Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-21
CHERRINCTON IS HUSTLING
Striving to Round His Athletes Into
Shape for Approaching Meets.
OUTLOOK is MOST PROMISING
Hopes 60 Win from 10th Min
nesota aud Kansas In Dual
Meets and 60 shine at
Omaha.

LINCOLN. March N.-tSpecial)--The
Cornhusker track athletes are rallyiug to
the call Of Coach Ben Cherrington, the
Omaha boy who was this week elected to
drill the candidates for clnder path honors,
and II now begins to look as though the
Nebraska aggregation would be IN form
this spring to take more honors than Di-
rector Clapp had expected a few weeks
ago when he took a preliminary inventory
OF the valuable material in the school.
A meeting Of all aspirants for the track
team was held yesterday afternoon and It
brought out practically all the men In the
university who wish to win the coveted
~" Coach CherringtoL has taken hold Of
the track work with the enthusiasm that
characterized his success with the Omaha
High athletes last spring. He has some eX-
cellent material for most OF the track
events, but he has discovered that COM
petent men are lacking In the field games.
He has started a campaign to secure men
for the events in which the Cornhuskers
are weak and expects to get several a
didates for all the events before the lat
ter end OF next week In order that he
may drill the new men to fill places that
are lacking in old timber.
The Cornhusker coach will be up against
SAlpNB OppbslNlpn III boNl VI NiN uhoA hSNNN
this spring. Minnesota and Kansas, the
two teams that are to be met in the
dual games, are laying for Nebraska
this season, and II Will take a mighty
: powerful squad Of Nebraska athletes to
defeat either of them.
At Minnesota Coach Grant, a Harvard
man, is. working with the Gophers for the
second year. Last season he was with the
northern school, and under his directions
the Gophers improved many per cent in
their work over the showing they made
In the games the year before. Dick
Grant has gone into the work this year
determined that his men shall defeat Ne
braska, a trick they have not accom-
plished during the last ten years. lie has
several veterans on his squad and is daily
drilling them into shape.
In the village OF Lawrence, Kan, the
Jayhawkers are also getting into form for
the invasion of their territory by the
Cornhuskers. They are still smarting un-
der the sting Of defeat that was handed
out to them last spring, when the Corn
huskers took the annual dual meet by the
margin Of a single point. Their team is
practically a veteran bunch, and It will
take some excellent work on the part OF
Coach Cherrington to get his Cornhuskers
into shape to whip the Kansas squad on
its own field.
Just at the present time, though. the
Nebraska coach is paying much attention
to getting his athletes ready for the indoor
meet at Omaha. He has several indi-
Vidual stars whom he thinks he can train
into condition for taking off several points
against all other contestants on April 1.
Since his election, Monday, he has been
-
who will be placed In the Omaha games,
and he has ordered them TO train hard.
All the men on the squad have been
taking advantage of the warm weather
during the last three weeks and they should
be in excellent form for the Omaha meet.
The new cinder path on Nebraska field
will be completed by the latter part of
next week II the warm weather continues
for the next six days. Several teams are
engaged daily in hauling in cinders for
the circular course. .