Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-06
WHO WILL FILL SHOES
OF GRADUATED STARS?
That is Question Puzzling Ath-
letic Coaches Just Now at
Many American Colleges.

intercollegiate track and field ranks lose
several stars this season by graduation.
Pennsylvania will miss Don Lippincott
and Bob Ferguson. Mckenzie, the mile
champion. and Stewart, the hurdler OF
Princeton, are of the 1915 class. Larry
Whitney, the Dartmouth shot-putter. and
Bailey, of the University of Maine. cham
plon and record holder in throwing the
hammer are both through. 1t is said
that whitney will coach the Penn State
football team this year
Harvard loses Greeley, the pole-vaulter;
Capper, the half-miler; Foley and Nelson,
the sprinters; wilmington, the shot-putter,
and several other good ones. Yale Is
pretty hard hit also. In the sprtnts old
reliable Tommy Cornell is through. Val
WillSie, the best A0-runner Yale has ever
had. Shedden, the hurdler; Poucher, the
miller; Brown. the half-miler; Roos. the
shot-putter; Carter, pole vaulter; Lough-
ridge and Talbot, the hammer-throwers
all OF whom have been point winners in
many a hard-fought competition. These
have performed for the last time for old
Yale.
Harry Smith, of the Bronx Church
House. of New York, is taking a course
of training, and II he finds within couple
of weeks that there is any comeback in
sight he may consider preparing himself
for the PanamR-Pacific Exposition Mar
dtIOn. marry Is WuTklTlB OUT with Billy
Queal, the Yale University long-distance
trainer.
Lawson Robertson. the athletic director
of the Irish-Amerlcan A. c., of New York.
has been confined to his home for several
days with heavy cold and fever.
Walter Bursch, the well-known hurdler
of the New York A. c., will coach and
show Arthur Engels some of the fine
points in the game Engels took second
to Jack Eller in the senior Nets. and was
placed in the high at the tryouts. Engels
has lots of speed and when he gets to
clear the sticks closer he will keep any
Of them moving at top going 10 beat him.
wait a Minute" Roy Campbell, the
great half-miler of the Chicago Univer-
slty, who will compete with Ted Meredith
and Joe Higgins in the special $50 at the
Millrose games, will arrive in New York
tomorrow. Campbell will do little light
work over one of the local tracks previous
to the race, which wilt take place on
July 10.
Fred W. Ruben, secretary-treasurer OF
the A. A. u. and expert on drawing up
athletic track and field plans, is now at
work on the layout for the proposed new
athletic plant to be installed within the
old Waverly trotting park, Newark N. j.
The Athletic Committee on the 250th an
niversary OF Newark, which will be cele-
Drated next year. expects TO give some
big athletic features. In order to give
the track time to settle, work on the
construction OF it will be commenced
early In the fall.
Homer Baker. the international half
mile champion, who was injured several
days ago in a motorcycle accident at
Travers Island. Is not showing much inn
provement, and his outlook for going to
the national championships in San Fran
cisco is slim. Baker was selected for the
A. A. u Eastern team, with the proviso
that he must be in shape in the latter
part OF July.
Sparrow Robertson, track builder and
starter, will be engaged to build the cin-
der path on which the national champion
ships win be held in Newark, N. ]. The
track win be built along the same lines
as those of the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology, which is classed with the
finest
Norman Taber, the Oxford student who
ran we'll In the mile race at Boston re-
Gently. plans to lay on for two weeks be-
fore resuming training for the champion-
ships on the coast Taber was timed for
a mile in AIS 1-5, and from the easy man
ner In which he won. IT Is believed that
he could have beaten Jones' worlds record
Of 4:14 2-5 had he been pushed. In San
Francisco Taber will have the chance to
get under this mark, for the Exposition
track is said to be the fastest in the coun-
try.