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Show Vim WHO HIE GREAT ATHLETES Many of Them Were Champions aud Held Records on Cinder Path. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YOKK, Jan. -. It is not surprising surpris-ing that Tom Longboat, tlio greatest of all lUnrathon runners, has put tbo world behind lilm and .ioinod tlic great army of Christian soldiers. Longboat has two rcat reasons for so doing. First, tho lull uciico of a sood woman, anil the second, sec-ond, example of fonnor groat runners, who wcro not only true Christians hut ministers of tho gospel as well. Some of tho speediest runners tho athleth: world hius over known hav- been doctors of divinity, di-vinity, ami perhaps Tom the Itedskln lias noted this before taking the step. Many present-day atlilolos. and lisl of nil. IJai-ry IJillmab. romeitibor well the .luhu 1"'. Jlorrov uf .Moiitrciil, who snat:hod llio Oanudinn - ilininiiloiiship prli; away from a fast Hold of n.unrter-mllor n.unrter-mllor in JSf'S. )Tllli)i:iti was a warm favorite fa-vorite for tho rare, but tho proahcr's groat finish was too niuoli for him. Morrow Mor-row won In the groat tlino of -111 seconds. sec-onds. Dr. Morrow's parishioners looked with disfavor upon hla athletic Inclinations Inclina-tions before tho raoo, but when ho snapped the worsted a winner over America's greatest, tho flock rushed upon the sireuuouu pastor and bore him to tin-was tin-was :37, while that of the former totaled in 50vi seconds, i dressing room on their shoulders. The next day Morrow made his victory the theme of a stirring sermon, and bis church was stutfud full of people. Rev. H. W. Workman of Cambridge was the greatest half-mllor of his lime. In 1001 he ran the legs off of everything that was trying his distance In England. Cunada and the United States. Ac a member of the Oxford-Cambridge team that lourud this continont, "Workman won evory race lie started in, and once ran Ihc "half in J:31 A-t. Yale university furnished tho athletic world with a sterling runner ihroe years years iigo In tho Rev. V. J. Hall. What he lacked In strength ilail made up In wonderful grit. In his best year Hall was Iwo-inlle Iniercolloglato champion, iutarcolleglato cross-country champion, and national cross-country champion. In winning the last-named title Hall made one of the ganiest sprints ever seen In a. hill and dale contesK He was a hundred hun-dred yards behind a mile from home, but shut his eyes, grilled his teeth and out down Harvey Cohn about fifty yards from the tape. Harry Farraday. the T. T. A. C. sprinter, sprint-er, who gets a piece of the handicap or championship pie almost every time he goes out. Is studying, for the ministry. Jf the experiences of Morrow, Workman and Hail mean anything. Farraday should grab a senior championship or two lator on If ho keeps up athletics along wIUi his work in the pulpit. |