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SHERIDAN’S TRIBUTE GALLANT RAY EWRYN«rw York, Not. 18.—Not no long f classic ago at an Informal dinner I Sheridan was one of the speakers, and the toastmaster in introducing the famous athlete wound up with a florid outburst of oratory, in which he said:«#tered with things that and how Ineeds no Introduction, this Incomparable of the athletic arena, this champion of champions, this wrecker of records, the worlds greatest all-round a.hide, the man who has won more points for Fncle Sam in Oljmpic games than any other Yankee gladiator—Martin J. Sheridan.”When the noise of the welcominggreeting and the banglns: of steinshad died down Sheridan, blushingwith embarrassment, rose and began.Mr. Toastmaster and otherfriends: Of course I feel highly fiat-the wonderfully kindhave been said about me,wish I was deserving of them! Everybody knows that 1 am not. However, Mr. Toastmaster. I mill suspend sentence on you. first, because of your limited knowledge of athletics and, secondly, because 1 fear you have dined ‘not too wisely but too well.* **After the laughter had died down, says the Sun. Sheridan continued: Mr. Toastmaster showered me with so many bouquets that I have difficulty In remembering them It seems to me I recollect him saying something about ‘champion of champions* and ‘the man who won the most points for Uncle Sam In Olympic fames.'Gee, What a I/one Time Ago!**I can lay no claim to being a champion of champions, though I do claim that I am a lineal descendant of Cuchulaln, who won the championship of Ireland from Laery of the Victories back in the days when Sparrow Robertson was the 10-mile champion of America and A1 Copland was in swaddling clothes. You all know how far back that was.‘‘As far as being 'the man who won the most points for Uncle Sam In Olympic games' the cap certainly does not fit me. It Is several siz«s too large. I am fortunate enough.however, to havo known and been a close friend of the one man who Is deserving of all the glowing phrases that flowed from the mouth of Mr. Toastmaster like water gushing from a spring in the hills of old Wicklow.“The 'champion of champions,' Mr. Toastmaster and other friends. said Sheridan after clearing his throat, the greatest Olympian of them all, is none other than good old Hay Ewry.*‘Ah, Mr. Toastmaster, there was the champion for you! What other man has scored RO points in Olympic competitions? What other man has been a victor in four Olympiads? What other man has won 10 Olympic titles?There Is none!There only has been one Ray Ewry. There probably never will be another. When the Maker of Champions made Ewry, he destroyed themold.Only One Ewry.“With the exception of Ewry, there has been no man who has been a victor In four Olympiads. Yet. think of it, Ewry not only was a victor in four Olympiads, fcyut he was a double winner each time! lie whs a triple victor In two Olympiads and would have been a three-event winner In four of them only in two of theinternational tournaments inwhich Ewry competed the triple jump was omitted from the program. If the event had been Included on the list. Ray certainly would have won the laurels, for as a triple jumper he was in a class by himself.The only man who ever compared with Ewry as a triple jumper, added Sheridan, his native Irish wit again bubbling over, was Finn McCool, who hopped aeross Ireland in three Mcpps.' And T still have an idea that Ewry with a little special training might go the great Finn McCool one better and ‘lepp’ across old Frin In two.“The first Olympic games Ray competed In were those held in Paris in 1900. He won the standing broad jump, the standing hi«h jump and the triple jump. At St. Louis in 1 904 he turned the same trick again, bobbing up as a triple winner, capturing the standing high, standing broad and triple jump. At Athens In 1906 Ray won tii*1 fiandit;g broad jump and the standing high jump. At London in 1908 he again captured premier laurels in the standing high andstanding broad. The only reason whyho didn’t win the triple jump too In the Athens Olympiad of 1906 and the London Olympiad of 1908 was that there was no triple jump on the program.Heart of a Bulldog.No athlete ever g*»v* a more re-than didat Shep-Ewry’s him vic-markably game exhibitionEwry in the huge stadiumherd’s Rush, London, in 1901 greyhound limbs ha 1 given tory before. In London he had to depend on his bulldog heir?The morning of the day the standing high jump competition was held at the l London Olympiad Kwrv lav flat* W * S'?In bed with a severe attack of lumbago. Every move cost him excruciating pain. Against the orders of the doctor in .attendance and Trainer Mike Murphv—- may he rest in feace—-Ray insisted on getting up and going to the grounds. All the way out In the car his fac*» was marked with agony. He bit his Ups to hide the pain.In the dresfirg room he couldn’t lean over to lace his shoes. We begged him not to don bis athletic apparel. We might as well have been talking to the Sphinx. However, he managed to qualify. His ?rst two leaps in the finals were pitiful. All the time we kept on trying to get him to go back to bed. The only answer he wouldgive me was:'Rub my back. Martin; rub my back.*Finally it «nme down to the last jump. Ray had his final chance. I don’t know hew he ever mastered his poor pain-wracked body. 1 don’t know how he ever hurled himself^over the crossbar. But clear the bar he did and won the championship for Uncle Sam. Ray Ewry lay In a huddled heap in the Jumping pit. but he haft sent old glory fluttering up to the topof the pole.itwMi. - I MisFROM SOYABEAN.Toklo papers say that a Japanese professor has Invented an Incombustible celluloid which can be made from soyabean cake, and is superior to all others of the kind, In that its cost is only about -0 sen ($0.10) a pound, as compared with the normal cost of $5 and $6. It is also said that a valuable lacquer varnish Is obtained as a by-product.BATTLEGROUND ON MARKET.A Frenchman has advertised 25 acres for sale, which has been scarred and furrowed by German and British trenches. It lies near the Somme and had been occupied by the Germans until driven back by the British.wabata(11lt;t
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Sun, Nov 19, 1916
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