Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
TRACK ATHLETES
ARE PREPARING
OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR ClNDER
SEASON
Interesting Sport Is Anticipated, as
Each College Has Nucleus for Fast
Team and All Are Out For
the Championship

the Championship
The track season has come and every
afternoon sparsey clad youths fit
around the local cinder paths or start
the development of sore arms as they
wrestle with the hammer and the
shot
The present period is more of n pre-
liminary time of workout, and all who
possess any ambition whatsoever to
break records are out tearing up the
earth in their efforts to gain n stride
or make showing with the weights.
OF the four colleges st. Vincents APP
pears to be the only one that is not
going after track laures in earnest
and the Vincentian students will de-
vote most of their spare moments to
basketball and baseball.
Occidental college won the champion
ship last year and has good nucleus
to start the present season with.
II. w. Wadsley will act as coach and
by reason of his experience the Pres
byteTans should stand an excellent
chance of repeating the victories of
former years.
A glance at English sprintinE records
will show that Wadsley is the greatest
short distance man of the British
athletic world and his only defeat
was when he lost to Arthur Duffy, the
American worlds champion whose
running abilities have been looked
upon as little short of marvellous.
III addition TO being the champion
of England, Wadsley in 1901 won the
worlds championship in the quarter
mile by defeating w. W. Long, the
American runner who had captured the
laurel at London the year previous. The
race was run at Huddersfield, York
shire, before 10000 people.
In the same year Wadsley won the
one-quarter mile championship of
Hungary and Austria gaining the
kings prize. When he left England
he held the 220 yard record. He was
champion 100 yarder in 1899. also
holding the 440 yard championship for
that year and 1901.
Occidental Has Good Chance
Hagerman, the champion broad
jumper of the Pacific coast and all
around athlete, will captain the Oc
cidental track aggregation and the
student body anticipates that he viii
fill the position we'll on account OF
the perseverance he has exhibited in
every department of sport in which lie
has participated ,a i. ,
The nucleus for the team of the
coming season viii be formed from
several of last years team who have
returned to college along, with some
new material which gives promise Of
developing into valuable addition.
Members of last seasons squad who
will endeaVor to make this years team
are:
Roberts. Thatcher and Bird for the
sprints; Bonner, Ross and Wolf for the
distances; B.. Merrill for the pole
vault; Petty for the hammer; Hager-
man and Moffit for the high hurdles;
,Hagerman and Beal for the low
hurdles.
Z There is fair material for the relay
team. Stevenson and Hodge are out
for the broad jump.
Chaplin, who has been a member of
the Princeton track team for two years,
having previously passed year on the
Occidental aggregation, will run the
two-mile event and should be an easy
victor over any of the southern rum
ners and is capable of forcing the long
distance men of the northern universe
ties to their utmost. During his first
year at Princeton Chaplin distinguished
himself by winning the two-mile race
for the Tigers, when he defeated the
best men that Yale was able to- put
upon the field.
The girls basketball team is fortu-
nate in having secured the services of
Tabor, the Iowa State university in
structor, who will direct the young
ladies in their efforts to develop VIM
ming team.
All of last seasons five are back with
a number of subs who played in sew
eral games. Among the number are
Vera Brooke, captain; Fay Means,
Catherine Darling, Frances Gordon,
May Darling, Augusta LIT, Gail Lane
and MineauX Brown.
The Pomona track team promises to
be well balanced aggregation, as
nearly all of last years men have re-
NnnrhnnG m 40
mile record, will be missed, with Nc
Cormick, who ran the low hurdles.
The home field day is expected to
show what the new material can do,
and the veteran cinder men are the
only ones whose ability is known at the
present time.
Spurgeon should easily lead in the 100
and 220-yard dashes and Tangerman
will probably be his running mate.
Dick SeaVer is a good man for both
the high and low hurdles and Buster"
Browne is expected to do better than
ever in the half and quarter mile. The
long legged distance man has a fine
show to land both of these events. Me-
Kee is the next fastest man for the
long runs.
Trainer Hastings is well satisfied
with the prospects. There are a great
number Nof men out but the training
table will not start until February.
Activity at the University
The University of Southern California
track men from the college of liberal
arts were out Friday afternoon for a
preliminary skirmish. and some fair
work was done for the first attempt.
y Comstock was first i'm the pole vault,
with a record of 10 feet, while Ochoa
scared next highest for "a little over
8 feet.
Comstock also captured the initial
place in the shot-put, throwing not
quite "a feet. Hudson, Ochoa and
Burek showed the iron sphere for over
30 feet.
Burek was first in the hammer throw,
covering distance of 106 feet Miller
did something better than 100 feet.
In the high jump Comstock, Bright
croiX, Ochoa and Jones tied at s feet
inches. BrightcroiX jumped 10 feet
in the broad jump,
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