Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-05

pears that Leroy Samse of the University
of Indiana vaulted IL feet As inches in the
conference meet of 1906 Compared with
the performances of FULL, Samse and
flanagan the eastern college record looks
poor. Grant of Harvard and jackson of
Cornell cleared IL feet 102l inches in the
meet at Cambridge last May. Indeed 1t
would appear that the farthe- west the
athlete goes the better vaulter he becomes
Lawn Tennis at College,
College lawn tennis prospects for the
season are set forth in the first issue Of
the new magazine American Lawn Tennis,
which has devoted some space to the uni
versity players. AT Columbia the spring
championships will be the medium for the
selection of team to represent the uni
versty against Princeton, Yale, Cornell,
New York university and the West Side
l.. T. c. There also are TO be some
matches with Harvard II possible Robert
Leroy, the intercollegiate champion will
be in college but he will be unable to COM
pete because of. the four-year rule, it is
believed. Grant Burns. K NJ. Boorman
F. N. Cole, H. A. Thomas and T. A. Hen
bricks will be Coiumbia's players Leroy
may compete in the dual meets, II not in
the intercollegiate championships. The
number of courts at the local university
has been increased to twenty-five.
Yale has a new place on which to play
a field having been purchased and set
aside for the purpose. Princeton, Harvard
Columbia and Cornell the last named
likely though not a sure date. are to be
met in the course of the season. The uni
versity championship has been revived It
was not played last year but the. new
courts have stimulated interest in the
game so that this season II is likely that
there will be more than seventy-five en-
| trants.
Cornell has been encouraging the play
! ing OF the game as much as possible In
| signia have been designated for the play
ers and. furthermore. the men doing
/ good work. although not OF the standard
/ meriting the c. T. T., will re-
ceive numerals hereafter. Cornell
conducted six tournaments in the univer-
sity, all being completed successfully The
/ interest in tennis has increased greatly and
where It was once only small honor TO be
on the team, the competition now is stiff.
Matches with Yale, Princeton Pennsyl-
vania, Columbia, Hamilton and Williams
will be played. In addition William A.
Larned, who as a Cornell student won the
intercollegiate championship IN 1892, Is
: likely to be able to give some Of his
/ spare time TO coaching the players Larned
/ is a very intent student Of the game and
/ is very good instructor for that reason
! Tennis interest at Harvard always Is
keen and there is no need Of special meas
ures- to get the players out there. To
accommodate those who overcrowd the al
ready large number of courts, seventeen
new ones are being put down on Sol
dlers' Field. The Harvard lawn tennis
players have arranged a match with Prince
ton for this month and later another with
Yale to be played at Longwood
! Haverford had better team this year
than ordinarily. There will be matches
with swarthmore. Franklin and Marshall
Lehigh and some others.
What with the interest in the Penn
sylvania colleges and those in New York
state such as Colgate, Hamilton Roches-
ter and Syracuse it is likely that event.
ually new arrangements will have to be
made for playing. There will likely be
state championships for the colleges played
In advance OF the intercollegiate cham
pionships 70 determine the players in that
competition.
There is likely TO be some eagerness
among the college athletic enthusiasts tc
get into the particular college favored by
Talbot, the young Meroersburg lad, who
performed the wonderful feats with the
hammer and shot a few weeks ago AS
one cynical collegian said, Hes earned his
tuition fees and a lot more now"