Show Death of William Cram Des Moines May 4John V Crum son of Baker William Crum of Bed j ford Ia who died at Mercy hospital IOn I of appendicitis was ill but a week On the cinder bath in the past five years Cram won many victories and established new records n a short distance dis-tance runner He was I graduate of the ate university of Iowa and carried car-ried its colors to manr victories Her He-r in Chicago and New York and in 18S5 vas 2 member of the AllAmeci can team which defeated the Englishmen English-men menMany iliink he was the fastest amateur ama-teur rinter in the world faster teurvsr > rlrtel inter even than Wecrs Cram was born in Bedford < Iaf where his father William Crum his mother and two testers and a brother live He had been in Den Moines two months A I I week ago Friday he ran and jumped I 1 and not having hail any training for I a vear xvs3 injured He began vrr jnjur 1m running run-ning in 1S93 and beat everything the I same year at the amateur athletic union meet at St Louis f In 1895 he won the sprints at the dual meet of the western colleges at Chicago Chi-cago In that t year in June at the i Richards of Yale and was considered the fastest American sprinter In August 189 he established a new r cord c-ord for 200 yards around a curve at Chicago 21 35 seconds After this performance formance he got on a train and the i next day climbed out of his sleeper and I I defeated Vl fers and the other cracks at the New York Labor day events But he injured his leg and finished second in the international events the week following Crums records veiu < J i t I 50 yardstf 0525 100 yards 0945 220 yards 2135 i JK I |