The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-16
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
0OINGS IN THE FIELD OF SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
10 nelrs Views OF the Recent champion.
ships -Garrels OF Michigan a Great Attn.
leie-WOiN crimes Feel JUSTIFIED in LeaN.
Ink Conference-HarVard OH the Meet.

IPle -WOINeTu1et reel JubIlleO In DeaNs
Ing Conference-HarNard OH the Meet.
The standard Of the thtrty-second inter-
collegiate track meet indicates the great
strides which have been taken in track ath-
Ietics Ia tho last few years. With six new
records and almost a seventh in one meet,
II takes a mar who in former years would
have been an intercollegiate champion to
get even into the finals of the present day.
The Cornell team which entered the meet
was a characteristic Cornell team, with a
well rounded squad, all capable of doing
good performances, but what they met were
tfcw stars who were able TO do phenomenal
reats. There were just enough Of such men
in the teams Of Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Yale ia cut the heart out of our scoring
ability and thus, while in a dual meet with
amr no " these teams we would nave had
more than a fair show to win, the combina-
ron was too strong for any aggregation to
sand Another instance of this kind is in
tho case Of Harvard. The Crimson defeated
Yale in their dual meet, yet in the inter-
collegiate meet Yale secured twenty-three
ro,nts to Harvard's seven.
Thus raising of the standard OF track
athletics means that Cornell will in the
future have to work harder to make good
N a sport in which she has always been
prominent and in which for the last two
wears she has been able to carry off first
honors 4 majority of the stars who won
last Saturday will be in next years meet. so
there is a hard and stony path ahead for
cornell, and 1t will only be by the hardest
llnd Of work that she will he able to win.
With A man like Coach Moakley at the head
e iEie kr1p0b Of smart bDuavar rprpall
tas every reason to hope for the best. His
system Of developing track teams is one
which gathers in the largest number of
Victories in the long run. though in the face
If unfavorable circumstances, as his year,
10 NAV sometimes fail to pull out in fret
rlac, He aims to get an all around team,
and in nine cases out Of ten such an aggrega-
ron will he more successful thar when
a few stars must be relied upon
That is the ,pinion of the Cornell Daily
sun after the intercollegiate championships
At Cambridge. II may sound like a bitter
voice to some, especially those who know
how hard it hit Cornell to have Michigan
oltpoint the Ithacans. However, leaving
aside the possible bias, it is a very accurate
PRESERVATION of the case in the recent meet.
For Pennsylvania six men were enough to
win the meet, n. j. Cartmell, n xt years
csntain OF the track team for the Red and
Blue. with his frsts in the 100 and 22O yard
rms; Guy Haskins, with his firsts in the
half mile and mile runs; John Taylor, winner
,fthe quarter mile; Tommy Moffitt, winner
IN the high jump; Robert Folwell, fourth
IN the Hammer I row, and j. h. Whitman,
third in the 22O yard run, did the business
for Pennsylvania.
To be sure, men like the four winners
IAN be called stars, because all save Cart
nell made new records. Taylor, Mofitt
AMI Haskins all now figure on the new
record tables. So hat in effect the four
men named were enough to win the meet.
They scored 80 points between them. 1t
Is not, of course, a fair test of athletic
teams when a few excellent performers
Tan carry of the college championship,
but II ought to be remembered that it is
the first time in a long while hat such men
have been grouped in the one college and
furthermore that there were very high
class men in the other colleges. The fact
tLat Cornell did not have a team of stars
was saown very conclusively by the other
tact that not a single FIRST place went TO the
llh4cans.
II ought to be remembered, too, that
to.nelI vas so lar from the classiest that
vuIy niteen points were scored by the
~ln4cans. OF these twelve were in the
running races from the quarter mile up.
The supremacy OF Cornell, it has always
been said, was in the distance races. That
las been denied by lthdcans, who resent
the imputation that they can win point
trophies only if their distance runners
vln. However, il stands that ten cut
nj tho 6tFaan nninta sonra6 hy Eornal1
we're in the distance runs, the half, mile
and two miles. And, Furthermore, the
fact that Pennsylvania won frsts in two
Of these, with Michigan taking the other,
practically madd it impossible for Cornell
10 count heavily.
1t does not seem reasonable to deplore
the fact that a few stars won the meet for
one college. 1t is better TO look at the
TACT that a grouping of this kind is very
rare and that probably not for ten years
10 come will any college again have such
team, 1t was not that Cornell had an
evenly balanced track team. There were
50 many men from the other colleges who
cut IN that Cornell's second place lot found
themselves cut out Of points by the first
laters of other colleges. They in turn were
not always able to score against the real
big men.
Incidentally. how can Cornell speak OF
we'd balanced track teamY Where wac a
man who even qualified in the 100 INT 22O
yard runsi What chance could Talcott
have in the hurdles against Garrels. Shaw,
Hubbard and even Armstrong;? II was
typical Of the failure Of some of Monkeys
men 10 come up to the standard OF their
preliminary work that Talcott who won
b,oth hurdle races against Princeton, de-
leating Armstrong, did not get into the final
a. Cambridge. Armstrong did. In the
Jour running races, above the sprints,
cornell did nave good men. The high
jumpers did not come up TO form in qualify
iing Ior the leap. They did have FIVE good
hammer throwers. but one only was good
enough 70 score and there was only one shot
pliter who scored. The pole vaulters
ua not do anything.
AS a matter Of fact, the defeat Of Cornell
seems 10 be attributable to the fact that the
uhscsns did not make good on the promise
VI me earlier part Of the season. They had
so9u men IN some competitions, but these
no not all make good. In that case, it