Evening star., 1913-12-07
STRONG TRACK TEAM
Virginia Expects to Cut a Fig
ure in Big Meets This Winter.
NEW MEN LOOK GOOD
Most Of Last Years Squad Returns
to School and Are in
Fine Shape.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. December
6.-About fifty candidates answered Por
l.annigan's call for track material yes.
terday afternoon, and all were sent tc
! work on the board track which was con-
structed on the tennis courts few DAYS
ago for the indoor training of the squad
PROSPECTS are Very bright for a good
track team at Virginia this year. as most
OF last years squad returned to school,
and several valuable additions; have been
made in the way of new men Norris of
last years two-mile relay team at Yale
mas been out working all fall. and Nc
Guire. quarter-miler from Lafayette,
looked pretty good yesterday. Wiley
Cooke. who led the field in the first relay
of the two-mile championship at the Penn
syivania relay carnival last spring. is
back in good shape. and Capt. Cronley
the South Atlantic hurdles champion and
winner of the hurdle event at Penn last
year. is expected 10 do great things
The other letter men TO return We're
Wright, the two-mile champion: Beckett
and Barton of Virginia's two-mile relay
team; Mason. who ran on the one-mile
team, and Mayer and Gooch, who com
Lannigan received a letter from Garter
Glass, Tie anchor man on the Washing
ton and Lee relay team last season. and
he will enter Virginia after Christmas if
he gain his parents consent. Glass
is strong in the sprints. winning several
dashes in indoor meets held in Washing
ton ana Baltimore last year, and is good
for about fifty seconds in the quarter.
lIa ,,-;lI ,,i..a
made in Lannisans relay team caused
by Diebolts leaving college
Manager F'ite has arranged a strenuous
schedule for the team. taking in every
available meet in this part of the country.
as well as several up north.
The two relay teams Will have their
hands full both during the indoor and
outdoor seasons. The two-mile team
Will open with race against Pennsyl-
vania and the Indians at the Fifth
Regime"- games in Baltimore. Feb
ruary IA. Arrangements are being made
for a race with Cornell in the George
Washington meet at Convention Hall.
while an attempt Will be made To get
in three-cornered race with Yale and
Princeton when Georgetown holds It's
annual meet.
The one-mle team will start off
against Hopkins at the Baltimore
games, and will run against the Blue
and Gray in the annual race for the
southern championship at the latter's
meet Both teams viii be sent to COM
pete at the Penn relay carnival in the
spring.
Penn and Princeton. Will each spend "A
week in Charlottesville after outdoor
work starts. and a dual meet is sched-
uled with each team Other dual meets
are with Hopkins and Georgetown. and
probably Penn State. A full team viii
be sent to the indoor games in Rich
mond, as Well as the southern inter
collegiates to be held in Baltimore in
May. and il Virginia succeeds in being
reinstated few men Will enter the in
tercolleSiates in the north that winds
up the track season. Preliminary meets
for the Virginia squad will be held
every Saturday from now until the
season starts to get the men accus-
toned to competition. as we'll as 10 get
line on the material