Show Paul Pilgrim Is Walking Track Field Encyclopedia Note This is another in a series dealing with old time Olympic stars and what they are doing now By SCOTTY RESTON Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK July 22 22 ln In the the long and fabulous sports history of the New York Athletic club no man has played a greater part than Paul Pilgrim In 1906 he went to the Olympic games at Athens for the N. N Y A. A C. C and won the and meter BOO runs No man had ever won these two races the s same me year ear and no man yet has las equaled the feat Nine years l ater later when he came back to the c club lub seeking a job he was no not forgotten for for for- gotten T Pilgrim was vas made athletic manager manager manager man man- ager of the club in in 1915 and he s still till holds the job Good Memory Hes He's 50 y years ars rs old now jiow gray of ot othair hair but straight as a javelin Hes He's Hesi a i walking track and field record book He can tell you who won and why and what was vas the score of practically any meet of ot importance i In n the past 20 years But Pilgrim is no athlete now Five years ago agoa a serious appended 4 tomy almost took his life Today he admits he is afraid to mix in inthe inthe inthe the sports he loves Takes Life Lite Easy Of all the former Olympic champions champions champions cham cham- around now Pilgrim seems to have benefited more directly from his athletic ability than any other He ran himself into a good job that day at Athens and as asfar far as the New York A. A C C. is concerned he can have it for life So now he lives the life lite of a country squire in in Scarsdale N. N Yo Y Ho He c commutes to Manhattan every day is met at the train every night by his two children Virginia 11 and Paul 10 He had a chance to go over to the games in Berlin this year but he decided to stay tay at home When I take a vacation now it wont won't be at a track meet he sa says s |