The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-14
NEAR AT HAND.
Meeting Of Stalwart
Collegians at the
Oval.
WHO WILL WIN OUT?.
List Of Those Who VIII
Contest for College
Glory.
List Of Those Who Will

Only one more week and the college
athletes. of New England will again
strive for supremacy at the oval. The
coming meet, which takes place
next Saturday, will be the seventh in
succession that the New England In
tercollegiate Athletic association has
had in it's annual contests at the oval
For 10 years the institutions represent
ed in the athletic association have held
competitions, the majority of which
have been in Worcester. Two We're
held at the, fair grounds years ago
when the association was in its in
fancy.
The only Worcester institution which
sends athletes to the competitions is
Tech and for many years it's team has
been so unimportant that it mas not
aroused much. local interest. But year
after year the crack athletes Of the va
rious colleges and schools come to the
oval, and Worcester people arc almost
as familiar with them as if they at
tended a local institution. The interest
which the meet arouses is far greater
tonally The annual competitions are
fresh in the minds of lovers of athletics
of Worcester each year.
Picking a winner of the games has
been task which is accomplished but
seldom. The team that appears to have
a good thing before the games often
runs against a combination of athletes
that knocks all calculations higher than
Darius Green flew. No athletic games
asal, Fef-
est present the same degree of uucer-
tainty that the competitions of this as
ISOLATION do.
Such is the case this year. 1t is easy
enough to name several teams that
won't win first place, but even then the
chooser has to stop short of a well de-
fined line, for there are several teams
that have crack performers and are
liable to finish stronger than. anybody
gives them credit for.
Good reports come from nearly all
the institutions which are represented
in characterization and which will send
a team to the contests. In some in
stances colleges that have been strong
in the past are inclined to speak slight
ingly of their chances in the coming
meet But Worcester men who have
followed the games for several years
back realize that more than once a
the games, came to Worcester and
cleaned up the field, taxing everything
in sight and reaching for more. So,
little attention is given to the dispar-
aging reports which come from certain
colleges which in other years have been
up among the singers. There are in
the association several institutions
which are regarded as weak IN ath-
letics and are not looked for among
leaders, These POllappS laWinp
nothing to conceal report their pros
poets as they think, and such reports
show that the weaker teams will BE-
better than ever this year. That will not
only make the contests themselves
better, but will add to the uncertainty
and assist in upsetting the calculations
of the stronger teams.
Many of the wise ones look " it'll ia
vor on the chances of Williams this
year. Others glance askance at the
work which M. l. T. athletes did in the
dual meet with Brown several days ag1
when the Rhode Island university was
so far in the rear that it dldn reach
the distance pole. Dartmouth lays
claim to weakness on account of n
backward spring, but everybody knows
that the wearers of the green lay plans
to do their shouting after the games.
Amherst reports a team that is not
particularly strong, and picks out a
place somewhere among the first four
or five. Bowdoip promises to bring
down the best athletic team it ever had.
Brown acknowledges weakness and
does not choose a place for itself 1t
will be. content with any old place the
other colleges drop it into. Wesleyan
has been breaking college records, but
does not expect to lead the bunch.
Maine win send half a dozen athletes