Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-11
CLASS ONLY TO
WIN DRAKE MEET
ToPNOTCH LIST OF ENTRIES
LOOKS LIKE HEAVY GOING
FOR SOME.

Des Moines, April 1O.--With the
competition of the Drake relay meet
still two weeks away and final en-
tries not due for another week it now
4 Is certain that the team which wins
any OF the four events of the un1ver-
sity class will have struggle.
In the four mile Wisconsin, Mime
! sofa and Ames, with the possibility OF
y Michigan, bring together teams which
j Will force the going. In the two mile
Kansas. Ames and Michigan, If 1t
I does not enter the four mile, and
\ Drake team will do the same. The
\ Kansas team Is the class from the
east. IL it is finally decided to enter
this meet.
The Kansas team is built around
/ Rodkey, who led Ted Meredith to the
! tape in an indoor meet in Kansas City.
The mile contest will bring togeth-
or the teams from the longest dis
i tances Colorado State university 500
miles to the west and Notre Dame 400
miles to the east. 1t is thought Chi
caxo will be one of the contenders in
this event. although the definite entry
may land them in the two mile.
CiIne's Last Show.
Ames and Missouri will be the en-
trants from the Missouri side. The
meet here probably will be the last
appearance Of Cline, star of the noun
3 tain team. as he graduates almost be-
fore the spring season Is at its
height
Coach Woodrow, the former Drake
end Oxford Splinter, has seven men
from which to pick those who will
accompany Cline. LeCron was
toammats Of Cline in the big nine meet
two years ago. The others are new
lOomoTA.
70 date the most definite entries
have been In the half mile. This
event looked like easy money earlier,
but has drawn list Of entrants which
makes 1t look like the class of the
meet. Northwestern, Wisconsin, ILL
nois and Notre Dame are the eastern
teams and Drake, Nebraska and either
Ames or Iowa university will be the
western entries. Definite entry has
been made for all but the last two,
with Missouri as q possible entrant.
However, but seven teams will be al
lowed to enter as this is the limit of
the track. Five of these teams are
known quantities.
Record Breakers.
All four teams from big nine terri
tory have runners whose records are
well enough known to make it as
sured they will deliver the goods. The
Drake team will be made up from
Ave men, four Of whom were on the
team which dashed the distance in
Il: 80 3-5 in the Iowa state meet year
ago. They will not 90 this fast at
this time Of the year, but the five are
veterans, with sixth, a sophomore,
to give any laggard hard chase.
The college class will see almost as
bitter battles as the university class.
with Coe, Morningside and Grinnell
representing the Iowa colleges; Ham
line the Minnesotans; the state uni
versity and the state college, Dakota
Wesleyan and Yankton college, the
Dakotas, and possibly Nebraska Wes-
leyan, Nebraska; Knox, Illinois, and
Tarkio, Missouri. A half dozen other
Iowa schools will make up this class,
none thought to be strong enough to
win q first in this rather high class
field. The feature event of this Sec
ton probably will be the half mile
struggle between Grinnell, Coe and
Dakota Wesleyan.