Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-26
SAY EXPENSE IS TOO GREAT
Omaha Promoters Agree to Pay Part
if They Will Come.
LOCALS EXPECT REPLY SOON
Tea mis- Wanted to Furnish Competi-
ton for Michigan Lads.
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS ENTER
Among the Cracks who VIII ne Seen
Saturday Might at the Auditorium
Are Ralph Craig, Joe Homer,
MenauI and Roberts.

The University Of Missouri, one Of the
most prominent Of the universities and col
leges, expected to be represented In omaha
Saturday in the second Omaha indoor meet,
may not send team, according to advices
received from the Missouri authorities yes
terday.
The reason given is that the cost Of send
ing a team as far as Omaha would be too
great The omaha Athletic association
met the situation by offering to pay the
Tiger teams expenses in part in order that
the other colleges might not be disap-
pointed. reply IL expected soon.
Preparations for the big track event have
progressed satisfactorily. Competition will
bring to this city the best of the many
speedy runners and OF the amateur field
athletes Of the west The placing Of the
Western Amateur Athletic championship in
conjunction with the Omaha meet, make
the Omaha event all the more important as
any records made will be placed with the
Amateur Athletic union as national anna
teur records.
The construction OF the track in the
Auditorium will begin Tuesday the track to
be 100 feet inside length and sixteen feet
wide. 1t will be built Of wood and the
curves will be banked two feet on the
outside edge. Inside the track will be space
for the dashes and the field events. The
fifty-yard dash and hurdle races will be
held as the first events and the field events
there later.
Many Individual Stars Enter.
There win be a long list of individual
track stars present when the gong rings.
Ralph Craig. the champion 22O-yard runner
of the western college conference. with a
record OF :21M will be here as a member Of
the Michigan team. Joe Horner. esteemed
as the best RIl-romd intercollegiate athlete
OF the country, will also be here with the
wolverines. Horner holds the records in
shotput, IS feet inches; high jump. feet
inches; forty-yard hurdles. o57s; pole
vault. 10 feet inches; thirty-five yard
dash, .O.
Menaul, a 15s-pound crack Of Chicago
who hurts the shot IS feet and has high
jump record Of s feet 1O1h inches, is en-
tered. French, who has a mark OF feet
y inch in tho high jump, ia entered from
Kansas as h Roberts. the man who won
the fifty-yard dash here last year.
Davenport, the best runner ever turned
out by Coach A. A. Stage Of Chicago, will
be here TO run under the Maroon oolors.
NIe has a record OF ;4sS for 40 yards.
Kansas city Comes I'm Force.
Kansas City will be represented In
strength The Kansas City Athletic club
will have a relay team entered and some
OF the members will enter the individual
events The Kansas City Young Mems
Christian associations strong track squad
will enter. Koenigsdorf, who won the 100
and 22O-yard dsshes in the Missouri valley
interscholastic meet last year, will COM
pete; also Dan S. stolphet, who holds the
worlds Amateur Athletic union record for
one mile, minutes SOb seconds. Kanalzer,
min - at I
Young Mems Christian association meet
last year, and Mayberry, who won second
in the Omaha meet last year viii be here.
1t has been decided that the high school
relay race shall be 800 yards for each of
the four men. Omaha, Sioux City and York
High schools will meet In one event and
South Omaha and Council Bluffs in an
other. The grade school event will be 26O
yards for each man unless change is
made. Preliminaries for the grade school
event will be held at 1880 p. m Saturday
and the final race will be held later in the
evening
The University Of Nebraska expects 20
send a strong delegation on the night of the
meet and the University OF Michigan
alumni OF whom there are many in Omaha
will be present to root for their athletes
Omaha High school, with its military cadet
band, will occupy the west end OF the Suild
ing and the United States Fourth infantry
band will be placed at the east end.
Turner's 20 Give Exhibition.
During the mile run the Tel Jed Sokol
the society of Bohemian turner's, will put
on turning exhibition In the field par
OF the floor The Omaha Tel Jed Sokol II
one Of the best turner teams and puts on
lively and interesting exhibition OF gym
nasucs
The Omaha Athletic association Is plan
ming series OF signs liz by electricity by
which spectators may know which even
Is being run off and the results Other ar
rangements for the quick handling of tn,
events and the announcement Of the re
suits to the watchers are under way.
The Omaha Young Mems Christian asso
citation is training squad hard now IL
preparation for the big event Richie. r
Wilson, Harris, Golden. Hugh Wallace an
l. Wilson are all trying out for the "Y
team and the local association should max
good representation