Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-19
Representatives Of Chicago and Mis-
souri, Valley Conferences at
Indoor Meet.
NINE BIG COLLEGES TO BE HERE
Best in the Entire Country to Try
for HonOrs.
stage 10 BRING HIS BEST
French Of Kansas Will Also Be at
=, the Meet.
OVER TWO HUNDRED ATHLETES
UniveFsities, COLLEGES. v. NJ. G. As
ard Graded schools to Enter
Their Athletes to Make the
Affair a Hummer.

omaha's second annual indoor track
meet April ], will have entered champion
runners and strong men OF the big uni
yerslties Of the west as well as the youth
ful but speedy athletes OF the Omaha
graded schools. Although the list Of en-
tries will be open for couple OF days. by
an arrangement made BY Secretary r. L.
earns IL is very unlikely that any more
organizations will enter.
Nine OF the biggest universities Of the
y est have agreed 10 come here and meet
che Missouri valley universities, the only
meet OF the entire year in which the uni
versities OF both these big conferences
will meet
Michigan and Chicago are entered from
the western conference. and Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri and Drake from the
Missouri Valley organization. Nebraska
Wesleyan. Cotner and South Dakota are
the other three universities entered
The list OF colleges comprises Tarl0o,
Tabor Coe. Bellevue. Morningside and
Cornell Of Iowa. and high schools from
Sioux City. Omaha, York Council Bluffs,
South Omaha and Tabor. The athletic
clubs are the big Chicago Athletic asso-
citation, the Kansas City Athletic club,
the German Turner's the Tel Jed Sokol
and the svea Athletic club Omaha, LIN
coin and Kansas city Young Mems Chris
tan associations will come and the graded
schools OF Omaha viii hold relay race.
II Is impossible to state just how many
athletes there will be IN the meet, but
the list will run we'll toward the 200 mark.
Nebraska MAY BE Hard Pushed.
Nebraska's track athletes are going to
have to hoe hard row TO take first hon
ors In the meet at the Auditorium. There
viii be four other great rivals for the
premier place in the big events this year,
Kansas, Missouri. Michigan and Chicago.
An five Of these great colleges are plan
ming to send their strongest men to the
Omaha meet and II viii be the only event
OF iae year m which the athletes Of fhe
two az western conferences, the Chicago
ssor Wtstern, conference, and the Missouri
VALLEY conferehce! VIII meet. The Mis-
noufi Valley schools viii have slightly
she advantage over. the teams from the
other conference. as there will be three
Missouri Valley schools entered. Kansas
Missouri and Nebraska, against two West
ern confefence ones. Chicago and Michigan
TheseBig Eve relay race, with teams
from each OF these colleges win be the big
gest event of the evening. Each man will
round the track three times. a run Of S9'
yardS the length OF the race being 156
yards,
some OF the speediest college track ath
1etes IN the world will run both in the relal
race and in the other runs. Ralph Craig
who edusled the worlds record for 20
yards. ziik seconds. at the intercollegiate
track meet held at Philadelphia. May, 1910
will contest Joe Homer considered thu
best aIl-round athlete in the west II not il
the country, will be another Of the Michi
gan athletes running
Coach Alonso a. stage Of Chicago vii
have l. NJ Davenport, holder of the west
erh conference quarter-mile champlonshi
in 4s& seconds and the half-mile in 1 min
ute, 5Slt seconds George Kuh, the hurdle
and runner. Long, Earle, straube an
Rogers.
Kansas SENDS It's stars.
Kansas Is sending as its star man. Frenc
Ste wonderful high jumper. French is ;
years old and stands 5 feet inches. II
has competed In twenty-four meets an
won twenty Of them. tied for first once
lost altogether once and won second q
third the other times. In the annual Chi
eaeo conference meet last year NJ mad
. mark OF feet and Is OF an teen. H-inc
better than the mark he made last year
Omaha
Others Of the KANSAS stars are o. v
Patterson. with hslf-mfe record OF 2 mir
utes. s seconds; l. b. Roberts. who d
the 5O-yard dash In 57s seconds last yea
here; Raymond Watson. Harry Hamilton
Harold Woodbury., Charles woodbur!
Kruso, Mcmillan, Osborne. Fairchnd.
Missouri has not picked its complete tea
as yet. but Captain II. 7. Steel. mile
w. L. johnson, y and l mile man, Gle
sehuok, and Frank Catron, will sure
coma