Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-16
ATHLETICS At UNIVERSITY
NsbraIkA Basket Ball Team 0ut on Ita
Fiut Trip Of Winter,
TRACK TEAMS ARE BUSY At TRAINING
Indoor Meet on Charter Day Gives
Line on what May BE Expected
from Aspirants for
Honors.


upon its career Of victory or defeat. With
the heartfelt wishes OF 1000 students be-
lind them, the boys left Lincoln Friday for
Minneapolis, where on Saturday afternoon
they played the champions of the United
States, the team from the University Of
Minnesota. Great hopes we're centered on
this game, as a victory meant that the
Nebraska boys would be Intercollegiate
champions OF the nation, Minnesota having
defeated Yale. What gave the Nebraskans
courage was that both they and the Gophers
made the same score against Chicago.
Captain Koehler was certain of winning.
From Minneapolis the team goes down
to Sioux City today and plays there Mon
day night with the Young Mems Christian
association team Of that city. The remain
der Of the schedule is the same, with the
exception OF the Kansas university dates.
That school has withdrawn from both Of
them. They will probably be filled in with
William Jewell college. one game at Lin
coin, and the other at Liberty, Mo.
1t is probable that a return game with the
University Of Minnesota will be secured for
Lincoln. The team is playing as follows:
Guards, Raymond and Koehler (captain);
center, Pillsbury; forwards, Cortelyou and
Hagensick, Gaines as substitute for CEN
ter. Hewitt for forward and Hiltner for
guard.
Track athletics at the university were
given a great impetus by the annual indoor
Charter day meet, which was a great sue
cess. Many promising young athletes made
their first public showing on that occasion
and the rivalry for the remainder of the
year will be intense. Time has proved that
Bobby Gaines, the base ball pitcher, is
the best all around track man in school.
II a.YIa --. N1lH5,.I --kua o..
a series Of events. He is a young fellow
and an undergraduate, but is tall and
broad shouldered. His broad jump is very
strong and his high jump the best in the
west, six feet fiat. P%illsbury, the big full
back. will go FIVE feet ten inches.
Ira Kellogg, the student poet and author,
still leads the bunch at the pole vault,
though he is being hard pushed by BILLY"
Johnson, the fast colored boy who plays
such a brilliant substitute end on the first
eleven.
@. Shedd. a freshman, and the man who
played left end for the vastly last season,
will lead the shot putters. He can make
thirty eight feet States and Mundorf are
also good. At the weights Hickle is the
only promising man 30 far. That anyone
will ever surpass Giant Tobin at the ham
mer throw while he is in college is doubt
full, for he IL still swinging some twenty
or thirty feet beyond anyone else.
At running States, a freshman from the
Lincoln High school, Is the crack miller,
while he and Hewitt and Mundorf ara all
strong half-milers. Since Bob Andersen
left college there has been no ten-second
men for a 10o-yard race, but huge Pills.
bury, the 212-pound fullback, has sstonished
them all by coming out as a star short
distance man. He runs the hundred now in
ten and a fifth, and says he will take that
fraction on soon. At hurdling Mouck and
Pepoon, both veterans, are the foxy entries
so far.
All this means that the track team pros
poets are better than those Of last year by
a wide margin. Coach Booth, who is han
ding the men. is very jubilant, but deplores
the lack Of a cinder track, which he says
is badly needed. Because Of the hatteripg
condition OF the university athletic ex-
oheQuer one may be built when the spring
opens.
The university field meet occurs early in
April At that time some crackerjack dark
horses are expected to appear, for It is said
that there are a number Of good runners
out at the agricultural adjunct school in
the country. The boys at the university
farm are said to be training industriously
along the lanes and behind the hedgerows,
and they may spring some surprises when
the time comes, although none Of them has
made his appearance at the university
gymnasium.
Base ball work proper starts in earnest
this week. So far the men have INDUCED
only in general gymnasium work, such as
is calculated to put them In all around
good physical condition. Monday they go
into the cage for the arm and leg work,
and there will also be indoor batting.
Nothing definite is yet known as to the
team, though Captain Bell will nave a
large crew to choose from. He says the
prospects TOR a good team are indisputable.
There are many old players back again.