Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07
WITH COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOinSs in che Field Of Sport in ROth
Bast and WssA
NEW LIVE IN BIG MEET THIS SEASON
Michigan LIKELY 90 Cut aoms Figure
IN intercollegiate Long Distance
Races, which WIN Ne EK-
citing and Important.

The significance o. The entry Of the Uni
veruity Of Michigan into the intercollegiate
track and field championships of this year
at Cambridge has been discussed 81 soma
length by college msn. They are almost
universally Of the opinion. which IL no,
that Of the middle west, that Michigan win
help TO cut into the points Of Cornell and
PenGsylvania especially. The contest this
year Is going to be, judGing from present
I ms, a bitter struggle between Moakley's
z. and Murphys, II ls said now, as u
. Sst said last year at this time, that the
hoes Of victory are against the Ithacafs.
sfneil put on great strides toward the
close Of the training season last spring
and came down 10 the meet with q well
balanced team, . little stronger. however,
in the middle distance and long distance
races than the other colleges. THIS strength
IN distance work was = not inoonsldsrabie
factor IN the victory. II was not the only
reason. however,
Ever since Moakley's men came proml-
nently 10 the front IN college sport, those
colleges which were not 20 we'll equipped
with distance runners have made the plea
that unleas Cornell had not had 80 many
good men Of that class the Comedian and
White would never have made any sort OF
EnoMluAs AnlA war " hHpchAH Ahhh AADah-
ley's men, as a team, are 10 be put TO the
test. II IN not 90 much that Moakley has
not az good distance runners as usual but
that the other colleges are better supplied,
II 10 here that the entry Of Michigan as
siimes significance. With tho men who
will wear the Wolverine emblem, coupled
with Pennsylvanis's distance runners and
perhaps a man or 20 from Columbia and
Princeton. the big fight in the long races
IL likely TO be the best Of the contests In
the whole meet
COrnsIPs Enemies Hopeful.
This is TO deal with the long distance
races then. In the intercollegiate track and
field meeting. II It be true, as has been
alleged often by those who are no friends
Of Cornell in It's new success, that ell that
Moakley can show is distance runners, then
that IL the crux Of the championship flght
Personally, there are many who believe
that Moakley will give a bitter battle 70
Murphy, and there are more who are prone
to believe that even with the marked su-
periority OF the Quaker in the sprints and
In some field work, that the score viii be
close between these great rivals.
To take the hRlf-miie run first OF all
Cornell has not this year the services Of
J. c. Carpenter, who won that race. Car
pentor IL at present travelling abroad and
will not be in residence at Cornell for an
other year f. B. Townsend, brother OF
the old Columbia athlete, Hal Townsend,
ran second to Carpenter last year. He is
In Cornell now and in training r. J. Baker
Of swRrthmore, third last year in the inter-
collegiate half mile, is in his college and 30
Il A. 6. Cobb of Harvard. who was placed
fourth. Townsend naturally II expected to
improve materially this season. In his
very first appearance in the intercollegiate
championships In 1905 he ran fourth. He
has done under two minutes and there is
no reason why he should not go 30 much
faster this season as to give even H. P.
Ramey Of Michigan battle.
Rnmey's Fast Half Mile.
Ramey In recent indoor meet in the
University OF Michigan gymnasium per-
formed the remarkable feat OF running q
half mile in 1:bT%. That is Just tick
under the mark set by Melvin Sheppard
here in the Twenty-second regiment ar
mory and is surely a most remarkable bit
OF work. The track at the University OF
Michigan is the same sire as that In
the regimentai armory and It was q
scratch race. Ramey will have to do little
better than that outdoors to win the inter-
collegiate half mile, II is thought. Against
him and against Carpenter win be Eli b.
Parsons OF Yale. The authenticated Yalen-
sian is the intercollegiate half-miie record
holden When In condition he IL a very
hard man to beat. He was away on his
natural form last year when he returned
from Athens and competed in the inter-
collegiate games. Parson will give Ramey
a race. granted that he Is in any sort Of
condition. His showing in the remarkable
rRces indoors this season serves to indicate
that he is not far from right.
However. there is Just one other consld-