Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09

urdsy. S. Collins. one Of the best men
with the shot in the state. is carrying such
heavy university work that so far this
spring he has refused to give any OF his
time to the weights. Or. Clapp has his
promise, though. that he will report tor
work Monday.
nfg Meet Neat Friday.
Local interest Of the students at the
state school will be c~entered this coming
week in the annual interscholastic meet
which will be held at the state fair grounds
Friday afternoon. DR.. Clspp. who has
charge OF the local arrangement for the
games, says more schools will be repre-
scented this season than in any previous
year. Practically all the schools that were
represented in 1903 will send teams here
again. Besides the old contestants there
will be several new ones. The entry list
closed Friday night with a total Of over
sixty institutions enrolled for the contest.
Fairbury, the winner OF the meet last
season, is sending another strong aggre-
cation, hoping to win first place for the
second time. This year, however. Fairbury
will have some strong opposition from the
Lincoln High school. which has one Of
the best cinder path teams that has rep
resented the local high school since 1903.
Oman also will have several strong ath-
letes here and ought to make a strong bid
for one OF the high places.
The meet will be started at 245 Friday
afternoon AS now planned three events
will run off at the same time, the runs.
weights and jumps occurring simulta-
neOnsly. DR.. C1app expects to have the
meet closed at 5 o'clock.
The Nebraska faculty and students are
planning to entertain the visitors to the
meet for two days, Friday and Saturday.
Friday morning the high school pupils
will be taken on a tour OF inspection
around the university campus; Friday aft
ernoon they will witness the meet; Satur-
day morning they will be taken to the
ball game between the Cornhuskers and
Drake university at Antelope park; and in
the afternoon they will have an opportu-
nifty to see the Lincoln league In action
against Topeka.
Rail- Team Doing Well.
The Cornhusker base ball team this week
has been>making its annual eastern trip
and winning a majority Of the games
played. The tour was closed at Minneapolis
today in the second OF two contests with
the University OF Minnesota. On the jour
ney the Nebraska men played two Mis-
souri, valley championship games. winning
one from Drake and losing one to Ames.
The fast Cornell nine was defeated
Wednesday in a non-league game.
One home game is scheduled for the Corn
huskers this week, Drake being booked
for a go on Saturday morning at Antelope
park. The game is to be played in the
morning because the grounds will be used
by the Lincoln leaguers in the afternoon.
Southpaw Ward will twirl this contest for
the Cornhuskers and ought to win It.
brakes chief weakness this spring is In the
box, and the C~ornhuskers anticipate no
trouble in the batting line.
The campaign among the students for
membership on the Nebraska athletic
board came to q close tonight. 1t was not
marked by any such show Of interest as
was manifested in the election last year
Considerable campaigning has been done by
the various candidates, but 1t has nearly
all been of the ''gumshoe' variety. Tht
annual election will be held Monday.
The list of men seeking position includes
twelve names Of students more or less
prominent In university circles. Eight Of
the candidates have won their Nebrasks
letter In one or more branches of Corn
husker sport. Five students will be elected
from the twelve aspirants. The names O.
the candidates are Ohren Better, r.. M
Carroll, William Chaloupka, s. p. Dobbs
C. Fl Elliott, L. c. HummelL G. c. Long
Dale Mcdonald, 8. A. Hahood, D.. c
Mitchell, H. o. Perry and A. c. Schmidt
CLYDE E. ELLIOT.