The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-10
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By. Knox BlcckcR

NEW YORK. Jan. ia little IT'D
around the circuit Of the leading east
ern Institutions Of learning and ply.
steal culture is convincing that the
coming season on the cinder path will
be productive of some new records.
The men are now hard at work at
their indoor training stunts and many
Of them have made unusually good
showings for the early season. Not
in many years have such flattering
reports been received from the enthu-
siastic trainers of all the big univer-
stiles.
Yale has more and better material
for It's track team than has been avail.
able in decade and the Ellis are ap-
parently justified in their fond ambi.
tion of regaining for the blue stand.
ard the supremacy It lost when Train
er Mike Murphy went over to the
Quakers. In addition to the veterans
of the track and field squad. many now
stars are rapidly coming to the front.
The Ellis are strong in new sprinters,
among them Montague. Butler. Burch
and Stevens. Hall. new man, is
showing up strong in the broad jump.
Dray, the record holder. is back for
the pole vault events. In the broad
and high jumps and in the mile run
the team may be little weak, but
the men are developing in such shape
that this weakness will probably dis
appear before the more important
events of the spring. Eli Parsons
has been lost for the half mile, but
with KirJasseof. Tilson, Frissell.
Weeks and Mann, Yale expects to hold
her own in this event. Seymour and
Villas will take care OF the quarter
mile. The high Jumping veterans on
the squad are B. A. Riley and e. H.
Reynolds. Coy and Bigelow are the
stars in the weight events.
Columbia track athletes are now
busily pegging away with the hope of
winning the track and field champion
ship of the country. Josh Crooks, as
sisted by George Bonhag and Fred
Rogers, are putting the men through
their stunts. One man in the inter-
collegiate championship relay team
of last year has left, but promising
material has been discovered with
which to fill the vacancy. Sanders and
link, of the half-milers. Boorman,
Bowles and Paulson in the sprints.
and number of cross-country men, in
GLIDING Montgomery, Wheeler AMI
Hall, make the distance squad strong
one. Ryan in the high jump. McKen-
zie, Murray and Hegaman in the hur.
dies, and Pollock and Hurd in the
hammer and shot evnts, make up the
nucleus OF team which Columbia con-
fidently expects to smash at least one
record before the season is over. The
Morningside bunch will be a disap.
pointment to its admirers If it does
not finish the season well up toward
the top
Down at Pennsylvania there are
nearly four.score men in training. De-
spite the confidence of the Yale adher-
ents. PENIS prospects appear to be
the brightest Of any Of the eastern IN
situations. Captain Contwell has de.
veloped much new material and Is con-
fident that the new men will make
good on the track team. Bonsack,
Hoskins, Taylor and Jones are all
back at Penn, and there are also sew
eral promising new men In the sprint
ers' division. including Hunter and
Paul. Mccullough, the famous Quak-
er hurdler. has gone, but in HastronGt
there has developed promising can
didate for the place he occupied. Ben
MON "a western man from the Univer-
sity of Utah, shows promise as ham,
mer-thrower, as does Coleman.
Cornell has some good men, and
out at Ann Arbor Fitzpatrick is quiet.
ly developing some good material for
the Michigan track team. Harvard Is
having busy season OF indoor sports.
and in addition to the usual midwinter
training stunts, is training strong
teams in swimming. water polo AMI
diving. About the middle of the month,
probably next week. trials will be
held for the class relay teams which
will compete In the class swimming
races to follow soon afterward. There
will be six men on each team and cups
will be awarded to the members of the
winning team.
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