The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-09
WITH HE COLLEGE, ATHLETES
DOINGS IN TIE FIELD OF SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.

Aat About the Competitors for the In
t~ercoIlegiate Games at CambrtdRs
and Chicago-Rowing At Georgetowr
and Princeton and Worries Of Both
Tho lack Of success Of the Michigan
relay team in the four mile race In the
Penn carnival may have a considerable
effect in convincing the Wolverines that
they ought to 30 back into the Western
conference. Every succeeding defeat
that the Michigan athletes meet is hailed
in the middle West by the other colleges
with feelings akin to delight. They BE-
heye out there the more Michigan gets
beaten the moro likely they ara at Ann
Arbor to see that they ought to stick to
the competition whore they belong.
Breaking up Miohigan's long run OF
victories in the four mile relay race was
. great performance for Pennsylvania,
and the moro comforting because Of the
excellent performance Of PAUL In the final
mileA He started considerably behind
Dull, The Michigan track captain. and beat
him handily. 1t 10 curious to note what
Capt. Dull himself put down In writing
np the race for a Detroit paper:
AT the end OF the third mile May handed
me a lead Of fifty yards. It was now q
race between PAUL Of Pennsylvania and
myself. i mad a comfortable lead Of
fifty yards and should have won. PAUL
was 80 much better than myself that he
beat me easily. The reason Michigan
lost this race was because OF my own poor
running. II I had put up any sort Of .
rsce we would have won.'
This certainly II taking It all On himself.
Psull was timed in the race In 4 minutes
70 seconds by Lloyd Jones. tho former
P~ennsylvanis runner He finished strong
and gained altogether nearly $50 yards
on the Michigan captain. Even though
Dull might have been out OF condition,
the performance Of PAUL. shows how fast
he was moving and gives the others who
were figuring on gaining points In the mile
nun something TO think about for that
race in the intercollegiate games. West
Of Michigan ran his relay in 4:3i. II Duh
does not improve II is likely that West
will come on. and he should make some
sort OF a showing.
A couple Of other Michigan men who
did fairly we'll In the field events but who
did not SCORE points were Benbrook and
Homer in the shot put. Kruger Of
swarthmore. who was third in the shot
put, did 43 feet 7 inches. Benbrook was
one inch behind that performance and
Homer two inches behind Benbrook.
Little Of Harvard. who did ~ feet 8 inches
and was second. is likely to bear out the
predictions made that he will win the
shot put in the championships at Cam
bridge.
%sPIrzER's GOOD RACE.
Eclipsing the performance Of PAUL In
the mile was the work done by Splitter
Of Yale in the half mile. He ranothe last
relay in the two mile race and was
timed by A. B. Coke. the old time Yale
Ever since the first Of the year it has been
the intention to work Splitter in the half
mile in the intercollegiate games and his
performances against Virginia and in the
Penn relay games show that the idea
il good. 1t looks as if he should have
no trouble in walking of with the half
mile, barring accidents. whereas in the
mile IT might be he would have some
trouble to win and might even do no
batter than he did last year. when he
scored fourth.
The injured ankle Of Cook OF Cornell,
which kept him out Of the relay games
composition. is o expected to hurt
his work during the rest Of the season;
but Cooks efforts will be devoted to the
broad jump and the hurdles this year.
In the broad jump he is likely t have
trouble with Fitzpatrick. the Yale man
who although hampered by an injury
he got in football is leaping well. He
Ia likely to do % feet or better by the
time the intercollegiate games come
around. and although Cook as q school
boy performer did better than 20 feet
he may not get away with the jump rs
easily as he did last year. Cornell has
another jumper in Nixon. who did fairly
in the relay games and was third in the
special broad jump there. and he may
score at Cambridge.
TALBOT USED 10 COMPETING.
There doesn't seem to be much doubt
that Talbot Of Cornell will come through
in the hammer throw II for no other reason
than the excellent style he displayed at
Philadelphia. Talbot. although a sopho-
more at Cornell. has had A. much COM
petition in the weight events as many
a veteran performer long since out Of
college. A a schoclhoy he competed
in all kinds Of athletic meets. because
Alercersburg was in the habit OF send
ing track teams all over the country.
BE also got into tho open competitions
as a member Of the Irish-American A. G.
track team. so that by this time he Is
pretty we'll Injured to the stress OF CON-
peting in public.
This is rather better than the way In
which the Yale men have been doing.
because from time to time. although
Yale has good men. such as Shevlin and
Cooney, they do not seem to rise TO the
occasion when the occasion arrives.
Horr OF Syracuse did not throw the
hammer in the relay meet. but confined
his efforts to the discus throw, which
anne directly afterward and which he
wanted to win. He took first in that, |
being fairly closely pursued by Horner
OF Michigan. The showing OF the Western
teams in the one mile relay championship
was certainly effective and brought out
the fact that it Is much better to pre-
pare a team steadily for an event than
to pick up the men casually as they come
along. Harvard's team, which was the
best OF the Fasteners, had on 1t two genu-
Inc quarter milers in Merrihew and De
Selding, Jaques, who also ran on the
team, was not a real quarter miller, his
best line being the mile run.