New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-21
Bronze Statuettes Prizes
forI.C. A. A. A. A. Meet
at Garden.
SIXTEEN COLLEGES
SEND 700 ENTRIES
Murdoch, Dartmouth Football
Star, Tackled and Held for
First Down by Appendix.

Bronze statuettes Of the Borghese
gladiator. which will be given as prizes
at the indoor intercollegiate athletic
games in Madison Square Garden on
March 8, have been cast and will be
placed on exhibition in the Garden on
the night of the meet.
The figure stands about FIVE inches IN
height, and q metal plate will he Fixed
to the bottom of each statuette, on
which will be engraved the name of
the winning athlete, the event and the
place. In addition, the regular die
medal of the intercollegiate association
will be fastened in relief at the base OF
the figure, in order TO conform to the
constitution of the association.
All the prizes will be exactly alike
the first man on the first winning team
getting the same reward as the last
man on the third team, in both relay
and field contests. There will be more
than 1875 Of these prizes at the Garden,
and the winning athletes will be pre-
sented with them before the dinner
rendered to the competitors IN the con
cert hall directly after the last event
on the programme.
This will mark the first time that
prizes of this description have been
offered by the |. c. A. A. A, A. They
will cost more than $1,000 and are Of
fered as a special souvenir of the for
tieth anniversary of the founding OF
the association, in 1875, and its first
holding of indoor track and field ath-
letics.
More than 80 per cent of the colleges
and universities in the intercollegiate
association have entered teams in the
Garden meet. insuring competition of
the keenest kind for the trophies.
The most prominent track and field
men from the South and West will COM
pete in this meet against the pick of
the Atlantic and New England states.
The University of Michigan will send
on three teams, consisting of her best
sprinting and distance runners, while
from Georgetown University will come
entries in both the sprints and field
events.
The New England institutions lead
with six colleges represented, and New
York State is second, with five, among
which are Columbia, Fordhsm and New
York universities. Pennsylvania and
New Jersey will be represented by
Princeton. the University of Pennsyl-
vania and Pennsylvania State College,
among others All told, a total of six
teen colleges are represented by more
than 700 entries.
From this great field $50 athletes,
forming seventy-three teams, will be
selected on the night of the meet.
P. K. Murdoch, who played fullback
on the Dartmouth eleven last year, rip
ping his way through the stOutest OPP
position and sustaining the hardest
knocks without batting An eye. has
been laid low by such little thing as
an appendix.
Last week Murdoch was operated on
for appendicitis up at Dartmouth, and
he is said 20 be resting easily. There
was hardly a linemaH IN the country
last fall who could stay Murdoch
impetuous dashes through the line. APP
parently his appendix tackled the full
back harder than he was ever tackled
before and held him for first down.
Vivian Nickalls. the English rowing
coach at Pennsylvania, has installed
his rowing machines in the gymnasium
and has regular traces" between picked
crews two or three times week. TINS
is the fist time this scheme has been
tried in the training of the college
crew men, and the candidates enter
into their work with more zest than
under ordinary training conditions.
Levi Lamb. the captain OF the Penn
State wrestling team. has had the chief
ambition Of mis- young life gratlied
but Levi is far from happy. For sew
eral months last fall Levi let the news
be sent broadcast that If he was per
mitted TO face Mike Dorizas, the Greek
champion and strong man of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, on the wrest-
ling mat ne would be content for the
rest of his days.
Michael, who is gentle soul al
heart. showed no great liking for the
proposition and said his studies would
hardly allow him 10 take the necessary
time off. But Levi was persistent, and
even let il be known that he had placed
the mighty Greek on the fiat OF hls
back once in an informal bout.
Then Michael agreed 10 let Levi eX'
change grips with him. The wrestling
teams of the two universities met AT
State College last week, and after II
was all over, and they mad tenderly