The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02
VITHTHE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOHNGs IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.

DOHNGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
princeton's Track Team II etreng, Al
though Chances Of Championship Arr
emall-The Material ut Pennsylvania
Not % Good - Usual-Yale's Athletes
They say at Princeton ;his year tina
although there IL small chance that ths
track team will be- at the top In the inter
oollsgiats championships there b. how
ever. . very strong aggregation Of men
Yals anticipates o hard time with Prince
ton IN their dual meet this year. A. F
COPELAND, the Princeton trainer, has some
exceptional men in several lines. In the
spirits Prinoeton IL strong. r.. A. Gamble
The captain Of the team, was fourth ir
the intercollegiate 100 yard u last year
third against Yale In the Yale-Prtnoeton
dual meet In the short dash and won botf
tho 100 and the 40 against Cornell and
Columbia, 30 Gamble 10 . seasoned per.
former. In spite Of all CANDLES export.
ence he Ii not Princeton's best man In
the 100 yard run.
W. L. Dawbarn has turned out In great
style and apparently is sure to clean ur
not only Gamble but most Of the Other
man whom he viii tackle. II Foster ot
Harvard holds his present form OF i'm
proves a bit and Rector runs as he car
in the 100 yards. not to mention Mindo oil
P~ennsylvania and Sherman Of Dart
mouth, the sprint raoe in the interoollegi.
ate games should provide q splendid
competition. Princeton has also e. @.
Jessup, now a sophomore. who wai
we'll known as q wonderful performer In
his schoolboy days. When Jessup Wal a
Boys High School he cleaned up every
thing In the line Of interscholastic sprintl
and afterward did some fine work at st
Psul's School. The trouble with Jessup
as with 30 many interscholastio per-
formers. Is that he was run to pieces fol
the benefit Of the trainers who handled
him and OF the schools he attended.
Although rather young he undertook
the amount Of work that q seasoned
veteran might have accomplished and his
phenomenal burst Of early speed did moi
stay with him. A case something like
that Of Jessup IL Cedric Major, a Brook.
lyn lad who is running the hall mile now
Major has overex tended himself and Is In
bad shape through excessive competition.
II u understood, however, that no amount
Of argument has been able to persuade
him to keep out Of the game. Jsssup al
present Is Of no value to the Princeton
track team because a chronic stomach
trouble, a heritage Of his early overhaul.
gence in athletics, is keeping him back
He probably never will get back to the
form which made him the leading schp-
lastic performer Of his day.
DAwpARN IN YURLoNo.
In the 40 yard run Princeton will bank
on Dawbarn- Charaoteristically, Coach
COPELAND says. ANY one who beats him,
bar nobody, will know he has been to the
raceA-' Last year the 22o yard run had
sherman of Dartmouth and Bfumer OF
Harvard, who finished in that order,
Pennsylvenia has lost Cartmel and Whit
ham, but Sherman and Blumer still are In
college. Bfumer IL showing strength not
only In the 40 yard ruin but In the quarter
mile as well. and with his added foroe
Nhould be a strong man in the furlong.
doCtOL performance Oh DetooT uihn ~
seconds In the Yale Virginia dual meet
epeaks well for the olympic runner and 90
here the Princetonian should have some
lively competition.
However. it is known that for . long
time COPELAND has been very sweet On
Dawbarn's chances. and certainly his
indoor performances have shown him
to be q sprinter of considerably
than ordinary ability. .
n@-~>ko~~ l. .Nt ~a14lxv vNf xA~u -An
on in the quarter mile run. as Atlee. who
beat 50 seconds In the dual meet against
Yale Last year. is not available for the race.
Conger, q senior. q performer who did
not show anything in the dual meets last
wear In that event but finished third In
the half mile run against Cornell. Is the
mainstay. Conger ia not rated very
Princeton is far from badly OH
in the half mile event, especially II White
ley. a junior now gets into shape.
Whiteley has been a most unfortunate
runner. In his schoolboy days he was a
wonder, but he was not run out by any
before he to college. The
of a disability which requires
from time to time has made
IL practically impossible for .Whiteley to
remain in training for any long period.
looked T. have q strong chance to win
the intercollegiate ~cross-country cham
pionship. went to the bad on account OF
the rea ppearance OF his old trouble:
In spite OF that he entered the race and
finished a ine fourth. Had not his strength
given out in the last few hundred yards
he must have been second.
The following spring, last year, he ran
in the half mile run against Yale and
won it in slightly wei two minutes. He
into a hole on Yale Field and
hurt his ankle. That put him u Of
composition for the rest OF the year. Last
fall he was unable to compete in the cross
6buntry runs because he was not in any
sort Of physical condition, and this spring
no has been running only for a week or so.
the late start having been necessitated
in April.
WHITLEY A FIRST RATER.
WHITLEY ran in his school days well
around 1853 for the half mile. and he Is
considered. when in condition, n OF the
hest middle distance men in this country.
He has Us e team mate Frlntz, who fin
ished fourth In the half mile run In the
intercollegiate games last year n third
in the mile against Cornell in the dual
meet. Frants is a very strong man and
v i'll do exceptionally we'll in wet weather:
and Parsons. who are fair, but nothing
more than that.
In the mile run Princeton Is very well
provided with McGee. He did under 400
indoors from a short mark, and all his
performances throughout the winter lead
to the belief that he is going to be among
the leaders in the mills run In the inter-
collegiate games. He will get thorough
tryouts in the meets with Yale and Cor
nell and il he IL pilted against Splitter and
heats the Yale man It certainly will do
much to make his stock boom. At any