New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
WILL HAVE FASTER TEAM
Columbia Expects To Be Well
Represented on the Track.
ENTHUSIASM ON HEIGHTS
Much New and Promising Ma.
terial Is Uncovered by
Bernie Wefers.

Although only one dual meet has been
arranged for the Columbia track team
this season, II is evident as a result OF
the first three weeks outdoor practice
that the Blue and White will have an
even better team this year than last,
when it was the surprise of the intercol-
leGiate games and was in tie for fourth
place with Harvard The only contest In
which the Morningside Heights team wilt
take part outside Of the Pennsylvania
relays and the Intercollegiate is a dual
meet with Princeton that will be held on
South Field on May 10. This meet, Incl
dentally, will mark the renewal of track
relations between Columbia and the
Tigers, which were broken off some i've
years ago.
Bernie Wefers has a squad of between
seventy-fiye and one hundred men out for
the team For the first time that he has
been In charge on South Field he had
instituted series of weekly handicap
meets with a 'cross-country run every
second week. BY their means he has
brought out a wealth of new material
and given his veterans some good prac-
toward track athletics on Morningside
Heights and spirit that had apparently
been dormant since the early days Of the
last decade has taken hold OF the stu
dents. Some of the new men give every
sign OF becoming stars before their days
of competition are over.
In the freshman class he has unearthed
two exceptionally good men in Gertz and
Volmer. The former is a long distance
man of the first calibre. and has had
little difficulty in showing the way in the
Van Amringe 'cross-country runs. while
Nollmer in the quarter-mile has won
most of the honors in the handicap meets.
lie showed his speed in trial race the
other day when he outguessed MacDon-
aid a member Of the varsity one-mile
relay team and next 10 Captain Bonsio
one Of the best quarter-milers that Co.
| lumbia has, and beat him easily III
sprint down the stretch
Another freshman who is showing Won
derful form is Randall, the voungster
whose high jumping promises TO be
factor in the intercollegiate. In prac-
| tice last fall he was clearing six tcet
without difficulty. and In the handicap
events he has done feet 10 inches
without exerting himself ]. W. Her.
ring, n junior. who came to Columbia
from Oberlin Is also likely to show some
thing when he gets in good company. lie
/ seems to be the only man 10 ht in Cap
tain Harry Babcock's shoes In the pole
vault although he will have 10 put at
least foot on his practice vaults to be
as good as Babcock was at his best.
Paszek. a sophomore who prepared at
Boys High. is promising material As a
sprlnter he has been pressing JACOBS,
| Columbias star man. consistently, and
gets better each time he runs. mex
perience is his greatest handicap at pres
ent OF the old men Janney, who vas
well up in the mile at Franklin Field last
June, is showing the most encouraging
form. He has had no trouble in winning
the mile handicaps. and his college Vork
Is light enough to permit him 20 keep
the strictest kind of training, thing he
could not do last spring
Russell Beatty. the record holder in
the shot-put of course. will be the MAIN
stay of the Blue and White He is get
ting the shot out farther every time ne
tries IL, and should win every contest ne
enters without eXertng himself Brady
the junior national champion over the
low hurdles. is running in splendid style
and Is a second faster than he was
year ago. Sterling Graham, who was
Just nosed out in the high hurdles ana
missed scoring I'm the broad jump by an
equally narrow margin, should get
point or more in each of those events
this year, while Jacobs. il his leg con-
tinues TO hold up. is confidently expected
TO take the measure OF Thomas, the Tiger
captain. and make up for his defeat al
the Princetonian's hands year ago.
| Bonslb looks nit for place In the
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