The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
WITH HHB COLLEGE ATHLETES
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Pennsylvania end Yale WE'RE The starters.
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moor showing Cornell vas MT repre-
sented. neither waa Princeton. To hS
sure, the Michigan four milo team " the
class Of the country aad both Dartmouth
and the Pennsylvania team. which won the
ona mile event. ran ne we'll aS, " not better
than, the combinations that any Other col
ieses could PRODUCE. But with Harvard.
Princeton. Cornell and practically Yale
eli drawing ont " these racee and leaving
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foes got need much argument to convince
one that the relay games are losing 8 little
ground.
This is solely because the athletes IN tho
big colleges do not get ht as early astho end
Of April. They have their yes o The
Ynid-May dual meets and the intercollegiate
championships and the trainers are afraid
that they will suffer by getting into condi.
.tion 40 soon. The smaller colleges and the
schools nave not the same Jealous regard
and they peg away for their Glasses, which
are practically as important as anything
they may do In the dual meets. II Is impossi-
bic 10 nave the relay races any later in the
wear and it looks az II the colleges were
unwilling to risk their prestige by putting
their efforts into pointing men for the
events.
It may seem peculiar 20 say that a set OF
relay races that attracts l 200 competitors
and draws more than 10000 spectators
shows signs Of losing ground. II Is loAing
as far as the championship classes are con-
cerned but otherwise is a bowling success.
The special event arc gaining at the Ok
oense of the team races. The dash and the
hurdle race and the programme of field
events draw a big crowd Of star athletes
from, ell over the country. 1t is practically
the one opportunity that the men in the West
have Of showing what they can do against
the Eastern athletes and they certainly
improved opportunities at the recent eth-
letiot meeting.
Parry, the Chicago football player, who
threw the hammer with one hand for a dis
tance Of 155 feet l inch. trimmed Tom Shevlin
Of Yale, who by all the Indications should be
the Eastern Intercollegiate champion this
wear. The shot-put wa easy for Coe
Of Michigan and his team mate, Garrells,
WAS next to him. This event brought
out O man who is going to do something in
the Eastern intercollegiates unless all signs
fail. That is the giant Maxwell Of Swarth-
more, the former University Of Chicago
football player. Maxwell was only third.
TO be sure, but he put the shot moro than 4s
feet. That Is going some and will take a lot
of beating, in this section. The Eastern COL
leges are very weak in sh~ot-putters this
wear; Yale has none, nor has Princeton,
and in fact Harvard lie about the only college
That has any men Of calibre. The Cor
nell man did not place in the Pennsylvania
meet.
The pole vault was a sort Of surprise, too.
II brought out the fact that Swain OF Penn
~sylvania, Of whom much was predicted
o year ago, Is at last reaching the form
hat was promised for him. He vaulted
II feet 8 inches, which gives a Joint title to
the record alleged to have been made for
the University OF Pennsylvania by L. A.
Gray. Swain did a surprising thing in
tieing with Phillips, the Cornell track
captain. jackson Of Cornell, who was
doing better than II feet 0 inches last year.,
was content to be in a tie for third place
at II feet 5s inches. All the placed vaulters
shut out Samse OF Indiana, who has quite
q reputation.
By the way, it is surprising how the
vaulters come up, shine n flicker out.
One year it was Horton of Princeton, the
next Gardiner of Syracuse; then Nolan
ahan and Dray of Yale and this time it
looks to be Swain, Jackson or Gring. Ex-
cept r. G, Clapp, few vaulters have won the
intercollegiate championship for more than
one year.
The broad jump was remarkable for
nothing more than the defeat Of Simons Of
Princeton, the intercollegiate champion.
1t is fair to say that the men who are com
peting In track events, and the high and
broad jumps are not az good now as they
will be later. The other field events do not
seem to make 80 much difference. Their
training can be kept up for a long time.
Therefore it is not surprising that the men
who were pointed for these games did the
best work. Mount Pleasant OF the Carlisle
Indian School again won the broad jump
with a leap OF % feet-not as good a per-
formancs as he achieved in the mud last
year. j. F. O'Connell Of Villanova Col
lege, who will be remembered as a member
of the New York A. c. track team last
yaar was third