The sun., 1907-03-31
BLUE OUTLOOK FOR CORNELL.
TRACK TEAM WERKER THAN
USUAL IN DISTANCE MEN.
Pennsylvania and Michigan seriously
Threaten the Ithacans' supremacy In
intercollegiate Games Points Lost
Through Graduation and Accidents.

intercollegiate Games Points Lost
] Through Graduation and Accidents.
ITHACA, ". Y, March S0.-COrnelI will open
her outdoor track season next Monday with
the most discouragina outlook she has had
! since 1904. Her prospects are blue a. the sky
| and Oh on the horizon are two dark Clouds
| they are Pennsylvania and Michigan. With
i the best Of her distance runners either grad
| uatsd or crippled, she is handicapped when
there are suOh men as Jones. Haskins and Root
OF Pennsylvania and COe. Roe and Ramey
OF Michigan In the half mile. mile and two
| miles.
| Cornell's long suit always has been the
| number Of points she could pull out OF these
three events Last year she got ~ points
out OF her total Of 80. but this year there are
but 8 OF these points available on the team.
and the chances are that in face OF the keener
competition even these points are In danger,
Coach Jack Moakley had only Capt. Rogers
| stay over the Easter holidays 90 run. but he
will have all Of the men hard at work the
first day they get back next week. This will
leave but two months in which to prepare for
the intercollegiate meet.
The 20 points which are left to Cornell after
| losses by graduation and accidents are only
little more than half OF her magnificent
| total OF Ss points scored last May. As the men
| lost are In such a vulnerable part OF her team.
and there is a scarcity Of good new material
to nll up the gaps. the lthacans are at big dis.
OF the eighteen points which are lost TO
| Cornell this year nine OF them were scored
by men who have graduated from or left
accident. Ex:cSpt. Phillips. Carpenter simp-
son son and Turner M MEepresent ths ftTst nine points;
other nine. Tr,be, Lewis and Herr have
been laid up for periods varying from two
mopths to slx months with .prained ankles.
the intercolle giste arrives they Will not be
well enough 70 make fast time. willgoose
atty work, Win ilSoose' Il viii 6e rendered,
took third In the two mile last year and second
the year before. He would have been more
these men, o 'ROurks. the bIg, guard. has been
taken on the team for his studies and prom
. point In the hammer tive years ago, has also
been unable to go on with his track work.
but W What there is Oft Of them is Of high caii6Se
Capt. RoSsr ntesooesSts ,d agSrSssT .S mile
intercollegiate champion, win run In this
event and looks like q possible winner again;
Teo5rd holder With Grant Of Harvard in the
P1fb 1S gooS 10 SGSSd S. SSaqOn SSaq ana %
second In the half mile, are the other two
steady veterans who are back With the team.
Cornell team, but alone they are not enough
| to win the meet. and with but limited amount
OF new -mALeTlal JACk mOhkley IH up against
. tough proposition to turn out 2 winnlnR
| team, His main hope seems TO be in de-
veloDing his usual quota OF good distance
the exception OF MaEotfln his task seems
The most promising men he has to draw
from for the mile and two mile events are all
small men and runners who have not done
much before Capt Lemon. Os. Of the cross
mile, as has also Colpitts, who took second
N the intercollegiate Groes-country run az
Nobis, third and fourth men on the Cornell
than any OF these men has ever run before.
there is also a lack Of veteran material Keen
holts and Thatcher OF the cross-country
dates. Jsmieson. the eva varsity auSfteFSacs.
has promised to come out for the mile after
the holidays. He ran in this event last year.
isinR bunch TO match against Jones and Has
klns OF Pennsylvania and COe and Roe Of
So iar their has not been spent great deal
OF time on the men in the other events. but
from now on Moakley viii try to find man
pick IN a point or two.
In the hundred Cornell has at last secured
two men W no may be able tn make II interesting
for some Of those no have been having
runaway OF IL In that event and the 220,
These men are Kelsey and Keeler, Both men
did 10 lis seconds last year and promise 10
do even time this season: just how near
they will come to this ideal II Ia still difficult
his M" at Michigan two years ago and was
not eligible to run for Cornell last spring.
Kelsey has been steadily improving for the
enough so that he is able to carry his pace
through the entire distance.
Cornelrs indoor season has now closed and
the board track will be taken from the Armory
green in few days. when all the track work
will be transf err ed to Percy Field. There are
three stin dates ahead OF the Cornell team this
spring, and while they are the usual three
they win be harder this year because Of the
fact that the Ithacans will not have as " ell
ba anced q team.
The first date Ia that OF the Pennsylvania
relay carnival on April Is at Philadelphia.
Moakley has not yet DECIDED on the compO-
sltion OF the team he will Ake TO this meet but
Ii will no doubt be a considerable number.
Cornell will meet Princeton In a dual track
meet In Ithaca on May Z. and then will enter
her full team in the intercollegiate on May
81 and June 1.
II ls an interesting fact that could Cornell
use her freshmen in this years intercollegiate
meet she would have the victory practically
assured Cook. the great Western prep
school athlete, for instance, would be good
for about Is or 20 points Last year he won
20 points In the Chicago intersChOlastc meet
BY himself, and all his performances would
have given him similar places in the inter-
coIlegLates last spring with the possible ex-
ception Of the pole vault. III could win the
high jump, broad jump. one OF the hurdles and
one Of the dashes, There are also other good
freshmen which the one year rule bars out
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