| Show I I 1 1 PROMISING ROHS SCHOOlBOY CHOOL TER r t l ii I I a t. t a 7 I I. I r. r 4 tt 2 t I t R CS C'S Q o j SHE NEW ew YORK SCHOOL BOV is HF NOSY MOST Fe A RED Ip I p FEo R. R CM ON N H rz CK 0 j f l rf r- r l v vi i 1 I. I Dec v q i s o QIN OR HV Y YS rS oES j e HEADED r f I New York Youth Is Destiny Athlete DisI Displays Displays Dis Dis- plays Iron Nerve By H. H V. V VALENTINE None among the younger generation generation generation genera genera- tion of American sprinters who are coming forward to eventually take the places of Charley Paddock Jackson Scholz and Lorin Murchison son Uncle Sams Sam's battle scarred veterans of two Olympic campaigns campaigns campaigns cam cam- shows better promise or richer color than Francis Hussey the New York schoolboy who startled the world on July 4 last T by winning the national A A. A A. A U. U yard championship Hussey Is one of those destiny I athletes Discovered by Albert I Collins a teacher and an amateur track coach at Stuyvesant High I school through the medium of ot class I races In the school gymnasium the youngster has progressed step by step to the top rung of the ladder of athletic tlc achievement winning honor after honor In fn competition I I with the fleetest men in the the world until toda today he is perhaps t the e most feared sprinter on the tra track k It Is the genuine belief of many track coaches that before the time for or the next Olympic games at Amsterdam rolls around Hussey will have established a defini definite e superiority superiority superiority su su- su- su over hIs rivals in this country country country-at at least at the yard distance He has every quality that makes a super sprinter He is coming coming coming com com- ing while Murchison Paddock and Scholz are all veterans of a decade of racing ratting and though all three of them seem to be right at the top 11 now ow t they ev can hardly hold on across the stretch of three more years ot or racing Paddock in fact has already already al already al- al ready announced his intention to retire in the near future Murchison too too Is reaching the point where he is beginning to ponder ponder ponder pon pon- der over whether the game Is worth the sacrifices it entails Loren has Just landed a bl bi bl- bl Job and it will not be surprising to see him hin hang up his shoes not later than next year The Newark Athletic club flier arranged his recent around- around world the trip In company with Charley Paddock of at California with the understanding that this Journey was to be the last Jast big fling ling for both Hussey possesses an Ideal tem tem- Though on the exterior the former schoolboy wonder Is a mild and extremely polite young fellow deep In his chest Is the heart of a lion with a capital L. L Reputations Reputations Reputations dont don't mean a thing to the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Y-ork Gotham youngster Witness the sound licking that he gave Harold Harold Harold Har- Har Har Har- old Abrahams the great British sprinter a few tew days after Abrahams had won the Olympic meter championship at Paris In the meter relay event In the Colombes I stadium young Hussey ran the legs off the vaunted Briton gaining a lead of pI nearly three yards in the yards that he and Abrahams were pitted against each other Hussey went to the national A A. A A. A U U. championships last July Julya a a. rank outsider In the dope The experts all aU believed that this race lay be between Jackson Scholz of the New York A A. A C. C and DeHart Hubbard Hubbard Hubbard Hub- Hub bard Michigan's great negro sprinter sprint sprint- er who had done 9 5 3 seconds a afew afew afew few weeks before Hussey amazed the athletic sharps by heating dead-heating Hubbard In his preliminary heat In the wonderful time of 9 7 10 seconds Ill Til beat him In the final said Hussey when he was wag congratulated in the dressIng dressIng dressing dress- dress Ing room following the preliminary And he did From his ver very first race HU Hussey sey has displayed an iron nerve In com com- petition race Pre-race nervousness the bugaboo of many a world-beater world on the track is absolutely foreign to his makeup On the mark he is as cold as an Iceberg and the breaks that h have he e been charged against him can be counted on the fingers of one hand Hussey believes In himself himself him him- self but has hu never been heard to boast of his ability to win The youthful national champion ascribes a full measure of credit for his success on the track to the man who discovered him him Albert Albert Col Col- lins If It hadn't been for Mr Collins Colling Collins Col Col- lins ling I dont don't believe I would have won a p place ace on the Olympic team was Francis FrancIs' tribute to his coach and friend spoken to the writer on the evening of ot the national tryouts in the Harvard stadium at Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge last year His advice and above all his planning of my racing s so o that I have not burned out has enabled me to develop and at the same time avoid the baneful effect of ot overdoing in athletics that ruins the prospects of so BO many young oung runnerS Following conversation the writer observed Hussey approach his coach and ask permission to take a short walk about town The TIle thought Immediately flashed across our mind How many youngsters of 18 who had unexpectedly attained a third place in in competition with the fleetest sprInters of the world would have been so 50 absolutely unspoiled unspoiled unspoiled un un- un- un spoiled by his newly won honors as asto asto asto to submit himself voluntarily to training discipline In such a a. small matter To this day the proud possessor of an Olympic gold medal and an American national champion Hussey Hussey Hussey Hus Hus- sey remains modest and una unassuming unassuming suming sum sum- ing though none the less confident In his ability to sprint with the best of ot them Hussey city born and raised raised ls is the none an outdoor bo boy He spends his summers In a camp up In New England and always walks from his home homo In New York to the mountain woods taking a lift from natured good-natured motorists now and then but covering long distances I afoot i In its the Journey lust the same sam Walking Is the he national yard I champions champion's favorite exercise During During During Dur Dur- ing his career as a schoolboy Hussey Hus liua- sey say walked thousands of miles mUes his sturdy legs and deep chest bearing ample evidence to the effectiveness of outdoor hiking as a a. body builder Francis has never worn a hat nat in m his life He has hiked camped c. and gone here and there ther across the breadth of the United States and Europe as well ell In fair fall weather and foul with no head The wildest snow storm finds young I Hussey headed bare-headed as the fairest I Iday day in summer It Is Interesting to I note too that he has never suffered 1 from a cold In the head held i |
