New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-21
HARvARD'S TRACK ATHLETIC TEAM.
HARD WORK IN TRAINING BEGINS TOMORROW
PROSPECTS FOR THE CONTESTS.

HARD WORK IN TRAINING BEGINS TOMORROW
PROSPECTS FOR THE CONTESTS
Cambridge April % (speclaD-The final term at
Harvard begins work Monday and along with hard
work In study begins the period OF hardest work IN
athletics. The nine and the crew have been busy
for over a month. but with Monday, their reai
drudgery will begin. The track athletic team will
also go into strict training. Monday morning
Captain Bingham will take nineteen promising ath-
etes TO the training table. Following is the com
pletc list y. ". Bingham. Captain: +. II. Bige-
low '9s: NJ. g. Gonterman. IS. l.. W. Redpath' %S;
H. r. Storrs 90: y. r. Marshall 81: f.. HOLSTER
~; W. H. Vincent. 81; &. II. Williams. S; H.
Emerson &c; j. l.. Coolidge. 95; G. u. Drew. 20;
J. D. Philips 81: ". X. Brinckcrhon. 81; II. G.
Rurdett es. H. W Jameson. %. J. H. Bremen. 90;
f. r. Clark. 90 A. Stickney, jr. %; W. II. Put
nam. SO.
or these twenty only thirteen were on tho team
last vear The other seven are entirely unknown
I'm intercollegiate track athletics.
Captain BINGHAM has taken four men for the
two sprints-thc 100 and 22o yards dash-Bigelow'
Gonterman Redpath and Storrs The first three
named all ran the 100 yards in 10 % seconds at the
recent class games. B-elow Is the star. lie Is
the present Ncw-Englanl champion!for that dis
lance Gontcrman and Redpath are both no"
men. but likely 10 cause surprise especially
Gonterman. who never ran a 100 yards race uhti
the class games. Storrs IS fas; at the longer
mile lie began training last season. but wrenched
his leg and had 10 give up
bingham and Marshall the only quarter
nllcrs Marshall Is the speedier, but not so
steady as Captain Bingham. They can both run
the distance In about u seconds Marshall won
third place ~ the intercollegiate games In New
York last year
The half-miicrs arc all good. Both Vincent and
Uolilstcr ran In less than two minutes last year.
Williams is a freshman who Is sure to do "a well
a. that bcfor. the end Of tho season.
Tho material In the ME run IS not very good
Coolidge VIII 10 pos '.bly : min. 3 sec. ana En-
crson "A new man. may touch min. - sec. Neither
can De- expected % De- N the sam" c.aSS win Nor
gan. Jarvis. and orton.
The mile walkers. Drew AMI Philips, make ar
interesting pair. They are In the same c.xss anl
neither * the Acknowledged superior OF the other
They can be expected to walk The mile In the neigh
borho1I II minutes.
W.ycle riders were never very fast Mt Harvard
They VIII not Doe this year. II Brinck"rh5U I'M
proves over .ast year ne may DO something against
Yale but not ~ the intarco..tgidteS. BHrictt e d
freshman who will De worth watching another
year IL WI. hardly be star this year
There are no high hurilers As yet AZ the training
table Munroc IL suffering from a sprained ankle
Jameson the former being holder u the world,
record AZ the distance. They are both easily
prize winners.
In the field contests Harvard - weak For the
velopcd For the hammer. shot. and poe vault
there is nobody. Clark and Stickney both beat
o Zee; In the broad jump and Suckney and Putnam
can do close o + feet iu the high Jump The fact
confidence In the tusslc OF May y. At Cambridge
between these tWD colleges.