Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-02
WITH The COLLEGE ATHLETES
Doings in the Field of Sport in
East and West.
ORANGE BANKS ON DAWBARN
Princeton Track Team IL strong,
Although Chances Of Championship
Are small In Comparison with
Former Years.
ORANGE BANKS ON DAwBAR

They say at Princeton this year that
although there is small chance that the
track team will be at the top in the inter-
collegiate championships there is, however,
a very strong aggregation Of men. Yale
anticipates a hard time with Princeton in
their dual meet this year. A. F. COPELAND,
the Princeton trainer, has some exceptional
men in several lines. In the sprints Prince
ton Is strong. r. A. Gamble. the captain
of the team, was fourth in the intercol-
legiate 10O-yard run last year. third against
Yale i'm the Yale-Princetun dual meet in
the short dash and won both the 100 and
220 against Cornell and Columbia, so Gamble
is a seasoned performer. In spite of all
CANDLES experience, he is not Princeton's
best man in the 1OO-yard run.
w. L. Dawbarn has turned out in great
style and apparently is sure to clean up
not only Gamble, but most OF the other
men whom he will tackle. II Foster of
Harvard holds his present form or improves
a bit and Rector runs as he can In the
100 yards, not to mention Mindo OF Penn
sylvania and Sherman Of Dartmouth, the
sprint race in the intercollegiate games
should provide a splendid competition.
Princeton has also f. C. Jessup, now a
sophomore, who was we'll known as a
| NOHuGIIul performer III his ECnOOlDON days.
When Jessup was at Boys High school he
cleaned up everything in the line OF inter-
scholastic sprints and afterward did some
fine work at st. Pauls school. The trouble
with Jessup, as with so many interscholas-
tic performers, is that he was run to pieces
for the benefit OF the trainers who handled
him and OF the schools that he attended.
Although rather young he undertook the
! Gmnynf nf work that y 0nnAA w1Na~1A
might have accomplished and his phenom-
email burst of early speed did not stay with
him. A case something like that of Jessup
Is Cedric Major. a Brooklyn lad who Is
running the half mile now. Major has
oxereXtended himself and is in bad shape
through excessive competition. It is under
stood, however. that no amount OF argu.
ment has been able to persuade him TO keer
out Of the game. Jessup at present is OF
no value to the Princeton track team be,
cause a chronic stomach trouble, a heritag,
OF his early overindulgence in athletics. Il
keeping him back. He probably never viii
get back TO the form which made him tn,
leading scholastic performer OF his day.
Dawbarn In the FurIonE.
In the SOyard run Princeton will baul
on Dawbarn. Characteristically. Coacl
COPELAND ssys: Anyone who beats him
bar nobody, will know he has been TO tn,
/ races Last year the SeO-yard run had il
1t Cartmell. Whitman Of Pennsylvania
sherman OF Dartmouth and Blumer o
Harvard, who finished in that order. Penn
4 s~ylvania has lost Cartmell and Whitman
but Sherman and Blumer still are in col
lege. Blumer is showing strength not onl
I in the ~20-yard run, but in the quartz
' mile as well, and with his added fore
should be a strong man in the furlons
Rector's performance Of better than f.:
seconds in the Ysle-Virginia dual NEE
Il speaks well for the Olympic runner. and $
e here the Princetonian should have som
a competition.
However, It is known that for a Ion
a time COPELAND has been very sweet q
Dawbarn's chances, and certainly his il
n door performances have shown him 20 :
a sprinter Of considerably more than o.
# binary ability.
D Princeton is apparently not very well o
II in the quarter mile run, as Atlee. wi
: beat 50 seconds in the dual meet again
Yale last year, is not available for u
race. Conger, a senior, a performer wi
did not show anything in the dual nice
l. last year In that event, but finished thil
in the half-mile run against Cornell. is Il
msinstsy. Conger is not rated very stron
n Princeton is far from badly off In the hal
mile event, especially II Whitley, a juni
now. gets back into shape.
Whitley has been a most unfortuns
NJ runner. In his schoolboy days he was
e wonder, but he was not run out by al
es means before he went TO college, The T
~ turn of a disability which requires oper
tons from time 10 time has made IL pra
Y Ideally impossible for Whitley to rema
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