Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-05-26
SOME STAR ATHLETES.
Wisconsin to be Well Represented
at the intercollegiate
Games,

Madison. Wis, May 22.-TSpeciaL1 /
The Wisconsin university track team be-
gan active work this week in prepara
ton for the intercollegiate field meet in
Chicago on Saturday, June 5. The team
will not go East to Mott Haven, as the
sending of the university crew to New
Haven will exhaust all the funds avail
able for Eastern trips. This fact is re-
GREETED by many of those prominent IN
university athletics, for it is agreed that
this years track team is the best that
has ever represented the institution, and
the records already made by its members
this season show that it at least stands
on an equal footing with the Eastern
teams and would win honors for Wiscon-
sin at Mott Haven, while this years
crew is thought 10 be weaker than that
of last season, and there is not great
confidence in its success with Yale.
Trainer dad" Moulton was in Chica-
go the forepart of week looking after
the Wisconsin men who took part iA the
A. A. U. indoor meet. He has good ma
terial to work with. Ten of last years
prize winners at Chicago are in college
this year. and eight or nine of them are
in training for the competition. These
include Maybury, Cochems and Rich
ards. who scored ten points each in last
years meet at Chicago, Max Mason,
whose effort is the high jump; Peterson,
whose speciality is the mile walk; Down
er in the 440-yard and 100-yard dash
Schuchardt, hurdler. and II. J. Frame
IN the running broad jump. W. So
Frame, who was a prominent high jump
er last year, is manager of the team this
year. The new men on the team this
year are A. G. Kraenzlein. who broke
the record for low hurdles in the indoor
meet at Chicago last week; E. G.. VOL
Ter, IN the high jump, who cleared ) feet
IL in Chicago Friday night and made
the same height at the annual field day
this spring, and E. L. Fox. who ran the
one-fourth mile in oil 10 seconds on
that occasion; Pat O'Dea. VINO broke
running records at Chicago last week.
may also go, as may E. B. Cope
land, whose favorite distance is
half mile, which he has been running
for five years without being beaten. He
holds the Pacific coast record, 80 %.
w. II. Sloan, new man, has been do
ing good work in the half-mile. and at
the field day meet ran close to 2:06, fin
ishing about 20 feet behind Copeland
There are also two new bicyclers on the
team-Taylor and McNichol-Who are
depended upon for points in the Chicago
meet. The team is weak in the pole
vault; the best height made at the field
day contest being feet 6 inches by
Brewer
Taken as a whole the team is consid-
erably ahead of that of last year which
carried off the hOnors at the Chicago
meet, but it will have stronger compe-
titlon at Chicago this year. Potter of
Northwestern has beaten Maybury and
Rush OF Grinnell is another strong COM
petitor among the sprinters; Minnesota
has some good long distance men and
Chicago also has some able athletes on
the string. If Michigan sends a team
to the meet she will also put up some
dangerous competition.
A. {. Kraenzlein, the Wisconsin uni
Eerslty freshman who jumped into the
Wednesday by breaking the worlds in
door record in the low 300-yard hurdles.
IN so 3-5, defeating Champion Buck, is
a Milwaukee youth. This is his first
year IN college athletics, and his third in
work on the track. He began his work
waukee east side high school. ard began
making, records two years ago in the in
tersch0lastic field meet in Madison, at
which several high schools were repre-
scented, and al which he took FIVE frsts,
II5 the l00-yard dash, the 120-yard and
Jump and putting the underground
shot. lie was out of school last
year but entered the state uni
yerslty at the beginning of the pres
ent year. His first college events were
in the observation-disclosures field day last
October when he took first place in the
220-yard hurdle and the high jump. At
the college field day this spring he
trained first only for the high jump. but
when Capt. Richards was injured a week
before the event Kraenzlein began train
ing for the low hurdles, and when the
contest came he took first place. break
ing not only the Wisconsin university
baa the Western college record for the
22O-yard distance. in % 40. He will
take part in the intercollegiate meet at
Chicago June 5, where he is entered for
the low hurdles and the high Jump.
Kraenzlein is 20 years old, 5 feet 1O1b
inches high, and weighs 1913 pounds. He
is an unassuming, good-natured and
quiet young Apollo, and takes his honors
mOdestly.
The eight rowers who have been Sc
fected from fifty candidates to represent
Wisconsin university, with age, height
and weight, are:
Hight. W.T..
Glass. Age. #. in. lbs.
ROw-A Alexander. '02 %