Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-15
NEW RECORDS FOR
INTERCOLLEGIATES
WILL BE HUNG UP
Cornell Has Big Edge to
Win Championships, Be-
lieves Meredith
MoAKLEY TEAM is STRONG
BY TED MEREDITH
Captain Penn Track Team

BY TED MEREDITH
Captain Penn Track Team
The dual meets on Saturday virtually
concluded the competition which the East
ern colleges enter preparatory to the inter.
colleBiates. The remaining two weeks VIII
find all the Athletes being groomed and
pointed for the final contest on May 27.
That the intercollegiates will be an event
where some remarkable performances VIII
be staged was manifested by the dual meet
of Saturday last. Never before have the
competition and times been so good. There
has been several years when remarkable
performances have been pulled off In the
dual meets, but this year shows every event
with a good. fast and well-matched field.
Cornell last Saturday had the best dual
meet team 1 have ever seen expect to see.
Moakley was represented in every event by
men who looked like the real thing, big,
strong, clean-cut fellows that take work
and get better for II, With material like
that Cornell is bound to be in the fore in
track athletics.
Penn Weakened
This is the biggest score Cornell has ever
run UP on Pennsylvania. They found us a
| weakened team and in such condition
that we could not fight them back. We
| might have scored a few more points had
we doubled up some of the men, but II
| would not have won for us and the work
| would not have benefited our team.
To predict that Cornell will win the inter-
collegiates seems like telling the public
| something of which they are positive after
| seeing the Red and White team perform
| Saturday on Franklin Field.
| The only Cornell man to fall down was
| Richards. The Olympic champion held his
| field too lightly and had to suffer defeat at
the hands of four men, all Of whom he
| would have beaten easily had he paid more
attention to his jumping at the lower
| heights.
Overconfident
have often seen men too confident and
| suffer a licking as the result, and this was
such case.
Two things were brought out Saturday
| by one race--the half-mile-flrst, that
Windnagle never knew how fast he could
run until he was drawn out, and. second,
| that should he set a fast pace In the inter-
| collegiate mile event he will beat Overton,
| of Yale, who has been conceded the race by
nearly all the critics.
| Overton, due to his good running this
| winter in the indoor meets. has been picked
| by many as the winner of the one-mile race.
and they are showing good Judgment py
II. Under ordinary conditions Overton
would win, but under certain conditions
| and they to be that the mile Is run from
| the crack of the pistol to the tape at hard
and fast pace, I feel that Windnagle will
win. He is a hard runner and possesses
lot of strength and endurance, which. under
the strain and excitement of the intercol-
leglates, would be hard to beat
Meredith Surprised
was the most surprised on Saturday OF
any one on Franklin Field when entered
the stretch and found him at my shoulder.
l did not think he had the speed to stay
up that long, and he had me pretty we'll wor-
ried about $50 yards from the tape. He
| drove me into a sprint and lost my form
| for about so yards. but finally got 1t Just be=
AINFh hha1 NHan
got too straight up in the air, which TOOK
all the finish out of me. II he had not
Jumped me so fast 1 could have held my
form and finished much stronger. Is
did start out to try to break the record.
but went too slow to the quarter mark. Al
this point might have slowed the pace up
had Windnagle not been so close up rms
drove me the next furlong in 27 seconds
which was much too fast for ideal half rum
ming When l was told at the G60-yard mark
that the time was :22, knew that l had a
chance and intended from then on to try;
but whether 1 had intended to or not was
given no choice, for Windnagle drove
me home from that mark, and 1t took all
had to win.
II was a hard race in that it was not
paced right and II would not have taken
SO much out of me had 1 done my first
quarter in So seconds.
Collegiate Winners
The Yale-Harvard dual meet resulted
lust as l expected. When l figured II out
last week I said Yale would win by at
least 20 points. and they won by 23 points
This meet brought out two men who
look like intercollegiate winners. Tlsch-
ners 100 yards in Q 4-5 and his 22O yards
in 2l 8-5 seconds makes him look a shade
better than Smith. of Michigan, who won In
10 fat and % seconds.
whether Tischner can go through the
heats OF these two events and stlll show this
time is a question in my mind. l don't
think he will stand up under the work as
we'll as Smith will.
Farwell, of Yale, registered the best time
made in the East this year in the 220 low
hurdles when he won In "a 40 seconds.
This beats all the other low hurdlers' time
by a good margin.
Simpson Big Star
while the Fasteners were doing their
stunts on Saturday Simpson, of Missouri,
was proving himself track team in him
self and won five first places In dual meet
AGAINST Kansas Simpson also proved that
mis- IA AS of two weeks ago was not a
phoney performance, and did the same time
in this meet. This should convince the
Record Committee that Simpson in hurd-
Ter of rare ability and Is capable or doing
that time
We shall start in the homestretch now
at Franklin Field and get our team whipped
into anal trim for the intercollegiate. Our
hopes for finishing well up depend on few
men, and these men will get all the atten-