Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-In no
previous year in the history of inter-
collegiate track and field athletics in
the east was there ever such intense
interest in the outcome of the annual
championships as this year.
Usually this interest does not begin
to reach the acute stage until the mid
die of May after most of the dual
meets have been decided. But this
year there is a national interest in the
outcome, and it is safe to say that the
biggest crowd that ever turned out to
such a. meeting will be on hand June
1 wheh the championships are settled
at Cambridge.
This meet will put the western inter-
collegiates at Chicago on the same day
completely in eclipse. The entry of
Michigan, while contributing factor
to the interest in the eastern cham
pionships, is directly responsible for
the lack of enthusiasm in the western
meeting.
with Michigan absent, Chicago uni
verslty will make a runaway race of
the western honors and will probably
score more points than all her COM
petitors combined.
CorneIl's Prospects Bright
It is becoming more and more evil
dent every week that the eastern meet
is going to be a dual fight between
the Cornell champions and the
University of Pennsylvania, with an
ever-present prospect that the Uni
versity of Michigan may step in and
snatch away a victory after Cornell
and Pennsylvania have fought each
other to a standstill.
Harvard, Yale and Princeton, espe-
cially the two former, which usually
are among the chief contestants for
first honors, are not formidable enough
this spring to oppose the progress of
Cornell and Pennsylvania.
Just now Cornell is busy sending out
a series of hard luck stories, evidently
designed to throw the rivals of the
Ithacans off the track. Let no one be
deceived by these reports. The expe-
rience of 1906 should be remembered.
A year ago no critic could be found
bold enough to predict better than
fourth place for Cornell, yet the
Ithacans had the easiest victory any
team has had since 1900 Cornell still
retains a nucleus of men who scored
20 of her 80 points last year, which
gives her six more than the total.
Pennsylvania, whose team was sec
ond, was able to score in 1906. In
view of this CornelPs woeful tackles
are absurd. 1t is true that Cornell
may have reason to fear Pennsyl-
vania, but down in their hearts the
Ithacans expect to repeat their last
two victories.
They Fear Michigan
Cornell men profess to fear that
Michigan will do the Ithacans more
harm than they will the Quakers.
There is an element of truth in this,
because Cornell's greatest strength Is
in the distance runs, where Michigan
also expects to score heavily, while
Pennsylvania is picked to shine in the
sprints up to the half mile.
But Michigan can do almost as much
damage to Penn in the longer runs
In the mile Haskins, who won the
event last year for Penn, will have
to beat Coe, the Michigan wonder,
while in the two miles the three Cor
nell men, Magoffin, Trube and Will
goose, who finished first, second and
third, will have to beat out Rowe of
Michigan, who is the western cham
pion.
GarreIIs Factor
But if Cornell is the hardest hit by
Michigan in distances, PENIS losses
will be equally as severe in the
hurdles where Garrells will shut out
Mccullough, the Quaker star. In the
other events Michigan will harm Cor
nell no worse than Pennsylvania and
altogether it is hard to see that Mich
igan will harm one team rinore than
another.
If Pennsylvania wins the meet it will
be because of the success which at