Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-06
PRINCETON BUSY ON TRACK
Twenty Three Men Eligible for Years
Team.
STRONGEST ON THE DASHES
Several Good Runners for the "Hun-
dred" and "'TwO-Twenty"--
Good Prospects for Material
Among Freshmen.
TRONGEsT ON THE DAsHEs

PRINCETON, N. j., March 5.-Under the
watchful eve Of Keene Fitzpatrick, the
Princeton track team expects to be a con-
tending factor in eastern intercollegiate
athletics during the coming season. The
prospects are unusually encouraging, FOR
with but five men lost by graduation from
team which secured fourth place in last
years intercollegiate meet the prospects
for a successful track season are brighter
this spring than they have been for many
years. In addition to the men who remain
from last seasons team there 10 4 great
amount of new material available from the
freshman team, which secured the Prince
ton Harvard-Yale freshman championship
| of 1910
Twenty-three men are eligible for this
years team, who held a position on the
team of the 1910 season. among whom are
most Of the strongest men who represented
Princeton last year. Captain M. Dwight
won first place in both the 40 and 200
yard hurdles in the navy dual meet and
the Cornell dual meet, and in addition to
winning first place in the 12O-yard hurdles
against Yale he secured second place in
| the same event and third place in the 30
yard hurdles at the annual intercollegiate
meeting in Philadelphia. r. r. Bumstead.
1911, who ran second in the 190-yard hurdles
at the Caledonian games last spring, will
also be eligible this year
In the dashes the university team will
be strongly represented. In the 100 and
22O-yard sprints r. Cooke Is probably the
most consistently strong runner in the uni
versfity He won both these events in the
Caledonian games and the Yale dual meet.
secured first in the 1OO-yard dash In the
navy meet and ran fourth In the intercolle-
giates E. c. Jessup is another strong man
in the sprints, who. with r. r, Thomas
and ]. p. Harland should develop into point
winners.
H. NJ Sawyer, who won the quarter mile
event against Yale and ran third in the
Intercollegiate should prove a valuable
man again this season, while j. r. Nc
Kinney, jr, 1912; F. d. Close 1918, and F
c. Hall, 1913 the latter two being consistent
point winners last years freshman
team, will complete the list of men who
, should prove most valuable in the middle
distance events
r Two prominent members OF the fresh
man team M Chaplin and T. NJ. Stick
ney, together with s. NJ. Don, are the mos
likely candidates for the half mile, Will,
in the mile and two-mile are r. Koehler
who won the later event against both tn,
navy and Yale; w G. Melick, r H. Valen
tine, and, from last years freshman team
1 T. d. Howell, r. c. Wallace and A. p
) Curtis 49,
E In the field events Bament, Dell and 81
t mons are all good high jumpers, wnii
} the best men in the pole vault are Bennett
! and Bryan. Both these men have don
! II feet inches, and will undoubtedly i'm
I prove on their work of last year In tn
broad jump Benton and Brown, who VOL
y the broad jump in the Caledonian game
' last spring, will be available again thi
year. The weights will be taken care o
t by f. j. Hart, f. Ellsworth. jr: d. M
= Simons and t. G. Speers, in addition L
. whom may be added some of the member
! of the foot ball team