Salt Lake Herald | 1891-01-29 | Page 5 | A Crack Georgia Sprinter

A Crack Georgia SprInterS Sprinter-S Athletics in the south according to The Atlanta Constitution are rapidly coming to the front A project is on foot to organize organ-ize a mammoth league composed of the athletes of the colleges and Young Mens Christian associations throughout Georgia South Carolina Alabama Tennessee and other adjacent states and hold an annual w TT conDOs field day One of the best known athletes of Georgia is W W Gordon Ho lives at Savannah and last year was the champion short distance runner of the state university univer-sity He can do the 100 yards dash in 10 35 seconds and has an enviable reputation reputa-tion both north and south for sprinting jumping and hurdle racing He is a graduate gradu-ate of Yale and first showed his fondness for athletics at that college He is credited credit-ed with having won u quarter mile dash ai Vale in 55 seconds