Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-27 | Page 27 | Duffy Will Retire from Cinder Path

DUFFY WILL RETIRE FROM CIIH PATH Champion Sprinter Says He Means to Quit While Reputation Repu-tation Is Good. . NEW YORK, '"Aug. 26,-Arthur F-DuffS'i F-DuffS'i champion sprinter of the world, who recently returned from a Buccesaful trp abroad, has about decided to rctlrp from the cinder path. His reason for retiring re-tiring is that he Is tired of tho game Ho feels that he hu had hl8 day, nnd that he would rather retlro whon In tho height of his famo than wait until defeat de-feat forces him out, While abroad Duffy won two new championships cham-pionships and established three world'? records for short-dlstnnco events. Hb best performance was his victory over G. A. WIdmas, tho Australian onc-hun-dred-yard champion, who hnd not boon defeated before- In yenrn. Duffy also took the measure of MacPherson of New Zealand. Zea-land. Jn speaking of his trip lo New Zealand Duffy Bays that the runners, there wern started as horses aro at tho race track In this country- Every runner has to step Into his position with a barrier across his breast and when everybody Ip ready tho starter snaps Ic About Australian Au-stralian runnors Duffy says that they nr slow to begin, but when once under way there are no faster men In tho world. Of Encllsh runners ho says. "Let them once master a quick start and there will be no sprinters In tho world who will havo anything on them As It Is now, there Is no question in my mind, and my victories away from homo would tend to show lt. that the Yankee short-distance men are as a class a? much superior to tho English as th English distance runners are superior tr tho Americans. "Grass running Is a new gamo for Americans, and many of the English and colonial races are held on turf tracks Grass running for a man who Is unused to it is no Joko until he has had long prnctlco at It. A Yankee sprinter who 1" Bure of the even time he starts In the 100-yard 100-yard dash on tho cinders Is lucky If h does 10 1-5 In his first race on grass. "Tho crouch start le, hcvovv, rapidly displacing every other starting position In the English countries, and the improvement improve-ment In their sprinting since Its adoption has been remarkable. When first wen abroad four years ago 1 was'never contented con-tented to win my races, but now the English Eng-lish sprinters aro but a little way behind tho American and coming fast."