The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-26
GREAT SEASON
FOR ATHLETES
COLLEGE AND CLUB MEN
GROOMING THEMSELVES TO
BREAK RECORDS IN
SPORTS DURING FALL.

The year 1910 promises to be
notable one I'm track and field sports.
During the indoor season, when the
performances. the experts predicted
the outdoor season would be re-
markable one, both from the number
of new men of championship cali
bre and from the seasoned athletes.
A good idea of what the outdoor sea-
son is to bring forth can be pre-
dcted by the winter performances
Few of the college or athletic club
cracks do much training for the
board floor competition preparing to
compete without strenuous prepa-
ration, and save their energies for
the big championship meetings held
annually In the summer months. In
past years the college athletes did not
feel inclined to keep on training after
their college meets, and as the club
athletes rested up in the spring ii was
prowess of these two classes. This
season, however, promises to be an
exception, as a number of eastern
and western college stars will rep
resent tile various athletic clubs in
the country.
Davenport of the University of Chi
cago, who made such a wonderful
meet, will represent the Chicago Ath-
letc Association. Fitzpatrick, the all
American football end from Yale, is
competing for the New York Athletic
club. Pail of the University of Penn
sylvania Is also representing the
Mercury Foot aggregation. Dukes
the Cornell vaulter; Gilbert, the ex-
Yale vaulter, and Hartranft, the cx-
Pennsylvania hurdler, will compete
for the New York Travers Islanders.
Parkinson, the Wesleyan weight man,
and Eller. representatives of the
Irish American Athletic club.
The Chicago Athletic Association
has quite an array of college talent.
Crawley of the University of Chicago.
Brundage OF Illinois. Mic Kennard, the
ex-Harvard athlete; Horner. the Uni
versity of Michigan all-around per-
former; Taylor of Cornell, the one
mile intercollegiate winner this
year, and Byrd of Illinois are a few
of the college recruits representing
the Cherry Circle" organization.
Ramsdell of Pennsylvania. the inter-
collegiate 100-yard winner. who IL
now in England. is expected back In
time to compete i'm the championship
meets. He will represent some south
ern athletic club. Lee Talbot of
Pennsylvania State college will wear
the emblem of the Kansas City Ath-
letc club.
Edwards, the California college
hurdler; Miller the middle distance
runner of Leland Stanford Univer-
sity; Scott and Bellah, the Leland
Stanford vaulters; Merriam n weight
man. and Smith, miller from the
University of California. will repre-
sent the Olympic club of San Francis
CO.
Martin of Whitman college, who
won the 10O-yard Amateur Athletic
Union title last year; Nelson of
Washington State college. who fin
ished second to Martin: Covil, the
Washington state college distance
runner. and Edmundson. of the Uni
versity of Idaho. last years half-mile
champion will compete for the Seattle
Athletic club.
With Sheppard of the Irish Ameri-
can Athletic club. Davenport of the
Chicago Athletic Association, Ed
mudston and Gissing of the New
York Athletic club In good shape,
records are almost sure to be broken.
Sheppard's record breaking perform
ances of last month is a starter. Al
though IL Is hard to realize any one
capable of talking the Peerless
Ones" measure he will be forced to
extend himself to the limit to win
the National SS0-yard little at New
Orleans In october.
Paul OF the New York Athletic club.
Kiviat, the schoolboy phenomenon,
of the Irish-Americans; Taylor OF
the Chicago Athletic Association, and
the ever reliable Sheppard will. II Is
believed. break, orscome very close to
Tommy Sonneffs mile mark of
4;153-5. made fifteen years ago.
All in all. the season promises TO
be successful from a competitive and
record breaking point or view, and
by November IL would not be sur
prising to see great many changes
on the record books of long standing |
marks