Evening star., 1912-07-08
Dt viii Be Made to Bar Cornell Team From Post Season Series
MAY THROW CORNELL TEAM
OUT OF POST-SEASON SERIES
Efforts to Be Made to Have Paperhangers
Barred-by Declaring Capital City
League Not a League.

ranked by many as the greatest middle
| distance runner in the history of track
! and field sports; c. d. Refdpath of Syra,.
cuse a quarter miller who has few, IL
| any equals, and whose running at the In
| tercol egiate games this year was the talk
J of the day; George Bonhag and Tel
Berna who rank at the top over dis
tance of ground.
jumping has been the wonder of the sea-
son when II is recalled that he cleared
the bar in practice at feet SA inches
and holds the worlds high jump record
Of 6 feet I inches; Marc Wright of Dart
| mouth, who just before sailing establish
ed a worlds record for the pole vault at
Is feet 21a inches; Jim Duncan who has
been hurling the discus to distances
never known before; Ralph Rose, the
giant shot-putter. and a. l.. Gutterson,
Vermont's remarkable broad Jumper
These are only few of those who VIII
strive to bring another Olympic cham-
pionship back to the United States, but
1t will be surprising if they are not the
ones who will be most written OF and
most talked of before the week is over.
There is hardly any doubt but that the
dope is pretty nearly right While In all
the events the Americans are represented
by some good Second-string men, ana
they should take care Of the events In
which some man who is depended on
to win drops out, 1t nevertheless is likely
to be fact that In the end 1t will be
1Oun0 the STARS nave dCColilpHoiSo tiiC
most in placing America in the fore
ground
Judging by what has already been
done. the Olympic meet is likely to be
a walkover for the United States. Right
now 1t does not appear that any OF the
countries can hope for anything better
than to fight it out for the honor of
IL the American team were pitted against
the entire strength Of the foreign coun-
tries combined 1t wuld have an ex-
cellent chance to win out.
The lone event in which it was thought
America would not stand much Of a show
in the Olymrdc meet was the 10O-meter
dash, and vet it was the one in which
First, second and third in a race in
which even first or second was doubt
ful is fitting way to begin,
the American victory in the dash, and
that is that the records with which the
foreign competitors were accredited pre-
viously had never really been made. With
poor timing and poorer starting. it is
rather an easy matter to run race two
or three-fifths Of a second out of the
way.
There were few who thought that Ralph
Craig, the former Michigan sprinter,
would be able to regain his form in the
dashes. That he took the 100 meters
final in such handy fashion is conclusive
evidence that the majority. were mis-
taken.
The difference in form in which rum
ner may cover the short dash on two
successive days was shown by the fact
that Lppincott Of Pennsylvania did the
100 meters in the trials fifth of sec
ond faster than did Craig, who defeated
him in the final. To lose in the final in
slower time than the heat was won
seems improbable. yet that is what hap
pened.
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nine has chance to crawl up on the
Loffier club today in the Independence
League race. 1t meets the Aloysius team
and on the form shown in the last few
games should not find much trouble de-
featins it. Aloysius has been going worse
this season in the independence LEAGUE
than it has for a long while. possibly
since the club has been represented in
amateur base ball. II looks a little queer
to see Aloysius down at the bottom Of
the list Of teams, when it has nearly al
ways been at the top fighting for a pen
nant.