Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
TEAM IN TRAINING
Squads at University Are Getting
Into Form.
BIG MEET AT DIES MONIES
Nebrasks Athletes LOOkine Forward
TO Events OF Missouri valley
Conference.-The for
Ames Game.

been delayed several times during the last
three weeks. took place this week. This
was agreed upon at a meeting Of forty of
the candidates on Thursday afternoon. be-
fore the departure OF Captain Mcdonald
and his team for the Kansas City handicap
meet.
The Cornhuskers will be divided into two
practice squads this spring, one working
out on the campus and the other going to
the state fair grounds each day for train
ing. All men taking part in the field events
will remain on the campus for work.
These will include the candidates In the
weights. jumps and pole vault. At the
fair grounds all of the other candidates
will have quarters where they will dress
and prepare for the track.
As planned now, the long distance run
ners will dress at the university gym
nasium and run out to the fair grounds,
train there and run back TO the campus
again. The sprinters and hurdles will go
to the fair grounds on street cars and dress
at the training quarters out there.
Training with the other candidates will
he the freshmen. These first year men are
ineligible for the varsity, but will be al
lowed to participate In two meets of their
own this spring. One of these will be held
at University Place with the Wesleyan uni
versity track team. The other one may be
arranged with some minor college team in
this state. Both meets will be held in May.
Missouri Valley Meet.
The annual Missouri valley conference
track meet, to be held in Des Moines on
June 5, will be an invitation affair. The
active and alumni committees in charge
of the annual games decided upon this
change at a Joint meeting in Des Moines
this week. Last spring the contesting
schools were limited to the seven members
of the conference. This spring the games
will be thrown open to nine other schools
whom the two committees invited to enter
teams. The schools invited are Grinnell,
University OF South Dakota, M~orningside,
Doane, Wesleyn. Rolley School of Mines.
Oklahoma university. Coe college and the
University Of Arkansas.
Owing to the fact that the action of the
committees will make it possible for six
teen schools to send representatives TO the
annual meet, the Des Moines gathering
agreed to hold a preliminary in six events
on the day before the regular meet in June.
These events will be the 22O-yard dash,
44oyard dash, 12O-yard hurdles. 29O-yard
hurdles, pole vault and quarter-mile run.
This preliminary contest will take place at
the Drake Stadium in Des Moines on Fri
day, June 4.
d. Clapp was Nebraska's representative
at Des Moines this week, he being one of
the three members OF the committee ap-
pointed to confer with the alumni repre-
sentatives. Clyde Williams of Ames and
Professor F. II. Eberhardt of Washington
university were DIR. Clapp's associates on
the active committee
Six of the seven Missouri valley con-
ference schools were represented on the
alumni committee, the attendance being as
follows: G. Brewer of Ames, chairman;
Rev. II. F1fer, Nebraska; w. Jones, Drake;
W. Bremmer, Iowa; Prof. Morehouse, Mis-
souri,; Prof. Eberhardt, Washington.
VIII BE BiG Event.
These two committees have entire charge
of the annual meet and will make all
arrangement for holding It in Des Moines.
They are planning to make 1t the greatest
track contest ever held in Iowa and they
expect with favorable weather that a crowd
or 5000 or 10000 people will witness the
games. Prof. Jones OF Drake, w. Bremmer
of Iowa. and Prof. Brewer Of Ames, who
are members OF the committee, nave had
charge of the Iowa state school meets for
forty years and are. therefore, we'll quail
flied for looking after the interests of the
conference schools in the coming games.
The next athletic event which will be of
interest in local university circles will be
the western intercollegiate gymnastic con-
test which will be held in the university
armory on Friday, April 16. This will be
the biggest intercollegiate contest ever held
In LAncoln and, consequently, II is being
awaited with keen anticipation by the
large body of students. Chicago, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Washington and Nebraska will
be the universities represented In the
games.
d. Nebraska stands a slim chance OF winning
the contest. but one of its gymnasts. ID. c.
Mitchell. has an excellent show of winning
the individual honors. Last year he was
second in the meet held at Madison, and
the year before he took third place. Zeidel-
hack, Wisconsin's representative. who won
the Individual medal in both the two meets
during the last two years. will not be on
the Badger team this spring, and for that
reason Mitchell ought to be able to win
first place for Individual work.
Nebraska Third Last Year.
Wisconsin won the annual meet last year,
barely beating out Minnesota, Nebraska
was third and Chicago was fourth. The
will be even weaker than last
spring and probably will have a hard time
defeating Chicago. Washington university
did not nave a team entered last year and
its strength for this spring IL not known.
The individual and team contests will be
determined on the winnings in the following
six events: Horizontal bars, side horse.
flying rings, club swinging, tumbling and
parallel bars. Ncbraska's team will prob
ably be composed OF the following mem
ID. C. Mitchell, II. o. Trump, J. o. Ham
mond, N. r. MoTehouse and Claude Mitch
ell. Tobiska and Snyder, two men who
have done good work with the gymnastic
team this winter. will not be allowed TO
compete in the Intercollegiate contest be-
cause they are freshmen.
The efforts OF Nebraska and Ames TO
agree on a date for their annual foot ball
next fall have come TO naught. and II
now seems certain that the two schools
will not meet on the gridiron this year,
The Nebraska management has dropped
with Ames, for there APP
parently is no acceptable date left open on
the Cornhusker schedule for a meeting be-
tween the two teams. Here Is the way the
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