Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-17
TRACK ATHLETES TO THE FRONT
Prospects at Bellevue Are Unusually
Good for Winning Team.

OOoO - CAA
Now that foot bah is a thing Of the past,
and basket ball is not to play a very
strong part in athletic circles, the track
possibilities are receiving considerable at
turn out winning root bali and base ball
teams, the Bellevue athletes have sighted
trackwork in the past, but the unusual
amount of good material on hand this
year makes it policy to pay more atten-
ton to thc track sports.
Last spring, with little college interest in
trackwork, and the base ball team and
subs" over in Iowa, four men were sent
to the intercollegiate state meet at Yves.
leyan. These four men, Racely, Primrose,
Templin and Rosencrans, won their rib
6ons by pulling eighteen points out of the
fire. while the winner of the meet, with
eighteen men entered, won by only twenty
seven points. Their success served to in
crease the interest in track events. Three
of these men are again in school. Primrose,
Racely and Templin. Rosencrans, who Is
lost, was the mile man, and his place will
be the easiest to fill. There are some new
men, and some of them It is believed will
prove able to more than fill Rosencran's
place in the winning of points Pearson,
while he has done no work in Bellevue,
was. rated as a promising man in track
work at the university last spring and
should make good somewhere His $50
Racely and Mohr will doubtless hold down
the go and 1O0-yard runs. Racely has a
harder work. Racely is really better as a
220-yard man than as a 10o-yard exponent,
being able to maintain his speed for tina
distance. Mohr Is a dark horse and has
thus far proven a doubtful quantity. Able
to crowd Racely and once winner over
tolles, the fastest man Bellevue ever had,
Mohr has nevertheless been worried but
little over the 100-yard dash and has as
yet won no ribbons for his college. The
hand next spring in fighting form, with the
purpose of making the hundred. Primrose,
BelIevue,s second Kearns. has made good
spring with a margin of twenty feet. He
Is only a sophomore, and training should
discus T throw, H and Hammer man t2 q throwing q w Sff
be upto Pearson, Barry, Carey, Curtis and
whatever others may develop from the
lass meet at Bellevue, put the shot a foot
farther than the winning mark at the
tate meet, but he failed. to go to the meet
o he cannot Judge satisfactorily Of his
abilities. Barry is a steady worker, good for
l showing in the hammer throw. Pearson
and Carey have yet to show what they are
worth. In the pole vault, Brandt and
Templin are leading, with Templin prob
ably a few inches to the good. Both are
/ good men in the pole vaulting, Tempiin win
hing first in the state meet last spring. 4
'ad knee once sprained in foot ball, Is. a
distance mep are yet to be worked out.
There is little material on hard from
former years, except Gilman, who has
shown exceptional endurance at times, but
Gilman is a senior with much work on his
1ands and may be kept from trackwork
'andidates for the hurdle races, the high
and broad Jumps, etc, are not overly plen-
FIJI. but win vet make splendid shoWings
IN some of these II adequate attention Is
aid to their development. Enfield, Care,
T inset. Stockman ard others are working
for these events. Enfield has hown up
n good form at the high jump.
The athletic management feels that II
may prove impossible to devote attention 10
10Th track and base ball next spring and
are too good to be sighted and the effort
vim be made to see both through. The
plan at present is TO open up work in GER
ain lines in the gymnasium this winter
especially the jumping, and as soon as
warm weather comes in the spring to start
he drill on the athletic grounds. Som
meets will be arranged for the homo
rounds as will also a class meet, after
which the chosen men will he sent to the
Wesleyan meet for the intercollegiate stat
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