Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07

even a fairly rood nerk. This spring.
with good luck. ne probably will win first
place At the Des Moines games In the
jump.
Two field events. the high jump and the
pole vault. will be the weakest points with
the Cornhuskers. The graduation OF
Knode last June took away the leading
high jumper. The two leaders for this sea
son will be Hsmel and Hummoil. The
former won first place In The Minnesota
meet a year ago. but has been beaten
indoors all winter by Hummeli. who made
five feet. eight inches on charter day. that
mark being only two inches lower than
the outdoor record. Hummell with prse-
tice. DR.. C1app believes, will be able to
equal the record by May.
McMasters. the best pole vaulter on last
years team. is not In school and the Corn
huskers are without any promising ma
terial to take his place. Russell, who was
on the team last spring. is so errstic in
his Waiting that he can not be de-
pended upon to win any points. This event
will be Nebraska's weakest point. and DR..
Clapp will give much attention to gather
ing new material to work out in II.
A review of the list Of candidates shows
that the leaders in five Of the events
are AibO NUe nOl0efH OF Inc RECORDS IN
them. Captain Mcdonald has the record
in each OF the hurdle races: Perry has
the best mark in. the broad jump. and Sid
ney Collins holds the university honors in
both the shotput and the discus throw.
Weak OnIy in Pole Vault.
The review also shows that the Corn
huskers will have strong men entered in
practically all Of the events excepting the
pole vault. In every event but two there
are at least three men who may be said
TO be Of varsity caliber. This condition at
the opening OF the training season gives
Nebraska the best outlook for an all-vic-
torious track team that It probably ever
has had. With three record-holders form
ing q solid basis In five events and with
a promising bunch Of material to build up
the other games, the Cornhuskers are GER
tain to make a wonderful bid for the
championship OF the Missouri valley.
The cinder path candidates will be handi-
capped in their training by the lack OF
an athletic field on the campus. The race
track At the state fair grounds will be
used again this season, but its distance
from the university is 30 great an incon-
venlence that several OF the candidates will
not be able to give as much time TO the
training as they will wish to do.
The arrival OF Coach Fox TO take charge
Of the base bail squad on Wednesday, will
be q signal for new show OF life among
the 100 candidates. Coach Fox will i'm
mediately begin the wedding Sht process
and within a week or two after he takes
up his work will have the ranks OF the
candidates reducedst TO twenty-five or thirty
men.
The chief puDblem which will confront
him will be the developing OF a staff Of
twiriers for the nine. 1t was in the box
that the Cornhuskers were weak last sea-
son and it is there they will again be
shy of competent men unless a great deal
OF time is given to working out the as
pirlng twirlers.
Captain Beltzer and Coach Fox will get
their heads together on the pitching oues-
ton and will tax their resources in to the
limit in the great task of getting the
right men To occupy the box this spring,
There are now eight men on the squad
who aspire to be varsity twirlers and with
Inc right kind OF coaching and encourage
Ment a trio of them can be developed into
pitchers who will win games.