The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
TIIg THE COLLEGE ABILITIES
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rn,eI .,,'os has picked up many points.
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,~s,rron.htp ~ Two miles In . minutes 81
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An. t,y Wnen under the conditions
vo,sley ,enis out a green man who IL
eaton inches in I minutes 70 lis seconds
IN tho milo and has another who has been put
AIT Of training for q time step out and get
third In the zane race, that IL q feat, 90.
pc,,cr than that, Moakley takes an err
rtc quarter miller who last year was a eur-
mise when he got fourth In the dash. and
makes Of him such a man that he wins the
haf mile In / minute 50 lis seconds, beating
bs own team mate Townsend over the line.
Coming to the quarter mile. where II did not
s.em that Cornell ought to expect much.
Rogers trims the wonderful Dives Of Har-
ward, who surely ought to have o Fred
Herr. the former Brooklyn boy, who has
%, done much as a track athlete at Cornell.
steps out az a junior and earns his &C" by
getting fourth place. That makes 20 points
lor Cornell, enough to win the meet and,
when figured on a basis Of O possible ~,
means that Cornell has a percentage Of
go in middle and long distance running.
.Cross-country did it is the cry. The
Ithaoans have won again and again across
country and the result has been that more
and more distance men have been trying
to get a place on a team 70 represent Cor
nell. So far has the art Of croes-country
running advanced at Cornell and 90 high IL
tho premium placed on making the team
that an athlete who simply is OIL Of the four
who count for Cornell. no matter whether
the team is first OF last, gets his varsity
letter. That is exactly like q crew man,
baseball or a football player.
The Cornell distance running was not
all. T. NJ. jackson, q pole ~vaulter, tied
With Grant Of Harvard In the leaping event
and with him now holds the record OF IL
iet lOH inches, a quarter Of an inch better
than the mark made last year by Dray Of
Yale. This makes two Comedians to figure
on the list Of record holders, The other Is
Warren E. Schutt, at present in Oxford,
who holds the record Of 0 minutes 20 seconds
J IN the two mile run.
The story Is that Cornell had a badly
balanced team solely because such a fleet
Of distance runners scored. To be sure,
Cornell had no s~printers and there Ia a chance
for glory coming to that short distance
runner who can do anything at all to go to
Cornell. Ke has a chance to be a point
winner for the champions Of 1907. Turner OF
Cornell, however. got a point in the low
hurdles and Phillips. the captain Of the track
team, scored after jackson In the pole vault.
Cook, the football captain, was a close
second in the hammer throw, after the re-
doubtable Horr of Syracuse, who apparently
cid in under the wire as an eligible.
Cornell therefore scored In seven events
out Of thirteen. Pennsylvania, which a
second, scored in four only and as the points
were chiefly for sprinting, it might be fair
to accuse Mike Murphy Of having an un-
balanced team. Harvard tailed liz eight
events and YVES third: Yale had men in seven
events and was fourth.
It might be mentioned too that X. C..
Turner, who finished fourth in the low hur-
dee, ran from the third leap without a shoe.
Els shoe became loosened at the start and
anne of as he cleared the third bar. A
man who could do anything at all under
those conditions deserves a lot OF credit
enu turner HlBnt nave uoho hhuSh co'oSi
had his shoe stayed on.
So much has been said about Jack Moak-
ley and how much credit he deserves that
Il seems almost useless to add to the need
Of praise Moakley stands convicted Of
being about the most capable track team
coach in the country. He takes the raw
material and puts it through the training
stages until it becomes championship stun,
Who ever heard of Carpenter, Townsend,
Lewis, Jackson, Willgoose or Trube my
\ where near as prominently before they
4 entered college as now2 Trube was run:
ming for a small school and never showed
anything much. Fred Townsend is q New
York boy and did not do anything that
would show that he was going to be 90 good,
Carpenter, as has been said, was O fair
quarter miller until Moakley taught him to
De a good half miller. And 80 on down the
list.
The prep school champion lie a rare bird
IN the freshman claes at Cornell and Moak-
hy doe better with the raw material, 1t
eens. He likes to teach the boys all the
steps from the ground up. When he gels
boy that he has in charge from the mo-
I@ent he starts his athletic career MoakleY
Tmows that he has nothing to, unlearn'
me proverb about q little knowledge ap-
plss In track athletics.
Inc Cornell system is a thing well worth
looking at, 1t has been detailed on more
. OcCasione than NJ, that ayyaryoHv rims at