The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
Eiqhf Athletes TO Try
for Records

With the departure of the Stanford
university track team for the east,
where It viii meet next Saturday at
Chicago all of the best athletes of the
west and middle west IN the big inter
collegiate conference meet, the eyes of
followers Of the doings of cinder path
runners, sprinters and Jumpers and per-
formers are focused on the Windy
City. While the team of athletes
sporting the cardinal have not the
right to claim supremacy over any in
dividual team on this coast, due to
their unexpected defeat when pitted
against their rivals Of the blue and
gold, it IS generally believed that the
Stanford men as an aggregation of
stars have by long odds the best chance
TO uphold the prestige of the Pacific
coast.
The team which left Thursday was
but eight in number. but they are with
out exception stars who have upon
many occasions broken into the lime
light Of academic and collegiate fame.
Not a few records are held by these
men, and according to all the informa-
tion which can be obtained from Chi
cago all of the marks set by the car
dinals have not been bettered or even
equaled in the east among competitors
Of the conference association.
The Stanford team, In spite Of its
scanty personnel, is well balanced, and
in every event Of the day, with per-
haps the exclusion of the relay, but
including the new discus throw, the
colors OF the local institution will be
seen.
Beginning with the short dashes, Tip
Nandervoort, star broad jumper but no
mean sprinter. will be entered. In the
quarter mile J. o. Miller, the big car
dinal middle distance man, who was
out of condition in the intercollegiate
meet with the University of California,
viii run.
In the half mile Miller will also start,
as will c. B. Bradford
In the mile run Stanford expects
to take a first Two men win enter,
Bradford and Harold Maundrell.
In the hurdles Captain Harry Hor-
ton will endeavor to uphold the brunt
Of his team Horizons forte, however
is not on the track. but in the field
events. In the shot put he is picked
for winner. He has tossed the iron
ball further than any of the Pacific
coast performers with perhaps the
only exception Of Ralph Rose Craw-
ford, the husky football captain, who
won the shot put in the 1907 intercol-
legiate meet, and has thrown the ham,
mer for long distances. Will be the
teammate of the husky Horton.
In BelIah Stanford expects eight
points or a possible six. /. the pole
vault his records Of y feet and Il fee,
inches assures him practically a first
place, while in the broad jump he has
gone far over the % foot mark
Vandervoort is the first man in the
broad Jump in the opinion of local fans
He has jumped 23 feet inches, which
should net him the event
The high jump will be given over tc
Martin to take care of. He has Scared
the bar close to feet and If not {
winner should win a place in the con
test.
It is with this handful of point win
ners that Dad Moulton expects TO bring
back the scalps of the conference ath'
letes and retrieve the defeat admins
tered by the University Of California
The team has been financed by the per.
sonal subscriptions of the students
alumni, faculty and enthusiastic sup
porters OF cinder path sports.