Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27
CORNHUsKERs CHANCES GOOD
Men Will Be Entered in Each Event
at Auditorium.
CAGE SQUAD WAKING STRONG
Two New and Agile Pitchers Make
Coach Carroll Glad.
ROUBLE WITH BASE BALL LIST
Withdrawal of GrinnelI and Cornell
Because OF Conference RcEuIn-
lions Mikes Up Schedule
FOR Eager


LINCOLN. Feb. 2a-(speciaL)-Traininr
for the Nebraska track candidates this
spring Is 70 be started a month earlier than
has been the custom In past years. Coach
Hewitt, elected by the ~Cornhusker athletic
board only last Thursday. has announced
that he shall expect all osplrapts for places
on the clnder path and field teams to
report to him for practice next week. He
means that the Cornhuskers shall be kept
in training for three months. During March
the men win be expected to go through
their exercises in the gymnasium each day.
After April / he viii take them out OF
doors to train on the new clnder path that
Is being constructed on Nebraska's field.
Thu new circular track will be in shape
for use by that time. Manager Eager laid
plans this week to have cinders and dirt
supplied for the preparation OF this clnder
path, and he is confident that these viii
be carried out before the first Of April. so
that all the C~ornhuskers may work out
daily on the new track. Or. Clapp will
superintend the construction OF the new
path. hoping to make It equal to any
among the western universities. Over S1,0N
VIII be expended In putting this track in
shape for the spring meets.
Coach Hewitt and DR.. Clapp ordered In
tdoor training for March that the men
might get into shape for the indoor meet
at the Omaha Auditorium on April 1. AZ
a conference this week these men decided
that a month OF steady training in the
gymnasium would put the CoFnhusker team
in fine condition for the big Omaha games,
and they decided that all men who expect
to make places on the track team in tho
spring would have to practice all during
the month OF March in order to keep up
with the athletes who shall go to Omaha
as representatives of the state university.
To Enter All Events.
The. Cornhusker physical director has de-
cided to have men entered in all the lead
ing events at the Omaha indoor meet. The
athletic board this week authorized him to
send as many athletes as he desired. He
says he will take only the pick Of the Ne
braska men and that his team will contain
fifteen athletes.
BY having a large number OF scratch
events and only a few OF the handicap
contests. the management Of the Omaha
games has made a hit with the local ath-
letes. In the Kansas City meet during the
last few years the C~ornhuskers have all
ways been forced to take large handicaps,
with the result that they nave not been
able to make even a fair showing in some
of the events. The Nebraska track men
have always been considered better than
most of the men sent TO the Kansas City
games by the other colleges. and often
they have been forced to accept handi-
caps I'm events with other athletes who
were fully as good as their athletes, but
who were allowed to start from the scratch.
Under these conditions II was frequently
impossible for the Nebraska athletes to
get places in the finals, At Omaha the
large number of free events win permit
the best athletes to win, and the Corn
huskers think they will have grand chances
Of making an excellent showing in the
games as a whole.
In the fifty-yard hurdle Coach Hewitt
expects Dale Mcdonald, captain of the
track team last spring, TO get a place. Last
season Mcdonald vas the fastest man over
the high sticks In the Missouri Valley con-
ference. At present he holds both Nebraska
records for both Of the hurdle runs. In
the 12o-yard hurdles his record is :15M, and
In the 2SO-yard event It is :26.
Good Men for 44O-Run.
Burke and Reed, two of last years track
men, will probably be entered in the 40
yard handicap run for the C~ornhuskers.
Burke is captain OF the Cornhusker track
team for this spring and is one Of the
best 44O-yard men that the local school has
possessed in several years.
For the two-mile run Gable n Amber
son, veteran Nebraska track men, will be
trained to try for first and second places.
These athletes did excellent work for the
Cornhuskers in the Kansas meet last
spring, and with a month Of hard training
they ought to be In fine form for taking
points at Omaha.
Swanson and May, two freshman atb-
letes' VIII be eligible for the Omaha short
distance runs. These two lads are the
fastest first year runners that have come
to this school IN five or six years. Swan
son was the winner Of the twenty-flve-
yard dash in the charter dav games a
year ago, and was regarded as the speed-
lest runner I'm school until this month
when May captured the dash from him In
the charter day events. The pair win go
into training next week for the Omaha
races.
The injury sustained by HummeH in the
lnterfraternity meet this month viii nro-
vent his taking part IN any OF the track
events this year and will occasion the
Cornhuskers a big loss in the high tumn
FOR the Omaha meet. Graham il the onlv
man who is known to have a good record
IN this event. lie Is capable OF doing five
rect seven inches. Unless some OF the
freshmen show up well and reach a higher
mark. he will be the sole Nebraska rem
resentative in the high jump.
Graham will also represent the Corn
huskers In the pole vault. Since Russell
quit school this month. Graham will be the
only veteran vaulter that the local athletes
can depend upon. He IS capable OF going
several Inches over ten feet, and may be
In shape to create a big surprise at Omaha.
II Is reported that there are one or two
excellent pole v~aulters among the freshmen
and that they may get into shape for the
games at Omaha
Two Men for shot Put.
There will be two Cornhuskers for the
sixteen-Pound shot put Collins. the varsity