Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-06
SOME SPLENDID YOUNG MEN
Athletic Team Sent East by the University
Of California to Compete,
REMARKABLE RECORDS OF THE MEMBERS
sprinters, Hurdlers, Middle and Long Dis
tance Runners, Weight Men and
Jumpers OF tho Highest Glass
Where They win Contest.

| train from the west pulled into the union
depot with dozen young athletes from the
State University of California, who are on
their way east to compete in field athletics
with their cousins in the eastern colleges
! The party left Berkeley. Cal, on May g and
expect to arrive in Princeton, where their
first contest takes place next Tuesday. A
number of college and athletic club teams
will meet during the trip, but the princi-
pal event in which they take part are the
Motthaven games, which occur on May 25.
The trip will last two months. the team ex-
pecting TO get back home July l.
The idea of sending a team to compete in
eastern intercollegiate games originated with
Arthur North, U. c., '95. He began last year
to work up an interest in the scheme but
last summer he was taken seriously i'll with
| typhoid fever, which prevented his further
efforts.
Fred w Koch was then elected track cap
tain, and with the beginning of the year he
at once commenced work. In a short time
he had convinced the athletes that the scheme
was feasible, and started them training on
the track and in the gymnasium. After
this things went more easily, for as the pros
poets for the trip grew brighter the enthusi-
''9AlI at IOlAtSb lHCIGdSGus EVERY man VIII
thought he could run, jump or vault or throw
the weights came out and tried for the team.
New men came up, and records were bet
tered, until at last team was developed
that is far better than any of former years.
Some time ago Captain Koch sent chal-
lenges to the universities of Princeton, Penn
sylvania. Yale and Harvard. Princeton and
pennsylvania at once accepted but Harvard
declined. Yale replied that while she had a
date i'm which Sh Gould tnn of al
the contest would be so hard as to probably
ruin her chances in the big games at Mott
haven track. So Yale declined to contest.
Princeton and Pennsylvania soon showed
their friendly feeling by Offering to do every
| thing in their power to aid the team in secur-
| ing the best quarters, and promising the use
Of the college tracks, with all facilities for
training Chicago was challenged but being
under very serious doubts of her ability to
successfully compete with the lively Cali
fornia boys, she declined.
The University Of Michigan signifed It's
eagerness to compete against the U. C. and
made an offer to the travelling team of
guarantee of all expenses connected with the
teams trip to Ann Arbor and training quar-
ters there. together with 35 per cent of the
gate receipts. This offer was accepted and
a date fixed
Either on June 10 or June % the team will
meet the Denver Athletic club. The Multnn-
nah Athletic club of Portland, Ore, has
also been negotiating for meets with the
team on Its return trip. The date has not
been decided upon as yet.
STRONG IN RUNNERS.
Fred w. Koch is captain of the team, mid
die distance runner, high jumper and shot
putter. HI has put the shot forty feet two
inches. high jumped five feet, ten inches;
run the 440 yards in 0:51 80 and the half
in 2:O1 Is, breaking the coast record in the
latter and the university record in the shot
put. by one foot, two inches. He has never
been beaten in the half mile and IN
have remarkable finish.
Harry Torrey. a freshman, is % years Of
age, and weighs 140 pounds. He is hurd-
Ter. He has run the 22O-yard hurdles in
OPS As on a curved track, an excellent per-
formance. He has also run the 120-yard
hurdles in 0:16 1-5 two watches catching his
time as O16 fiat. This is running in cham
pionship form on any track. He has had
considerable experience. In a race he ran
close to Walter Henry at the time the latter
held the worlds record in the 12O-yard hur
dies.
Another hurdler is Ernest Dyer, 90 years
Of age, and 1G0 pounds in weight. Dyer has
run the 220-yard hurdles in 0:27 1-5, and the
l2O-yard hurdle in 0:16A. He is stronger in
the shorter distances He has run the sew
eny-five-yard hurdle in 0:1O 1-5. which is
faster than the worlds record for that dis
tance the 10O-yard hurdle in OIL AS, and
the fifty-yard hurdle in 0:6 As. In the 120
yards it is thought likely that both Dyer
and Torrey will be able to go under sixteen
seconds if pressed.
OF the sprinters James Scoggins is the
best, being considered the fastest sprinter that
ever hit the cnder track on the coast. He
is % years Of age, and weighs 143 pounds.
He began to run in 1898 Since that time he
has made the fifty yards in 0:5A, the sew
enty-fve yards in OF As, the 100 yards in
O:lO fiat, and the 220 yards in 0:23 3-5. He
has made his fast time and won his races
by the phenomenal squirt he makes in the
last twenty-five yards. This year he has not
reached his usual FORM. on account Of sick
ness. but it is hoped that he will round to
in time for the intercollegiate games
Another sprinter is Theodore Barnes, a
freshman, 10 years old and Weighing 14S
pounds He runs the 100 yards in 0:1O 2-5
AT pres mt his strongest race Is the 220
yards, which he has made in 0:23 As on a
curved track, being pocketed on the turn. lie
runs strong 44O yards, finishing in O:53 1-5
The middle distance runner is Philip r.
Bradley, 10 years of age, and 40 pounds in
weight. He has run the 220 yards in 0:24 1-5,
the 4i0 in 05S 1-5 and the half mile in 2:03.
He is considered one of the strongest fin
isherS on the coast.
Louis T. Mervin, 21 years of age, and 10
pounds in weight, is the walker. He makes
the mile in 1884, and it is thought he can do
much better If pressed. He has walked 100
yards in sixteen seconds.
WEIGHT MEN AND JUMPERS.
Robert w. Edgren, the hammer thrower |
and shot putter, is 21 years old six feet one |
inch in height and 1913 pounds in weight |
He began to throw the hammer In 1888 |
Last July he broke the coast record with a |
throw of Ill feat. three inches. In the last |
year college games he raised the university |
record to l23 feet, seven and one-half inches |
within one and one-half inches of Hick0il's |
last years record. In the last TWO weeks |
he has thrown 129 feet, and has beaten 1875 |
feet repeatedly. His other records are: Ham
mer throw (practice) 131 feet; underground |
hammer, l4S feet, six inches; sixteen pound |
shot, thirty-eight feet, one inch twelve |
pound shot, fOrty-fve feet, six inches pole |
vault, nine feet, seven inches.
The high jumper is William Chandler Pat |
terson, 2l years Of age and 14S pounds in his !
jumping clothes. His record is five feet |
eleven and quarter inches in open contest !
He has broken the coast record twice He |
has cleared six feet in practice. In addition |
he has cleared twenty-one feet in the run !
ming broad, has made a running hop, step |
and jump Of forty-three feet six inches and |
on the track has run the 12O yards hurdle in |
0:l6 As.
Chester Woolssy is the broad jumper. He |
is % years old and weighs 16S pounds. He |
began TO jump in 1852 His record in the |
event is twenty-five feet. He has also made |
forty-four feet six inches in the hop, step !
and jump.
Another broad jumper Is Melville DozIer 20 !
years old and 155 pounds in weight. This is |
his first year at jumping and he has cleared |
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