Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-25 | Page 32 | Fast Runner to Quit the Track

FAST RUNNER TO TRACK J. J P. P Halsted of Cornell One One- Mile Man Will Retire Re Re- tire Soon J. J P. P Halsted of Cornell University the tho most sensational one mile runner America has seen since the days of Tommy Connen Conneff Is going to retire from the track This piece of news un- un welcomed though It is is la is vouched forby for forby by a member of the Olympic same games party to whom Halsted confided his intentions shortly after the London games gaines were over Halsted mode made no secret of the fact that hat he was sorely disappointed at his luck in London both on account of tho ho stomach trouble that affected his running and the un fortunato heat drawings that hat paired him against Mel Sheppard In his very first effort Halsted has hns been running less than hart harta a year and In that time timo he developed to a point where ho could negotiate the milo In 4 minutes 20 seconds Halsted tel Hal sted argued that as he lie Is through college col col- loge lege and has attained tho goal ot of every university track and field man manan manan man man- an intercollegiate championship championship- there Is lit Jo incentive for him lo to run any moro more finally gave his hla promise to think over the lie proposition tion to represent tho ho N. N Y r. A. A C. C this summer but seemed determined to give it all up after that If Halsted retires athletics will lose loaa one of the tho best performers In the middle middie mid mid- die dle distances that ever carried a collego eel col- lego lege emblem Jack dug duff Heisted Halsted UI up at Cornell last fall anti and right ay av the tho up state youth began to do 10 sensational things The Tho first peep New Yorkers got of Halsted at the N. N Y A. A C. C games in Madison Square Garden last March In the tho yard handicap Halstod running from time the eighteen yard mark registered register register- ed od a dead heat with Frantz Princeton enjoying a big handicap The two ran off tho tie and Heisted won handa down From his very style In time tho race raci tho experts saw that In Halsted Moakley Monk Monk- hey ley had a real champion and It was freely predicted then that the Cornell boy would be the next college champion chaIn cham pion at one mile