University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-12-07
TRACK MEETS WITH
LARGER SCHOOLS?
Coach Jones Trying to Ar
range Contests at Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota.
MORE MEN ARE NEEDED
Appeal to Students Who Can
DO Something in Athlet-
les to Come Out.

les to Come Out.
Efforts will be maze by T. E. Jones,
track coach at the University of Mis-
souri,, to put the universities of Wis
consin and Minnesota on the schedule
Of track meets of the University Of
Missouri, this year. To make a cred
liable showing against such teams Mr..
Jones says it will be necessary to have
many more men out for track work.
T. E. Jones, Harry Tidd, assistant
track coach. and E. 7. Steele, captain
of the track team, at meeting of all
those interested in track athletics at
Rothwell gymnasium last Friday,
urged every man present to turn in
the name OF some man who has ath
letic ability. SO that the coaches could
see them and get them to come out
and try for place on the team.
What We need most now is sprin-
ters,' said E. T. Steele. captain of
the Varsity track team. 1T is on thu
TALL workouts that we must depend
for developing men capable of defeat
ing Kansas in the sprints." He spoke
OF the meet with Illinois last year in
which the Missouri team would have
made much better showing had there
been some good second and third
string men to take along. Some of
the old men already out are C. W.
Terry, Lester Bermond, E. T. Steele,
". l.. Johnson and H. S. Stevens.
New Record Last Saturday.
There are men in the University
who can fill more OF these numerous
places on the team, but how can they
hope to win if they never come out?"
said E. 7. Steele, captain of the Uni
versity track team.
At the last meet before Thanksgiv-
ing fairly good time was made but
the lack of men to fill the second
places and make the competition keen
was a handicap AT Kansas City
Thanksgiving Day E. T. Steele took
first in the five-mile invitation race
with the Kansas University team in
twenty-Seven minutes and twenty eight
member of the Missouri team, won
second The team succeeded in TAX
ing four out Of six possible places. Two
of these were tirsts. Last Saturday
Johnson broke the St. Louis record
for the ten-mile run in a meet held
by the Missouri Athletic club. His
time was fifty-six minutes and six sec
onds.
T. E. Jones will take charge OF the
coaching of the track team shortly af
ter c. l.. Brewer the new director of
athlstics, arrives. Coach Jones will
probably be assisted by Mr.. Tidd.
1t is too early to determine def
nitely when the first meets with Kan
sas and Illinois will be held but in
previous years they have been held
during the last OF February and the
first OF March. In the larger meets
each school starts three men in every
event No man is able to do himself
or his team justice by trying two OF
the longer events as was done last
year. The fact that some Of the men
were repeated too much and cOnse-
Quently did not receive first as they
would have otherwise, may to some
extent account for the team winning
only twenty-three points in the meet
with Illinois.
Illinois Has Strong Team.
The track team of the University of
Illinois has three exceptionally. good
men in each event. They are so near
equal that the coach can not pick out
the best In fact the team is strong
in all events.
Most of the men already out are
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yards. Since half of the track events
are shorter than a quarter of mile,
there is good opportunity the coaches
say. for men in these events. Eight
men are needed to fill the events
shorter than quarter of mile. There
is not a man out for these places who
has won from Kansas. 1t is true that
Guy Kirksy is out almost every day
and promises to be point winner, but
he can not handle all of the eight
places in the events below the quar-
ter Of mile.
Men are also needed for the pole
vault and high-jump. H. S. Stevens
is out for the pole vault but he will
not be able to take both places in that
event No one is trying for the high
jump and Kansas is especially strong
this year in that event