Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-28
LINING UP FOR THE
DRAKE RELAY MEET
Champs and Near Champs from tho
Western States Are Going to Get
Into Game in April.
BIG AFTERNOON CARD OFT

DElS MONIES. Ia. March 27.-CSpecial)
Practically every champion or near
champion In the running game in the
west will be at the mark In some one
of The events of the Drake relay. to be
contested at the stadium. April II. In
every event OF the university. class men
Of national regulations will be COM
peting in one or two Of the competi-
tons. There will be many entrants.
The half-miie university track will
have as the center of interest. Barancik
and knight Of Chicago winners Of
places in the dashes In the Big Nine
meet last year. and Hammitt and Hoh-
man of Illinois. now with the Illinois
team in it's trip to the coast; Dickinson
and Collins OF Ames. ZumwInkle of Ne
braska and Shearer OF Drake, the latter
being the only sprtnter to win two places
in the Iowa state meet of year ago
He also won a place in the Big Nine
meet in Chicago.
In the college event Bailey of Coe,
winner of the l0o-yard dash at the Iowa
conference and the Iowa meets a year
ago will have to divide the honors with
Hoyt of Grinnell. the spectacular high
school Splinter. now a student at the
Grinnell institution.
New star on Mile Track.
The mile university team will see =
new star ir the person Of Dismond. a
colored Splinter of the University OF Chi
cago He will be ably supported from
Chicago with Cornwall and Breathed
Goelitz and Tapping will support the
honors Of Illinois in thiH event. Hotch-
kiss and Osborne, the latter runner
who has broken many OF the records
held by ira Davenport, will make a part
of the running for Northwestern.
Iowa will have Parsons and Sohraeder
Missouri will have a new star In Niedorp.
Ames, a new team in Millor and Evans,
of high school fame, with Pearson and
possibly Collins; while Nebraska will
bring the most famous man TO this con-
test In the person of the mighty Cham
berlain, the star half of the Cornhusker
foot ball team last fall.
The two-mile event will have its galaxy
Of half-mile stars in Stout and Stegeman
of Chicago, Osborne, Northwestern; Tap
ping, Illinois. one of the men who helped
tie the worlds record a year ago; Par
sons, Iowa, winner Of the half in the
Iowa meet last year; while the Univer-
sity of Michigan has three men capable
of beating the best distance runners
Notre Dame can produce.
The half-mile college runners comprise
Curry of Morningside and the stars OF
South Dakota State college, Yankton and
Knox.
In the F0ur-MiIe Event.
1t is the four-mile university race, how
ever, which brings out the largest list
of running notables. Campbell and Stout,
winners in Big Nine meets, head the list.
Harvey and Hedges OF Wisconsin, mem
bers of the winning team in the event a
year ago, are second.
Illinois has it's star. Mason, and q new
man, Wright. Watson Of Minnesota, en-
dividual winner Of the Big Nine Cross
| country, and, three OF the man who won
that event last fall will represent Mime
7 sofa.
Harriott, Edwards, Poos and Grady, all
winners in sensational time in the dis
! lance events of the Kansas Missouri In
door meet, will represent Kansas. Chap
man will be a Missouri runner II the
Show Me runners decide to go In this
event Drake will have Watson, Thomas
and Feike, all winners In the distance
runs in the 1914 Iowa state meet, and
may have the services of Reid, former
member Of the Chicago cross-country
team and for the last two years a student
of Drake.
Michigan has some good mile men and
II the Wolverines select the four-milers
and lengthen out one or two of their
half-milers to milers the four-mile event
will be the sternest battle ever fought be-
tween relay teams in the west, With the
best half dozen teams ever gathered In
the west I'm the competition.
start ON the Schedule.
The schedule shows that the first event
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