Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-22
SEASON OF TRACK
AND FIELD SPORTS
BIGGEST Meet of the Year to Be
Held on Franklin Field
Next Saturday.

Americas intercollegiate track and field
season will be inaugurated next Saturday
with the biggest meet of the year.
This will be the University of Pennsyl-
vania's twelfth annual relay carnival on
Franklin Field. Philadelphia The i'm
menslty of the thing will be well under
stood when It is known that more than 1.2oO
athletes win be seen IN the arena, and that
fully 1900 persons will cheer them on.
What adds more to the interest OF this meet
than anything else is the keen fight between
the east and west. The relays have been
the only opportunity the west has had to
measure skill and speed with the effete
east" and the westerners hope to carry
back the majority of the prizes once more.
Until the last year or two eastern men
have refused to train specially for the
RELAYS being willing rather TO lose to their
western rivals than risk going stale Tor
their own intercollegiate meet in May. But
the success of the west has been SO marked
and the impression has gone abroad that
the east is inferior In track athletics that
this year every effort will be made to land
a few championships for the east. On this
account there will be better representa-
ton of eastern teams than ever before. The
west will be badly outnumbered on all SIDES
but what 1t lacks in quantity 1t viii have
to make UP in quality
Four-Mile Relay.
1t can be safely said that there is one
event. which will be watched with the great
est OF interest This is the four-mile relay
race. in which the University of Michigan's
four-mIle quartet will be pitted against six
Of the strongest teams that can be produced
in the east Three times IN succession have
the wolverines carried off the prizes in this
event, and last year they established new
world record This succession OF victories
has CALLED the fasteners, and this time
concerted effort Will be made to keep the
championship in the east. The teams which
are determined TO down Michigan are Yale,
Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cornell and Brown,
while Princeton may also take try at II.
If the west is beaten It viii have to be
done by Harvard, Cornell or Pennsylvania.
as the other eastern teams are hardly equaI
10 the task. Harvard promises to have an
especially fast quartet this year. week
ago four of her mile runners did better than
IS on q slow track, and Miller, the winner
of the race did 431. This means that Har-
ward VIII be very strong, and may surprise
the wolverines. Cornell will also have
very fast team, made up OF her cross-coun-
try champions. Pennsylvania has enough
distance runners to get out a very fast two
or fouT-mile team. But one VIII nave 10
suffer al the expense OF the other 1t Is
quite likely that the QuaHers VIII think 1t
easier 10 beat Dartmouth than Michigan.
and may concentrate all their strength in
this race
But no matter how fast the eastern four
record time to beat Michigan for the VOL
verines are stronger this year than last
or the 1900 champions they sun nave three
men-Rowe, Coe and Ramey-while Ma
loney is faster than the fourth man of
year ago
In the one-rnile race Chicago and Penn
sylvania look to be the two teams to Hight
Il out, with the odds somewhat in favor
OF Chicago. The Quaker team will be Hay
dock. Whitman, Folsom and Cartmell. ana
will be able to average about 81 seconds.
hardly fast enough to beat the Chicago
team If it is as fast as It wes year ago
Records Certain to Fall.
Records are certain to fall in the special
events. The shot-put viii seen Wesley Coe
Of Michigan trying to break his world
record OF 10 feet 6 inches. He will be OPP
posed by Stephenson Of Harvard. the two
Whites Zone of Cornell and tho other or
Yaie), Mccormick Of Princeton and Max
well OF Swarshmore. In the hammer throw
Shevlin of Yale viii try to beat Thomas
OF Purdue and Parry of Chicago, and IL ne
does Il ne will have 70 break record.
In the 100-yard dash Parsons, the Wis
consin flyer and holder Of the A. A. u.
record OF As seconds, VIII fight Il OUT
with Deer OF Pennsylvania, Seitz or
Georgetown. Dodge of Harvard and Torrey
of Yale Cartmeii. who Is PENIS fastest
sprinter, VIII not run In this race as he
is the backbone of the one-mile relay team.
The broad Jump VIII bring together Sirnons
or Princeton. the intercollegiate champion;
Mt Pleasant. the Carlisle Indian star;
Greene Of Pennsylvania. French OF Michi-
gan and Knox and Sheffield OF Yale
The stars of the hurdle race will be Capt,
Amsier Of PennsylVania and Castlernan of
Colgate, both with records of Is 3-5 Sec
ondE The last OF the special events will
be the high jump and the pole vault. In
the former. Mcfrett of Pennsylvania and
Marshall of Yale are threatened with
eclipse by Risley of Syracuse and Pinch
and Cox of Michigan. Whoever wins the
event viii have TO do better than six feet
In the pole vault Moore of Princeton and
GTing of Harvard VIII meet Jackson and
Phillips, the two Cornell stars