New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-10
COLUMBIA TRACK TEAM.
Candidates Offer odd Nurture OF
Strength and Weakness.

With the indoor track season at Columbia prac-
tically finished Trainer Crooks is at present at
work on the records Of the men trying to decide at
what distances he will put them when the out OF
door season opens and he begins whipping the
team into shape for the dual meets and the inter-
collegiates.
The squad offers strange mixture OF strength
ana weakness In the 40 yards there are six men
who have been doing creditabe work indoors
while in the pole vault there Is scarcely man
who promises at all well. The hurdles and the
hammer throw just weak, while in the $50
yards the mile and high jump there is a good
string of first and second raters. who promise to
win many points
Probably the biggest find for Columbia is the
miller Hayns. who has done remarkably good work
on the Columbia indoor track, and has improved
steadily since he began run last fall II he keeps
up his pace. Trainer Crooks expects him to be one
of the best intercollegiate milers this spring. With
him in the distance events will be Captain BrodiX,
who since his illness has shown steady improve,
ment, ard is expected TO go well under 4:40
Just ct present Columbia is having little hard
luck in the half-mle. where there are two good
men. link. who credited with performance
of l:5S As last year. has been right since the
cross-country season when he injured his stomach.
He is training at present, but will start IN
again when practice begins South Field Heth-
eringUon, who is a two-mnute man. seems also TO
have been overturned. and is taking rest at
present.
sky, Hutchinson, Marsh and Edgar. Grunsky and
Marsh ran the distance last year. Boorman has
come up last ms winter tie was the winner or
points in the quarter mile He has done 50 seconds
As the 220 is weak, some of these will be
taken from the 40 and put in that contest George
hundred Bun was credited with an unoficiaI per-
year when he was not eligible to represent Co.
iumba Last fall. howeveI he SUCCEEDED in pass
In the two-nile Columbia has four men who were
brought out by the cross-country season last fall
he has been running half miles and has succeeded
down to 2O4 for that distance. out of doors he
will be put back at his old distance. The other
has done some good miles this spring, and should
In the high jump Columbia has found man
n SsooTne' who with little practice did feet
who has done feet is the star man in this con-
test Since he has been at Columbia HIS work has
been hurt by the fact that he is also good shot
putter. Whether he will do both this year depends
1eiEeIoPin a Hageman is zig man who Is doing
win he kept entirely at the high lump, 80
cock fpeshman ar9 Mtze NY 70 crE te
forward on the basketball team. Kingdom Gould
IS one OF the men who viii be tried at the hurdles.
vented by Illness. He has had considerable train
whsi the outdoor season opens Rolker. Murray
and Taylor are other men who will be tried the
hurdles. Taylor and Rolker both competed last
In the broad jump Gabeleni has done q feet
inches. while Harley. formerly amateur champion
bicycle rider and star guard the basketball
team. will also be tried it,
The team will be handicapped in Its training this
spring, owing to the fact that the university has
leased the field Williamsbridge and ali work
will have 10 be done ~ South Field where there is
not so much as lo0-yard .straightaway. An effort
will be made to have OF the a the west
side of the field removed giving the necessary loD
yards, but II will still he impossible get DO
sJraightaway. The team viii have training
table. but will eat together twice day the
Hotel Marseilles.
The schedule has not fully been made up but It
includes dual pSy-ly-a Dia nd
ton. Two relay teams will I've sent the Pennsyl-
wanna relay carnival. Columbia will also conduct
an interschclastic meet on South Field The pro-
posed meet with Cornell in this city could not be
arranged. although both colleges were willing he
cause of the financial problem presented Captain
Brodix announces that Columbia will send AT least