New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
College Track and Field
Meet Puzzles Prophets

poin,s. Then. too, Patterson. last year
100 ward champion. has failed TO sno"
any Of the form which brought him nome
I'm front last season. and ] would not 10
surprised II he finished no better than
third or fourth In the final heat.
In Speiden, Caldwell. Hofmire, tritz'
Morrison and MacCutcheon Cornell has
men who are likely to score. Whether
any OF these men is capable OF winning
his event is doubtful, although Speideh
has n chance to defeat Madeira, OF Penn
sylvania, in the mfle run.
Harvard has fair chance OF winnins'
In holding the championships on Its own
field. every available man can be entered
who might not seem good enough TO take
away were the meet to be held elsewhere.
Last year Harvard surprised every one
by almost beating out Penn, ana 10 my
mind it was due to the fact that every
available man was entered.
However. Harvard lacks. with the ex-
ception OF one or two men. high class
performers This was brought out In the
defeat suffered at the hands of Yale.
The failure of Jackson. the colored hurd-
Ter. to come back to his old form, hurts
Harvard's chances considerably.
Dartmouth has a team far below the
well rounded aggregation OF last year.
The best men are Marceau in the mile
and the half-mile runs. Buck in the pole
vault, Whitney in the shot put and Braun
in both hurdles. Dartmouth will be fortu-
nate II il finishes better than fifth or
sixth place.
Michigan. with Bond and Seward in the
sprints. Kohler I'm the weights, Jansen
in the half or quarter miles. and Hahn
baugh should pick up enough points 10
drop into fourth or fifth place. However,
the loss of Han. last years quarter mile
champion. is the greatest loss sustained
by the Wolverines. Bond and Seward
look extremely good in the sprints.
Little is known Of the California team.
Beeson, Allen and Shattuck, who scored
all of California's 10 points at the last
meeting. have graduated, leaving only
Wood, a quarter miller. and Crabbe, fair
two miller | do not look for them TO
break seriously into the scoring.
The three best races will undoubtedly
be the 440-yard dash, the half-mile run
and the one-mile run. In the 440-yard
dash one of the fastest and best matched
fields seen at Cambridge in years Will
toe the mark. No less than four starters
have run the distance this year in iS 40
seconds-namely, Wilkie, Of Yale; Bar
ron and Bingham, of Harvard, and Cald-
well, of Cornell. OF the field like Bar
ron the best. for he has improved Won
derfully in his sprinting. The record Of
IS seconds in this event ought TO De APP
preached.
With Meredith, of Pennsylvania;
Brown, of Yale, and Capper. OF Harvard,
in the half-mile run, the old record Of
! :59 As ought to 20 by the board, and II
would not be surprising II Meredith
worlds record of l:52I2 was given Sc
we're jolt
Although the mile run is lacking in
class. compared TO that OF a year ago,
when Jones and Taber ran great race,
nevertheless the fact that the competitors
this year are about evenly matched
should lend great interest TO the race.
Both Speiden, of Cornell. and Madeira,
Of Pennsylvania, have been clocked In
i:l9 As. The latter hung up his fast time
I'm the Penn-Dartmouth meet, when he
easily defeated Marceau, Of Dartmouth.
However. the following week. in the Cor
nell-Penn meet, Suelden beat him IN the
same time after n desperate finish.