The times., 1898-05-22
year their respective work has been Of a

year their respective work has been of a
high order.
Four athletic records are destined to be
smashed if the performances at the
Spring games may be taken as a criterion.
They are: F'irst-the broad jump: second
the I6-pound hammer; third-the 16-pound
shot; fourth-the walk.
Pennsylvania has two men in Reming
ton and Kranezlein who can easily sur
pass the intercollegiate record of TWEEN
ty-uWo feet eleven and one-fOurth inches.
for the broad jump. Harvard has a fresh
man. in o. L. Nickerson. who is doing
close TO the record, and If he is in condi-
ton he will surpass it this week. and yet
IT IS very doubtful if he lands better than
third place.
McCracken. OF Pennsylvania favored
by the wind, it is true. recently threw the
hammer I39 feet, which bodies i'll for
Woodruns intercollegiate record of 13G
feet, three inches. made last year. He
Is also putting the shot fOrty-three feet
in practice which is one-half better than
Hickok's record made in IS so that notch
is also in danger.
Columbia's bicycle team will be com
posed of Dawson. Powell. Williams.
Schwartz. Bird. Hall. Hudson and Morrill,.
Last year Williams won the quarter
mile: Dawson. the mile and five miles.
and Dawson and Powell the tandem.
Yale will be represented in the cycle
events by a fast squad well divided up
among the five events so that a few men
viii not be overburdened with work The
New Haven men include Tweedy. Choney.
Berger, Peter. Van Buren, Marshall
Richards. Mcfarland, Sutphen and other
good men who have been training at
New Haven. on the banked track at
Bridgeport and also on the Berkeley Oval.
Georgetown will send a small but fast
team made mp of Schade Moran and Dan
nemiller. Other teams viii represent
Pennsylvania, Harvard. Cornell, Trinity
c. c. y. Y, Johns Hopkins. Stevens, B0s-
ton, Princeton. Swathmore. Rutgers. Le-
high, Syracuse. N Y. T., Bowdoin and
Haverford. The total bicycle entry is
254, and the out-of-tOwn men. in letters
written to Mr. Shiras. confidently pre-
diet that the calculations OF Columbia
will be sadly upset before Saturday night.
In the walk Fellerman. the Pennsvl-
vanian, on at least TWO occasions this
year surpassed Borcherling's time of
e:52 4-5 made In 80. Fellerman's times
this Spring were 6.43 and 6:47 which indi-
cate that If his method of Iocomotion is
in keeping with the views of the Judge
of walking, he has a fine new record up
his sleeve. He can walk around his best
competitors.
1t requires no Imagination to see that
the time has gone by when Yale and
Harvard can mOnopOliZe these champion
ships Nowadays they must reckon with
at least half a dozen rivals. and where
five years ago the experts on form had
two or three candidates for first honors
to choose from, today they have at least
half a dozen and sometimes more. The
element of chance which assures good
sport is more in evidence and only the
very best athletes can hope TO win.
This year finds the sprints in the hands
of fast lot of men. Tewkesbury beat
Wefers at 120 yards in uncommOnly fast
time a few weeks ago, and Rush beat him
indoors on ''fluke" it was said. last
winter. Those who saw Wefers run at
Philadelphia say that he appeared to be
in poor condition, but at New Orleans a
week ago he ran the 100 in 0:l0 1-5, and
the 200 in 0:22, and the track was a poor
one.
Maybury, the Western flyer, has not
confidence enough in his speed to come
East and try ii out against eastern men
and eastern watches, The fastest remain
ing men in the field are probably: Byers
of Yale, Thomson of Cornell, Prinstein of
Syracuse, Callahan of Williams. Bigelow
of Harvard, and Knapp of Johns Hopkins.
The quarter line will lack the presence
of Burke of Harvard who is barred from
competition by the eligibility rules. Hop
kins of Pennsylvania IS reckoned as
probable winner. but he will have to do
some hustling to defeat Shattuck of Johns
Hopkins, Fischer of Yale and Fish OF
Harvard.
1t is hard to see how Pennsylvania can
lose the half mile with Lane A Grant
and Meshling to depend upon. But Prince
ton viii start Crogan. Harvard has Dra-
per and Bunch and Yale has Richardson