New-York tribune., 1903-05-22
FOR WORCESTER MEET.
Ne7U-England Colleges Ready for
COntest-Manu Entries.

Worcester. Mass May q (speciaD-The seven
teenth annual meeting of the New England Inter
collegiate Athletic Association will be held in this
city tomorrow and Saturday. This Is the great
contest of the year in track athletics for the
New-England colleges. excepting Yale and Har-
ward. Amherst Dartmouth. Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology. Brown. University of Maine
University of Vermont, BowdOin. Williams. Tufts.
Wesleyan and Trinity all have men entered
Last year Amherst won the by thirty-siX
points against Dartmouths twenty-eight and one
half Brown was third. Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology fourth. and Williams fifth
This year Amherst will enter the meet with much
better team that of last year expects
first place easily. Massachusetts Institute of Tech
noIogy and Bowdoin will probably make a strong
fight for second place Brown and Dartmouth are
up to the standard this year.
Amherst enters the meet with most OF her old
and some good material in her entering class.
r. E. Rollins. holder of the record i2 feet 6l4
inches in the shot put is expected 10 take first in the
weights. Captain Thompson. who the 44o-yard
dash last year is entered in the 1OOyard. 220-yard
and quarter and is also point winner Park. who
is entered in the shot put and discus. and Taylor
and Foster in the broad jump and half mile. are
also expected win points.
The Williams team will be practically the
last years except for a few men in the freshman
class. who are expected to win points In the
sprints Williams will enter Ciutterson. %. Cove.
Stern and French. all of whom of 102 in the
100-yard dash. while either GuttersOn or Cove may
be placed in the 220-yard dash In the half-me
Newell should run a strong race Mears has al
ways been OF a place at Worcester in the
mile. Captain Blockmer is counted on by Williams
to win points in the hurdles and jumps He mas
record of ID 3-5 in the 120yard high hurdles and
feet 1l2 inches I'm the high jump. In the pole vault
Squires and Peabody have shown remarkably good
form
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which de
feated Dartmouth in dual meet two weeks ago.
is expected to make strong fight for second
place. Her best sprinter, ]. ". Williams. has
strained tendon and may not Franklin. Lang
and H. S Williams also good men IN the
sprints Wilson and Nichols strong men in the
half mile. Loc and Turner in the quarter. Riley in
the two mile and Jenkins in the mile. are also ex-
pected to win points. Ovington, Emerson and
Haynes the hurdlers. while Curtis. winner Of
last years pole vault, Harrington and Lang VIII
look out for the high and broad jumps. b T.
Lindsey. VINO has shown up exceptionally well in
hammer throw. will probably be first.
Bowdoin will send of the best teams she has
ever had at Worcester. With a strong aggregation
in the weights and ether events. Bowdoin hopes
to make a good fight for second place. Captain
Nutter is expected to get place IN the half mile
while Rowe should be placed in the 800 hurdles
Denning is doing great work with the discus and
hammer.
Browns team is weak compared with other years
Many of the men who expected TO take part
in the meet are ineligible because of low grade IN
studies Brown will. however. send ten or twelve
Worcester Brown, VINO won tne TWO luIle
bicycle last year is expected take it again this
year Siddon and Golfer will probably fight it out
for second in the same Craft. freshman.
may be placed in the 1O0-yard dash Captain
Ehmke is doing exceptionally good work with the
discus. and will give Denning. of Bowdoin good
rub for first.
Maine has a weak team this year. many OF her
good men have been graduated and no men In
the freshman class have shown much ability She
Will meet: Parker In the broad
jump and pole vault. Snow in the pole vault. Porter
in the 100 200 and 40 yard daSheS; Harris IN the
100 and 200 yard dashes, and Davenport IN the
bicycle.
Dartmouth although she has greatly improved
since her defeat by Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology two weeks ago, has little hopes, OF
eQuallng last years record Halleck and Edson
will enter the hurdles Swdsey. 90. is expected 10
get place in the sprints. Thrall and Semers are
doing well in the half mile. Campbell and Pace
will hold their own in the two mile and shot put.
and Hazen will try get place in the pole vault
Wesleyan expects do better than last year.
though some of her have shown up well and
should win a number OF points 9chHI1{' 1o5
will be in the again this year. Captain Bagg
will enter 100 and 20 yard dashes, Fhther. the
pole vault: Nixon, Palmer and Corne- the distance
races.
Tufts will send only three four men to the
meet and has little hopes OF doing anything cap
tain Mason will enter the i20 and 20 hurdles ana
high jump; Murphy, the broad jump. 10 ana -
hurdles: Scaboria. the one-haf one and two mile,
and Kennard. the shot put
Trinity and the University of Vermont are prob
ably due to win points from of the stronger
colleges but their strength is largely an unknown
quantity. Among Trinitys entries are Rankin and
C;atesOn in the sprintS: Curtis in the hurdles; Van
Weelden and Browne. in the jumps. and HUtchin-
son in the distance runs. Vermont has entered
runs; BedeII. in the pole vault. and Shaw. in the
bicycle