nce runs, and ended his college career with a record of
9.57-1/2 in the two-mile.

The organization of a Cross Country Club in 1901 was directly
responsible for the long list of relay victories at Philadelphia. The
1905 team, composed of H.P. Ramey, '07_e_; H.L. Coe, '08_e_; I.K. Stone,
'05; and Floyd A. Rowe, '08_e_, set the world's record for the four-mile
and lowered it again in 1906 to 18 minutes 10-2/5 seconds, while the
individual members of this team were almost invariably to be counted on
as point winners in every meet.

John C. Garrels, '07_e_, is also to be reckoned among the great
all-round athletes; not only was he one of the best men on the football
team but he was a consistent winner in all the track meets, taking first
in both hurdles and second in the shotput at the Eastern
Inter-collegiate in 1907. Among more ephemeral stars of this period was
Ralph Rose, who remained in college just long enough to set the record
in 1904 for the hammer throw at 158 feet 3 inches and for the shotput at
47 feet 3 inches. The records of two men, Ralph Craig, '11, and Joseph
Horner, '11, were the striking features of the next few seasons, Craig
winning the two dashes in the Eastern Inter-collegiate in 1911, equaling
the record in both, while Horner won first in the discus, second in the
shotput, hammer throw and broad jump, and third in the high jump. Harold
L. Smith, '16, also won the two dashes in 1915 and took a first and a
second the following year, almost equaling Craig's record.

Michigan's two Conference Championships in 1918 and 1919 were assured by
the extraordinary ability of Carl Johnson, '20, who took three firsts in
1918 and four in 1919, breaking his own record with a broad jump of 24
feet 1 inch, setting a new record for the high jump of 6 feet 2-1/4
inches and winning both hurdles, thus gaining 20 of Michigan's 41-1/2
points, a performance never equaled in a major inter-collegiate contest.

The particular favor with which football, baseball, and track athletics
have always been regarded has not prevented a healthy interest in other
sports. Though cricket and wicket died somewhere about 1872, for the
_Chronicle_ remarked in 1875 that not "even the ghost of a cricket bat"
had been seen for two years, and football "was in its decline," baseball
was exceedingly popular and a general interest in boating was developing
which promised to "equal if not supplant it in popular favor." Shells
were purchased, enterta