The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-27
EXPERTS PICK CORNELL
FOR inter- -COLLECIATES
Itincans and Pennsylvania Look Best
For Big Meet to Be Held To-mor-
row and Saturday on Franklin
Field

Philadelphia, May 27.-The advance
guard of an army of Americas best
track and field athletes, represen, 8
more than twenty five colleges and uni
versities of the East and Middle West,
reached the city this morning for the
fortieth annual championship meet of
the Intercollegiate A. A. to be held on
Franklin Field tomorrow and Satur-
day. The Cornell team arrived in time
| for breakfast The Ithieans stay will
be very short. however, because they
| are going TO Atlantic City, where they
will remain until tomorrow morning.
| The Michigan team will arrive about
noon, with Harvard, Yale. Amherst,
Holy Cross, NJ. |. t., Syracuse, Colby,
Brown and Bowdoin getting here late
| this afternoon. Franklin Field was at
the disposal of the visiting athletes
! this afternoon.
The University of Pennsylvania ath-
letes left the city last night for AT
lantic City, where they will sojourn
until Friday morning. All of the
Quakers took their final workouts yes
| terday afternoon. With the exception
of Lockwood, the sprinter, and Dorizas,
| the shot puttcr. all the men are in the
best of condition. Coach Orton thinks
that Lockwood will get back his
strength at the shore, and that Dorizas
is so much improved that he is a scor-
ing possibility.
Speculation as to the probable win
ner of the big meet is unprecedented.
Most of the experts think the fight will
be between Pennsylvania and Cornell,
with the Ithicans having slightly the
better of the argument. The Quakers
! realize that to win their men must
score heavily in the sprints. Coach Or
ton has devoted a great deal of time
to Captain Lippincott, Patterson, Lock
wood and Kaufman, who will run in
the short distance events and conf
IDENTIFY believes that they will make
good.
1t is realized that the strength of
the Cornell team is in the great all
around athlete Richards in the high
jump. broad jump and shot put and
the Ithacan s distance runners. The
Quakers are hopeful that Mckenzie,
of Princeton, in the mile, and Overton,
of Yale, and Southworth, of Harvard,
III Ihe TWO fnlleS, are likely 10 upset
Cornell s calculations in the distance
runs. The injury to Braun and the i'll
ness of Trenholm. the two Dartmouth
hurdlers, is likely to help Cornell more
than Pennsylvania because the Itha-
cans have three or four good hurdlers
who are likely to score, although not
to win any of the events.
On account of the keenness of the
competition it is almost certain that
new records will be made in the pre-
| liminary contests tomorrow. All per-
formances made tomorrow will count
| as records, and in the broad jump.
hammer throw and shot put, new marks
are looked for. Bailey, the great Maine
hammer thrower, is counted on TO make
new record in the hammer throw be-
cause he has already thrown ITO feet.
Record times are also looked for in
! the quarter and half.mile trials. In the
I quarter-mile there will be three heats
and every man will have to beat 81
! seconds to qualify for the finals and so
seconds to win. There will be the same
! high class in the sprints.