England School of Coaches, of Whom "Mike" Murphy, Is the Dean, And How Its Members Have Discovered and Developed Athletic Marvels, THIRTY Mm, m. I I K4r TilfsaVsisP'JsjssssssssHSJflJ' VvlV A JtHsississsssssssssn9 fV tyi'ryrwui. El MICHAEL MURBHYi fek ICtrrrubl. 1911.

br lh Ntw Ior HriW Co. AH rlubn ramMi the Massnehuflettiiithletic trust, the track' I and' field Sesfinles of more thirty Another fell or ttmrc mpnibcra of'i mrttcur ctubi look for their physical betterment, for' personal or public competition, that 'exists more binding than the announced slo1 Offus." In ah eastern; district of the StatV that ro bust man in 'walk, the ithietle trust wa bornlrtryearsiago; It (still feroTvlnif. potency no' draws to the headquartprs trust nttiTetle achievements' from coast to; coast, anl S'ew Orleans to; lljie'. Through jts agents power is; heen felt abroad.ln Olympic and other games. Originally a one man power, 'with Murphy, of those days the present "Murphy as Tar, It has hevyr" loosened Its grip oh the amateur athletic situation, An' may pass, mustermuster without the ifee is higher hojie for the future.

To that never falling indorsement, "lie knows tbe'game" an Brit' the ibiii.whrtil iiiasters'jthiit It being ft Nw glres the applicant an 1 of, fifty percentage points before 'he Is; theiesf, "it Just, happen was: an; exprt athte.tU; advls i jnmivcv writer asked why that district lila tor ty ve i roiii itof tort produced the; fiibtfctjt coaches, iind miners, tint there's a story of loyalty, the dean of coaches, tfmivt c' 'rt of iiiut of; liiiicli Jiajd along, ambitious lines early eighties New Engiand waa the home of the: professiouai 'athiete; nearly every 0f the members of the has been a with bis own' borrowed Bpikeal Prof esslohii sprinters vvere; mors; pienVlfflltiiere than In any other seetion.of the rountry, barrlngVpossihlyr portion of rfinhsylranU. the sport 'thrived But the. specula tire Interests eyentn'aliy hrougbt about It decline. At, the height of the for cash, St6cky" Donovan, now; coach', at Ilarvardj ''Johnny'Macfe, Yale, and scores of others Who do rio'tyhave any; standing; with1 the were" active. in hay.ltelds; for weeks tA.estahlls rest; 'denc'in'sduie small town where liose races with rival 'flre coaipahlea were the leading to the sport loving natltes; driving coaVagon evratu ftliy'ieing i'nrlted by friend to get off ihe seat arid run against, some athlete with taore backing than sprinting power; keeping right oh.runV iB ifliid, goljig.

tiv er the high eflciflslng aome! track after defeating the. local sprinting Jdol areex. some of the mtmoers of tha trust have forgotten' Inthc more dignified careers that opened fo On; the Natlck, aiid Lnddef team'of ithe'eariy eighties were "Mike'! Mttrphy. 00000 van, Keene FIUparH.ckr"J6hnny'.'; Mack, now Andpver; Farrell, coach at, the. University of Ohjh, and.

"Piper" of'aii professional; aprintere' when at his test That team was world's, champion. From it Murphy, went aa trainerj bringing with hjm as an aislstaiii; "PoochDotioyian. Perseverance; with the of work, msde.tbla it muscular New Englanderatahxj able, from; their first as coaches, There la mhrt In the list baa. hottralhed harder anit more, conscien Hously than majority of present day choinpions. In' the professional ranks there' was jw' loofipg Iri the cabapg, Near the town of Natlck was' a road house where several of the money seekers trained between the dally; routine was ten or more Voad worai and outdoor exercise until noon; Then.a, light lunch and the.

afternopn. The handicaps were mutually agreed, upon and each man put up bis own money; and ran for It as If wasnbt chance for etsir la sight ''Whwk. some of thtejllttie gfoup entered the.itollege athletic Vorid coaches 'ihejld, not instruct from a book or givB, advice from ad arm 'cluiifrv 'They 'continued to vrorkind have been at (fever 'since, Iq the largest of the Eastern unlrersltlej is a who would not addrew stndenta upon the aubjecfe but who could tell of one small day's vyork. he did a.i profenslonai athlete, teft penniless hy jj, fpllower.of the sprinters who waa the the runner this coach to the Fiuiehii; ilali 'market aid worked from'seven o'clock In the morning until noon as awl8tant, handler of Bides' ipf beef' HeVrieedeti ithe "doilarl'. that wa promlaedV, becaiiae 'that afternoon he rhad; a engagement; in 'a lssjyard; handicap in.

But the' botcher had. gohe.for with instruc to bave 'thai "young with the sunburhed arms" around 'the next Travelling' jncog' precluded; for "on any" of; the spOTng InBoatOT, at. that, time more numerous than now'eo deter' mined athlete pl.edI wlth a flremanona permission to ''aoke iis ay And he won' that, Chance. Then, he liad, lltUeelMtoidohut walictwo aid one half Jmllea to the fair grounds and borrow" sjlkes and' trunks from an awed amateur; He na "TT" III I 1 1 i Want Re)" Insisted Chise. Ishid secpnd frpm the mark, pocketed 7S 'was jlnthe market in.

Boston next mornliig to earn lihbther dollar ''Small wonder that men of that spirit can succefd," commented a kindly college in atruetor, who, up to the time of bearing 'tha(; story of tiheer much, use; for those, runners and "Mike" Murphy's Start Of thereturns, that, have been written and the couhtt less 'stories 'told coach ftrniner they; termed him none efer gave, a version that.was told the writer By. the' lite. "PotIIurley; of Worcester, one of the men and a deyotee of sports, who was fa the thick pf all cohtcsits as backer nrbfesslonals, i' friend of amateurs ini' and averltable encyclppaedia of facti. In those days of Wore than twenty yei'rs eigo', now; a'mlnpr league baseball mknagerand scout; for league Including, the Giants, was the fleetest professional sprinter, in the: New England sec. tioju from which the, athletic, trust, (prolited, Que day he displayed a letter from New Haven asking him to act as tralher and; instructor there.

Finn, 'ia'ughed derisively when he read the jgures, and then, Jokingly' turning: ro a group of "Leti send 'Stocky' Murpb'y' Because) Murphy; was hot a champion among them: there were, rounds, of Jeers, mind that," retorted "that cilow ban got a him that, will get him. more some day than pur legs w'tllV And that set Murphy On bis way to the highest notch ever attained by. a' condltloner and instructor of athletes in all branches. In a' hoiMeprescnted to him by men. who appreciated all that he hai done for college ahtletlcs, especially for' the University pf Pennsylvania, Mlke' Murphy can npw recall early days with the grim saitlsfac Jioipf realizing; that he; gained 'worlc unap proached, eminence his, profession; He.

prescribes' the aam'e kind of medicine for'ambltloua athletes, he knows the, dpse best adapted for As re crqltlig pfflcer in the army of youngathiete Murphy is supreme. Material, partially moutded, turned: to annually; because athletes want him' to put on the flufahlng touches. While poaching the Detroii AthicUc Onh MUrphy showed his me talent mineiv whlch'in athletic "parlance up a John' Owen, member hf th club, was playing tennis pnp af ternooh wjien In his methodical wayleaned over to watch theiniovemeats of the players, Thci.actlon of Owen looked promising toliurphyi Owen; why don't you be a sprinterr" he asked; while th players were wiping oH perspiration between actf "ITTeturhedOwen. "Whyii couldn't run a Murphy Insisted, and from, that seeming guess work selection at a future great was developed John Oweil, the first amatenr sprinter to covey one hundred yards under ten Owen's time was Oa 5 seconds. training the American team a( Travers isi and In; 1898 for the.

international gaines with England's best athletes, "Mike" Murphy received pupil "Steve? Chase, of rwrtmooth a hhstler whose records atniadprn atblet: aimanacs. Chase reported ijust.in. time for the evening mealand confessed that le was hungry. all other athletes, had left training, tiblei Chase lingered. Finally ''Mike'1' Jfurphy askfd, rwhat's'thei matter? Are you: still' htngryr wahtpleinsisted Chase; don't have Jt said the he' talked away to laugh In solitude.

In, a flash Murphy; realuted' whit few of: the old: school of trainers ever would. 'Cfhase haoT nndoubtedly fieea eating pie nsmpshlre and hraakl.ng' records on It; Going to the kitchen, Morpby got a large' cut of apple pie and returned to dining 'dbaso had dWappeired, but ott theclnh honse verah datherewaa a commetlon. Mnrpliy hurried there and, BERNARD WEFERS. tldwlut Ntwi Ci. rhoio.

JOHNF, MOAKLEY sawmemhers of that wonderful athletic' combination to stay, but that Insistent young athlete his baggage aboard thp 'bus nlng to the railroad station and was Importuning, the driver to hurry. Thesppctflcie of, the worid's'greatest athletic coach running down the roadway with a piece of pile deftly balanced 'on alt" the time 'calling, fre It h. Chase, got.lt Is one that gives an insight to hl.tacti Of course; Chase canie back. and asai world beater, and pn pie, too. .1 pheof the cardinal points In iMurphy's system of coaching never falling system of getting thor pughly acquainted.

with every athiete In his care. He Originator of the: now generally accepted belief that an athlete Is only human. Under hla system the Idea of athletes being Steamed, and worked like mules was banished. Training' wJth weighted: shoes or running uphill in boots' Were old methods put Jnto the discard. Ugh'tshdes: for sprint racing and ones' for workoijts arp enough, Aftera; Xaic iUrVard duil meet, a few years ago; James B.Bulllvan; thenpreflMenf or the Amateur Athletic TJhiou and referee hf the games, isked a CQliege authhrlty; considered the 'most atrlk Ingfeatureof the meef.

way Jhat'itaan, his athletes," whs the answer. you notice that after being barred froh) the tba Warvard. Coach sat In the grand stand. whUe Murphy wen.tto the training quarters! Pf his team? That man wlit be training blg.col lege; long as he wsnts, The other cpach Is connected, with Inter eblleglate sports, In; his! flrsyear out Murphy removed frompllege athietlcs all the objectionable features of professional poaching; He made, it plain athlete, who came tinder him that a clean, body and mind bad as' big a part In success as muscles, When members of the alumni.who hid earlier era of Coaching realtecd that theirboys were' helng bettered morally a physically Murphy's power came to be, recognized. And then came ail fheseisacr cesses at Yale and Pennsylvania which the public at large knows of, probably, without, giving.

a thought to the calibre of, tha man who made It possible for athletes to be hard tgbters, and gentlemen through It all. Loyalty" the Trust This leads hp.to the loyalty to I'Mlke" Murphy that other members of the trust' have shown. By being the pioneer in; the cieanut eystem of, professipnai coaching; Murphy: became. the tp whom all seekers fpr trainers'; or" coaches looked for advice Naturally, enough he remembered his: comrades of professional foot racing' days, Tol those' he considered the thousands; pf growing ypubg' men he gave no advice excepting, "I could hot llve'you'a rrtoniraendatlon jtn UJ you showed me thai; yoncould handliypurself. Knowing about, athletics is nbterythlng a coach, ought to Thus the sthjetlc; trust, becomes' a.

character building influence in thenatlph. "Bernle" who as coach' at Colttmhla rot the. Ji'ew "Tork is brought into; contact with more men; thin any'othcr coach the. was developed by Murphy. fa raw1 bbned, youth from, tawrenee; with; a In'trpaucUon.

to "Mike1. Murphy, Joined the Araerlcap; athletes at Travers It was Wefers, and he Xrw greeted with 'rube" t.afk by learn mates. Murphy knew in a day's observa tloh; that "had the: etuit In and despite criticism kept at work; on him, the day', of the ineet.lt was' vTefers'1 victories Jn' the, dishes' that saved the day. fpr the American team. Wefers was the most 'consistent one hundred aid onehundred and twenty yard the world has evef no never had off days." More than thirty tlinea he covered one honored In SSs.

Ob the solicitation of his fellbw townsman V'patsy'' iiono van, then 'manager Of the St, tbuls National LPapie bascbaU team, Wefers: tried, alniost on his speed alone, 'to icngucr. But Wefers was quicker than1 his manager to recognize the difference between running on a diamond' and on a track. On theory that "it takes a great sprinter to mnUp One' Wefers' output should be a largo one, There: are two features (fiat hamper the carrying out of this, In the New Yprit Athietlo Club ipa Jorlty of the athlotes have been in ether Coaches'' hands and are practically matured la athletics. At; where he has more than seveh thousand Students to :dra.W lipont conditions. are nottonduclv to best results.

Going' to the college Js one big event in a man's life, and visiting. New York for the first time I another, nelt.her of which makes for best athletic effort; This may. not apply to natives whoare students, but the white lights, aire burning every for "pooch" Donovan, brother, of Donovan, who was credited with. one hundred yards in as professional, was himself sprinter bf miriey earning' powers. Before being drawn to Harverd' Donovan' coached nianj1 minor organisations and military teams.

At Worcester Academy he bad in Arthur Duffeyv a boy of; short but "cut high," as coach'ea sajr Itt referring to, the length of ah athlete' legs. Dnffejr's; style was changed iompleteiy "by. Donovan, apd upon, advice that Donovan hammered into; him dally Duffey became the fastest amateur sprinter In the world. Donovan Is One of the keenest men In athletics. Ills own temperament suggests action.

In. conditioning athletes; Donovan has ah advantage over coaches whoso personal experience has been la track and field events "Pooch" played football andean still don togs and speed around the. ends la a way that makes some of the younger fellows envious. lie played baseball professionally as New England As a professional sprinter Donovan did not possess the. wonderful speed of his brother "Piper," but.

as many old time followers bf sprint racing often said, "You can't: beat that Donovan combination a race, 'Piper's' legs and 'Pooch's' head." From Donovan's home, Natlck, Keenp Fltipatrlck migrated Into the field of professional Conches. He was anolber protg' of "Mike" Murphj1, and when Murphy left Detroit Athletic Club tp' take up' idutles at Yale It was Fltspatrlck, another spslhter, who charge of th Michigan' athletes. On Mdr phy's move from New ilaven Fltipatrlck again followed in. ho pa of he Vetera coach, and beca me Yale's man behind, the athletes, Later' at Michigan Fltzpatrlek put that university oh the athletic map In type 'by its, development of track and ileld thletes and careful conditioning of footbnll tenntS that "Hurry Yost coached. '7ack" Mpakley; of Cornell.

Fltipatrlck is very discreet In speech arid In. training, lie never hut when he gives orders there Is. no, one' to doubt whether he realiy means what he says; In taking the responBlWlltles attendant upon coaching Princeton, Flttpatrlck did so with the full confidence of the "Iie may not.Art wonders in or tpt pventnallj them will be a system at Old Nassau that will count for Something In the Intercollegiate meets," declared alumnus, 'Hahsd in mind Fltipatrick's record at Michigan, 'one. item in that. list of achieve ments being especially Conspicuous the development of John Carrels as on of the greatest all around ath letes and football players of recent.years; AtCornelt there, been many student debates WILLIAM TV DONOVAN fbeut; JOHN H.

MACK Nexii ioi Football and lis Wildfire 'tt the dormitories on the question: whether Man' Courtney; of rowing fame; Moakley has don more.to bring the Ithacanslnto' the: front rank; of the college, World of Mokle)r'ls a8outh" Boston boy, who, absorbed foot racing lore and was a "vwy creditable middle distance runner, ut never? prominent as a professional, ,116 bad that admiration 'for "Mike" MurphjwhlCb seems to grow up with all the athletically inclined the section. From an. Instructor In, public playgrounds' he blossomed Into the largest flower of a' great gathering of athletic "posies" When hei put Cornell at the top year aft er year. as lender In cross country and rtbet distance rurc' ing; When JHoakey "B.Tas askedto what methodheat trlbnted the success ot'Cornelllans'ltt Clsttnce he promptly ''Why, location of Itbacatenda to niake young nien rugged. Climbing those hills is the beotkhid flf i But there's mote than' that to the Cornell and the big hub wheel Is Moakley, He hie a dis tinctlve plan.

AH the year round' his cross country runners'are, being gropiped. at Ithaca, a few' months igoan offlclatfrbnj New York who was Cornell field for.tba first time was mystified to see half a ddjeii men Jogging out of the clnh house and away from the' grounds. "What, are those fellows; dolngr he asked. '0h, thoseare some of the country "runners, getttnf ready for next.f!Ul,', volunteered native: And "While the Intercollegiate cross country chant' pionshlps are being decided nextfalf likely as not thers will a group ef yoting wearers of the red. and white plodding pvcrtbe hills of Ithaca In.

a prellBdnary for the distance runs of 1011 Moakley's athletic sensation 6f the, recent college year was John Panl Jones, the mile runner, who established a new world's amateur record of m. Ss, lowering; by. one fifth of a second 'a mark made by Thomas p. Conned la 1803. Of Jones It has been eal that ho.

was advised neyer to run because of aten dericy to But once In Ithaca the up process i.negan' andJones, was strengthened by cross country running that started with the slowest oi Jogs: To pah the last 'quarter of a gruelling mile race at apacq, that would make a good quarter hillef who picked: him up at the three quarter pole cave io. before reaching the The Murphy, system was established at'Taie when stepped but. no coach outside thr trdst could have taken up the work and carried It cut along the as well as Mack has done, lie Is one of the professional sprinters who came a bit after Murphy's time, but he bad same little dhv; trkfcschoolingin Mack was asprtnter who' believed yard race was'never; over, until the' tape had bees, breasted; an adept at starting, on several. occasions, owing partially tp an injured: tendon, Mack trifle 'slow, In getting in motion, Then some pf the men in'frpnt considered race already won. In that last nerve' pulling, muscle piercing 'Bfty, yards Mack would bound to the front and make a race to the (apei brought him Inside; the money.

That Mine; kind of spirit: Is credited to Yale, which "accounts for the present show of confidence in Mack's methods, Syracuse, Franki Ka haly, at Massachusetts; Instliute'ot all. others. of the Bay State group, of successful coaches. Keen' was a professional sprinter, who competed her: and in the Sheffield handicap In with 'large measures of success. Kanaly's personal, dabble In competition was as a distance runner; and he was up to a few years ago one of America's best' As one of the younger members of the trust Kanaly la growing raplulyin power.

Frank Gormley, a Boston man, is at the heed bf the Young Men's Gymnastic Club, of New Orleans, the leading organization: in the South In athletics. As coach there lie handles hundreds of athletes from the Southern colleges. "Joe" Riley, another; man from the Hub, Is coach of thp Kansas City 'Athletic Association. The cltyof In which "Mike" Mnrpty is known to every one who evef" had even the slightest' touch of the athletic fever, has a little group of coaches that bafe been remarkably 'successful. j.

Fred Powers, one time bolder of all. round amateur Championship, bis coached Notre Dame: University and Holy Cross. Be Is how Worcester, Academy, "Tom" Holland, one; of the old guard of; professional foot runners and a pupil, In the Murphy has been; a winner, at Northwestern University In Chi cago, at Notre Dame and at Holy Cross' College. Martin Delaney, brother "Jere" a professional distance runner of note add a skilled coach at Exeter and Iowa University, Is himself deep Into athletics In the Middle West, being la charge of the. track team of Chicago Athletic Association and many collegians during the.summer monthsi The O'Connor brpthers, "Charlie" both clever ind fleet as amateur sprinters and both fast up to the half mile, have madethe rounds of the minor colleges.

of New England. "Nothing But, Praised When the attention of James E. Sullivan, the chief, figure In the Amateur Athletic Union, and hy virtue Pf his position a man who ba. always been' Identified with Intercollegiate was called the athletle, trust he s'uld if that la a trust It lathe only onein the world that" there is nothing but praise' for. A' fine body of men in that tlsfvI tcllyoui Why, every, one of them ba been a Worker, from boyhood.

Their, moral Influence has been so great that Iknow. personally at least a scorepf fathers who have told me; thatrmen have bein made out of their boys.by tba training they have got under some of. these coaches. "Yes, they are all round not; specialists Ya le has great pole; vaulters because athletes run In groups, a. sort; of foliow the leader style.

When Gilbert and others were at Yale they were looted up to by' yoouger athletes, and th. latter aimed to becotte pro flclent polo vaulters. That accounts for the prevalence of Yale point winners in that, eyehtin; recent years. At Harvard there was a time, when fast quarter rollers year after yearf at Dartmouth, follow ingthe career; of cape; great hurdlers. nornell has been without a peer.

as a developer ot distance "When partmonth'Cotiege scoured all'New''Bngiand for a coach wb had not been ontrarted for me other; college, member of Atoletlciekunmittee asked me roach," I had several In but conditions surronhding others 'brought the Issue, down to Harry I told my visitor to engage htmj not, with ithe'ldea'ef having blm develop a winning team' in a year or two, bot with the thought always in mind of for the future. I said that Hillman had been coached: by "Mike" Murphy and. had always been a keen student of In: short I said that he came warex to the type leaders among these, men you have In your list than any man, available. Bemarkabiy strange 'that wtth alt the interest In athletics, the tact that the men who' lead in the devefopmeht ef.college' athletes come from that one little spot that a man's thumb could almost cover on a wall map has never been noted untH now, 1 i il.