Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
TRAINING DURING VACATION
Many Of Men Do Not Go Home for
Annual Easter Recess.
REED BRILLIANT QUARTER MAN
Relay Team Has Strongest Men Who
Ran at Kaw Town and Sioux City.
BIG DELEGATION IS COMING
Several Hundred students ana the
Cadet hand VIII Make the
Trip TO Omaha Next
Friday.
TRAINING DURING VACATION
I'd BRILLIANT QUARTER MAN
BIG DELEGATION IS COMING

LINCOLN. March 2s.-(speciai 1.-The
squad OF athletes that viii represent the
University OF Nebraska at the western
championship meet Of the Amateur Athletic
union at Omaha, on April l. is a well bal
anced aggregation and. II ex-Captain Nc
Donald were not detained at the isolation
hospital with a case OF smallpox 50 he can
not take part IN the high and low hurdles.
II would be the best possible bunch that
could be mustered from the student ranks.
The absence OF Mcdonald from the hurdles
will handicap the Cornhuskers in trying to
land the leading university and college hon
ors, but, Notwithstanding the loss OF the
former captain, the Nebraska athletes will
be in excellent condition to force fthe rep
rescntatives OF any other university into a
Titanic struggle for first place.
Since Coach Ben Cherrington OF Omaha
took charge Of the cinder path candidates
last week, the task Of getting into condition
for the Omaha and other track games has
been pushed forward with great strides.
Favorable weather conditions and keen en-
thusiasm among the candidates have CO.
labored with the new coach to bring about
excellent results. and 1t is contended that
the Nebraska athletes are now In better
shape for winning points than they ever
before have been at so early a stage in
the season. The runners are doing the prac-
tice distances In mid-season form. and the
men in the field events are rapidly getting
their individual work down to fine point
Train During Vacation.
Interest among the students and athletes
in the Omaha games is keen, and the men
who compose the team that will go to
Omaha are now in daily training. although
n
state school last Thursday and will con-
tinue until next Tuesday. Some of the men
who were selected for the team at the pre-
liminaries Wednesday have remained in the
city to train, while few others have gone
into private training camp conducted by
Edwin Davis at Eagle. Davis is one OF the
men who will run the relay race for the
Cornhuskers, and he selected some OF thg
other runners to so into camp with him in
order to get into the best possible condition
for the mile relay race next Friday.
The Cornhusker quartet has high hopes
Of becoming the western relay champion
through it's work at Omaha. Just now IL Is
the best mile four in the Missouri Valley
conference, having defeated the Drake
team which last spring won the confer
ence title through It's defeat Of Nebraska
ct the Des Moines meet. The Nebraska re-
lay men with to be pitted against the Chi
cago four that will be sent TO the Omaha
games.
Captain Burke Reed, Davis and Nc
Gowan viii compose the Cornhusker team
that will go to the metropolis next week.
Only two Of these men took part In the
relay runs at Kansas City and Sioux City.
Reed and Burke ran both races; Davis
competed at Sioux City. but not at Kansas
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but not to the Iowa town.
In the race at Sioux City two weeks ago
the Drake quartet defeated the Nebraska
team The course at this place was 50
small that the Cornhuskers were under too
great handicap TO permit them TO show
their speed. But last week in the Audi
torium at Kansas City, where the course
was free from distractions. the Nebraska
n nners defeated the Des Moines aggrega-
ton by fifty yards. The time for this
run was S:4f. Kansas and Missouri ran
the mile relay at Kansas City last week
and the Jsyhsv kers won, but the time was
fully three seconds lower than that made
BY Nebraska against Drake.
Reed wonderful auarter Man.
Nebrsskas easy victory over Drake at
the Kaw city was due mainly to the bril-
liant work OF Reed. who is the speediest
man on the Cornhusker team Young
Rsod started the race for Nebraska and
ran the first lap IN remarkable time He
finished the lap forty-five yards ahead OF
his Drake opponent and by doing so
clinched the race for the Cornhuskers in
the first quarter.
The relay team that win run for Me-
braska At Omaha will be better than the
one that ran at either Kansas City or
Sioux City. since Il will have the best men
from the two teams that competed In the
two earlier meets. Captain Burke is nearly
as fast as Reed on the quarter. Last
spring he tied the Nebraska record IN this
event. Davis, by defeating Burke in the
preliminaries Wednesday. demonstrated
that he can cover the quarter in fast time.
MCGOWAN, the fourth member OF the team.
Is practically as speedy as Davis and
should be able TO race his opponent in the
Omaha run to a tie. and. possibly. he may
do even better than that
Twelve men compose the Cornhusker
team that has been selected for the Omaha
games and these athletes will participate
in all the college and university events
that are offered. In all the preliminaries
Nebraska viii have from two TO three
men. Since the Sioux City games the local
coaches have. decided that It Is a mighty
good thing TO enter as many men In the
prellminaries as possible. Al that contest
three cornhuskers were entered in the
preliminary 70 the fifty-yard dash aud
every one OF them secured a place IN the
finals Only one other college runner was
able 70 place IN that event. and he was q
Morningside sprinter.
Reed ana Powers in Dash.
Reed and Powers win run the fifty-yard
dash for Nebraska. Reed Is the fastest
iOo-yard and short distance man on the
team. He won the preliminary Of the fifty
yard dash IN nearly record tina Powers