The times., 1898-05-22
THE BIC COLLEGE EVENT
intercollegiate Championships
at Berkeley Oval.
WILL OCCUR THIS WEEK
The Meet Promises to BE the Great
est Ever Held in the Annals of
amateur AthIefIcs--ProEram of
Events-Seyen Hundred Entries
Have Been Received.

With good weather. Friday and Satur-
day of this week will be the occasion of
two days Of rare college sport at Berke-
10y Oval. Since cold weather prevailed
the members of the intercollegiate Ath-
letic Association have been training with
enthusiasm for this years championship
meet, and old hands in athletics predict
that the event VIII be memorable as a
record breaker, for at least four and
possibly five athletic records are booked
to go by the board while the cyclists say
that they wont do a thing TO the in
tercouegiate bicycle records now recog-
nized by the governing association.
a number of important changes have
been made in the methods employed in
holding the meet. The plan of having
a resident manager is a good one, and
Oliver Shiras. a Cornell man was select
ed several months ago for this important
post Another idea introduced this year
IS the plan of holding the bicycle and
athletic events on one track, the recon
structed Berkeley Oval permitting the
two classes of sport to be conducted at
the same time. This is accomplished by
having board bicycle track outside the
cinder running path. Heretofore in order
to get banked track for the bicycle rae
ing men 1t has been necessary 10 separ-
ate the events and run them off on diff
ferent days and tracks. An improvement
that will be appreciated by every one is
the plan which provides final contests on
both days. Heretofore it has been the
custom to hold the tidal heats only on the
first day and the finals on the second
day. This has been changed by the eX-
ecutive committee in response 10 the pub
lie demand and as will be seen by the
accompanying schedule the quality of the
first days sport will rival that of the
second.
Friday, May 27-IOO-yard run. trial
heats; half-nile bicycle, trial heats; half
mile run, trial heats; 1-mile bicycle, trial
heats: 120-yard hurdle trial heats; quar-
ter-mile bicycle, trial heats; 440-yard run,
trial heats; half-mile bicycle, final; 220-
yard hurdle, trial heats; 1-Tnile bicycle.
final heats; 220-yard run, trial heats; put
ting the shot, trials; pole vaulting, trials;
running high jump, trials; running high
jump, trials; throwing the hammer, tri-
ais, and running road jump, trials.
Saturday. May 2S.-100-yard run. semi
final heats; smile bicycle, trials; 120-yard
hurdle, semi-finals; 440-yard hurdle final;
1-mile run: quarter-mile bicycle. finals;
120-yard hurdle. final; 100-yard run, final
1-rnile walk; tandem bicycle; 220-yard hur-
die. semi-final; 220-yard run, semi-final;
one-half-mile run: 220-yard hurdle, final;
22o-yard run, final; smile bicycle, final;
putting the shot; pole vaulting; running
high jump; throwing the hammer, and
running broad jump.
Yet another change and wise one has
been made in the scheme of scoring. This
year first places will count five points:
seconds, three; thirds, two. and fourths,
one. This is a material encouragement
to smaller colleges. and will also lead to
some red-hot struggling on the part of
Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cornell,
Princeton, and Columbia.
1t is thought that Pennsylvania with
her magnificent team of track men will
capture the athletic championship cup,
and that Columbia will be the fortunate
winner of the bicycle cup. They were
the winners last year, and SO far this