Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Track and Field Season of
Great Promise.
PRINCETON STARTS
BIG SIx-TRACK SCHEDULE AS NOW
COMPLETED.
Meet to Be Held by Tigers - Gives
Chance for Youngsters
to Try Out.
PRINCETON STARTS

The intercollegiate track and field athletic
season will be launched next Saturday,
with the Princeton spring handicaps at
Princeton. The meeting under the auspices
of the Tigers is a little too early to show
the full strength Of the rival teams. but
1t will serve to try out many ambitious
youngsters who have been working dill
gently during the winter months. After
the Princeton games track meets between
the big institutions will come thick and
fast, and there will be two or more big
meets every week until the intercollegiate
championships are held on Franklin Field.
Philadelphia May 20 and q. Yale has dual
meets scheduled with Harvard and Prince
ton, while the Tigers in addition to meet
ing the Ellis will measure speed and
strength with Cornell at Ithaca and CO.
lumbia at New York. The University of
Pennsylvania will hold it's dual meets with
both Cornell and Columbia, meeting the
formed at Philadelphia and the latter at
New York city.
In addition to these dual meetings be-
tween the members of the Blk Six =" every
| minor college of Importance in the country
has scheduled two or more track meets with
Its neighboring rivals, so that the track
| and field season in the east promises to be
productive of more new records than usual
So successful was the indoor season that
the intercollegiate world has its eyes on
several men who according to their recent
performances, are virtually sure to lower
existing marks. One of these is Ell Par
sons of Yale. who on an indoor track has
been running all around his remarkable out
door record of 156 40 for the half mile.
Parsons, while only a freshman, last year
broke the worlds indoor record and equaled
the intercollegiate figures for outdoors.
With years additional experience great
things are naturally expected of him. Yale
also has a prospective record-breaker in
Capt McLanahan, the pole vaulter. In the
dual meet with Princeton last year McLana-
han set the new figures Of II feet inch for
this event. AT the intercollegiate he could
not get above IL feet inches, but this year
he should make his intercollegiate record a
new world record The third man who is
| likely to cut into world records at any mo-
ment is J. B. Taylor. the University of
Pennsylvania quarter-mile champion, with
a record of 40 Is seconds. Taylor made
ease, and Coach Shell predicts 4S seconds
as his mark this year. D. c. Munson of
Cornell is the next most likely record
breaker. The easy manner In which he
a freshman. speaks well for 40 this spring
"Big Six" Track Schedule.
Below is presented for the first time the
complete track schedule for the members of
! the big Six"
April 22-Princeton handicaps, at Prince
ton.
carnival. Philadelphia. a-r-
May 6-Cornell vs.. Princeton, at Ithaca
Pennsylvania vs.. Columbia, at New York.
May 12-PennsylWania VS.. Cornell, at
Philadelphia. ..s-
May 13-Yale VS.. Princeton, at Princeton
May 19-Yale vs.. Harvard at New Haven
May 8-Intercollegiate preliminaries, at
Philadelphia.
May 27-Intereollegfate finals, at Pnfla-
delpfha. 7..t. -s.-..,s-S., 80 >
Eastern university men need not be sur
prised If they find that the representatives
of the west sweep everything before them
at the University of PENNSYLVANIA tenth
annual relay carnival on. AprI 90 The
weSternerS always resent the boosted sumo
rlortty OF the east; in any kind of athletics,
and they have been working with energy
little short of desperation to repeat their
performances of last year, when they won
a majority of the events. AS a matter of
iact' the western teams place a much
greater Importance on PENIS RELAYS than
DO the eastern teams. This Is probably due
to the fact that this is the only meeting of
the year when the west can "show up the
east The western teams begin training
early for the relays, and are ALWAYS two n1
three weeks further advanced in their train
ing at this time. The eastern teams mako
the lntercoHegiates month later the object
OF their training, and would sooner lose
every event at the relays If this would in
sure them better showing at the intercoi-
legiates. W.
At present the University of Pennsv,va-
MA ana chicago are the favorites for tie
one-mlie relay, Yale for the two-miIe event
ana michigan for the four miles. Schici,
Tor Harvard, should capture the 1OO-yard
a a SATIN OF Chicago the 12O-yard hur-
Ole, Shevlin of Yale the hammer throw
Rose. formerly Of Michigan, the shot MT
while the pole and the two iumns are a
toss-up between the eastern and western
representatives.
Disappointed by Yale.
fale University disappointed the stewards
Of the American Henley" and the otbar
colleges entered as well, when she an
nounced her decision not to send a cr.w
to the regatta at PHILADELPHIA Nav 81
me reason given by Yale for not send
ing crew was insufficient material To Get
up junior eight. But inasmuch as the
Ellis have always sent a crew to Annapolfs
supposed to be made up only of Junior
oarsmen IT was thought that the Ellis
would surely send an eight to PhiIadepb.a
further reason for expecting Yale was
the TACT that Julian Curtiss Yale's grad
uate crew advisor. is also one of the Henley
stewards. Mr. Curtiss however, did every
tning IN his power to get the blue to be
represented, but was overruled AS mat
tiers now stand, the college crews to com
pete VIII be Cornell. Harvard, Pennsylva-
ma, Columbia, Georgetown and probably
syracuse The stewards say they are great
~ pleased to think that they secured as
large a college representation as they did.
ana that next year they hope to include
S'NAA AoiS- a. pi CSCll the SITUATION IN row.
ing is the most prosperous that the east
ern colleges ever knew. And what is Of
even more Importance the INSTITUTIONS
which row at New London and those
which meet at Poughkeepsie were never
on such friendly terms before On this
point one of the stewards of the American
Henley said recently to the writer: .sIt
won't be very long before all the colleges
will meet in one monster regatta instead
of in two as now. Yale and Harvard, Yale
especially, find it pretty hard to give nm
their dual races. but their regatta is sure
~ being overshadowed by the Pough-
keeps1e regatta In the end I think Vale
and Harvard will be compelled by public
sentiment and their own preservatfo to
cast their lot in with the Poughkeepsie
oarSmen."
Season Of Lacrosse.
The intercollegiate lacrosse season
which had its real opening during the
past week. promises to be more SUCCESSFUL
than any of its predecessors. The recent
consolidation Of the two intercollegiate
lacrosse associations has at last firmly
established the old Indian game and IL
will not be long before 1t is one of the
most popular sports in the colleges. Next
to the intercollegiate A. A. A. A. the new
lacrosse association cOmprfses Tho lorgast