The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-21
WHO IS The BEST?
Big Track Meet to Be Held Next
Monday.
Leading Educational Institu-
tiOns of Kansas to Compete.
AFTER NEW RECORDS.
About 100 Students to Compete
in Events.
A Branch of Athletics That Has
Been Neglected.
AFTER NEW RECORDS.

The first intercollegiate field meet of
any consequence ever held in Topeka
VIII be given on Monday of next week.
One hundred athletes trained in the
events which go to make up such a
meet win strive against each other and
for the colleges which will be repre-
sented, among them being Kansas
State Agricultural college, Kansas State
Normal, College of Emporia, Fair
mount college. Ottawa university,
Baker university and Washburn col
lege.
The meet will be from now on an
annual event and of increasing inn
portance. So far the colleges through
the state have paid but little attention
to track events; they have devoted
their attention to football and baseball.
Probably there is no other branch
of athletics which tends TO all around
development as track work and the
others events which go up to make
field day.
Special rates will be made on the
railroads and college students will be
here in force. Monday is q holiday in
the majority OF the colleges and for
this reason was chosen as the day on
which to hold it.
The college teams have been in ac-
tive preparation for this meet for the
last two months and the state records
will probably be broken right and left.
Washburn has no representation in the
state records made in the past, due to
the fact that she has never applied
herself along this line. But the sopho-
more-fresh man field meet of the last
three years has awakened interest and
the college will be adequately repre-
sented.
The state records for field events in
intercollegiate circles of Kansas fol-
one hundred yard dash record. ten
seconds; holder, Cain, Kansas state
Agricultural college; year, 1905.
Pole vault record. ten feet two
inches; holder, Lewis; Fairmount col
lege; year, 1902.
Sixteen pound shot; record, 81 feet
inches: holder. Marple, College Of
Emporia; year, 1905.
Mile run; record, four minutes fifty
two and two-hfths seconds; holder,
Larimer, Fairmount college; year,
1898.
Broad Jump; record, twenty-one
feet and six and one-half inches; hold
er, Marple, College Of Emporia; year,
1906.
Two hundred and twenty yard dash
record, % seconds; Gaddis, holder,
Kansas State Normal: year 1 sos.
One hundred and twenty yard 'hur-
dies; record 16 rs secondE; holder,
Softer, Fairmount college; year, 1904.
Sixteen pound hammer; III feet and
5 inches, record; holder, Davies, Kan
sas State Normal; year, 1908.
Four hundred and forty yard run;
50 is seconds, record; holder, Shirley,
Kansas State Agricultural college;
year, 1905.
High jump: record, five feet seven
inches; holder, Softer, Fairmount col
lege; year, 1904.
Half mile run. record, 2 minutes and
eight and tzvo-flfths seconds; holder,
I.arimer, Fairmount college; year,
1893
Discus; record, .1o5 feet and inches;
holder, McCabe, College Of Emporia;
Two hundred and twenty yard hur-
dies; record, 27 seconds; holder, Sol-
ter, Fairmount college; year, 1905
Two mile run; II minutes 13 sec
onds, record; holder, Davis, Kansas
State Normal; year, 1905.
one mile relay race; three minutes
Al seconds, record; holder, Kansas
state Normal; year. 1905.