Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
BIG MEET ENTRIES ALL IN
Nineteen Eleven Battle Looks Like
Greatest of Conference Gatherings.
ARRANGE PLAY FOR VISITORS
Entertainment 60 he Provided I'm
Twin cities for Fraternity Men
Consisting of Dinners, Auto
Tours, Theater Parties.

MINNEAPOLIS. May 6.--(special PRE-
liminaryN entries for the conference meet
to be held on Northrop field At the Uni
versity OF Minnesota, June and 3, were
mailed 20 the conference committee Fri
day. The entries had to be In by noon
yesterday. The entries sent IN were of
all the men who may enter the events Of
the meet but their particular events were
not specified. These preliminary entries
Will be listed and mailed to every college
which enters q team, so that It may pro-
test any one before the final entries are
In. The final entries in which the men are
entered for particular events will be
mailed TO the conference COMMITTEES some
time within the next two weeks.
With the preliminary entries in the con
Terence looms up bigger and closer than
ever. supplementary list OF invitations
has been sent out from ths central com
mittee at Chicago. Carlton and Hamllne
have been invited and will probably enter
several men each. They we're not invited
TO the conference last year. The Unit
versity of South Dakota at Verrnilnon and
the South Dakota State College OF Agri-
culture at Brookings have also been in
vttsd In Wisconsin, Lawrence and Ripon
have been added to the list. Several men
are expected from each of these schools
FiE Time Of Play.
In order that the senior men on the track
team may take part in the senior class
play and that the visiting men may be
able to ses the play. the committee in
charge decided this week that the play
would be presented on two nights. Friday
and Saturday, June 2 and II IL the plan
at present to take the visiting men around
the Twin Cities In automobiles some time
during Friday or Saturday mornings. Sat
urday dinners at the fraternity houses will
be dinners In honor OF visiting brothers and
in the evening the visitors will see the
class play. 1t 10 not believed that there
Will be any other entertainment scheduled
for Saturday evening.
The Minnesota track which has been
causing Coach Grant and Captain Hill
much worry this spring, was proved 70
be in good shape by the Wisconsin meet
week ago, The coach said that the time
Of Cleveland in tina two-mile proved that
the track was not as slow as supposed
The distance was made in s6s. The dashes
we're slow, but a large force Of men has
been put on the track and II Is being packed
harder every day.
Tennis Men Going East.
Joe Armstrong and John Adams uni
Nersity champions in tennis, and each own
Ing long string of titles will leave on
their eastern tennis tour next Saturday
morning. Part OF the expenses Of the trip
which IL tho first of It's kind that Mime
sofa tennis men have ever taken-will be
paid by the athletic association, and the
balance by the colleges played. on this
trip the men will meet the best college
talent OF the country and the results of
the trip will give good line on Mime
sofas standing in the tennis world II is
also expected to start wider interest in
tennis at the university.
Armstrong and Adams will spend Sunday
In Chicago and will play In the Western
intercollegiate Tennis tournament. held
there Monday and Tuesday, the fifteenth
and sixteenth. They will also play a match
with chieago university on one OF these
days. From Chicago they will 20 to obsr-
lin college and play there Wednesday after
noon, the seventeenth. Kenyon college at
Gambler. o.. will be reached via Cleveland
and the match there played Thursday,
May IS.
Go Into PhIladeIphia,
From Gambler the team will jump TO
Philadelphia via Columbus, reaching that
city OF brotherly love Friday noon, May 49,
The team will play Pennsylvania that az
ternoon and will go 20 Princeton for a
match on Saturday, May 40 Sunday will be
spent in New York and Monday afternoon,
the tennis sharks OF Yale will be met on
the New Haven courts The team will then
double back to New York for a day and
viii play the college Of the city Of New
York on Wednesday, May a.
Boston will be reached on the next day
and Harvard will be met on the Cambridge
courts Friday, May 2a The Harvard Alumni
will be played on the Longwood courts In
Boston the next afternoon The team will
spend Sunday In Boston and will go to
Hanover, N. H.. on Monday for a match
| with Dartmouth. This match will be the
last played on the trip and the men will
return to Minneapolis via the Erie railroad