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Show I RUN Fflft I IW I IbU Bawl H ILtll STAVKoPJ UN1VLRSITY, Cal., July 20. The recent death here of j "Dad" Moulton. trainer ol Stanford i athletic teams since 1902. ended the ' career of a man who was not only con- j sidered by students and faculty as a j university Institution, but also achieved achiev-ed distinction himself as s. runner in early days in addition had the rcpQta-Hop rcpQta-Hop of having constructed more tracks than any other man In the country. Edward W. Moulton Was born In St Anthony Falls. Minn., now a part of Minneapolis. In 1849. the second white j bO) born in the place His chief play- mates were Indian children, When 'the Civil war was at Its height he en-Misted en-Misted ut the ifC Of 15 and served 1 through part of Sherman's march to the 'ea. Later he became a go eminent em-inent BCOUt and engaged In many skirmishes skir-mishes With the Indians during his work blazing a trail to Helena. Mont WONDERFUL RECORD I After achieving considerable fame as a frontier foot racer, he began a career ca-reer as a professional runner In which he lost only four out of 306 contests in which he entered, inally he became a trainer entirely. ;ii which he was so successful that ne was known as a "maker ( champions" II,. trained Harry M Johnson, once an American champion in the- sprints and developed A Kin K ran.leln. the noted Missouri hurdler, who was the first to practice the modern style of hurdling .luiiies Maybury, of the University of Wisconsin was another champion sprinter of the late ninotloB whom Moulton trained. Moulton also was a noted trainer of bicycle racers when that pastime was popular. He trained teams at variou.-s eastern east-ern universities before coming to Stanford Stan-ford After the regular training sea-.i(.,n sea-.i(.,n oi hum) hot and 1910. he coached the track teams at Pacific and Willamette Willa-mette colleges In Oregon and Santa Clara Colb-ge In California. WINNING RACK TE I M He was the first to turn out a winning win-ning track learn at Stanford and helped help-ed to bring Into condition many of the Cardinal's victorious football teams Hfi was track COaCh at Stanford for 13 years and Hen i,r..,l five e,rs more as an athletic trainer. Moulton s greatest piece at eonstruc- tlon was Hi., track built for (he p&n- jama Paclfh International Exposition I at San Francisco At the time of his death, he was In charge of the work for the new track In the Stanford stadium sta-dium Among the other college tracks he built, were those at Mllinesotu, llowa State. Vanderbilt. Tennessee! WiSl or. an Manchester England, Notre Dame, Willamette colloge and Pacific University at Portland. Ore. besides tracks for Lewis and Clark Exposition m Portland and the Contennlal celebration cele-bration at Astoria. Oregon. ' In the course of his career at Stanford Stan-ford he brought out BUCh champions as Norman Dole, QebVge Horlna, Fred I Crawford, Peg Murphy, tne Tcmpleton ibrothers and Morris Ktrksey |