University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-28
MANY LAST YEARS
TRACK MEN BACK
Half the Team Will Be Com
posed of Western Champ
ionship Winners.
STEEL AND JOHNSON GONE
Bermond, kirksey and Nichol-
son Among Point Winners
Who Will Compete.

One-half of the team that repeat
edly won victories in the winter and
spring track meets last year, and f.
nally won the Western Champion
ship at Minneapolis, will be back this
year. But among the men that are
lost to the Tigers are three of the
six that won the Western meet at
Minneapolis. Earl Steel, captain of
the 1911 team, and W. L. Johnson,
both long distance runners, and A.
w. Roberts, discus and shot-put
man, will not compete this year.
Lester Bermond. captain of this
years team, and a quarter and half
miller with record that has been
equaled only once or twice; Guy
kirksey. Missouri's best 10O-yard
and lOw-hurdle man, and j. P.
Nicholson. holder of Missouri VAL
ley records in the high jump and
high hurdles, are the men that the
Tigers will depend upon the most
this year.
Some Other Candidates.
Other men who may run for the
Old Gold and Black are: Knoble.
Leon. Moss, Wilder, Shockley. Estes,
Walton, Talbot, Hutsell, Terry.
Smith and Lake. Thatcher, the
freshman who broke the Varsity rec
ord with the discus last year, hurling
it 125 feet I inches; E. l.. and E. II.
Anderson. and Sol" Hastings will
he the shot-put and discus men. In
the pole-vault event there is lack
Of good men.
T. E. Jones. who will train the
track men again this year, said yes
terday: Il will be disappointed if
We do not break the pole-vault rec
ord this year. l don't know yet who
is the man that can do it, but think
it will be DONE"
The men who were on the Varsity
last year that will not be in the run
ming this year are: Stevens. pole
Steel, mile and 2-mile man;
Roberts, discus and shot; Farrell,
quarter-mile and relay; KObroch,
middle distance; Herzog, dashes and |
high jump; CatrOn. dashes, and W. |
L. johnson, miller and distance run
ner.
CatrOn and Johnson are both in !
school, but probably will be ineligi- |
Bile under the Missouri Valley Con-
ference rules. Johnson was entered |
in race against Kansas in his soph- |
Dmore year. While he did not place |
il is counted against him as one
years competition. CatrOn ran this |
in the X. c. A c. games. |
and, although he should have run as |
unattached, the officials of the meet |
reunited his points with the Kansas |
City clubs winnings. A conference |
rule fOrbids an athlete to run for a |
club during vacation without permis-
sion.
CrOss-COuntry Work Now.
The track men are now doing
Il loss-cOuntry work. Not until the
season is well on will the middle
distance and short-distance men
start hard training.
The distance men will be put to
work earlier. There will be the an
lual inter-department cross-country
his year. The prizes for this event
are large silver cup to the depart
nent winning and a cross-country
M" to the men finishing in the first
vas won by the farmers.
won by the farmers.
Some time this fall, before cold
weather sets in, department track
meet will be held on Rollins Field. !
IL is also likely that a cross-country
ace will be scheduled with Kansas |
o be run here at the time of the