Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-01-31 | Page 12 | "Billy" Queal, Greatest Distancer, Who Was Discovered by Chance

BILLY GREATEST DISTANCED DISTANCE WHO WAS DiSCOVERED BY CHANCE I LEFT LC AT T THE C 4 AGE AGE- OF 4 rm 1 OUT sLoW 4 o 0 t HAS RAll ED I Iri Iti SHOW W 4 THREE H a FEET 1 A UtE uiE PEEP i BUS sua Billy ol sv was as n a member of at the town basketball team teem at Alexandria Bay BaT ay N. N T Y and It Jt was Wall there ho received his first athletic training That was WaB back bac in the spring of ot 1907 1007 when he was eighteen He became one of at the best beet basketball players In Northern New York After the cl close e of ot a game one evening th the town boys h held Jd a set of ot athletic events wanted to go Into some seine event and picked out the mile mlle more by chance dance than anything else He and every OD one else was waa surprised when be he won without a days day's training In m the only ordinary time tune of ot It was more of ot a lark Jart than anything else thought Billy and he be ItTe the matter no further thought But there was a man in the crowd of ot spectators who knew ft R runner when he be saw uw one After the m race e he sought and told him he be had a great future The man was Charles A. A Hunt and since then has beaten many of ot the worlds world's runners He never neTer made mad an e excuse use when when-he was beaten but never neer was beaten or even pushed when be he was right as all 1111 tho ho professional runners will wm agree aee is Js right now and aDd he is Js going faster laster than thaD ever before in hI his career