The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20

QUARTERS.
won the championship in 1Ss9-90, and E.
G. Carter, winner in 1885, 1885, 1887 and
1888, were among the earliest entries. Al
ready two other cross country handicaps
have been decided, under the auspices of
the Prospect Harriers and the Columbia
Athletic club. The latter was very sue,
cessful meet, over ninety men competing.
W. D. Day started from scratch and made
the fastest time, 26m. 1Ss., over the course,
which was about five miles.
At the colleges the greatest activity pre-
walls, and the candidates for the intercol-
legiate games, which this year will be held
on Manhattan Field, are hard at work.
At Harvard, Trainer J. Lathrop, as usual,
has a large number of men in training and
expects to have his charges in good condi-
ton by May I, when the Harvard Athletic
association gives its open games.
At Princeton a new clubhouse has just
been completed and the men now have
every facility to assist them in their train
ing. In spite of the absence of l.. Carey,
Jack McMasters has a fine team and is con-
ident of making a good showing on May
IA, when the Princeton and Columbia
games take place. Among those who will
wear the orange and black are 7. B
Turner, j. S. Roddy, P. Vredenbergh, f,
Ramsdall and G. r. Swain.
Columbia is exceptionally strong this
year and shoGld come near securing the
sprints with the help of H. T. Harding
The loss of poor Herbert Mapes will be
very severely felt in the hurdles, which
this year are very open. The intercollegi-
ate games between Harvard and Yale take
nj ha tho hi
Princeton games. The Yale team. which
numbers twenty-one, under the captaincy
of W. 3. Wright, commences to train on
April7. II. L. Williams, the great hurdler,
has been graduated, but as j. z. Lee has
also left Harvard, honors are easy in this
department..
An athletic carnival is to take place at
Philadelphia May 16 and IS which it is ex-
pected will surpass everything of the kind
eyer held Athletic games, baseball, la
crosse, boxing and wrestling are to be in
cluded in the programme. Teams will be
invited to compete from the English pub
lie schools and universities, as well as
from the colleges of this country. The
carnival is to be given under the auspices
of the Athletic club of the Schuyll1ill
navy. Another event of great Importance
is the field day Of the western intercolle-
giate association, which will be held at
Champaign, Ills, May IS. The college
crews have forsaken the tank and are now
practicing on the rivers. Bob Cook will
coach Yale, which has some very likely
new material wherewith to turn out a
crew.
Columbia, Harvard, Cornell and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania have all started
work. Princeton will this season take up
rowing, and should it prove success the
faculty will maintain a varsity crew here
after
The Manhattan Athletic club will this
year pay great attention to aQuatics and
expects to be well represented on the water
Ellis Ward, who formerly coached Pennsyl-
vania, will look after the cherry diamond
oarsmen. OF the colleges, Harvard and
Princeton appear to have the best pros
poets in baseball The first named has a
pitcher of great promise in Highlands, who
is a powerful man with a very speedy de-
livery Owing to the fact that he is left
handed he is particularly enabled to watch
the runner on the initial bag.
The fine weather which came in with
April has been greatly appreciated by the
cyclists, and road runs are now the proper
thing. Most of the metropolitan clubs
formerly opened the season April 9. The
ordinary is now quite superseded by the
safety, and ii is seldom that one meets a
rider of the high wheel nowadays.
From the present outlook the season of
1892 promises to be q great one in the an
mails of amateur sports. a. B. GEORGE.