The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
MICHIGAN ISHOPEFUL
Thinks Team Can Win the
Eastern Meet.
SEVERE LOSS OF FRESHMEN
Were First-year Students Eligible
Chances for Wolverines Would Be
Increased, but Coach Fitzpatrick
Figures That His squad Can Score
Thirty Points, Which should Win.

Ann Arbor, Mich, May 25-with a
single exception Michigan has been win
ming the Western championship IN track
athletics for some years and now TO have
a Western meet without the Wolverines
would be like staging Hamlet without
Ham"
The effort OF Stage et al TO attract the
Pacific Coast fellows 10 the conference
meet was as barren as the desert Of
Sahara and the big Eight" can shoot
their wad with some blank cartridges for
a side show without the main attraction.
Michigan is going TO the East. and
While the Ann ArbOr men are not COcky
about the outcome, they feel that they
are in the running and are a factor in the
dope sheet as the Eastern writer's have
already set II down that the champion
ship lies between Cornell, Michigan. and
Pennsylvania. The very fact that Yale,
Princeton, and Harvard are counted In
the also ran" class is a predigested meal
for the Michlganders, who have been try
ing for the past FIVE years 20 convince the
East that there is something doing all the
time In the shape OF athletics west OF the
Aileghenies
Team Not Picked.
Just who Keene Fitzpatrick will tako
to Cambridge is not known yet Each in
stitution will be allowed to enter as many
men as they please in this contest, ard
II will form a good test as 10 what they
can do in competition
II Ksene would be allowed 10 use fresh
men in the Eastern meet. you could tear
up all tickets except those that read
Michigan for the winner and there would
be nothing lost With Patterson Jumping
over six feet. and with Allerdice doing
the pole vault at over Il feet. and with
Arthur showing the shot over 45 feet there
would be trio Of unavailable freshmen
who would look good to the casual OBJ
server for points in the big meet.
Too bad that We can't use them" was
suggested 20 Fitzpatrick
Yes, II is he replied but Just think
OF what We are going 20 lose for next
year All three look good and we need
them for the reserve fund. Michigan is
IN the Eastern conference for keeps. ana
We want to be contenders for the cham
pionship every year. A mushroom team
Is forgotten. l would rather have all The
colleges IN the country saying that II is
anything honorable to beat Michigan than
20 have rs passed by unnoticed"
There Is where Keene is strong He
looks into the future Ike a psychic, or.
rather. when he finds a racing stock colt
he starts 10 get him accustomed 10 the
track and in company and has his mind
all set on the Futurlty.
Thirty Points Enough,
Keene Fitzpatrick says that 81 points
will win the big flag and. figuring on dope.
Michigan ought to come very near hitting
that mark. Stewart can run a shade bet
ter than lQl- seconds. and cannot travel
fast enough to make the nat play That
may seem like whiting it down TO a fine
point but Il is the truth. He may get a
place in the 100 and the 90 yard dashes,
There is no world killer in the East that
has been heard from this season in the
sprints
In the hurdles the East has always out
classed the West, but in Johnny Garrels
the men on the slope Of the Atlantic will
find some one who will give them a run
for the medal The Detroit bov looks
good for first in one Of the barrier races.
and place in the other Besides. he has
put the shot - feet inches in prac-
uce this week. and he is not going to be
out OF the score card in this event.
The East is also strong in the quarter
mile event. and although Davey beat
Rowland at the St. Louis games. he is
not counted on as a sure point winner.
II Ramey recovers from his attack OF
tonhllitis, and is in form. he ought 10
get first In the half-mile. as he was COW
cred the distance in los 20 And Michi-
gan cannot see anybody else than Coa
in the mile. and Rowe ir the two-miIe
races. although Cornell lays great claims
20 the long distance run.
Heath, the One-arm wonder. NAV not
ouuump Mount Pleasant or others of
the Eastern cracks, but the Indian will
not be In the meet. and the Ann Arhor
men are surely counting upon something.
especially as French is leaping around
o feet
Schultz Shot Putter.
Germany Schultz is another Ssrt, 1,o,--