The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-10
OUTLOOK BAD FOR CORNELL
IN INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET
Pennsylvania and Harvard Both Stronger Than Last
Year-Yale Not Up to Old Standard.
Princeton Hardly a Factor.
By SOL METZGER.

! better than the intercollegiate which
/ college has the best track squad. and
! bring together on equal terms those
splendid trainers, Mike Murphy and Jack
! Moakley.
! How Cornell Stands.
Cornell is bending every effort to win
! the 1907 games, and she is fortunate in
/ having al her disposal more point win
Rers than any other college. SIN, Train
! or Moakley realizes the great task ahead
| and Is saving wood in a characteristic
] way. She loses, by graduation. Turner,
/ who ran fourth in the high hurdles :
! Carpenter, who won the haIf-mile and
who will return next year. as he is now
/ on a trip through South Africa: Phil
! lips, who, with two others, tied for sec
! ond place in the pole vault. and Simp-
/ son, who ran third In the mile.
OF last years point winners at the
/ intercollegiates who return for work this
1 season there are Rogers. INTERCOLLEGIATE
| iiO-yard champion; Herr. who ran fourth
| in this event; Townsend, who ran sec
end TO his college mate, Carpenter, in
! The half-milC. Jackson, who Jointly with
Grant. OF Harvard IS intercollegiate
champion in the pole vault and record
holder at II feet 1OA inches, Cook. foot
| bail captain, second in the hammer
| throw; Lewis. who won the silver medal
IN the mile run, and Magofln, Tube.
and Wllgoose, the trio that finished
first. second. and third in the Emile
race in one OF the best examples Of
team running that has ever been seen.
Keller, formerly of Michigan, is count
ca on 10 do -omething in the sprints:
Moores, in the broad jump; French. in
the 40; White and Baker in the shot
put and hammer throw; Rossman. in the
| nigh jump; Kelsey. in the short dashes.
ana Colpitts. in the mile or two miles.
indoor work started last Monday with
great supply Of material on hand for
The different places on the team.
PENIS Bright Prospects.
Pennsylvania retains e5rtmeU Whit
am, Hasl1ins- and AIofitt,. tho Quartet
which won twenty-three points and sec
! ond place for the Red and Blue last
spring, and, In addition. she will have
Taylor, who holds the intercollegiate
record Of 20 Is seconds for the quarter
mile, but who was ineligible last year.
Bonsack, whom the Quakers looked TO
for first In this event last year in the
absence OF Taylor but who. unfor-
tUnately. spTained his ankle before the
race; Mulltgan, who won points I'm this
distance for Georgetown two seasons
ago; Folwell, the football captain. who
Mike Murphy says, win throw the ham
mer 80 feet this seasn; Greene. the
| 1876 football captain, and Haydeck,- in
the broad jump; Swaine. IN the pole
! vault; Jones and Root. the men who
/ took first and third in the crOss-cOuntry
championships last fall. in the two
miles; Carrothers. a promising half
| miller, and McCulloch, the A \. L
champion In the high hurdles. There
are strong possibilities in this squad
and, with competition keen because
! OF the intended trip TO the Olympic
games in England in 1908. there is good
cause for Cornell TO fear them.
Havard's Heavy Losses.
I The Harv,rd team. which finished
| close to Pennsylvania with a total Of
| twenty-One points. viii be under the di-
rectIon OF Jim Lathrop and Quinn. two
professional trainers. who are, in turn.
! responsible to Garcelon. '95. the al
/ visory coach This is an attempt to
/ have all of Harvards athletics taken
care Of by graduates. but a rather IN
successful one. The squad loses some
valuable veteran material in Captain
Dives. the Quarter-miie champion; Tur-
ner. who ran third in the mile in the
Yale meet. Briusmade, who ran second
in the high hurdles against Yale: Ford,
who took third in the Yale meet and
later fourth in the intercollegiates in
the 100. and who has a figure Of p fee Il
inches in the broad jump; Whitman and
Cobb. half-miler. the latter fourth at
the intercollegiate. and both OF them
point winners I'm the dual affair with
Yale. Doyle. who took the bronze medal
in the 220-yard hurdles from Yale;
Clark. who tied with two others for sec
ond place In the big high jump COM
petition, and was second in the Yale
contests: Stone, who holds the dual
meet 2-mile mark. but is ineligible
because he is in one Of the graduate
schools, and diversion. who won the
hammer throw in the Yale meet. but
failed to score at the Intercollegiate
games
Harvard's Reliances.
The Crimson will be worn this year
by men who won 2Slk points last year in
J the dual meet with Yale, a splendid
neUcleus. They are lockwood and
I Dodge. who took second and third in the
/ 1O0-yard in the Yale meet. and Dodge a
/ third in that event in the IntercOlle-
/ gates; Young. second to Dives in the
/ Yale meet. is the mainstay in the 440:
/ the half-mile is lacking a veteran. and
/ the mile will he looked after by Minot.
/ who ran fourth in the Intercollegiates
/ and first in the dual meet; Crosby. who
won third in the dual meet in the two
mile, is the only veteran TO be depend
/ Cd upon in that event; Rogers. Dodge,
/ and Rand. all dual meet point winners.
/ are back for the hurdles: the broad
/ jump has no point winners but the high
/ jump will see two veterans in the run
ming in Roosevelt and Somers. the for
mer a point winner in the IntercolIe-
giates and the latter in the dual meet;
! Stephenson, the college champion shot
/ putter, with an ability to do a feet.
will be the mainstay. and he will be ably
! assisted by Hanley, third in that event
( in the dual meet
Pole vaulting will be one of the strong
points of the Harvard team. with
Grant who holds. with jackson, of Cor
nell the joint title and record for col
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