The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-13
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOINGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IA EAST AND WEST.
Haryard's Track Team VIII he strong
Next Year Too-Men who Placed This
Time Who VIII He Eligible for the
Next intercollegiate Championships.

Time Who VIII He Eligible for the
Next intercollegiate Championships.
Not very many minutes after the 22o
yard run in the intercollegiate games at
Cambridge was over. while the
ment Of the point score was being made
the trainer of one Of the leading college
teams said: Harvard won this time,
and az far as / can see Harvard ought
to win next year. What he had in mind
was that Harvard loses only two of the
men who scored in the meet this year.
They are II. G. HARDWOOD. 90. who tied
with four other men. two Of them Har-
ward athletes, in the high jump, and
w. NJ. Rand. 90. captain of the team.
who was third in the 100 yard high hurdle
race and fourth in the go yard low hurdle
race. This leaves Harvard with all save
s is points Of the 20 lilo scored in this
years meet. a very strong beginning.
to say the least.
Prominent among the men the Crimson
will have neXt year ia II. c. Foster. II.
Who won both the clashes. In the 100
yard run Foster was hard pressed by
r. C. Craig, II, of Michigan. The Wolver-
inc ran a very fine race, showing that he
should be a very strong contender next
time. Foster ran in the relay games
in the special 100 yard race. defeating
May Of Illinois and Dawbarn of Prince
ton there. At no time until the inter-
collegiate meet did he give positive indi-
cations that he was a good 10 second
performer. In his semi-inal heat in that
meet he ran in even time.
He himself said after the meet he had
come along well in the 100 yard race only
about a week before the games, A trick
OF starting that gave him greater ease
and surety on the mark had been mas
tered by him only in the last few days
OF training. Fosters performances serve
TO show that his greatest strength is
likely to be in the f%urlong. He is a slow
beginner. but he comes along at the
end of his races with such a burst of
speed that it is doubtful il any one he
could hold for $50 to 40 yards in 22o yards
would be able to finish within five yards
OF him for the full furlong.
The persons who follow sport were
convinced that he would have equalled
the fine mark of 81 Is seconds for the
200 yard run on the second day of the
1. c. A. A. A. A. meet had the track been
in anything like fast condition. The
deep gouges made in il by the men in the
preceding events as well as the unfavor-
able weather conditions made his race
in 81 3-5 seconds look particularly good.
II Harvard were not already provided
with quarter milers enough Foster could
be turned over to that event. The style
In which he carries himself for 22O yards
is indication that he could burn tip the
track for the longer distance. 1t was
noticeable that once Foster got going
he had difficulty in slowing down after
crossing the line at the finish.
He remarked on that himself, saying:
Absolutely. l feel foolish running on
50 far. but when I get set. 50 to speak,
In that finishing squirt it's a fight to stop
running once l pass the finish" Fosters
great ambition. a desire which it seems
fair to expect will be realized, is to equal
the record for 200 yards. His improve
mont in one brief season has been so I'M
usual that it looks almost a certainty
that he will uphold Harvard traditions
in sprinting and will achieve something
remarkable in the two years he has still
10 compete in the college games.
THREE 100 YARD f LEFT
OF the men who finished in the places
In the 100 yard run, Foster, Craig and
G. w. Minds, Pennsylvania. all have
two years more to go. W. Il. Dawbarn
OF Princeton. a senior this year, is out
OF competition from now on. He was
fourth in the short sprint.
In the go yard race Dawbarn finished
second to Foster. 1t seems fair to believe
that the Princetonian's better distance
is the furlong. He did not show to adj
vantage for the shorter race although
he had beer timed in some good per-
formances. In the furlong he gave
Foster a fair enough race for little more
than half the distance, but the finishing
squirt Of the Crimson man was consider
ably too much for him. Minds finished
a comfortable third in this race, with
l.. Watson, 10, of Harvard, fourth. Wat
son had little enough TO beat, il being a
question Of endurance in outlasting r. A.
Gamble, the Princeton track captain, who
has finished his intercollegiate career.
1t will he noticed that Minds. although
he produced no great performances.
scored we'll for his college. He should be
heard OF tn better advantage before he
gets through. Watson is a rather hard
Working sprinter, who won his varsity
letter with a third in the Harvard Va lie
meet. He cinched he claim to the letter
with his performance in the intercollegiate
games.
IL can be seen that the quality Of sprint
ing in general in the intercollegiate meet
was not this year what ii has been on some
other occasions. Take. for instance. the
games in 1902, when in the final heat were
grouped Duffey. Schick, Moulton and
Westney. 1t was not then the case of
lust one good man, but Of several. IL
seems actually as il the ~schoolboys were
doing better performances than the college
men. In the final heat OF the 100 yard race
of the Andover-ENeter meet this year
there were such runners as Cornell and
Burns. either Of whom is good for
10 seconds. In almost all the good inter.
scholastic meets this veal 10 second per
formances were recorded This is not Ia
say that the winners nowadays are not
men Who could not have held up their own
In any company-certainly Foster can dc
that for 22O yards with anybody-bu
merely to note that the sprinting end OF
the programme no longer is crowded with
first raters. while mediocre athletes are
taking prizes in the others.
As far IA winning a championship goes
no man who took u first in he ntercol
legiate games this year need worry. "
matter in what sort Of race he finds hi/l.
self. From one end Of the card TO tbs
other the performances where not o