The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-24
IS CHOSEN
Virginia Track and Field
Team Hard at Work.
READY FOR JOHNS HOPKINS
Great Things Are Expected of the
New Men, stanton and Wiltshire.
weather Inferferes with Practice,
but Trainer Lannigan Says Men
VIII Be IN shape for Fray.
SPECIAL TO TIE Washington Herald

SPECIAL 70 TIE Washington Herald
Charlottesville, Va. Jan. 1.-THE track
and field squad at the University OF Viz
ginia is hard al work in an effort to get
in shape for the annual indoor meet TO
be given by johns Hopkins in the Fifth
Regiment Annoy in Baltimore, next
Saturday night
No training was INDUCED In by the va
rious applicants before the Christmas
holidays, and therefore the men are not
as well advanced as was the case last
season. The majority Of the applicants
reported for practice fortnight ago,
but the severe winter weather. especially
the snow and hailstorm OF last Tuesday,
kept the men from Of the outdoor run
ming track on the 7. N. c a. campus.
For five days the runners were forced 70
use the small track in the Fayerweathsr
Gymnasium
Virginia will be well represented st the
Johns Hopkins games. She VIII send
relay team, and. IN addition. viii have
entries in most OF the track and field
events.
Vi-ginia's Men Tried Out.
The trials TO select the best material
for the relay team were held this week
and resulted In the cnoice OF the follow
ing men, Harry H. ThUrlow, OF Buffalo,
n Y. captain; Forrest O. Stanton ann
Don Goodwin, Of Los Angeles, Cal; Wilt
shire. King. and Emmert-
In the trials these men did not show
Up unusually well but. nevertheless.
Trainer Lannigan was Of the opinion
that they would improve greatly in the
next week and round into good form IN
time for the first brush OF the season
with Johns Hopkins
Rector Is Absent.
Rector, OF course. was conspicuous By
absence. OF the new men. Stanton and
Wiltshire are unquesrionabIy the most
promising The former was the star half
back on the varsity football team the
past s. ason. and IS a runner Of much ex-
perience. He held the record in the half
nile on the Pacific Coast Wiltshire was
formerly z student al the Virginia Mill
tary Institute. and has had some ex-
perience on the cinder path IN Baltimore
Emmert halls from the West, and made
a very creditable showing az the field
day exercises held at the university last
fall His only fault appears TO be due
( 10 a little nervousness at the start King
| IS another new nan who VIII prove & fast
/ quarter-miler His home is in Massa-
chusetts. and he handles himself well
I Capt TnurIow and Goodwin were mem
I beTs OF last years relay which capture1
1 the Southern championship.
Men Are Placed.
! Each member Of the relay team vii
I be entered in other events:
/ Thurl~-v IN the ouarter-niIe. Goodwin
in the 90 and quarter, Stanton n tie
/ LOO and &c. ard King and Emmert n tie
I quarter.
other members OF the track and field
! squad. who VIII compete, are:
B Holiday. the football tackle, n the
/ hurdles, high jump shot-pUt, and ~
yard
/ Martin. an aIl-rOUnd man, in the high
I jump. poIe-vault, and hurdles
/ Burke. In the 100 and 20
4 Manager Marbury. OF the track suJ
/ field team. received a letter yesterday
/ inviting Virginia to participate n q
/ triangular meet with Harvard and Co
lumbia. al Madison Square Garden. o.
( the evening Of February 13- The mates
VIII be taken Up az once II the invita-
ton is accepted Trainer Lannigan VII
I enter al once upon the task OF develop
ing a second relay team 20 participate i
the George Washington meet. al Wash
ington, on the same date