New-York tribune., 1912-02-25
ATHLETICS At COLUMBIA
Track Outlook Bright for the
Blue and White Team.

/ Columbia is looking forward TO the COM
! ing outdoor track season with interest, in
( asmuch as II seems to have the best team
| I'm decade, Bernie Wefers, who has been
coaching the athletes for the last three
years seems to have found his grip and
! in addition 10 the fast one-ulle relay team
which he has developed he has brought out
/ several individual stars who probably will
he a big h"p in the dual meets.
! In Russell Beatty and Harry s. Babe 0ck
/ Wefers seems to have two intercollegiate
champions, for the former has broken all
| college records for the shot-put, and the
latter. II he Is able TO maintain his wonder
/ ful form OF a year ago should have little
diftulty In winning the intercollegiate pole
vault title second time
These two arc the most promising and
tho hest men that Wefers has. but the
general run Of track material is better now
than it has ever been, and with some care
| full coaching Columbia should be represent
ed by strong, well balanced team. 1t win
have it's final tryout, in competition on
March 30. when IL meets Syracuse in a dual
indoor meet I'm the Syracuse gymnasium.
| former in the sprints but there are a half
dozen middle distance men. including r. M.
Bonsib, r. B. Patton. r. Brady, +. Mac
donald. w g. Buckish and s. Stover. a
/ freshman. There is a scarcity OF material
! for the distance events and the team will
also probably be weak In the hurdles. In
the field. however. there are good men In
nearly every event, excepting in the ham,
rner throw.
The arrangement Of the triangular crew
race between Columbia, Princeton and
| Pennsylvania. which will be rowed on Car
! negie Lake on May IS. completes what is
| probably the best schedule that the Co.
lumbia crews have had in many seasons.
/ II is more than thirty years since Columbia
! has met Princeton, and the coming regatta
| will bring back to memory the regattas for
the Chds cup, which were held in the
| early sos. The final arrangement for the
! triangular contests were made after 1t had
| been feared that. owing 10 complications
Of schedules, it would he impossible to
| bring the three together on the same date.
| Both Columbia and Pennsylvania had
] scheduled races with Annapolis, the former
to row the middies on May II and the latter
| on May (. Princeton and Pennsylvania had
practically agreed TO row on Lake Carnegie
| on May H. and thought that Columbia
would be able to join in that arrangement.
| That was found 10 be impossible, however.
and Columbia then endeavored to row a
| dual race with the Tigers on either May
1 or is.
The Blue and White Will open its racing
season on May II. when IL meets the An
napolis eight on the Severn In a two-mle
| contest The following Saturday will be
given over 10 the triangular regatta. Crews
! viii also be entered in the American Hen
| ley regatta At Philadelphia on May %. The
| Columbia final examinations come at that
| time but az the last meeting OF the faculty
! of applied science resolution was passed
/ granting tho oarsruen who may be taken
! 10 the Schuylkill special absence, with a
| special examination IN the subjects which
| they will Re obliged 70 cut. This will make
| Il possible for Columbia 10 enter the first
and second varsity eights in the Henley
| races. and IL Is almost certain that the
! first freshman crew will also be entered in
| the classic. The local crews will also be
entered in the Harlem regatta on Me-
| mortal Day. These races will complete a
! ,chedule which should send the columbia
| crews TO Poughkeepsie in excellent condi-
! ton, Gs the oarsmen Will have had more
| experience in actual racing than any Co.
| lmbia crews IN recent years.