Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-15 | Page 26 | Henry Loses to Metcalfe Says Ralph Can't be Beat

Henry 1 Loses to Metcalfe Dons Sawed-Off Sawed Pants to Do Snappy Says Ralph Cant Can't Be Beat By HE HENRY Y lc 1 McLEMORE El United Press Sports Writer MILWAUKEE May 15 The IS-The The limits to which I l' l will go to furnish my customers with hand first information on sports never was better illustrated than on yesterday when with a wintry gale blowing across Marquette u university's athletic field I stepped out in nothing but a pair of sawed off off pants and ran a yard OO-yard against Ralph Metcalfe My race with the great runner was inspired by an article I read recently In which Ted Meredith one onetime onetime onetime time holder of the worlds world's record for forthe the and now p coach of the Czecho Slovak Slovak- i tan Ian a n 01 Olympic y mp i c team team- said Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amir- ica's sprinters had little chance to win their events r 4 in the July games J. J t I in Berlin Berlinn While I 1 am still panting c cI l g do M. M I 1 want to say i Meredith is in in ingrave 1 grave error and rm t his prediction will j w r L. L q bounce back in his face like a Metcalfe l rub rubber er check Theres There's nothing in Europe that'll beat this Metcalfe I ran one of the greatest races of my life against him yesterday and yet he snapped the tape just as I blazed across the yard 60 marker with 40 y yards still to go My time was highly ble ble 16 16 3 10 seconds Coach Con Jennings' Jennings caught me in but In but it I looked like a telephone number against Ralphs Ralph's I l' gave everything everything every every- thing I J had but when I finished Ralph had already gone to the broad jump pit and taken two leaps The race was strictly on the level It was no gag Coach Jennings who made Metcalfe one of ot the greatest greatest greatest great great- est sprinters in track history was just as attentive to me at the start as he was to Ralph In fact he was more attentive for sprinting styles have havo changed a great deal since I was the fastest hum human n and I 1 needed advice When I was the Georgia Bullet I races were started by the drop of ofa ofa ofa a handkerchief by a spectator at the finish line and the standup start was the vogue Old of my races show me assuming a a. a stance at the start not unlike that i used by John L. L Sullivan on defense de defense de- de ferise and we used to run In over over- alls Coach Jennings changed alltha all tha that He provided me with a pair of pants so small that if waved as asa asa asa a distress signal they wouldn't attract attract attract at at- tract attention on Broadway and street Then he shot off the gun As I remember I 1 did everything per per- I 1 sprang from like a panther on its prey At least I 1 thought I did Later I 1 was told I I resembled a traffic cop helping children children children chil chil- dren across the street but bu I 1 dont don't believe it No traffic cop ever had leg muscles that ache as mine do now My leg Jeg action while It lasted Jasted was tremendous Unfortunately as I passed the way half-way mark I strained a series of tendons I didn't mind that at the however as the tendon trouble tended to take my mind off my chest which later collapsed I 1 also bit my tongue Metcalfe simply is not human He has steel springs for muscles bellows bellows bellows bel bel- lows for lungs Other Otherwise h he couldn't possibly come out of those starting holes as he did Mind you 1 I left leCt them like a panther but even as I l' rose from them he passed me mea a a dark shadow going like well like well going like hell I l' l heard the sharp bite M Df his spikes in the cinders and andI I 1 saw him arms arms arms' and legs driving like steel things eat up the yards 10 or more at a stride