The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-17
Outlook in College Track
Athletics Next Spring.
RESULT IS HARD TO PICK
Former PenRSy Athlete Reviews
Past Performers and Names Men
Likely to Win Points az the In
tereOIlegIates in Philadelphia Next
season-DartmOuth Loses Shaw.
BY SOL mETzGER.

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yet it is certainly a question uppermost
in the minds OF at least half a dozen
trainers and several hundred athletes,
who are now beginning the work which
will bring success or defeat in the big
struggle which is to'take place the end
OF the coming Nay.
The meet in 1893 at Franklin Field.
Philadelphia, turned out to be almost as
close and exciting as the one at Soldiers
Field Cambridge. the year before.
though the difference in points was some
what greater between the teams which
won first and second hoHOrs respectively.
At this writing it is a hard thing 10
predict what the result OF the coming
meet will be, but from the return Of ex-
ceIlent talent and the graduation OF many
stars there IS likely TO be one OF those
close and exciting meets this spring
which VIII not be decided until the last
event is run of. as was the case with
PennsyIvanis's win over Michigan In
1907. and CorneH's defeat Of Pennsylvania
last spring, upon the latter's own
grounds.
There Is no better way Of getting at the
prospects for the coming meeting Of the
colleges than 70 look over the work Of
the individuals who composed the differ
ent teams during the past year, note
what each has done under the strain
Of a big championship. and count these
men who have returned as a fair nucleus
for the 1913 team. remembering ali the
while that these same veterans viii give
a fair estimate OF the strength OF their
respective teams for this yesr.
Following such a plan one cannot help
but see the best Of prospects for great
meet this spring. with Cornell. Yale. and
Harvard close cOEteGders for first hOno7s.
Dartmouth 10 be watched with care. and
the never-falling Nike Murphy not 10 be
forgotten as a surprise springer with the
Pennsylvania team, which won Two years
ago and finished second last season
Won by Narrow Margin.
Cornell won last years meet with
margin Of four and one-half points over
the team from Pennsylvania. but she be
gins this season with loss Of but twenty
OF these points. whereas Pennsylvania
has lost twenty-six points. the Two there
fore starting Of with Cornell far ahead of
her old rival. but closely pushed by me
teams OF Yale and Harvard. each OF
whom look like coutenders for champion
ship honors this year.
Yale. the third team. under the tutelage
OF Johnny Mack. has the best prospects
Of all. retaining as 2 nucleus the men
who Won fifteen and one-third Of her
total :. twenty-five al last years games.
Harvard. the fourth team 20 finish in
1905. Is already az work with the men
who won twelve OF their seventeen and
one-half points in last years champion
ships. and with a splendid set Of new
men 20 mold q winning team
Dartmouth retains ten 81 her point
winners. having graduated Shaw, her
star hUrdler. who Won seven more FOR
the Green & year ago Michigan Loses its
two distance runners. who won her SIX
points last year, though her total must
have been higher had not
mistake been made in ringing the bell for
the last lap in the two-mile run, when
her runners seemed on a fair way 10
win two Of the best places.
Swarthmore retains five points out q
six won last year: Princeton all four that
she captured: Columbia two Of her four.
and Syracuse the three made by HoTr.
Cornell viii Be Strong.
At Cornell Trainer Moakley viii have
more evenly balanced team than in some
years. for, besides being especially strong
in the distance runs, in which Cornell
has always scored most heavily, he has
Cook in the broad jump and pole vault;
Young and De GOlyer, who won second
81
lively: Talcott. second in the high hur-
dies; Cook. who won the BROS jump at
last years meet and who can be counted
upon in the pole vault with such men as
Dray and Gilbert, Of Yale. out OF it. and
men like Talbot. the former MERGERS
burg Academy weight man. and Taylor
and Brown. who showed I'D so vel in
the intercollegiate cross-country run in
the fall. Cornell has a splendid nucleus
TO again win for her the much-prized
iaurels Of an intercollegiate track cham
pionship.
Trainer Mack at Yale has as good pros
poets for winning the big college games
rs he has ever had. and ne has some
men In Kirjassoff. who took
third in the $50; Splitter. who won a
fourth in the mile: Howe who won the
low hurdles and tailed a fourth in the
high sticks; Robbins. who took a third
IN the high hurdles and Campbell and
Nelson. who Won two out Of the four
places made by Yale in the pole vault
Graduation only lost her pole vaUlters.
Capt. Dray and Gilbert
Harvard Has some Good Men.
Harvard retains such good mea as
Blumer in the spirits. where he should
score heavily, seeing that CartmeH and
Whitman. Of Pennsylvania. both Of whom
beat him, have graduated. leaving as his
,nly rival Sherman. OF Dartmouth: Mer-
thew. who took q close second 20 Tay-
or in the so: Gardner. who carried OF
ourth IN the low hurdles; HarwOod. who
Won the high jump with Palmer. OF
Dartmouth; Pope, who took third in
hat event. and Little who won third in
he shot-put- She has a goodiy amount 1
Y new and experienced naer 70 permit her (
rainers TO produce a splendid team.
Dartmouth must build her hcpes upon
sherman, who won second place in the I
%. third In the go. and fourth in the /
road jump. and Palmer. who tied for 4
irst place in the high jump. While
Princeton counts on Gamble. who won a /
Ourth in the Ice. Frantz. who von the /
anne place in the half-mile. and Taicott /
Who took third in the broad Jump. to 1
luSh Up her total this spring.
Columbia, under the former sprintar.
Vefers, Is dependant upon Hayns. who I
ron third in the mile. Hall who took I
bird in the two-mile. having graduated. /
syracuse must depend upon Horr. who
las always scored in the hamner-throw.
asst year taking second to Pew. OF Cor /
leli who has graduated.
West Point, -; Wesleyan, ..