Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-17
ATHLETES TRAIN
FOR RELAY RACE
Track Teams Make Ready for
Events Programmed for
Franklin Field
COLLEGE MEN SHOW WELL
Indications That Records Will Be
Shattered at Big ANA
teur Meet
COLLEGE MEN SHOW WELL

PHILADELPHIA, April 16.-With
the University of Pennsylvania relay
games but few weeks off the fol-
lowers of track athletics are sizing up
the past records of college athletes
who will compete. Some reports filter
in to the officers of the games con-
cerning the practice records of the
teams which have entered.
Coach Harry Gill of the University
sired to enter his men not only for the
mile championship, but that he would
also have a two-mile team. The IL
linois track team won the champion
ship of the conference colleges last
year. In Rohrer and Freeland, Illinois
has two very good men, and with these
as a nucleus Gill can be counted on
to make a good showing in the two
mile event. Last year Illinois was
third in the one-mile relay champion
ship, but later this same team beat
Chicago, the champions, at the re-
lays.
The two-mile race should be very in
teresting, with Illinois, Yale, Princeton
Pennsylvania and Missouri entered.
Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania
have good teams and the western pair
will have to travel very fast to win.
Yale practically won the indoor two
mile championship, doing minutes, So
seconds, an average of 1 minute, 80
seconds for the half mile. Yale won
this event last year. so the blue is apt
to be the favorite for the event. There
are 1876 teams in the class events, while
with six entries in the one-mile cham
pionship five in the two-mile five in
the four-mile, six in each of the high
and preparatory school championship
races and two in the freshman event,
the total of teams is raised to 224.
According to reports from the Vari-
Gus college campuses, the varsity track
teams are. rounding into form and sew
eral athletes are making good early
seacon records.
Tilley of Dartmouth is throwing the
hammer over 100 feet in practice He
will give Talbot, formerly of Cornell,
but now at State college, a hard rub
in this event Cooney of Yale is also
said to be making very good showing
in the weights.
Towar of Michigan recently beat 4
minutes % seconds on Michigan's in
door track. This has so encouraged
the Wolverines that they are now con-
fident that they will win back the
four mile college relay championship
that they lost to Pennsylvania last
year. But Cornell and Pennsylvania
will have something to say about this
| as each has a very good team.
Pennsylvania should figure more
prominently than ever before in this
years relays. Murphy has a team il
each of the CT ampionships and in th'
freshman relay. and each team has
good fighting chance for victory. What
more could the Pennsylvania students
want? Leave it to Mike.
! Hess cleared IL feet inches the 9th
| er day in the pole vault. He looks
| to be the best of the men this year al
| PENNSYLVANIA. though Parker and
Blakely are both vaulting in good
| form.
Holdman of Dartmouth will be here
for the vault. He did II feet inches
on Monday in a trial, and Harry Hill
man, Dartmouth's new coach, expects
| him to beat twelve feet on the 30th on
Franklin field.
The preparatory schools take more
| interest in the Pennsylvania game
than in any other meet of the season
1t gives the youngsters a chance to
| compete under the eyes of some of the
best athletes in the college.