The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-11
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WOLVERINE TRACK team
HAS CHANCE AT HONORS
Success Of Men Entered From
Small Colleges Will Have
Big Effect.
MICHIGAN SQUAD IS STRONG

Ann Arbor, April lion the show
ing of the small colleges entered I'm
the big eastern inter collegiate meet
depends Michigans fate. If the little
fellows can drag points away from
Pennsylvania in the right places, and
prove too weak To be a drain on the
Wolverine total, Keene Fitzpatrick's
men have a fighting chance to pull
down the laurels at the biggest con-
gress of athletes in the United States.
In other words-if there is rain
enough and sun enough. the crops
should be good.
But the loss to Harvard OF Little,
the shot putter, pair of quarter-mil-
ers and other wads of hard luck that
have dropped i'm on the Boston camp
have combined to carry fresh hope to
Michigan. Ii was generally conceded
that Harvard would walk off with
tho meet early in the winter. Later,
eastern men were of the opinion that
Pennsylvania and the Bostonans
would scrap ii out for first place. But
things have happened to Harvard.
Pennsylvania now looks like the most
probable winner.
Wolverine Team Strong.
once during the winter Mike Muir
ply said to n Michigan man:
You should win the meet"
NJ. NJ, by the way, is a mighty good
fellow.
Michigan has a strong team. With
the exception of the hammer throw
and the two-mile and the broad jump
the maize and blue should show to a
good advantage. But with a strong
break i'm luck. through the efforts Of
the little fellows, Michigan's handicap
might be overcome.
"'The outcome of thrse big meets
are hard things to predict" said
Keene Fitzpatrick while discussing
the prospects the other day. -Four or
five small institutions may send
teams, each OF which has a man who
is strong in some one event. These
men might be just the ones who would
take points from the strongest all
round team, and i'm this way make
their winning an imposSbility.
"Of course Harvard is handicapped.
Early in the year 1t looked as though
they could win easily. as they only
lost about three points from their last
years team. 1 have no idea OF how
strong their freshmen were last year.
However their losses should give
Pennsylvania a better show at first
place"
The track men are working hard
now. Their week of light work out
! doors is of the past and each day the
| athletes are being put through their
PAGES without any show of leniency.
Fight on for Quarter.
Already the candidates for the quar-
ter-mile relay team have been sent
their entire distances. 1t will be a
pretty fight. this one for places on
| the quarter that will go the mile for
Michigan at Pennsylvania, April 80.
Keck, Leger, Craig, Ross, Gamble,
Bohnsack and several others are like
| ly lockers. The half milers are TAX
| ing things moderately. but they. too.
will be given a chance TO see how
good they are for the two-mile go
within a few days.
Various efforts have been made to
dope" out a four mile team for Mich
| igan in the face of the adverse con-
ditions. May and Tower are the only
| two possibilities for milers of class in
| the university. Beardsley Is good for
about three-quarters of the distance.
| Willetts is a half-miler; so is Bonn
sack.
at is easy enough to dope out a
| four mile team" says Fitzpatrick,
but it's a different matter to make
them run fast enough. But We'll have
mile and two-mile team, and good
ones"