Project Editor: Bryce Rowell, English 418/818, Fall 2005

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A TRAGEDY

How could race be more exciting! The runners scarcely seem to touch the cinder path at all. Neck and neck they go. Each is trying to win. Now the line is crossed. The judges are uncertain who was first. Did human eye ever behold athletes so daring, strong, and brave? There is no man so hard whose very soul would not be melted into admiration. Now they are off, on the quarter-mile. The renowned Atalante, Guy Reed, and Art May, could not have followed a pace like that. "See that hammer go!" The efforts of "Sid" Collins seem like child's play in comparison. And the shot— that smashes the world record. That high jump mark will not be cleared again for many a day. They pass the hurdles as though without an effort. Surely these must be the children of gods and goddesses. Never before was a day so resplendent with heroic deeds of strenght, grace, and speed.

In a moment the Marathon will begin. Dr. Clapp is making ready to give the starting signal. But horrors! A gruesome tragedy mars the scene. A policeman has dragged the youth away from the knot hole in the fence—for a girls' track meet is not held for the sake of pleasure.