Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
BY EDWARD R. BUSHNELL.

The college sport in which there is now
the greatest activity is track and field ath-
leties, and every big university in the east
IS already striving with might and main to
develop team which will be able to win
the intercollegiate championships at Cam
bridge May 81 and June /. The track
coaches are confronted with the same prob
lem as were the foot ball coaches in the
fau. They must develop their 1907 teams
without the aid Of their freshman mate
rial. Yale. Harvard, Pennsylvania, Brown.
Princeton. Cornell and Syracuse have al!
amended their eligibility codes to prevent
the competition of freshmen and first-year
students. And in order that other univer-
stiles should be subject to the same rules
the association has adopted the regulation
for itself.
Cornell's Prospects.
The Cornell champions of 1906 begin the
season with the brightest prospects. or
the team which scored thirty eight points.
the Ithacans retain all but three men who
scored but nine points. This leaves Cor
nell with bunch of veterans who scored
twenty mine points, and Trainer Moakley Is
counting on them for as many more this
spring. The veterans lost are Carpenter,
the winner of the half mile; Phillips, who
scored a point in the pole vault. and Simp-
son. who was third in the mile run. This
leaves Cornell with Rogers and Herr, who
were first and fourth in the quarter-mile
run; Townsend, who was second in the
half mile; Lewis, who was second in the
mile; Magoffin. Trube and Willgoose, who
finished in this order for the two miles;
Turner, who was fourth in the high hur-
dies: Cook, who was second In the hammer
throw: White, fourth in the shot put. and
Jackson. who tied for first in the pole
vault. This leaves Cornell with q remark
ably strong team, and with any kind of
luck the Ithacans ought to be the favorites
once more. .t
Situation at Pennsylvania.
; At this stage 1t looks as though the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania would give Cornell
her hardest fight, as was the case year ago.
The Quakers. who scored twenty-three points
In 1908, retain all of them this year. These
are Cartmell and Capt. Whitman, who were
first and second In both the 100 and go
yard dashes; Haskins. the winner of the
mile, and Moffett, who tied for second In.
the high Jump. But the Quakers have
more than their 1905 point winners on whom
to count. Chief of these Is J. B. Taylor,
who won the quarter mile for them In 1904.
setting up the present intercollegiate record
competition since then. and Mike Murphy
expects, him to beat Rogers of Cornell and
lower his old record. In addition, the,
Quakers will have Greene a very capable
for competition two days before the 1905
meet
Harvard Hit Hard
The Harvard team has been hard hit. The
crimson loses four veterans who scored
seven of their twenty-one points. These
are Dives, who was second in the quarter;
Clark. who tied for second in the high
jump. and Ford and Cobb, who were fourth
Nnn ~ kt,A hall lie
leaves Harvard with the following vet
erans: Stephenson, the winner of the shot
put: Roosevelt. who tied for second In the
high Jump Grant, who tied for first in the
2aGEyard dash. and Capt. Minot. fourth in
the mile run. This leaves the Crimson with
men who scored but fourteen points in 1906
and since the substitute or second string
material Is far from drst-ciass tho Har-
ward coaches will have their hands full to
develop q team which can put up strong
fight in the coming meet.
-. Ya1e's Condition Bad.
Yale has lost the same number of points
as Harvard but the Ellis condition Is made
worse since they had fewer points with
which to start and very poor substitute
material. The men Yale loses are: Shelf
field. second In the broad jump; ShAvlin,
third in the hammer throw; Robinson and
Hall, fourth In the 1OO-yard and two-mile
events This leaves Yale with the follow
Ing point winners: Knox. first In the broad
lump; Marshall. first in the high jump. and
Gilbert, who tied for third in the pole
vault
Like Pennsylvania. Yale will make UP
most of her losses by the eligibility OF men
whom she could not use, or at least not to
advantage q year ago. In this class are
Parsons, who holds the intercollegiate half
mile record Of 156 and DTay, who as
freshman In 1904 won the pole vault with
Z new record. Last year Parsons went to