New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
COLUMBI4S TRACK MEN.
Bonhag, Kelly and Rogers Help to
Train Candidates.

Pv Wednesday, track work in preparation for the
outdoor season will be in full swing at Columbia
Joshua Crooks. the coach, has had lew men Ill
training for the indoor meets but tomorrow the
first regular call will be issued by Captain link
To arouse interest the coach plans to hold series
Of weekly handicap meets closed to varsity men
Four of these contests will be in March, ana py
April when the sprinters ana field men go outside
Crooks expects 10 have good line on his ND
terial
The distance have been running outside
now for more than two weeks They have conflred
their practice runs to sharp jogs around the block
bounding the university grounds. George Bonhas'
tba Irish American crack and Fred Rodgers, the
former national champion miller. are both training
at Columbia. and take their practice runs with te
college runners Dan Kelly, who holds the record
for the hundred Yards. is doing some work on the
Columbia indoor track apd spends part OF ms
time instructing the Columbia sprinters how 10
start with the pistol.
Only a few men have been lost from last years
squad and with the addition Of some good ma
terial from the freshman class the prospects are
bright for 2 good showing in the Princeton meet
and in the dual contest with Annapolis. Two
mile relay is also entered in pennsylvania
relay carnival at Philadelphia on April %. Coluih-
bia won the championship last year and Is peht
on retaining il for another season Haynes, SAN
ders and link are the members Of the winning
quartet stlll college and the vacant place VIII De
filed either by C. Hutchinson. 'o9. or G. Pauson'
a freshman from Morris High School, holder oi the
interschoastic half-mie record.
The greatest weakness of last years team was
the lack Of sprinters f. H Mackenzie OF '"s
freshman class is the only candidate VINO mas
done 10 Is seconds for the hundred George Bull
0S will be eligible this year. bnt he is not In con-
ditton 10 do his best. Bender, another freshman.
is doing good work in the 22o-yard dash Han an'
Edgar are other candidates.
HAN is the best two-miler who mas run for
s~oumbia and in practice is doing close to $50,
but the best man is more than a minute
slower The same thing is true in the mile run.
Hoynes and Sanders are both good for i35. and on
I the gymnasium track Hoynes has reeed off the
! mile in a25, but there no others who can get
under minutes. Smith, Kennedy and kudiiek
! are the best second string men
In the half mile conditions are little better as
I Sanders link and Pauson capable Of running
pretty close TO 200 Hetherington and Marsh were
/ lost by graduation last June, but both link and
! Sanders are better at the distance. Crooks
! thinks he has coming star in the quarter mile
! in Hoass a man at Columbia. Hoass has
/ been running close TO 50 seconds, according to
! Crooks Boorman is still on the team, and
/ Gurnsky's place will be taken by Wellington,
sophomore
All of last years broad jumpers still in the
university and each of them Gaebelein. Loder and
Osborn can clear twenty-one feet. II ]. J.
RYAN can find time he viii probably out for
the high jump. His best performance is feet II
inches made dual meet with Pennsylvania
in 1906, but he away off his form last year
He is the best jumper in Columbia and neither
( Osborn Ba abcOck nor GraSSl nave succeeded in
getting the bar higher than feet inches.
W. D. Pollock, OS. will be the mainstay OF the
team in the hammer throw. He has been training
on South Field right along all winter and hurls
the weight about 135 feet Grassi. Schnepp and
Heard are good for about 100 feet. At present
there is available for the shot-put, with the
/ exception of Ryan
1. The team is shy of hurdles. and Crooks will
have to do the best he with Murray Graham
and McCoun. none of whom is of much account
in either the long short distance hurdles Bah
cock los. gives promise of doing well in the pole
vault this year.