The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-07
PURDUE
VARSITY Track Team seIected-Tryout
I'm Class Athletic Meet.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 6.-Manager
Freeman, of the Purdue Athletic Associa-
ton. to-day selected the men who will
make up the Varsity track team They
are I. b. Corns. captain; w. T. Russell.
Percise. F. Huffman, Levy Rice, j. F. g
Miller. Osborn, Hearn. HuXtable, Fisher.
Hoen. j.. Huffman. Forman. w. L. Russell.
Vehslage. Peck and Conroy. The bicycle
squad will include Rebel. Curran, Crum-
zine. j. G.. Duncan and Sullivan. The BIZ
cycle men are especially speedy. and Pur-
due expects TO have no trouble in winning
the wheeling events in the different meets.
In the jumps. pole vaults and sprints the
squad is also strong, but some anxiety Is
felt as 10 the weight events. Purdue will
meet Indiana in a dual meet next week.
big triangular meet at Chicago Will fol-
low.
Purdue's next baseball opponents will be
abe Nebraska University men. The nine
from Lincoln is said 10 be one or the
strongest teams in the West. and will give
the local men a hard game. Notwithstand-
ing her defeat by Notre Dame last Friday
Purdue expects 10 defeat Nebraska by
a good score. All OF the men are in condi-
ton, and the inundation of the baseball
diamond has not seriously interfered with
practice. Ruby will pitch and lde may
assist.
AT the annual track and field meet held
juniors won from the sophomores and the
latter from the freshmen. the seniors fin
fishing a very poor fourth in number OF
points scored. The juniors scored 1890.
sophomores. LEO; freshmen, 1887; seniors,
19S. Only one State record was brCken-in
the running broad jumps-in which w. Z.
Russell, "a. made twenty-five feet five
inches, beating Captain Corns by a foot.
Russell is half back on the football team.
To-day a bulletin was posted in the cleo
trical building announcing more than
sixty-hVe positions open 10 the twenty
nine men who graduate in electrical en-
cheering this June. "A letter from the
Western Electric Company, of Chicago.
stated that that company would employ
every one OF the graduates and that even
laSse wouI9 not MI tne great demand Tor
Solege,bred men in that institution The
General Electrical Company offers posi-
tons to twelve men in the Schenectady,
y. Y, and Lynn. Mass, plants. The West
inghouse Company. OF Pittsburg. wants
several men and so do the Fort Wayne
Electric Company and the Bullock electric
works. Mechanical engineers are also in
great demand in all parts OF the country
by railroads. locomotive shops and other
great manufacturing companies. All Of
those who graduate in civil engineering
have had positions offered them and no
Purdue graduate OF 1902 will have 10 seek
for "A position.
one OF the large rotary electric tranform-
ers In the electrical building was damaged
by an accident this morning. The betting
which runs through a box became twisted
and bent the shaft badly. The bearings
and shaft were the only parts Injured.
Several students working nearby had mar
row escapes.
The Purdue 1902 Debris. the annual publ
cation or the seniors of the university. will
contain over 800 illustrations. a seven-page
story by George AIDE, with thirteen original
sketches by John I. McCutcheon.
Purdue Will gradute I'm June two men who
have taken "A four-year course in agricul-
ture, something unusual. as nearly all the
agricultural students spend two years or
less The two who will graduate are
Charles W. Ely, of Brooklyn. and Joseph
@. Miller, of Greensburg. Next year there
will be three four-vear graduates in the
School of Agriculture.
OF this years graduating classes in the
englneering departments thirty are in cleo
twenty-four in civil engineering. Seventeen
Will graduate in the scientific department.