The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17
WITa HRV COLLEGE ATHLETES
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N.Igar has n track team that would
probably be able to lrat tho entlre field
huuproi together next season, hut tho
conference Representatives have declared
GnrrcIa. Nmry. Stewart and Curtia In
oleinlo Tor neat spring. That makes a
Inss n about twenty five points. Manager
Burl aays that he does not favor an i'm
mediate Withdraw wal by Michigan, but
sty. that the Wolverines certainly cannot
remain passive and 500 the continuous
ra-sluk Of rules that are unjust and have
all the rarmnrki Of being aimed AZ Michi-
gan
Michigan sent aome mon to tho inter-
collegiate games several years ago, Fish
leigh and Dvorak were the prominen. per-
formers II Michigan should decide TO
send men FAST next year there would be q
chance to thrash out the disputed points Of
supremacy in intersection athletics. MichI
gan had winners in the half mile, one mile
and two miles, high and low hurdles, discus,
broad jump and shotput In the Western
games, eight out Of fourteen firsts.
The performance Of Garrels over the high
hurdles. which he ran in Is is seconds,
unfortunately annot go as a record. The
time equals the worlds record made by
Alvin Kraenzlein and Is more wonderful
for the Michigan man than it was for the
lanky Wisconsin leaper. Garrels did not
run the high hurdles before this season.
ne has Dccu tOhspiCuOuS d5 u low DuTulcE
for the past two seasons and has recorded
some creditable times. He Is Q feet / inch
talland weighs 100 pounds and it was thought
impossible that he could get the speed to
carry such weight over the high obstruo-
tons. In making the time record at the
conference meet he knocked over two
hurdles. The rule of the Amateur Athletic
Union is that all the hurdles must be up
whom tho parforner haa 6niahad
There was talk that the record would be
accepted by the conference even IL the
A. A. U. did not give credit for it. Under
the rules of the conference this is an i'm
possibility. Their regulations also demand
that the hurdler must leave each hurdle
standing. This is unfortunate for Garrels,
but it looks almost a certainty that no
can do as well or better after another sea
sons work over the high ones. He GER
tainly IL a'good man. In the recent cham
pionships he won tho two hurdle races,
threw the discus for a winning mark and
was second in the shot put. One remark
able feature OF the whole thing 10 that
Michigan, in making predictions Of victory,
counted on him for 10 points, which is ex-
sctly what he totalled.
1t is understood that he will come East
for the all round championship Of the
Amateur Athletic Union. Should he do 80
there would be a battle royal between
himself and the present champion, Martin
Sheridan. Both are clever performers,
but where Sheridan would ave II on the
Westerner would be in the high jump and
pole vault. Garrels would probably do
better IN the sprint and the hurdles. His
weight would initiate against him in the
mile run and the walk. Sheridan has the
knack of throwing certain weights better
than Garrels. The two are the foremost
discus men in the country and (since Sheri-
dams victory at Athens) it may be said, in
the world. The comparative ability Of the
two men has often been argued, and II the
two could be brought together in q discus
competition that would in itself be interest,"
:ng enough.
The pole vaulting performance OF Leroy
Samse of Indiana in the conference meet
In which he cleared IL feet ~ inches is
one Of the finest things in IN line Of athletic
aotivity recorded in some time. There are
some peculiar features about Samse's
vaulting. 1t is understood that he has not
had q bit Of coaching for two seasons.
There is no track athletic coach at the
University Of Indiana. Samse has been
vaulting ever since he was a lad 10 years OF
age. Persons who knew him in Kokomo
end Bloomington when no was q ~schoolboy
were impressed by his ability to slip
wv Vic udf dIlo buCt WCiO hlhhy PiCaAS-
tons made that he would be a great vaulter,
Sanse himself says that he was not in
hopes Of doing anything muchinthe Western
meet this season. He was down at Phil
adelphia for the special pole vault in con.
nection with the relay games, but failed
at a low mark. AL the season he came
along slowly and he feared that he never
would get up even to his customary mark
OF about II feet 0 inches.
He says thAt it was not until q week be-
fore the conference meet that he for the
first time in bis life cleared 10 feet. He
said from that time be began to grow In
confidence that he would do something
good enough to win for him at North
western field. In the games he and q I,
vsulter named Haggard were over the
bar at a little over ~ feet, leaving the others
far behind. The bar was moved up five
inches as 1t was thought, and SaInse cleared
IT Jgrandly with about two inches to spare.
After that he requested that the bar should
be moved up to IL feet 7 inches. Tbs leap
he had just cleared was measured accurately
and found to be as recorded above
The crowd by that time had gathered
AL around the pole vaulting standards.
The other events all were over and the
result Of the pole vault could not In the