Charles B. Chapin to James Hugh Moffatt

April 19, 1901

My dear Mr Moffatt:

Yours of yesterday is at hand.

I have no recollection whatever of the names on the Caledonian Games Committee in 74 and 75.

In the season of '75 I won the 100 yard, the quarter mile and the half mile. This I remember distinctly. Hutchinson 75 that year made 11 points and I made 9. The rule was that a first counted 3, a second 2 and a third 1. He entered at least three events in which there were only two beside himself and came in a bad third. Thus he won the medal. I have never

ceased to regret that I was not as sharp as he.

The 100 yards I did in 11¼, if I remember rightly, and I think I do. There was only the circular path on the grass, and we ran with heavy clothes and shoes.

I believe that if we had had the cinder paths & all the improved facilities of today, we would have made as good time as sprinters make now.

All this I write, not to boast, but because you may not possibly have my name in among the others!

That year I was asked to represent the College in the short distances races at the Intercollegiate games at Saratoga, but I was unable to go.

Very Sincerely Yrs Charles B. Chapin