Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOings in the Field Of Sport in East
and West.
COLUMBIA TRACK TEAM STRONG
Berna, Ex-COrnell, shows Great Pow
ers by Three Good Races I'm
One Day-Other Good
Performers.

colleBlate games next spring, judging from
the results OF the underclass games on
South field. The freshmen, Roos and
Berna, and the sophomore. Harry Bah
cock. are three who should be heard from
in the championship meet.
Berna's performances was g~iit-edged.
First Of all he ran the mile. coming home.
after a good struggle in 4 minutes 429k
seconds. About eighteen minutes later no
turned out for the half mile, taking that
in 2 minutes 119S seconds. In this race he
finished quite alone and merely strobe
down the stretch, making no effort for
time.
1t is a good man who can do three races
In the distances in one afternoon, almost
without regard to the class Of the COMPETE
tion he may be in. Therefore when Berna
turned out for the two miles It was to be
expected that IL he won he would not do
anything very fast. Quite the reverse.
He appeared to gather strength in going
and was better in this last race than in
the first.
He cantered home, yards and yards ahead
Of anyone else. in Q minutes 59M seconds,
and for the first time brought the Column
bia two-mile record down under 10 min
utes. The day on which Berna ran was
cold and raw. The track was IN fair CON
dition, but none too good, and had been
run on much before. Berna had had two
races, which, as has been said, is a great
task, and in this third, coming within half
an hour after his second race, he made
all the pace.
Here IL What He Did.
In other words, he accomplished the
feat Of running three and a half miles In
something under an hour in the three sep
arate races. And at that his third appear
ance was a first rate performance, one
that almost any man in any college would
have been proud to be able to do at this
time OF the year.
Berna is registered as q freshman at
Columbia. The Cornell catalogue OF last
year does not give his name, so that
presumably he was not in residence the
second half year. Berna was on proba-
ton at Cornell and for that reason prob
ably dfd not get a chance to show what
he could do. If he had run in the inter
collegiate games last spring against p.
j. Taylor, another Comedian, the Amer
lean two-mile record holder would have
had a time to beat him It is certain. Berna
was right on top OF Taylor all the time
when the two ran In two-mile, trial races
at Ithaca, so that Berna probably would
have furnished more fireworks than Gayle
Dull did at Cambridge.
Rugged Runner is He.
Berna is a tall, rugged runner. He
appears to weigh about 1853 pounds and
maybe more. His height is about six
feet He has an easy style free stride
and good leg control. He apparently
has all the strength he needs and his per-
Torrance in the Columbia underclass meet
helps confirm this impression. BY the
way, this is another good performance
lost to Meakley Of Cornell, who must feel
more than a little regretful that Berna
did not keep up his scholarship standing.
Men like these will help to put Columbia
back on the athletic map. Scoring points
In the Intercollegiate games from time to
time Is a good way to call attention to
the fact that Columbia has a track team.
The New Workers may yet come to be
figured on when championships are being
doped out. AS a matter of fact Berna's
good work will cause some worrying, both
In the cross-country race this month and
In the Intercollegiate meets of next spring.
Not only Berna, but the other two of
the Columbia track team, Roos and Bah
cock, will take looking after. Roos has
put the sixteen-pound shot better than
forty-three feet. In the underclass games
he was easily first with almost forty-one
feet. Now, OF course neither of these per-
formances means a championship in the
Intercollegiate games next spring, but
there is time and Roos will improve. He
is a fair hammer thrower and probably
will get a chance in the dual meets to
score points in that event. He is regarded
as likely to score in the intercollegiate
meet in the shotput.
BabcOck Does Too Much.
Babcoek already has had his taste Of
the championship meet. He scored third
In the broad jump as a freshman and he
should do better next spring. He led
In the jumping up to the third round and
then was surpassed by Fitzpatrick and
Cook. The Comedian had first place in
good style. but Fitzpatrick beat Babcock
only a fraction Of an inch.
The only thing against Babcock is his
all around ability. He has to compete in
so many different events In 1.-THE dual
meets that he has no chance to specialize.
For instance. in the games last spring he
was in five events. the two hurdles, the
broad jump, high jump and pole vault.
In the underclass games recently he com
peted in the two hurdle races, the broad
jump, the pole vault and the shot put. He
won the vault and the high hurdles and
was second in the low hurdles and the
broad jump.
Bernie Wefers, the Columbia trainer.
mas AAAoNAAcA 6Oo0 man N WdIus announcer
freshman. Ward is a clever little Splinter.
He was second In both 100 and 22O yard
runs and later won the low hurdles and
the broad jump, covering twenty-one feet
in the last named. He was beaten in the
dashes by W. Jacobs. another freshman,
who did 1Ots seconds and 24ss seconds.
Jacobs and Ward both are small men, but
show promise. Although Jacobs won the
two races, not so much stress is put on
his performance, as he may not be eligible
for competition for an academic year.
Ward comes from out Montclair way. His
jumping viii supplement Babcock's and
VIII help the team immensely. His hurd-
ling also may improve.
south Field History.
The Columbia men have an advantage
this year in their new track. It is the
most elaborate thing in the way of a track
that has been put on South Field. That
place has undergone some changes since
the day that the new arrivals frpm Forty
ninth street eantered up and down a mar
row cinder strip under the trees. with
John Mack to tell them about working