The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24
BIG TRACK YEAR
Much Interest Shown in the
intercollegiate Meets.
Kennedy Plans to Put Wash
burn 'sInto the Running"

Most of the big intercollegiate track
and field meets have been held, and,
aside from the meet at Cambridge the
last of this week and the Big Nine
conference meet scheduled for June 8,
there are very few remaining OF any
big prominence.
The meets this spring have attract
ed more followers and have won
greater popularity than track and field
sports have known in several seasons.
and indications are that this branch
OF sport is beginning a new era of
prosperity.
In addition to the regular meets the
relay carnivals4 have proved very popu-
lar and some of them have been wit
messed by crowds as large as the big
football games draw in the fall. To-
peka has not gone in for track and
field sports with the vim that other
up to date cities have, but DR.. Ken
nedy, the new Washburn athletic d.
rector. says that he hopes to put the
Ichabod school on the track and field
map as we'll as back on the grldiron
map. and that next spring he Will
endeavor to have Representatives in all
the meets held in this part of the mid
die west r
Ichabods Have Material. =
DR.. Kennedy was present at the re-
cent individual meet held at WASH
I burn and he was greatly impressed
with the material that was out and
with the apparent interest among the
students He will do all that he can
to stimulate this interest and it is
probable that Washburn will soon be
turning out track stars capable of
competing with those of the other big
schools.
While there have been a number of
high class events this spring ana
many good records made, the high
standard to which track sports had
already attained is indicated by a com
parison with the best records of past
seasons.
/ The title record for the intercol-
/ legiate 1O0-yard dash, 8 As seconds,
| has not yet been equalled and the best
any sprinters have made has been 10
seconds Illinois. Notre Dame and
| Northwestern, are the only school in
/ the middle west that have turned out
! 10 second men.
| The record of the 220-yard dash OF
/ 21 is seconds has been equalled, but
! few of the big records have fallen
| The following shows the best records
! that have been made this year up to
| date:
! The Years Best Records.
| One hundred-yard dash-Ten sec
/ onds; Holman, Illinois; Nergman
Notre Dame: Barker, Northwestern.
Two hundred and twenty-yard da ST
l-TWenty-One ana One-HItn SECONDS
Hoyt, Grinnell; % seconds. Simpson
/ Missouri; % 2-5 seconds, King, Notre
| Dame; DESMOND, Chicago.
Four hundred and forty-yard dash
l-Forty-nine and two-fifths seconds;
DESMOND, Chicago; so Is seconds
| O'Leary, Kansas.
/ Eight hundred and eighty-yard
dash-One minute and fifty-four and
! four-fifths seconds, Rodkey, Kansas
1859, Stout, Chicago; Sheldon, Michi-
gan Aggies-
One-mile run-Four minutes and
| twenty-six and one-fifth seconds, Ma
son. Illinois; APPS, Schardt, Wisconsin
| Two-mile run-Ten minutes sever
and one-fifth seconds, Reynolds. No
tire Dame; 1910 25; Knox, Illinois
One hundred and twenty yard high
hurdles-fourteen and four-ffths sec
onds, Simpson, Missouri Games prob
| ably is best of rivals.
! Two hundred and twenty-yard low
| hurdles-Twenty-fo and two-ffth:
seconds, Simpson. Missouri.
/ High jump-Five feet 10A inches
Fisher, Chicago; Webster, Illinois.
Broad jump-Twenty-t feet q
| inches. Simpson, Missouri; % feet 4
| inches, Pogue, Illinois.
| Pole vault-E1even feet inches
Burgess, Illinois; Fisher, Chicago
|