Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-03-01
TN II. {. \. {. MEET " KANSAS
CIIN NEXT SATURDAY. Will
OPEN SEASON
MUST SUPPLANT Thorpe
lrght Track aud ticld Meets \rf
scheduled for This spring-HIGh
school Meet in iprii.

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uiGay Will open what promises to bee
the greatest season in track athletics
Oklahoma ever has seen. only the
stato university and the state a2r,cul-
tural and mechanical college Will have
teams in the Kansas city games, but
as these are the two schools which
viii fight It out for first h0uors 100 the
Oklahoma state intercollegiate Dou-
ence meet at oklahoma city, May d..
tho showing made by individuals at
Saturdays competitions VIII he
watched with interest.
\ow that James Thorpe, the won
derful oklahoma Sac and Fox ln-
dian, and Ira Davenport, Oklahoma's
Other representative In the last
Olympic competitions have hcon ro-
tired the state Is looking for some
one who can be ranked with the
worlds greatest in 1916. That the
sealh will be thorough is evidenced
by the fact that at least eight track
and field meets, exclusive of dual af-
fairs, are scheduled for this spring.
These are located i'm every section of
the state SO that one can lack an OPP
|portunity to display his athletic aoil-
ity. Moreover, the meets are graded
from grammar schools to colleges. At
Edmond on April is, Will be held
the state grammar school meet. al
Norman one week later viii joe held
the state high school meet, divided
into classes 4 and b, and in which
fiftl high schools are expected to be
represented; at oklahoma CITY Man
Is will be held the intercollegiate
meet. Besides these statewide com
petitions. a southeastern meet will be
held at Durant April 1911; a south
western at Weatherford April us, a
Weithorford, April II and is. a
northwestern at Alya, some time in
the same month, ana "a fourth section
al meet at saltwater May D. Several
counties are conducting county lram-.
mar school meets.
with such an extensive program,
planned to be improved each succeed
ing year, Oklahoma hopes TO develop
track men Of international ability
oklahoma university's representa-
tiycs in the X. c.. A. G. meet Will prob
ably bc Captain Jacobs, Lee Field,
IOll LOW ~ " ll'u iidHN'A wv 'N''.H ]
Jacobs win enter in the 50-yard low
hurdles field in the 1%,O00-yard hand
leap. and a relay team composed Of
Jacobs. Lowry, Hansen and Lively
Will be raced.
In Captain Jacobs, the Sooncrs have
an athlete whose name is expected to
be written along with those " Thorpe
and Davenport. Last year at the
Oklahoma intercollegiate conference
meet he won first place in the four
events he entered-high jump, broad
jump. 220 and 100 hurdles. Besides
this he ran the first lap Of the mile
relay and opened such a lead as to
carry his team TO an easy victory and
a new state record. His mark in the
high Jump was , feet l0L inches
which he cleared with ease and would
have tried again for a still higher rec
ord had it not been that he was need
ed Immediately for the relay. In
practice this spring he Is reported TO
be clearing 6 fcct 3 inches, within
c~nc-fourth inch Of the !. @ \. a. A.
,ecord. The state university has an
either high jumper Of promise. lie
O. +. Woods Of Altus who made o
fect 10 Is inches at the interscholas-
dc meet last spring. SIX feet has
been made by him several times this
spring and since he is only is years
of age and has three years more in
college after this, Coach Darling has
hopes Of developing him into a world
heater.
Among the other likely Sooner
candidates are. Lively, Weis
and White for the sprints. Dit2lcr and
Russell i'm the distance events, Boyd,
COPYRIGHT and Dick Lowry in the
hurdles, Cohafsan and Boy in the
Jumps. Monnett, Woods. Freeman,
and Minton in the vault and Kite and
Mirton, former point winners FOR the
Agrics. Meacham and Anderson for
the Weights.
The Aggies this spring are depend
ing ON a superior corps of coaches to
develop a winning team from practi-
cally raw material, of which there
seems to be an abundance. The
coaching staff will he greatly rein
forced with the arrival next week OF
Claud NJ. Allen Of Brooklyn, former
Syracuse track star. a member of the
Olympic team. John Corbett.
who supplanted W. f.. Schneider as
director last fall. was star
end on the Harvard university foot
hall team In the early nineties and an
all-round athlete. The other leading
member Of the staff is p. J. Davis,
Dlckerson star.
OF tested material the farmers
count on Cobb. Sewell. BarbOr In the
dashes. Minor. Ropp, c. II. Smith.
end Vance in the hurdles, Higgins
and Reed In the jumps, Hueston for
the vault; Payne S%crivner and Butler
for the distance events. Haverstrite,
Lowry and Campbell for the weights.
The greatest blow to track prospects
was the loss ~ Hobgood. the distance
runner, who last year lowered the ON
ference two mile record more than 20
seconds and who promised another
slice this year. He has forsaken the
Aggias for those In Oregon,
where he is reported working out In
great shape.
The smaller schools Of the confer
ince are not without their stars. North
looks to Ssndefur to set a new
discus REGARD. Last year he broke the