Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-23
PREPARE STADIUM FIELD
FOR BANNER TRACK MEET
Richmond College Getting Grounds
Ready for Virginia intercollegiate
Athletic Association Event.
SPIDERS HAVE GOOD SQUAD
Local ColIegians Will Send Strong
Team to Southern Meet ut Char
lottcsvilIe-May Have Dual Affair
With Cadets in May.

In anticipation OF the first annual
track and held meet OF tho Virginia
Intercollegiate Athletic Association, to
be held here on May s. many improve
ments have pecn made OH Stadium Field
at Westhnmpton..yl1'h (. II ichmond Col
leEc authorities arc determined to Eave
the field and track in tipt ,p shape for
that event. the NEST important outdoor
meet held in this city in many years
Each of the six colleges in the assoc
citation is working hard 40 develop Il
fast squad for the meet, the first held
undcr the auspices of the organization.
II is believed that tho competition will
develop some unusually fast time.
and that many surprises viii be sprung
The work on Stadium Field is now
approaching complexion. The cintcr-
path has been filled in. all the way
around. until Il has a light spriugy
surface, which makes fast going pos.
s!blc. The straishtway is one ot the
fineat N tho State, made or mixed clay
and cinders, and wide enough for six
alleys. 1t should be 2.0 yards liz
length. but as yet it is only 2G0 yards
The other twenty yards will hav. Ia be
constructed with Il high fill. and the
athletic association is not in position
financially 10 completes II vet
NEW HURDLES ORDERED
AND PLACED ON TRACK
Forty new hurdles have been pur-
chased and the stTaiGhtway will lie
! the scene OF some beautiful stick work
IN the field day, and intercollegiate
meet.
The track meet with Wake Forest
gave Coach Dobson a line OIL his spiked
shoe artists. and what they can do on
An outdoor track when pitted against
Il Eoou competitor Owing to the sick
ness OF some of his squad the showing
WIS not quite what il could have been,
still the men showed TO ADVANTAGE. and
proved conclusivcly that they made an
excellent team
with the cream Of the snuad Doh
son VIII go to Charlottesville on Nav
ana . for the SoEth Atlantic meet
heid on the Lambeth Field In mis-
meet VIII come together the hes, col
.es' athletes OF the South George
town, virginia, Virginia Tech and otncr
S'r"hE squads Will he well represented
May has been set aside for field
daE but because OF other college nc.
tiNlticS around that date the ovcn-
VIII probably be moved up one week.
,;urham. who has won the medal for
i'"'Vi"lai proves at tho last tw,
heid meets, will compete again nj.
year. Mac Cosby ran him a cIusn So
Cnh last year, ana will doubtless du.
Flchte again this year MANY nriy.,
are given away by the merchants OF
TIC city, which fact. coupled with Tho
n"'or OF winning, puts zcst in each
INTERCOLLEGIATE, MEET
WILL DIE MIG EVENT
The rcd letter day in the Richmond
toilcSc track calendar will be iba viz
Elhia Intercollegiate meet slated :o.
May IL. This NEE; will be rcprcseut
Ell by Sin collcEes--Nirginia polytcch
mic, Roanoke College, Randolph- Ma.
con. Hampden-S Sidney. William and
Mary and Richmond College. Earl,
college VIII send II full quota, and ,h,
entire day will he consuinmated in
running the events because Of mo
large number OF entries, making trial
meats in the dashes and hurdles ncccs
sary
Virginia Polytechnic Institute will,
nave II strong aggregation in the field
For years the Techs have had n won.
uerlui track team and their team this
year Is on a par with the others II
should make strong hid for nrst
honors. Roanoke College has the
reputation of having some material nr
excellent caliber. its broad iumns ,,I
Hes around twcnty-onc feet and II.
nis'hhco men are showing up well
scott, of Randolph Macon. is q rood
bet on tho mile run, while Wood of
William and Mary, Judging by his
race In the Church Iiln Marathon.
should place. Italia fcrro, OF Richmond
college, Is a good miller, as is Paris.
ana turner V. l.. J.. is also stronrly
fortified in the distances
The siS.corncrcd relay RACES n.."h
ting ciima" I" The ,..,..;,:ucn:s of liz,
day The icgui... ,...o.ri,in of ,y,nt,
tcontinucd second ruscl