East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-01
ATHLETES OF HIGH
SCHOOL L|MBER UP
BASEBALL AND TRACK
MEN ARE IN ACTION
Several Diamond Artists Appear in
League Uniform-Prospecfs for
Champion Track Team Good
Strong Men in all Departments

Spring athleCcS at n = school
are now N in full blast and with the
continuance OF the warm bright DAYS
the aspirants for honors on diamond.
track, and field are fast passing the
preliminary stages in the work neces-
sary for good condition. While the
high school will o be represented
by a baseball team his year, there
are a number OF student players turn
ing out each evening with the league
team, and some OF them will undoubt-
edly succeed in capturing positions de-
spite the competition of the older and
more experienced men. AS the Blue
Mountain leage is a strictly amateur
organization, the participation Of the
high school athletes in their games
will in no way disqualify them in in
terscholastic contests.
On track and field, the school on the
hill will enter the lists with an aggre-
CATION OF point winners hat will be
a strong contestant for championship
honors. About thirty candidates for
the final team are appearing each
evening on the local track in spikes
and running toys, and. while 1t is yet
q llLNlC carly ~ ohy hNAAAANS W
inion as to their individual abilities,
with consistent training it is safe to
predict that the team this year will in
no way be inferior to those Of the past
few seasons. In fact only n of the
point winners of last years team was
graduated last commencement and the
new material that has shown up this
year will more than equalize the loss.
Team Well Balanced.
Captain Tom Boyien, who made
such a remarkable showing last year
in the distance runs, has been develop
ing his wind and strength for sever
al weeks, and is already in condition
to enter endurance contests. Boylen
will have plenty of running mates in
the distances this season, as a great
many of the new candidates are evin-
cling a strong preference for the long
er runs. Among the more promising
Of the long winded performers are
M'Dill, Haw, Carol and A. Jordan, all
of whom have had more or less ex-
perience on the track. In the sprints,
Pendleton has a trio of fast steppers
who will be hard to nose out in any
/ interscholastic meet. Gordon, Kim
ball. and Bean are all unusually
/ speedy for prep school sprinters, and
all have been practicing leaving the
mark for some time. Kimbal vii
also be a star man in the low hurd-
les. He has a record in this even
of 27-2, and two years ago ran ava!
from the field at Corvallis in the stat
interscholastic meet held under tn
direction of o. A. c. Bean has con
siderable ability in the broad jump
Fee and A. Jordan will care for tn
high hurdles and already show goo
form in clearing the sticks. Strair
:. c.. Jordan, RAIDER, and Fee are show
ing up strong in the pole Vault an
the high Jump. Fee Unfortunate
spiked himself the other evenin
while. practicing and will be temper
arily laid up. His friends predict tha
|, before the end of spring he will b
clearing the bar at ten feet as h
has already vaulted nine at this earl
stage of the season.
Strong in Weights.
\ The high school bids fair to I
stronger in the weights this seasc
than since the days of the Near
II DrOtnerS, lot, With SuCu Hich a ~
vine, Graham, Strive, and Straugr
in the ring, records are in danger. J
N w. Brown, who turned out sue
a wonderful football machine consic
ering his material, is coaching Il
weight men, and is rapidly teachir
the boys how to use their strength
the best advantage. Kenneth Coope
formerly an o. A. C. star, will unde
take the training of the sprlnters ar
distance men, and is very we'll please
with the calibre of his material.
1t is the intention of Manager Bo.
len to test the various men in a seri'
OF interclass contests the first of whic
will be a cross country run about II
middle of this month. The first col
test with autside schools will occl
May 6, in Walla Walla, the occasio
being the annual tri-state interscho
astic track meet held under the SUI
ervision of Whitman college. G
May IA a three man team will emit
in a similar meet at Pullman, viii
on the same date the remainder of Il
team will participate in the coun'
meet to be held at Athena. Arrang
ments for other meets are pendin
and it is probable Pendleton will
Represented at the state meet at Co
wallis as usual.