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Show 1 rpHE GOOD' ,TRUJT GUARDING .THIRTY '. I I kU THOUSAND COLLEGIAN S I M ff-jJlHBSaHl f fljfoSff o tte Afew Engam Scftoo of Coacfeg, of Wfom "iffiite" Aforpiv Is the WfcH '"'feh'.' I H SamJS Dean, and Hotu Its Members Have Discovered and Developed Athletic 1 WkSP TO 'Wy& H s8 ii' ii JiJOrWrii " ' Ml- SpS MICHAEL C MUJREHX Jp-x Pack Bios. Pbpta. ItCoojrlKht. 1011. by tbf New Tork Herald Co. All rlchts rw sl.t '" N the Massachusetts athletic trust the track and fleld destinies of more than thirty thou-1 thou-1 I sand collegians balance. Another ten thou-Vx thou-Vx sand or more members of amateur clubs look for their physical betterment, for personal or public competition, to offsprings of this organisation that exists without papers of lncorporutlon orauy-thlng orauy-thlng more binding than the quietly announced slogan, slo-gan, "He's one of us." In an eastern district of the Bay Stnf that a robust ro-bust man could cover In a day's walk, the athletic trust was born thirty years ago. It is still growing. Its potency now draws to the headquarters lot ;ne trust glories of athletic achievements from coast tv joast, and from New Orleans to the Canadian lino. Through Its agents the trust's power ias been felt , abroad In Olympic and other games. Originally a one man power, with "Stocky'J- Murphy, Mur-phy, o those days the present "Mike" Jfurphy as If Tsar, It has never loosened Its grip on the amateur nthletic situation. An aspiring coach may pass iiius; L ter without the "0. K." of the trust, but if he has "it k there is higher hope for the future. To gain Uint., L never falling indorsement "lie knows the game" an L' applicant must first weather the chills of the trtwt -k and warm the masters that control It by "showing f something." That "something" Is real ability. But'. hcing a New Englander gives the applicant an al-i al-i iowance of fifty percentage points before he Is put ft "It jnst happens so" was an expert -nthtftlc advls-& advls-& er8 answer when the writer' asked why that district .-X within forty-five minutes from JSqstou produced Hie tJp world's foremast athletic coaches and trnJuoi. But ,.iS there's a Htory of loyalty to the dean of couches, jaM Michael C. Murphy, of the ;UnivoraiU" of Pennsyl- -SfiEvania, and of much hard work along ambitious lines gin the careers of the chief figures. myt In the early eighties New England was the home of -Mfli the professional athlete, and nearly, every one of the Hf rnembcrs of tbti trust has been a money chaser with M his own borrowed spikes. Prqfesslounl sprinters were K more plentiful there than In. any other section of the M' country, barring, possibly, portions of Pennsylvania. M', For a decade the sport thrived, But Ue specula-V specula-V tlve Interests eventually brought nboutJ decline. At m' the height of the foot raciug era Vy: cash. "Stocky" K Murphy, "Pooch" Donovan, now. 'coach at' Harvard; M "Johnny" Mack, of Yale, and scores of others who do H; not have any standing with, the trust were active. i (Working In hayfields for weeks to establish n rcsl-H; rcsl-H; dence In some small town where hose races with rival HI1 fire companies were the leading attractions to the Bi sport loving natives; driving a coal wagbliand evcnlu-Fl'- ally being Invited by some "unknown" friend to get H if off the seat and ran against some athlete with more IwH backing than sprinting power; keeping right on run- Hh ning and going over the high fence out losing some kMjL track after defeating the local sprinting idol are ex-ENst; ex-ENst; porlenccs that some of the members of ,the trust have -ffl forgotten in the more dignified careers that opened to .-ggfc On the Natick (Mass.) Hook and Ladder team of jjigthe early eighties were "Mike" Murphy, "1'occh" Don-j Don-j sSwiovan, Keene Fltzpatrlck, "Johnny'1 Mnck, "Sid" Peer. J4$Fiiow trainer at Andover; "Steve" Ffirrell, coach at fc'the University of Ohio, and "Piper" Donovan, fastest B0tfTof all professional sprinters when at his best. That SleWs team was a world's champion. From it Murphy went JJjKto Yale as trainer, bringing with him as an assistant tylJS "Pooch" Donovan. rtrW Perseverance, coupled with the hardest 6f work, Klmnde this coterie of muscular New Englanders valu-hrffsjrablc valu-hrffsjrablc from their first attempts as eoaehe. There Is ':& nt a man in the list who has not trained luirdcr anrf tSt0& more conscientiously than a majority of present day iSB champions. In the professional rajjks there was no l$Sfk ioaflug In the camps. Near the town of Natick was a Lffliffi.road house where several of the money seekers trained El-"w5vbctween races. There the dally routine was a ten or - Wweve me vac beforo breakfast, more road wortc j,nnd outdoor exercise until noon. Then a light lunch zkriftKnO. a handicap meet in the afternoon. itls e JlttncaP8 "were mutually agreed upon and each JtfLman pnt up his own money and ran for it as If there SlStwas not another chance for "eats" In sight. When j ji-some of this little group entered the college athletic J-is.'World as coaches they did not instruct from a book or feJfftTglve advice from an arm chair. They continued to fM work and havo been at it ever since. j raffi In onc of tbe S t e Eastern universities Is JffS&'a coach who would not address students upon the iaubjcct, but who could tell of one small day's work j-fi,that he did as a professional athlete. Left penniless Tallin Bcwton by a follower of the sprinters who wns tf$S faster on the "getaway" with coin than the runner E'hlmself, this now famous coach went to the Fancuil SgrHall market and worked from seven o'clock In the jjjfmornlng until noon as an assistant handler of sides Yfjjjfflfof: beef. He needed the dollar that was promised, 'jffljbecau5e that afternoon ho had an engagement Jn a "-135 yard handicap in a town forty-odd miles away. HBut the butcher had gone for the day, with lnstruc--rTVijpijtlons to have that "young fellow with tbe sunburned -JimKei103'' CODle around tlio next mprnlng. lmFllTruveUing "incog" precluded tho chances for a imJI;;Sch" on any of the sporting men 1 Boston, at rt-jB1 coMtime more numerous than now, fo this dctcr- r fBrig athlete pleaded with a flremop on a train for i?BBF"n Rion to "stoke" his way. And ho won that 3ffelo.V Then he had little ejso to do but walk twp " 1'Vr hal miles to the fair grouuds and borrow" MfcTBd itxvukSiXrom an awed amateur. He Hn- Uft ' ' a.. . , , . -- M . ' ' J5' "- - " nw lshed' 'second from .the four yard marl;. pockHtod $iZ II M , v fell !$ itiitl -wh;. ,iu the market in Boston next morning to TO ' 'WfA&c, w- &i l earn'iUiofi'cr'!olI:u'. "Sniallr wonder that men of that j 45J gv gJ vX l S,lritj4ifji siAce'cd," couuneiued a kindly college In- O f $ u, i s.aucto: whu. up to rho time of hewing thut stn-,'- or " " jfiSA V-"1 fe ' slu-cr j'.rlt. ne. er had much use for those runners -at tlfify w" -4M , . ' . J'lVIike" Murphy's JStart. ' - .. ,.. -$WW Vn J&! JM v ;Cpftirc-retiiilis-lli;rr have Ween written and the count- -' -v-l 4f. j fifw wjL J$0k le.4s srorle.t told of -Mike" Murphy's start as a c6iMi T ' C " "N .A RJr W'-1 (trainer they termed him lliei:), none cvei gave n vcr- ;- XS.A y f slon that was told I he v.riter by the lute "Pat" ITurley,.. &f?gBgHtUifcc&wSral t of WoriCbler, Mass., one Of the noblest of "UQ!i anil a ' nroMiRn r S devote? of .sports, who wns In the thick of all contests..', BERNARD - JOHN F. t as a baiker of professionals, a friend of nmutcun 'mv ill Mm.'-; and a veritable oncyeloijaedia of fncts, In those days of more thmi twenty years ago, "Mike' Finn, now a minor league baseball manager and stout for big league teams, Including the Giants, wv.s the Hectesl professional sprinter in the New England section sec-tion from which the present athletic trut sprouted Onu day bvdlsplnycd a letter fron') Now riaveii asking, him to act as trainer and instructor th'eve. - Finn laughed derisively when hu tend the figures., nnd then, jokingly turning lo a ;roup of a(hlote.,said: "Let's -end Str iky" Murphy' Because Murphy wis not a. ' champion among them there were rounds of ecrs. 'Wet or inind that," retorted Finn, "that fetjow has' got a head on him that will got him more sopie day; than our lep will." And that set Murphy on his-way-to the highest notchew cr attained by a conditioner and insri-uctov of athletes in all braiuhes. In a house presumed to him by men who appreciated appre-ciated all that he has done for college nutletlcs. especially espe-cially for the University of Pennsylvania, ".Mike" Mur- phy can now recall early d.'13-.s with the grim satisfaction satisfac-tion of realizing that he gatned by hnid woik unnp-proached unnp-proached eminence In his profession. lie prescribes the same kind of medicine for ambitious athljetcs. but hekunwa the dose best adapted for each. As a recruiting re-cruiting oilicer in the army of young athletes Murphy Is supreme Material, partially moulded. Is turned" over to him annually because athletes want him to put on the finishing touches. AVhlie coaching the Detroit Athletic Club Murphy showed his rare talent as a minor, which In athletic parlance Is "digging up a gem." John Owen, a member mem-ber of the club, was playing tenuis one nfternoou wh.-n Murphy, In his methodical way, leaned over to watch the movements of the players. The action of Owen looked promising to Murphy. "Mr. Owen, why don't you be a sprinter?" ho nsked, while the players were wiping off perspiration between be-tween acts. "I?" returned Owen. "Why, I couldn't run a Ilclc." But Murphy Insisted, and from that seeming guesswork guess-work selection of a future great was developed John Owen, the first amateur sprinter to cover one hundred yards under ten seconds. Owen's time was 9-1-3 seconds. sec-onds. While training the American team at Travers Island Isl-and in 1S1K3 for the International games with England's Eng-land's best athletes. "Mike" Murphy received as pupil "Steve" Chase, of Dartmouth College, a hustler whose records still adorn athletic almanacs. Chase reported just in time for the evening meal nnd coufeasetl that he was hungry. After all the other athletes had left the training table. Chase lingered. Finally "Mike" Murphy nsked, "What's the matter? ATe you Btiil hungry?" -"1 want pic," Insisted Chase. "We don't have it here," said the trainer as he walked away to laugh in solitude. In a flash Murphy realized what few of the old school of tralutirs ever would. Chase had undoubtedly been eating pie In New Hampshire and breaking records on lc Going to the klteheu.-Murpby got a large cut of apple pie and returned to the dinjng room. Chaso had disappeared, but on the club house verau-da verau-da there was a commotion. Murphy hurried there and wcniKa. tviUArvUfc,y. 0 PicJcrUl News Co. 1 Photo. -v '"W"' Suw members of that wonderful nthletic combination luiplorh'g Chase to stay, but that insistent young 'sith- lute had already put his baggage aboard the 'bus run- 1 ' nltig to the railroad station ami was'lmporlnning the driver to hurry. - ' t The spectacle of the world's greatest nthletic coach 1 running down the roadway with a piece of pie deftly balanced on, a plate, all the time calling. "Here It is, n Chae 1 got It for you:" Is one that give;, an Insight ' to his tact. Of course. Chase came back and was a world beater, and on pie. too. J One of the cardinal points In Murphy's system of I coaching Is his never failing system of g?ttlng thor- "cnighly acquainted with every athlete in ills care. He t is the originator of the now generally accepted belief that an athlete is only human. Under his s.stom the t Old irtia of athletes being steamed and worked like n s mules was banished. Training with weighted sboe: or running uphill In rubber boots were old methods Mini Avere put into tho d Hoard Light shoes for sprint i raping and heavier one-, for workouts are enough. fl After a Yale-IIarvaic dual meet, a few years ago, c Junior E Sullivan", then president of the Amateur , "Athletic Union and referee of the games, asked a e college authority what he considered the most striking strik-ing f.'.iture of the meet. " j 'The way that man Murphy handles his athletes." v was the a'nswen. "Did you notice that after being ( barred from the fleld the Harvard coach sat In the i; grand stand, while Murphy went to the training quar- l ters of his team? That man will be training big col- lege teams as long as he wants to." t The orher coach Is no longer conuected with inter- collegiate sports. In his first year out Murphy removed from college I( athletics nil the objectionable features of professional r coaching. He made It plain to every athlete who t came under him Mint u clean body nnd mind had as s big a part in success as muscles. When members of the alumni who had been brought up In an earlier era r of coaching realized that their boys wore being bet- lered morally as well as physically Murphy's power came to be recognized. And theu came nil these sue- cesses at Yale oud Pennsylvania which the public at j; large knows of, probably without giving a thought to 1 the calibre of the man who made It possible for ath- letcs to be hard fighters nnd gentlemen through it all. j Loyalty in the Trust. a This leads up to Uie loyalty to "Mike" Murphy that t other members of the trust have shown. By boing the pioneer in the clean-cut system of professional coaching. Murphy became the mau lo whom all seek ' 0 ers for trainers or coaches looked for advice. Nat- , urally enough, he remembered his comrades of pro- a fesslonal foot racing days. To those he considered f unfitted for the bandllug of thousands of growing I1 young men he gave no advice excepting, "I could not f give yon a recommendation until you showed me that 11 you could handle yourself. Knowing about athletics r Is not everything a coach ought to possess." " Thus the athletic trust becomes a character build. j( lug influence in tbe nation. WW & iHHp "Bernle" Wefors, who as conch at Columbia and, he New York Athletic Club probably is brought nto contact with more young men than auy other oat-h in the country, was "developed by Murphy, n ISO,") a raw boned youth from Lawrence, Mass, villi a letter of introduction to "Mike" Murphy, oinpd the American athletes at Travers Island. It vas Wefcrs, and he was greeted with "rube" titlk by lis team mates. Murphy knew In a day's observa-lon observa-lon that Wefors "had the stuff In him" and despite ritielKiu kept at work on him. On the day of he meet It wns Wefers' victories In the dashes that nved the day for the American tonm. Wefers was he most consistent onc hundred Stud onc hundred ind twenty yard sprinter the world has ever known. Ie never had "off days." More than thirty times id covered one hundred yards in 9 -i-5s. On the iolluitntlon of his fellow townsman "Patsy" Douo-' -on, then manager of the St. Louis National League )aseball team, Wefers iried, almost on bis speed I lone, to be n big leaguer But Wefers was quicker hau his manager to recognize the difference between 'mining on a diamond nnd on a track. On the. theory that "it takes a great sprinter to nakc one," Wefers' output should be a large one. riiere are Iwo features that hamper the carrying )ut of this. In the New York Athletic Club a mu-ority mu-ority of the athletes have been In other coaches' muds nnd are practically matured in athletics. At Columbia, where he has more than seven thousand itudents to draw upon, conditions are not conducive 0 besl results. Going to the college is one big event n a man's life, and visiting New York for the first line is another, neither of which makes for best ithlctlc effort This may not apply to natives who are Indents, but the- white lights are burning every light for all. "Pooch" Donovan, brother of "Piper" Donovan, vbo was credited with one hundred yards in 9 3-5S. is n professional, was himself a sprinter of money anilng poev. Before being drawn to Harvard Donovan coached ninny minor organizations and' uilltary teams. At Worcester Academy he had in harge Arthur F, Duffcy. a boy of short stature, but 'cut high," as coaches say In referring to the length if an athlete's logs Duffey's style was changed impletely by Donovan, and upon advice that Dono-au Dono-au haiuiuored Into him dally DulTey became the astcst amateur sprinter In the world. Donovan V one of the keenest men In athletics. His own empernment suggests action. Iu conditioning nthletes Donovan has an advantage iver coaches whoso personal experience has been in rack and field events only. "Pooch" played football nd can still don togs and speed nround the ends iu a vny that makes some of the younger fellows envious, lc' played baseball professionally as a ew England cngiier. As a' professional sprinter Donovan did not lossess Ihe wonderful speed of his brother "Piper," tut. us many old time followers of sprint raring often aid. "You can't beat that Donovan combination In a ace, 'Piper's' legs and 'Pooch's head." From Donovan's home. Natick. ICecne Fltzpatrlck nlgrated into the field of professional coaches, ne vas another protege of "Mike" Murph-, nnd when .lurphv left the Detroit Athletic Club to tnke up lutles'at "iale It was Fltzpatrlck. another sprinter, vho took charge of the Michigan athletes. On Mur-thy's Mur-thy's move from New Haven Fltzpatrlck again fol-owed fol-owed In the path of the veteran coach and became rale's man behind the athletes. Later at Michlgau 'lUpn trick put that university on the athletic map II bold tvpe by Its development of track and Held thleto.s and careful conditioning of football teams hat "Hurry Up" Yost coached. "Jack" Moakley, of Cornell. Fltzpatrlck Is ery discreet In speech and'in train-ng train-ng lie never overworks athletes, but when he gives Tilers there Is no one to doubt whether he really jeans what he says. In taking up the responsibilities ttendnnt upon conchlug Princeton. Fltzpatrlck did 0 with the full confidence of the alumni. "He may lot do wonders in one year or two. but eveutuallj here will be a svstem nt Old Nassau that will count or something in" the intercollegiate meets." declared prominent alumnus. He had Iu mind FItzpatrlck's ccord at Michigan, onc Item In that list of nchlcve-nents nchlcve-nents being esieclally conspicuous the development f John Carrels as one of tho greatest all around ath-;tes ath-;tes and football players of recent years. At Cornell there have boen many student debates Next, "Genesis ot Football and Its Wildfire Spread." 1 Sv R rJflfiJ a.s - M .-. CT &TM I A " H WILLIAM K JOHN H. H DONOVAN MACK. M Tutorial Nova Co. PiciorJst News Co. u H Pbclo. Photo. H in the dormitories on the question whether "Old Man"- tM Courtney, of rowing fame, or "Jack" Monkley has H done more to bring the Ithacans into the front ranks H ofjthe college world of sports. Moakley is a South H Boston bby, who absorbed foot racing lore nud was a H very creditable middle distance runner, but never H prominent as u professional. He had that admiration" M for "Mike" .Murphy which seems to grow with all M the athletically inclined f the section. From an iu- 1 structor in public playgrounds he blossomed (nto the H largest flower of a great gathering of athletic "posies" H when he put Cornell at the top year after year as a H leader iu cros.- country nnd other distance run: lug. H When Moakley was asked to what method he at- H tributed the success of Cornelliaus in distance run- M ning. he promptly answered. "Why. the very location H of Ithaca tends to mrtke young men rugged. Climbing H those hills I the bet kind of t mining " H -But there's more thnu that to the Cornell system, nnd M the big hub In the wheel Is Moakley He h:.s a dls- H rJneMve plan All the year round his cross country H runners are being groomed. During a dual meet at H Ithaca a few mouths ago an olficlul from NcwYork H who was on Cornell fleld for the first time was inyB- 'M tided to see half a dozen men jogging out of the club H house and away from the grouuds. M "What are those fellows doing?" he asked: "Oh, M those an? some of the cross country runners getting M ready for next fall," volunteered a native. M And while ,the Intercollegiate cross country cham- M plnnships are being decided next fall likely as not there M will be a group of young wearers of the red and - H wyliite"iilodding o'-or the hills of Ithaca In a preliminary H workout for the distance runs of 1912. H Monkloy's athletic sensation of the recent college M year was Tobn Paul Jones, the mile runner, who es- M tnbllshed a new world's amateur record of tin. 15 2-5s., M lowering by one-Iiftb of a second a mark made by JM Thomas P. ConnefV in 1&.. Of Jones It has been said '' M that he was advised never to run because of a ten- H deucy to fcallness. But once in Ithaca the building M up process begnn and Jones was strengthened by M cross country running that started with the slowest of M jos. To-day Jones can run the last quarter of a M gruelling mile race at a pace that would make a good H (lunrter mller who picked ldni up at the three-quarter H pole cave in before reaching the (ape. H The Murphy system was established at Yale when H "Johnny" Mnck stepped in, but no coach outside tho H trust could have taken up the work and carried it out H along the original lines as well as .Alack has done. H no is one of the profc.sslon.-il sprinters who cnine a bit H after Murphy's time, but he had the same little dls- trict schooling iu ntbleilcs. ' Mack was a sprinter who believed that a hundred -j yard race was never over unUl the tape had been H breasted. Although an adept at starting, on several f occasions, owing partially to an Injured tendon, Mack M was a trifle slow iu getting in motion. Then some of M the men In front considerud the race already won. In M that last nerve pulling, muscle piercing fifty yards M Mack would bound lo the front and make a race to M the tape that usually brought him inside the money, M That same kind of spirit Is credited to Yale, which M accounts for the present show of confidence iu Mack's M methods. M 'Tommy" Keene, at Syracuse, and Frank M. Ka- M nnly, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, nie M others of the Bay State group of successful coaches. M Keeno was a professional sprinter who competed here M and iu the Shelllcld handicap in England with large H measures of success. Kaualy's perstmal dabble in M competition was as a distance runner, and he was up M to a few years ago one of America's best. As one of M the younger members of the trust Kannly is growing H rapidly In power. M Frank Gormley, a Boston man, Is at the head of tbe M Young Men's Gymnastic Club, of New Orleans, the H leading organization in tbe South in athletics. As coach there he handles hundred of athletes from the H Southern colleges. "Joe" Itiley, another man from H the Hub, is coach of the Kansas City Athletic Asso- H The city of Worcester, in which "Mike" Murphy la H known to every one who ever had even the slightest M touch of the nthledc fever, has is. little group of coaches jH that have been remarkably successful. J. Fred H Powers, one time holder of the all round amateur 1 championship, has coached Notre Dame University jH and Holy Cross, He is now at Worcester Academy. H "Tom" Holland, one of the old guard of professloual 'M foot runners nnd n pupil In the Murphy school, has - M been a winner nt Northwestern University in Chi- H cago. at Notre Dame and at Holy Cross College. H Martin Delancy, brother of "Jcre," a professional H distance rnuncr of note and a skilled coach at Exeter M and Iowa' University, is himself deep into athletics in M the MIddJo West, being In charge of the track teHin H of Olilcago AthleUc Association and many collegians H during the summer mouths. The O'Connor brothers, H "Charlie'' and "Eddie." both clever nnd Meet as ania- H teur sprinters and botli fast up to the half mile, have H made the rouuds of the minor colleges of New Eug- jl "Nothing But Praise." H When the attention of James E. Sullivan, the chief H figure in the Amateur Athletic Union, and by virtue H of his position a man who has always been Identified M with Intercollegiate sports, was called to tbe athletic H trust he said: M "If that Is a trust It Is the only one In the world that IH there is nothing but praise for. A fine body of men M In that list, 1 tell you! Why, every one of them has M been a worker from boyhood. Their moral iufiuence jl has been so great that I know personally at least a H score of fathers who have told me that men have been jH made out of their boys by the training they have got jH under some of these coaches. H "Yf, they are all round coaches, not specialists M lale has great pole vuulters because athletes run In 1 groups, n sort of follow the leader style. When Gil- 1 oert and others were at Yale they were looRed up to by M younger athletes, and the latter aimed to become pro- H ficlent pole vaulters. That accounts for the prevalence tM of Yale ijolnt winners In that event In recent years. M At Harvard there was a time when fast quarter mllcrs jH enme forward year after year; at Dartmouth, follow- IB ing the career "of Chase, came otlv;r great hurdlers. H Cornell has been without a .peer as a developer or IB distance runners. H "When Dartmouth College scoured all New England B for a coach who had not been contracted for by some , H other college a me'uiber of the Athletic Committee ' H asked me 10 recommend a coach. I had several Iu H mind, but conditions surrounding others brought the M issue down to Ilnrrv L. Hiliniun. I told my vl.sltor to H eugage him, not with the idea of having him develop H a winning team in 11 year or rwo, but with Mie IH thought always in mind of building for the future. I jB sa(d thiiL- llllliunij hud been coached by "Mike'' Mur- r H phy and had always been a keen student of athletics. B InKhort, I wild that he came nearer to the type of leaders among these men you have in your list thau nnv man available. Bemarknbly strange that, with alfthe interest lu athletics, the fact that the men who r lead In the development of college athlete conio iroiii that one little spot that n man's thumb could almost .over ou a wall map has never been noted until now." M |