Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08
L. S. C. TRACK
TEAM is OUT
LAST YEARS WINNERS WILL
SHINE THIS SEASON
Although Parsons Is Gone, Such Rec
ord Breakers as shute, Richard
SON and NordahI viii
Reappear

Although U. S. c. did not show to ad-
vantage in the cross country run with
whittier college last Friday, the Metho-
9fsts have not lost heart and with con-
sistent training and coaching the ma
ferial at the school should develop into a
winning team. There is hard schedule
arranged by Manager Hunt that will
bring out many new men after the holi-
DAYS are over. The high schools and
whittier college are the only southern
schools that the university will meet on
the cinder path, but there will be plenty
Of work in preparation for the meets
with Berkeley and Stanford.
Practically the same team will be in
the field for honors that was such a win
ner last year. Charley Parsons is the
only first place man who will not be in
school again. but to take his place is
Shute. who ran Parsons close second
in all the meets last year. The four run
ners who broke the coast record in the
relay last year in the meet with STAN
ford are ready to repeat the perform
auce These men are Shute. Nordahl,
Lennox and Burek. Big Charlie Richard
son is at his old stunts, throwing the
hammer. putting the sflot, pole T;si:iti!.ss,
high jumping and broad jumping. In all
these events he is steadily improving and
1t should indeed be battle royal when
he meets Mum, the wonder from Oak
land high, who is registered at Berke
lev and working on the same events as
Richardson.
AS usual. the Methodists are somewhat
weak in the distance runs. but Nordahl,
while not long winded, can hold his own
In the mile event against all comers. The
two-mile will be cared for by Jeffers.
who is registered at the law school, and
is running his third year now. The
auarter-mile will be run by Lennox, who
has made it in less than SO seconds
Faulkner, a promising recruit from Santa
Paula high school, is taking the high
lump in great form and is expected to
better the mark set by Munger of Po-
mona who has up to the present time
been without peer in, the southern part
of the state.
Besides this bunch of stars who have
already proved their worth on the field
there is the usual number of second
place men left over from past years and
a great many new men entered from the
surrounding high schools. All of these
will do their utmost to make the team
and get to take the trip north in the
spring, when they go to meet Stanford
On a week from next Tuesday the in
terclass meet will be pulled off, and
while few of the experienced men will
appear it will serve the better to get
line on new material. All the regular
events will be run off and every class
will try hard for the largest number of
points
The completed schedule of meets as an
nounced by Manager Hunt. is as fol-
lows: March Is, L. A. high at Bovard
field March o., Polytechnic high at Bo-
ward field March 49, Harvard school at
Bovard field: April T. Stanford at Bovard
field; April A. Whittier at Bovard field;
April 81, Stanford at Stanford: April 2S,
Berkeley at Bovard field.
Indoor baseball is becoming so popu-
lar among the students at U. S. G. that
Athletic Manager Hunt has decided to
give 1t an equal chance with the other
college activities, and in pursuance of
this plan is arranging a series of inter-
class games to be run off Immediately
after the Christmas holidays.
Coach Holmes is encouraging the sport
by allowing the regular gymnasium
classes a part of their time for practice.
He himself is an old hand at the game,
having played for several years on the
Minnesota team, which was at that time
one of the best in the middle west.
George Ancock. the father of indoor
baseball in the west has agreed to help
out by teaching the classes some of the
finer points of the game and should en-
able the university to put out winning
team if the sport should be taken up
by the other schools in the south
The students are beginning to realize
the advantages of indoor baseball for
training and as a pleasant exercise
From all indications the sport should be-
come at least as popular as basketball,
which serves SO well to fill in the time
between the football and track seasons.