Hussey

Unless he is thoroughly indifferent to his ribbons and his glory, Charles Paddock, world's champion (American) sprinter, now in Paris, has his ear to the ground anxiously awaiting echoes from America. The echoes fall from the flying feet of Frank Hussey, of Stuyvesant High School (Manhattan), who (at the P. S. A. L. championship games, in Brooklyn) equalled the world's record of 9% in the 100-yard dash, jointly held by Paddock, Howard Drew and Dan Kelly.

Here, according to every accepted standard, is an extraordinary incident. A youth two years under twenty, lacking the specialized training which clips seconds from the work of college sprinters, runs into a world's record and just misses breaking it. He is perhaps the fastest runner in the world. Yet even the metropolitan dailies ignored their opportunity and buried the feat among the tombstones of the Sunday sporting section.