The Washington times., 1915-05-24
Franklin Field, Philadel-
phia, Will Be Scene of
Fortieth Annual Games
This Week.

The intercollegiate track and field
championships. the fortieth annual
games of the intercollegiate A. A. A.
A., scheduled for Franklin Field Phila-
delphia, on next Friday and Saturday.
promise to be the greatest meet the
world has seen since the Olympic games
at Stockholm in 1912.
The competitors will comprise about
400 of the picked athletes Of the East
ern college world. among them being
worlds and Olympic champions. 30 keen
Is the competition for team and indi-
vidual honors that records are almost
sure to he broken.
The greatest interest. Of course, CEN
ters in the fight for team honors. This
year marks the beginning Of new
series Cornell won permanent posses
sion of the intercollegiate cup last year,
put UP for competition. at a cost Of al
most $1,000. Most of the experts seem
to think that the fight will be between
Cornell and Pennsylvania. with Har-
ward. Yale. or Dartmouth likely to
spring a surprise.
Cornell is strong because the Ithacans
have a nucleus Of stars and a lot of
men able to pick up seconds, thirds.
fourths and fifths. In fact. Cornell
threatens to score in as many events as
a year ago. when the 1thacans Tailed in
eleven Of the thirteen events.
Pennsylvania. on the other hand. con-
centrates its strength in few events
the sprints and hurdles and middle-dis-
through here. they will have a chance
to win. The chances Of Harvard and
Yale depend to great extent upon
what their representatives can do to
Pennsylvania in the sprints and hurdles
and to Cornell in the distance runs.
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This meet will see a good many Olym-
pic stars in competition. Among these
are Captain D. F. Pippincott of Penn
sylvania. holder OF the worlds lO0-meter
record and joint holder Of the worlds
40 yard record; Ted Meredith also OF
PENNSYLVANIA. holder OF the worlds
half-mile record; a. w. Richards, OF
jump title; Oler, Of Yale. a member OF
the Olympic team, and Worthington. Of
Dartmouth.
Taking up the different events, first
tween Ingersoll. Of Cornell. who has
done the best work of this year; Lippin-
colt and Patterson. Of Pennsylvania: :
Teschner, OF Harvard Smith. of Michi-
gan is also favorite with some. The
same men figure in the 22o-yard dash:
with the addition OF Lockwood, of
Pennsylvania.
One Of the feature events promises to
be the quarter mile. and here a new
worlds and intercollegiate record is
three e-cornered affair between Ted Mere
dith. Pennsylvania; Wilcox. of Harvard
and Wilkie. Of Yale. Meredith is the
present intercollegiate champion. with a
Wukie. of Yale. did IS is seconds in
the class games several weeks ago.
while Wilcox did 4s seconds fiat last
Saturday week in the Harvard-Yale
he 6a1
mile as we'll as the quarter. and this
is expected to give Wilcox and Wilkie
a slight advantage.
In the half mile Meredith must tackle
a new bunch OF rivals. In Philly he will
meet Bingham. of Harvard, who has
transferred from the quarter to the
half; Capper. Of Harvard always a
sure point winner there Hayes, of
Princeton, fifth last year. and Speiden
and Windnagle, OF Cornell, who Will
run the half after the mile.
In the mile Cornell has two good men
in Speiden and Windnagle Speiden won
last year. while Windnagle is a new
man. Cornell men seem to think more
Of Windnasles chances. Princeton men
are counting a lot on Mackenzie; while
Yale men think Poucher has a chance
Tor first place.
The best distance fight is sure to be
in the two-mile run. Here at least four
star performers will compete. Cornell
has Hoffmire and Potter. who finished
first and third last year; Yale has
Overton and Colby has Wenz. The
ability of Hoffmire and Potter is well
known. Overton started out as a mile
runner. but since his 4.23 mile at the
Penn relays the Eli star has been
changed to the two miles. in which
event he has not yet been beaten. He
has lots OF endurance and a great sprint
Rice, Of Harvard, has done the best
high hurdling of the year. Once he
did Il 4-5, and last week won from
Yale in 1855 seconds. Ferguson. Of
Pennsylvania. has done l54-5 this year
and has beaten both Braun and Tren-
holm. of Dartmouth. who recently were
picked for first and second Cornell
has two fair men in Lukens and starr