The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-12
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOINGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
PennsyIyahia Relay Games Upset q Few
Calculations -HarVaFds English Shell
and Discussion II Has Caused New
England Colleges Are DisputatiOus.

The reilly games Of the University OF
p~ennsyl-j mia helped a grea. deal 20 ever
throw sotne calculations made by trainers
as TO the chances Of their men in the inter-
collegiate track and field championships.
For one thing 1t seems reasonably clear
that McCulloch, the University OF Penn
~sylvania hurdler, is not going TO have the
sure thing In the big meeting that was
prophesied for him. McCulloch, according
20 Mike Murphy, was figured to be BILE
to beat John Garrels Of Michigan and was
supposed TO be ft TO do 10 is seconds for
the high hurdles. or course IL Is reasonable
to suppose that McCulloch was not in his
top form at Franklin Field. but it was not
necessary to cover up his real ability 10
mouth and Hubbard OF Amherst beat him.
Especially q that true when the time
OF the race is considered. Shaw ran the
final neat In is rs seconds, q most excel
lent performance. That means high quail
ity and it needs only careful training work
in condition 80 that he can repeat the same
performance at the end Of this month,
Hubbard showed in the relay. games that
he was in fine fix, while McCulloch showed
practically nothing. All along. Pennsyl-.
yania men, IN discussing ne p%rooanllty OF
have said, wait until the relay games and
McCulloch will show him up" But Garrels
was not even in that race and yet McCuI-
loch did not win. II is likely that calcula-
tons as to the winner OF the next high
hurdle race will have TO be reformed.
The 100 yard run showed some things,
but not many. Princeton ut least has two
good men in Rulon-Miller and Gamble and
Amherst has another good man in Reed.
They we've the placed men, the Amherst
G--N IL nI@ 4
and ahead OF Gamble. Rector Of Virginia,
whom few will recognize az the inter-
scholastic sensation OF last year, was fourth
in the race. The Pennsylvania %sprinters
did not start in the special events because
they were otherwise engaged in the relay
Therefore for purposes Of com.
parisun their work cannot be cited. IT
may be said, however, that they did not
shine In the relay races. II is obvious that
without Taylor no Pennsylvania relay team
at the shorter distances In very good. ray
lor stands out so much over the average
that cannot be accounted for by any other
Pennsylvania runner.
There is something in shot putting that
makes thet game uncertain. strangely
enough II seems to make small difference
what a man has done as a shot putter be-
fore the meet comes along. He never
comes I'D to form when the meet is on.
Garrels had been putting well around IS
feet before the relay games, but in the
competition he was recorded as doing
q fee 8X inches. That is too big a dis
count to be profitable. The winner was
last year, first showed signs Of being for
midable in the relay games.
The hammer throw gave a chance TO
young Talbot Of Mercersburg to show
how much better he Is than are the college
men. He hurled the weight l5s feet e15
;-oL.. and haat Nj y HOTr nf SvFp nllGa
nearly eight feet. The pole vault went 10
Claude Allen OF Syracuse, who went over
u feet when he tried an exhibition vault,
after winning the competition proper.
The absence OF the Cornell men from promi-
nence in the competition may lead many
persons TO believe that they are not going
to show up very strongly. However,
nothing can be judged where there are nc
to Judge by, and it is not wise or well
to put aside all consideration OF Cornell
on the showing OF the few men whom they
did send down from Ithaca.
Taken all In all, the results OF the meeting
seem very strongly TO justify earlier state
ments that the winner OF the point trophy
will not have so very great q number, OF
points. The strength OF the so-called
colleges is greater thar ever before.
and Young. is likely TO- be in strong IN the
point competition. Amherst, with Reed and
Hubbard. is going TO take away some points
from the general total. Princeton's sprint
ers will give the Pennsylvania contingent
a battle, and all this time there is Keller
Of Cornell to be considered.
Michigan proved what was generally
admitted earlier to be 80, that many Of the
best distance runners OF the country are
to be found in Ann Arbor. Columbia too
has some very capable men. The per-
Of the local college relay runners
consideration. Saunders, the small
est man on Josh Crooks's team, did the
half mile, 2 minutes 2 seconds.
The slowest man was not Tar behlnd that,
and the evenness Of Columbia's running
was a marked feature. One thing about
performance in running the final
seems to show that he has developed
GOODNESS in races.
1t will be remembered that last year link
in the final heat Of the half mile champion
shipyr out 10 the front too soon and al
though he was leading by twelve yards
TO the men from whom he had started
away. He was nearly IL not surely the best
runner in the race. but threw away his
chances by an i'll judged piece OF running;
In the relay meet, however, he permitted
his opponent from Dartmouth to pass him.
link then took a sleigh ride in back OF the
man while the latter acted as a
wind breaker. Then he came away when
the stretch was reached and won easily
from a firing rival. More races are won
he6ds tDan WIN IeeI.
1t is right that some consideration should
be given TO the man who made o champion
ship team possible at Columbia. This is
first time since the relay games were
many years ago that Columbia
has had a champion team. In 1898 a team
composed OF Johnny Clark, Frank Steven,
Homer johnson and Maxey Long won in
the class race, defeating Cornell and some
other colleges. But that was in the class
Just behind the championship lot made up
then of Harvard. Yale, Princeton and Penn
s~ylvania. The succeeding year Columbia
beaten In the same class by Syracuse.
The men at the college give high praise
for the champion team TO Joshua r. Crooks.
who has been in charge Of athletics in the
local institution for the last two years. He
had personal charge OF the development
Of three Of the four men on the Columbia
team. Benton Saunders, Anthony Zink and
George Hoyns were trained by him. Ferris
Hetherington had some instruction under
Hjertberg, the former trainer OF the
Columbia track athletes. Crooks has
worked hard and quietly. He has had &c
with all the problems hat a Column
bia trainer has to contend with.
The field on which the men have 10 train
is inadequate. The track is small, Of about
six laps TO the mile and in poor condition.
is no place in which 20 At men for races on
larger tracks, because IL destroys all their
Of distance in races on the regulation
quarter mile paths. Every condition
which other college trainers look upon as
things 10 be accepted az a matter Of couree
are ~unfavorable 70 Crooks. Those who pre-
dicted when he first took his position that he
would one day turn out as did John F.
Moakley OF Cornell, are beginning 70 believe