Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-16
.UNITEAM READY
FOR ANCIENT FOE
DOpesters Sc. Good Chance to Win
Dual Track Meet with
Kansas.
IMPORTANT CONTEST OF YEAR
Opportunity offered to Get Revenge
for Earlier Defeats,
JAYHAwKs SPORT GOOD TEAM
Visitors Said to Be Stronger Than
Last Year.
BASE BALL MEN DEADLoCKED
SIX of Twelve BelonginE to olark's
own Fraternity VIII support
Him-CIsrk May Get
IMPORTANT CONTEST OF YEAR
Opportunity offered to Get Revenge
for Earlier Defeats,
TAyHAwKs SPORT GOOD TEAM
Visitors Said to Be Stronger Than
Last Year.
BASE BALL MEN DEADIoCKED

o. Nne Hehts
LINCOLN, May 16.-CSpecisl)-Kansas,
the Oldest and most honorable foe of Ne.
brssks, will be the next opponent Of the
Cornhusker cInder path athletes, being
scheduled TO meet the local team in the
annual dual track games at the state fair
grounds a week from today. May ~ This
contest with the Jayhawkers is by far the
most important one of the Nebraska
season. Bringing to- Lincoln, a. 1t does,
representative of q school that has 'tri-
umphed over the Cornhusker athletes In
three branches of college sport during the
current school year. It naturally IL re-
Earded from the standpoint of the local
university: students as the time when some
compensation should be made to the low
cred honors OF. the State university
through the achievement of. a signal VIC
tory over the athletes from the Sunflower
state. II is the keen desire of the scarlet
and cream followers 10 see the honors lost
this year by defeats in foot ball. basket
ball and base ball partly retrieved that is
causing the coming meeting on the cinder
path with the Jayhawkers to be awaited
with restless interest. t'
Since the Kansas foot ball swarriors last
November bent the cornhuskers in isnomi-
nous defeat Nebraska students and alumni
have been almost, praying for revenge.
They LOOKED for a little of 1t in the basket
ball race. butuhere the lCornhuskers. were
badly. trampled upon again by. the Kan
sans. Then, this spring, they thought
their cup Of joy would receive a. liberal
filling; and here again the result was only
a repetition OF the losses in foot ball and
basket ball. Now, once more, the rootefs
are looking TO the future for a turning
tide that will bring in to Nebraska a share
of glorious, victory. The outlook. this time,
too, is much. brighter than 1t was in either
the case OF basket, ball or, that of base. ball,
but even at that IL does not indicate any
certain victory for the sCornhuskers. 1t
only gives the Nebraska athletes a prom
Use of a better chance OF winning than they
4 had, in, any of the; previous meetings With
the Jayhawkers this year.
Kansas stronger Than Ever.
Kansas, apparently, lie stronger than IL
was last season when the .Cornhuskers.w won
the annual meet with a score OF g to 40,
while Nebraska can hardly be rated as
high as it was a year ago. Losses of men
in the long runs and in one or two field
events have made the team weak in spots.
II the Cornhuskers win. however, from the
Jayhaykers they will have to take a ma
jority of the points in the field events and
in the hurdles.
In the shorter runs Nebraska will face
" iaSN OPPOAiChAof Hb lVJ-ydTu QdSu
is lfkely to. go to the J~ayhawkers, for their
Splinter Haddock is capable Of running
this distance in 10 seconds flat and regu-
larly. makes it in at least 10h. 1t is this
ability to regularly run the century in one
second above ten. fiat that gives Haddock
the edge on the Cornhusker sprinters.
Wildman and Campbell both have as good
records as Haddock, and wildman even has
a better one, but the sprinting of neither
Is consistent. One day they run at 101h
speed and the next day they are slower.
Last spring Wildman could go at a 10
second clip, but so far this season he has
failed to recover the form he had then.
Should he get back into his oId-time con-
dition he could dispose of Haddoek easily
next week.
20-yard dash. In the meet between Kan
sas university and the Kansas State Asrk
? cultural college two weeks ago he tripped
) the distance in o:8. This time is faster by
, one second than Campbell made against
iMorningside last Saturday when he won
. the event. II is three-fifthH of a second
? better than was made in the local pre-
I itminary meet.
. Reed High In =
: The 44o,yard run ought to be won BY
: Reed OF Nebraska. The -Ccrnhusker won
this event in the preliminary in 0:S2% and
lost at Morningside in O;62A. Either Of
: these times was faster than Christian made
= against Kansas when he won the event
for the Manhattan AgEies in o.Ssk. Fair
child, who took second place for Kansas,
: will be the leader in this event here and
should be a poor second.
Running in the same form he ala al
: Morningside. ANDERSON OF Nebraska could
> capture the half-mile run next week. He
went the distance in 2O6AS. surprising DIT.
: clApp and showing that he had made won
derful development since the preliminary
= meeting, when his time was 2:lbss. The best
Kansas half-miler. Badger. has done this
year waS 2'O1&, made against the Manhat.
tan Aggies.
Captain Mcdonald of Nebrs ska. with hia
records OF ;iS% and rs. will probably have
= no trouble In winning the high and Low
a hurdle races. Johnson, for Kansas, only
z made the high sticks in :l7% against rn'
z Agsiss when he won first place. McDon
y aid, no doubt, will Lead him by sevsrs
feet in the event. In the high hurdles
NewboId is the Jayhswker star, his bes
time this year is only :27, being the recorc
that won trst place for him in the Asgi
games. Last Saturday the Nebraska cap
tain ran these sticks In rs is at Morning
side, which is a sure sign he will be NOR
e than a match for Newbold.
,e Jayhawks An Distance Runs.
The mile aud two-mile runs are events
that Will probably be wen by the Jay,
hsWkers, Tor the cornhuskers are weak If
: each Of them, ana allowed Morningside "a
capture first and second places in the mills
and first place IN the two-mils last week
The time IN the Manhattan-Kcnsas meel
for the mile run vas 4:ls. This event wal
won by Austin OF the Aggies and Clark Of
! Kansas was second. The tine made al
y Mcrningside was 4;soS and Nebraska d