The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26
THE INTERCOLLEGIATE HEET
COMPETITORS or C0LLEGES m
THEIR ANNUAL GAMES.
Cornell Not Expected To WIN, Championship
This Year -IrnnsysvaaiA stroaG and
10 Il ATtehIE an -SlnaIIeg I~psyitgttOua
win Probably acUro Heavily Too.

What with Pennsylvania and Cornell
Sighting hard for intercollegiate athletic
supremacy. with tbs chances That Michigan,
l1AncsCon, Amherst, Dartmouth, Swarth-
morn. Columbia, Lafayette and others.
not 70 mention Yal~ and Harvard, will cut
daep into their points. tito coming track
and Aeld championships arc perhaps moro
unoc-ta!r than shey hAye been for some
Scason3. II Is not 30 .oaS ago that many
IerUona wore ~oopoeding everything 10
Pennsylvania. especially the p~enpsylvan-
iAns. They pointed out tbat Cornell's VIC
tories in 1908 and 1900 were ohGrgeabie
mostly to strength, not to say 0 monopoly
Il strength, 10 ths distance running ovents.
The Cornell track team was not well bal
anoed was the contention OF the QuakeFs,
PennRylvania, h~Avinc'such n well balanced
tHok team. was logically therefore the
champion Of 1907.
Nothing will tel. better than the games
next Friday and Saturday Mt Cambridge
who was hight and who was wrong In the
preliminary estimate. IL does seem, how
ever. that PernsylyaniA 10 not right now
As strong as tha earlier predictions and
statements seemed 10 show. There 10 a
growing feeling thas whoever wins will do
% not by the grace Of q well balanced team
necessarily. but because the points will
De 90 distributed hat q p~reponderance OF
strength In hGlf O DOZEN competitions will
DO enough 20 account for victory. Because
q! this feeling O great many persons are
coming hack TO the stage where they be-
love that Cornell 10 going To win for the
.nird time. How they can bring this 70 fit
ia with the figures they do not say.
u haA Seen q long time since Harvard.
Yale aad Princeton were so nearly negli-
gible quantities in an intercollegiate track
and field meeting. That 10 not 10 say that
there will not be point winner from the
three institutions, but that the total Of
their winnings Ia not likely to land any one
Of the three universities q winner Of the
noins trophy. Indeed &, Asems that Am
iArnt and Dartmouth are likely to be better
az than Harvard or Yale.
Little is TO be cleaned from the results
" the dual meets this year among the
college Te3ms. For one thing. In most
cases the weather was 50 unfavorable
that time performances. generally a help
fu. criterion. we're Of no value. On the
other hand, II ls something TO know that
Cornell defeated Princeton. that Yale de-
feated Princeton. that Pennsylvania de-
feated Columbia. that Harvard defeated
Dartmouth. that Williams defeated Dart
mouth, that Dartmouth defeated Amherst,
hat Harvard defeated Yale and that
Princeton defeated Columbia.
The most that these meets establish
is the fact that such and such q man is
better than some others because Of those
whom he has beaten. In the cases where
compared performances are the only things
to go by there IL not much basis for valuable
comparison. However, taking what Cornell
did TO Princeton. the score there being
II to 40. and the Yale 54-Prtnceton so result,
there can be sman doubt that Cornell 10
generally better han Yale. Harvard out
pointed Dartmouth very easily, the SCORE
there being 50 TO IS. Amherst did as we'll
practically, the SCORE against Dartmouth
being 50 Il "A. In addition to things like
this, II is well to remember that Brown
r has a membership in the /. C. A.. a, A. A..
and several good men have been repre-
senting the Providence college this year.
Taken all in all, therefore. and considering
the many colleges which this year are
fighting for points with chances Of making
them, it Is indeed hard to attempt TO
forecast the probable victor In the inter-
collegiate games on May 81 and June 1.
Dartmouth and Amherst in the hurdles,
Princeton in the sprints. Yale in the jumps,
Syracuse in the pole vault. Columbia,
Brown and Dartmouth in the middle dis
lance raoes-all are likely to bob up where
least they are expected or wanted. and the
result will be TO upset the calculations Of
the supposed leaders.
Added TO all this IL must be remembered
that Michigan ZONES East in hopes Of justi-
flying the institution in leaving the Western
conference and that several OF the men
who will compete here are Of the highest
class and justly to he feared. Taken all
in all, the situation certainly is complicated
and the prophet who daree rs likely TO be
all wrong in the end. Too many tribes
operate against a track athlete In the very
act Of competing to be able to base pre-
dictions on what he has done.
or the colleges comprised in the |. c A. A.
A. A, Amherst, Brown, Colgate, Columbia,
Cornell, Dartmouth. Harvard, Haverford,
Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Michigan, Penn
s~ylvania, Princeton, Sw%arthmore, SYRIA
cuse, Williams and Yale are apt TO furnish
competitors whose presence will be noted
in the point table. There are seven other
institutions members in the association.
In the sprint races Cornell is hampered
Dl Iu0 1dCI IUhN N. W. httleT, JIle IOTUlef
University Of Michigan man, lie not In any
condition to compete. He pulled out a
tendon some time & and he will not take
part in the championships. Cornell being,
as usual, weak in the sprints has no man
to take Keeler's place. Sumner Rulon-
Miller and Gamble, the P~rincetonians, are
rather formidable sprinters. Rulon-Miller
won his race against Cornell in the 100
yards and repeated against Yale. Gamble
won the furlong In the Cornell meet in % SIS
seconds. Connors won the furlonR against
Yale in "A is eeoonds. That was chiefly be-
cause Of the heavy track.
Rulon Miller, however, was able TO do
10 is seconds on the same track for 100
yards, 40 that he looks very good indeed. Al
COPELAND should be able to train sprinters
" he can do nothing else. Rulon-Miller
will have to meet Cartmell and Whitham
Of Pennsylvania In this ace In the inter
collegiate games. Both are undoubtedly
10 second men, as 10 Rulon-Miller. Both
have the prestige OF former good perform
snces in the championships, Cartmell having
won both the races last rear, with Whitman
second. II is generally conceded that the
AGO is 70 be between Rulon-Miler and
Cattmell.
TO this, however, Read Of Amherst may
have ROmethinp to saw. In the dual meet