Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-07
SPIDER HOPES NOW TURN
TO OUTDOOR ATHLETICS
Closing Of Basketball Season and
Balmy Weather Sends Students
To the Open.
DOBSON II AS BIG PLANS
Director Wants to Sec Every Man
Get Into Some Form OF COMPETE
tion-Track, Baseball, Tennis and
troSS-COuntry Runs Planned.

Although the students very
mulch disappointed in losing the bas-
ketbal championship, and even more
50 IN failing to land undisputed sec
ond place, athletics with the Spiders
are on the boom. and more interest is
now being displayed than at any other
Time Tor long while. The Spiders. one
an" All. ;tfe not only standing by Ihcir
uashc,u:tiI team, buI ,ncy ar. piaislng
!. veg. niuCn. with the Krcu, uisau-
Nah'"se % having no on. capaUie Of
h''hS IN" t.i AROUND pIacc Oh center
GA '"e ,rani, Coach Dobson was IacIng
very h'tfu proposition. Inc Suunu was
handicapped Dy having 10 come into
Low II v''rE afternoon TO practice on
the ola college campus where they
wee without not baths.
IN spite or these disadvantages the
team that was turned out WAS credit
10 me college. Every man on IL was
hshtcr iron The start To the end, and
inc ..ains always put up Il naru game
every zine they played. With last
eunesuay nISntS game, marking the
lieihe Luvbbcrt appeared Tor the last
,thle IN a tcd ana blue uniform. He
mas played here Oh the team for three
!ears' ana mas consistently improved
every gear Al the very nrst he was a
very abie ana dependable player. and
last year he led the spider team to
victory after victory, ana finally to
the cnampiYnship. This year, when
ne had pech''e-eiected captain. he was
49, ~ ipi Out ne sui 1lSDl1Scu
ms otd iiShtinS qualities and sterling
apility that brought him so much glory
IN me past ana made him such a val
liable asset In every game In his last
game he played IN beautiful form and
placed a hitting climax upon an UNI
usually successful athletic career
ma now all thoughts are turned 20
ward baseball and track. The bad
weather of the last few days with it's
coiu ana rain, has called Il temporary
halt upon the prcsca son training sched-
fhn D..
the slightest bit the stadium ficlc viii
be fairly alive with all classes, charac-
LET'S ana degrees OF athletic perform
purpose to have the spring athletic
life of the college mean more to the
average student than 1t usually does
ne ptheHes that the student who has
not the sufficient Drawn and skill to
make tfc varsity teams deserves some
consideration nevertheless. and he is
tryinS TO arrange 1t SO that the indi-
Eluual OF little talent will be able to
take ms part and derive the benefit
from the various lines of athletic work
class meets and the intcrclass base
ball league will aid materially. Later
on in the spring 1t Is Coach Dobson's
expressed wish to see at least 100
students on the field every afternoon
engaged in baseball. track or tennis.
The material In track looks to be
are expecting to show up very we'll in
their dual meets In this line. OF the
oIu men mere are LfgSan, the speed
Stcr for the short dashes, and Vaughn
Gary for the quarter. For the hurdles
there arc Sattertield. Mac Cosby and
Durham. the last the winner Of the
track and field medal for two success
sive years: Taliaferro. for the mile run.
durham for the high jump and the
shot put and Bahlke for the pole vault
OF the new material those most like
~ TO make good are Craig, the old
John Marshall High School boy, and
Eddie Roden, from Richmond Academy
Both are being counted upon strongly
10 run we'll In the dashes. and the shor-
yer distances. Pitt. is a candidate for
the hurdles; Goode. from Blackstone
Academy. and Cheathnm. from RaIti-
more City College. are both miIers.
Crowell from New York state. and
several Others are working hard for
Inc cross country runs. Besides TN.
above men, there are a great many 9th
ers TOO numerous to mention. if the
weather is at All favorable next week
hard workout.