The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-12
C|NDER PATH
DURING 1903
YALE HAS MORE AND BETTER MA
TERIAL FOR TRACK WORK
THAN 1T HAS ROASTED IN A DE-
cADE AND HOPES TO REGAIN
LOST HoNoRs-coLUMBiA is
HARD AT WORK AND MEN GIVE
GOOD PROMISE.
BY Knox BIokon.

| New York, Jan. IA little trip
ern institutions of learning and phys
ical 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 show
ings for the early season. Not in many
years have such flattering reports
been received from the enthusiastic
trainers of all the big universities.
Yale has more and better material
for its track team than has been avail
able in a decade, and the Ellis are ap-
parently justified in their fond ambi-
ton 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 new
stars are rapidly coming to the front.
The Ellis are strong in new sprinters
among them Montague, Butler, Cary,
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
| I'LL the lCdA1 may UC d 41NIAS WSaA,
but the men are developing in such
shape that this weakness will probab-
ly disappear before the more import
ant events of the spring. Eli Parsons
has been lost for the half mile, but
with Kirjasserof, Tiison, Frissell,
Weeks and Mann, Yale expects to
hold her own in this event. Seymour
and Villas will take care of the quar-
ter mile. The high jumping veterans
on the squad are r. 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 cham
pionship of the country. Josh Crooks,
assisted by George Bonhog and Fred
Rogers, are putting the men through
their stunts. One man in the inter-col
legiate championship relay team of
last year has left, but promising mate
rial has been discovered with which
to fill the vacancy, Sanders and Mink,
Of the half-milerS; BOorman, Rowles
and Paulson in the sprints, and num-
Der of cross-country men, including
Montgomery, Wheeler and Hall, make
the distance squad strong one. Ryan
in the high jump, mckenzie, Murray
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lock and Eurd in the hammer and
shot events. make up the nucleus of
a team which Columbia confidently ex-
poets to smash at least one re1 ord be-
fore the season is over. The Morning
side bunch will be a disappointment to
its admirers if 1t 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 adj
herents. PENIS prospects appear to be
the brightest of any of the eastern
institutions. Captain ContweII has de-
veloped much new material, and is
confident that the new men viii make
good on the track team. Bonsack, Hos
kins, Taylor and Jones are al back at
Penn, and there are also several
promising new men in the sprinters'
Division including Hunter and Paul.
Mccullough, the famous Quaker hurd-
Ter, has gone, but in Hartranft there
has developed promising candidate
tor the place he oce upied. Bennton,
3 western man from the University OF
Utah, shows promise as hammer
thrower, as does Coleman.
Cornell has some good men, and
out at Ann Arbor Fitzpatrick is quiet
~ developing some good material for
the Michigan track team. Harvard is