The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-14
YALE MAY WIN CUP
Outlook Encouraging for Track
Meet With Harvard Next
Saturday,
STEVENS AGAIN PRACTICING
Goes Over tho Hundred In Good Time
and May BE Able To Compete
I'm Contest.

Very encouraging has become the
outlook for the Yale track team In the
dual meet with Harvard next Saturday |
and unless something unforeseen hap
pens 1t seems probable that Yale viii
take the games by about 10 points.
With the games this year goes the
Harvard Yale cup, which the teams
have been striving for for several
years,
Tho latest encouragement for the
hackers of the Yale team Is the fact
that In all probability stevens Will be
able to run. Yesterday afternoon he
was at the track and went through
some fairly strenuous work. Both he
and Butler went over the hundred In
fast time and should be be able to run
Saturday, there Is little doubt of the
outcome Of the meet unless Harvard
develops some dark horses, Stevens can
do the hundred In 10 seconds fiat, which
| is n fifth OF second shorter time than
| was made by any Harvard man In the
meet with Dartmouth last Saturday.
| With stevens out the chances for Yale
in the hundred are equal to that of
Harvard. for Carey last Saturday went
over the hundred in 10 is seconds
| Carey is having only the llghtest
work and Is in fine form for the sprints
and hurdles next Saturday He Is per-
fectly 1T and could undoubtedly make
better record this coming Saturday
on q good track than he did last Sat
urday under the poor conditions preva-
lent
! Tho only apparent way to compare
/ the Yale and the Harvard teams Is by
their performances against Princeton
and Dartmouth respectively last satur-
day The performances at New Haven
were with two or three exceptions bet
ter than those at Cambridge. One of
the exceptions was In the shot-put,
whore Harvards performance was bet
ter Another was In the two-mile. Har-
ward Is stronger than Princeton was In
the field and some of the points which
went to Yale last Saturday may be lost
in the coming event.
The Yale team will leave here tomor-
row and will probably go to Auburndale
TO stay until the meet. II had been
planned at first to have the team go
up Thursday and have little work
at Soldiers field Friday in preparation
for the games, but this was finally de-
cdcd against,
\ point which should be remembered
In the coming meet is that Roosevelt.
Merrlhew and Dodge, did not compete
against Dartmouth, and the last named
two are among the best Harvard track
athletes Dodge, with Lockwood. will
be Yales closest opponent in the hum
dred yard dash. Tho same team Will
run against Carey and Lilley In the
go In the half mile 1t Is believed that
La Montague has good chance ot
winning against Merrihew and De Seld-
ing. especially since De Selding is not
IN good form
kiriassoff and Tison are the princi-
pal Yale entries against Whitcher and
Watson of Harvard the men are very
evenly matched and the race should be
ono Of the prettest OF the meet Mil
Ter Of Harvard and splitter of Yale will
be tho attractions In the milo, but the
advantage IS slightly IN favor Of the
: former. He has more endurance than
splitter
The two mile run last Saturday with
Princeton was one of the best events
Of the meet and the same event with
Harvard promises to he equally as
good Crosby and Dole of Harvard by
past performances are about the equal
of Weeks and Brown of Yale, and the
finish should be lively Brown stands
/, the best show of arriving in first
Harvard, will easily take the high
jump and probably the broad, as all
IT'S entries have been doing better work
than the Yale men. In the shot put II
looks as If Harvard would get two
places and Yale one. The hammer
throw looks pretty bright for Yale with
: Cooney, Bialow and Goebel continual
~ improving.
And Yale will come up strongest OF
all In the pole vault With the weather
conditions favorable captain Walter
Dray will break his own worlds record
and establish a new one, He and Gill
bert and Nelson have all been going
over - feet and II Is doubtful II any
Harvard man can come within speak
ing distance Of them.