The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-19
TRACK EVENTS ONLY HOPE
OF WOLVERINE ATHLETES
Chances Of Michigan Team in
Eastern Intercollegiate De-
ponds on Runners
PRACTICE STARTS THIS WEEK

Ann Arbor, Mich, May 1S.--Michi-
,an's track team has begun the final
two weeks of work preparatory to the
Eastern Intercollegiate-th goal of
the seasons work. The recent meet
with syracuse offers basis of com
narison as to the showing the Wolver-
ms will make.
II Michigan is to have look-in,
against the pick OF the eastern col
leges. the winning points must be
scored i'm the track events. With the
cxccption of Horner, and a possible
Iapham, Michigan's scores i'm the field
events will be meager and confined
IN occasional seconds and thirds. Hor-
ner shhOud win the shot-put. and
have a chance to score in the hammer
throw. while Lapham looks good for
second or third in the broad jump. He
has been doing close to % feet consist
emily. and that looks good for place
I'm view of the brilliant work by
Captain Nelson of Yale I'm winning the
mole vault in the Yale Harvard games
last saturday, Michigan Is forced to
appear an outsider In that event In the
intercollegiate. Freeney may go to IL
feet when pushed. but the way the
eastern vaulters are going. IL feet
will not win even a fourth place
There Is as little hope for Michigan i'm
the high lump and the hammer throw.
Chances Look Better
With field victories unlocked for.
Nichigan's chances to score heavily
in the track events have improved as
the result of the recent meet with
Syracuse. Craig showed strongly IN
both dashes' and the low hurdles. and.
while the marks he made In those
events Saturday will not win against
the field in the intercollegiate, he did
merely well enough to win against
Syracuse. not trying for any remark
able time performances. In the Dig
meet as at Syracuse, Craig will be
used in the 100. 22O and 22o yards low
hurdles and Keene Fitzpatrick ev-
pects the Detroit lad to score in each
Of these events.
Horner will be used i'm the shot-put
of course, as well as probably the
short dash and the low hurdles Yer
satile as the Grand Rapids lad is, he
will be crowded for individual honors
nv Craig. who is having easily the
best season he has experienced since
going into athletics. Horner's work III
the shot-put was affected seriously
Saturday by the strain which resulted
from his participation i'm the earlier
everts-and IL was this that allowed
Waite to win the event, Horner taking
second 1t is feared that the same
conditions will be present In the DIE
meet at Philadelphia and that Horner
will be unable to come up to his Dest
mark i'm each event because of what
has been taken from him by the dash,
the broad Jump and the hurdles.
Hodaen and Reck Strong.
The pleasant surprise of the SYRIA
cuse meet was the unexpected showing
of Hodgen and Reck, Hodgen is the
veteran hurdler who is trying to get
back i'm shape after an absence from
track athletics of three years, and un-
I'll Saturday he had been unable TO
show his old time form and speed
Hammond had been beating him over
the high hurdles with considerable
regularity, and tho hurdler was ne
coming trine discouraged. Against
Syracuse, however he ran a great
race and would have won the event.
according to Trainer Fitzpatrick, nau
not the Syracuse runner been given a
big ten yard handicap by beating the
gun. Thereafter Hodgen had no
chance to win. although he closed up
considerable of the intervening mar
gin and finished second.
"Hodgen looks good again" said
Keene Fitzpatrick today, land If he
shows as much Improvement between
now and the eastern intercollegiate
as he has shown the last two weeks
he will be big factor in helping
Michigan to win week from Satur-
day. He has been trife slow getting
back into shape, but that is natural
considering his ptotracted inactivity
Now that he is nearly right again, 1
am expecting n great showing from
him. With Hodgen I'm the high hur-
dies and Craig and Horner in the low,
we shall be represented more salts
factorily in those events than at any
time since Garreis left college.
Reck's showing was no less salts
factory and fully unexpected as Hold
gems. Less than six weeks ago Reck
had scarcely been heard Of