New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-31
Injury to Bennett Causes Slump
in Cornell Stock.
HARVARD PROBABLY SECOND
Indications Point to a Grand
Scramble Among Four or
Five Teams.

undoubtedly will make much trouble for
their Eastern rivals. with just bare pos
sihilitv Of slipping into second place.
In 10 the last minute Cornell ruled the
fsroito. but the stock Of the IthaCans
took tumble when w. II. Bennett, their
,tar sprinter, pulled tendon i'm a try
ont he will start hut whether he will be
able to get a place is now doubtful ques-
,on With Bennett out of il. Cornell seems
10 have little chance Of duplicating the
victory Of 1911
Tho team which totals an aggregate Of
q points should win the meet, Last year
cornell scored S0ie points Yale, Michigan
and PENNSYLVANIA finished in tho order
named Yale is hopelessly out of It this
year Pennsylvania seems to he a triie
stronger than in 1911 while Michigan is
apparently a little weaker. Harvard.
which was seventh q year ago. looms up
with probably the best balanced college
team, IN tho country and one that would
win any dual meet
IN The last seven years Cornell has Won
the championship four times. Pennsylvania
twice and Harvard once. Pennsylvania will
have 3 distinct advantage in being al
home. The lthacans have a team of stars
Of the first magnitude, but their point
Winning proClivities will he confined solely
10 the track Unless one Of Jack Moak-
leys pupils performs better than he has
zone thus far this season the Big Red
team can hardly expect to score in more
than Eve events at the most-the dashes.
'haf-mile, one mile and two-mle runs.
Everything points to a grand scramble
possibility Of not more than dozen
points separating the winner and the one
in NTH place.
Five records were made in the Stadium,
at Cambridge. last year. The track at
Franklin Field is not as fast as the one
81 Soldiers Field. where the men are pro
tected against the wind, but still. under
ordinary conditions. the Philadelphia Gin
deTpsth is generally good enough for
record breaking. John Paul Jones is in a
class by himself. and there is no telling
wha. he can do If he goes out with the
idea Of lettering his marks in the half and
the mile runs II is highly probable he will
be successful. especially in the latter race.
hut II is likely he will be satisfied TO win,
and reserve his energies for tho Olympic
trials. Eliminating Jones. the events in
which new records may be made are the
tvo-mile race, where Tel Berna, his team
mate and present record holder, is ex-
pected 10 lower his mark. the quarter-mle
dash in which Charley Reidpath seems i'm
r fair way to equal. If not better, the
record of. 0:4s 49,. held Jointly by the late
j r. Taylor, Pennsylvana's negro runner
snd y. 3. Young. Of Amherst the shot
pUt. IN which both r. l.. Beatty. of Column
hia and 4. W. Kohler. of Michigan, will
probably exceed rs feet Is inches. J. J.
Horner's record. now standing on the
books. and the pole vault record of IL feet
sS-S inches held BY II. S. Babcock. OF
Columbia. Any one Of a quartet of vault
ers seems capable OF clearing greater
height
There would be no question Of Pennsyl-
,ania's ability 70 win the championship II
Marshall could bc depended upon TO run
- his best form in tho dashes. Recent re
ports from Philadelphia say he is going
again in something like the style he showed
last wear aud carly this season. The
Quakers will probably score In more events
than any other team Harvard too, has
ability 10 pick up large number OF sec
onds thirds and fourths Michigan has
two good distance men, two good quarter
r1Ilers. a fine hurdler. a good high Jumper
md a remarka bic weight man. Cornell has
three stars-Jones. Putnam and Berna-
who are almost sure 10 score IL points
among them. but, with Bennett eliminated
because Of his injury, the Ithacans do not
figure to yum up much larger total
100.Yard Dash.
Princeton has two sprinters in Thomas
and Harland. who are expected to clean
I'D in the short dash. They have been
doing dependable work this spring. Thomas
was fourth In the championships a year
aso, and should be able to do better to-
morrow against a poorer field than he met
i'm 1911 Marshall and Brown, OF Pennsyl-
vania are both good men. the former the
fastest in the field II he runs TO form, and
the only sure second man. Jacobs. OF
Columbia. has been knocking at the door
for two years, and this year it looks as II
he might score. In a recent time trial ne
mas clicked in 0:09 As. Robertson, OF
Syracuse. Is another reliable man who must
rot be overlooked.
220-Yard Dash.
Mercer. Of Pennsylvania. is picked to win
tho f,,rlong dash. He IN strong runner
SfHnO q
seems 10 be the distance at which he Is at
his hest. Against Cornell he ran in Or Nat.
Robertson duplicated this performance IN
The Syracuse Michigan meet. Bennett, or
Cornell raced away from Harland in the
dual meet with Cornell and won in 0:22 10.
Even though lis leg may be weak. he
seems 10 have a chance Of getting POSSIBLY
one point. Adams Of Harvard may prove
a big surprise I'm this event. IL is rather
ordinary field, with no one standing out az
did Ralph Craig In 1910 and 1911 and Nat
CartmclI in the three previous years.
440.Yard Dash. 1
Charley Reldpath. Of Syracuse. looms up
large IN the quarter-mile dash. lie has
been running in grand style after a. years
absence from the cinderpath. and should
win easily, with a fine chance 10 equal or
POSSIBLY break the record. Fogg his team
mate has finished second 10 him In every |
race they have entered this season, and ,
close second at that. Barron. Of Harvard, |
Won in O.4g 20 I'm the Yale Harvard meet |
and in go 20 I'm the Observation-Disclosures, |
where his teammates furnished the only |
opposition. IL Bennett, Of Cornell, should |
start i'm the 29O-yard dash and quarter, in |
stead of the lO0-yard dash. he would have |
he preference for a place because Of his |
.dark OF 0:i9 rs In the Cornell Pennsylvana
meet. when he took the measure of Foster |
and Smith, the best men Pennsylvania had |
at the distance. Sawyer, of Princeton, and |
Gamble and Half. Of Michigan, second,
third and fourth. respectively, last year,