Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-18
STRONG CORNELL
TEAM PICKED TO
WIN TITLE MEET
Meredith Expects Yale to
Take Second and Stanford
Third in Intercollegiates
PENN MAY BE SURPRISE
BY TED MEREDITH



With Stanford and California coming on
for the intercolegates with their teams
made up of so many stars many people will
wonder where the Eastern teams are going
to finish ahd whether any first places will
be left for the East after the Pacific Coast
men take their share The East will hold
up their own and score enough first. sec
onds, thirds, fourths and ffths to keep the
championship title here where It belongs.
Cornell Is the team which will be called
on to do this work and the Ithacan team
Is well prepared to step in and take the
job The whole task will not be on their
shoulder. either, for the other big Eastern
colleges will all add little help to make
sure this title for Cornell and while the
Western teams will take away quite few
points they will find the East not wanting
in track and field men.
Yale and Pennsylvania will be two teams
who will help tear down the scoring of the
West and take enough points to enable
them to be beaten. Neither Yale nor Penn.
sylvania can win. but they can do enough
scoring to make them look like the teams
eligible for second and third places, re.
spectlvely. Both have n few stars on their
teams who will score no matter who was
in the meet, barring accidents.
May Finish Third
These two teams Yale and Pennsylvania
are pretty evenly matched and it would be
a battle for second II Penn had Lockwood
in to do the sprinting for them. As it is
1 feel that the best we can do Is third, and
even at that am little afraid OF Stanford
stepping in and taking that from us.
Cornell will win the title this year, and
I am not taking any chances when l make
such a prediction. The Red and White
squad will start out with n total of sure
points which will equal the same total of
any other team.
Al Ill, Ha f. DI,1
to compete; Foss in the pole vault. Wind
nagle In the half and mile, and Potter and
Hoffmire in the two-mile are bunch of
stars that Cornell can boast about and
surely will score several first places
without going any further, with Moak-
ley's team l can see u good % points in
store for him, which gives n nucleus to
work on such none of the rest of the
colleges have.
Besides these stars he has Starr Gubb
and Watt in the high hurdles. who can do
better than 15 3-5 seconds; Atkinson, Watt
and Starr in the low hurdles. who can do
25 seconds; Grim in the quarter, who can
go under SO seconds Van Wrinkle in the
sprints, who will score; Mccormick, who
has thrown the hammer the best of the
Eastern college men this year; BeclSwith,
who scored in the half last year, and Tay-
lor, who was third in the :52 1-5 race last
Saturday and was running better than 1865,
in the half and Culbertson who can do
better tnan ~ 1eet, IN tne DrOud jump.
Moalley is sure to place the majority of
the above ve-mentioned men. With five places
counting, his team is sure to pile up more
than 40 points, and this will easily be
enough to carry off the title.
1t is just as safe to predict second place
for Yale in the coming intercollegiate
games MS it is to declare Cornell the point
winner in advance. The Els-barring Cor
nell, of course-have the only well-balanced
track and field squad in the Eastern col
leges this spring, and unless Johnny Over
ton breaks a leg and Wesley Oler is taken
sick in the meantime Yale is almost as cer-
tain to be the runner-up to Cornell in the
Harvard Stadium
Treadway Good Sprinter
Yale has n good sprlnter in Treadway.
He did 10 seconds for the 100 and beat
%. seconds for the furlong at the Yale
Harvard games last Saturday. Val Wilkes
place in the quarter mile has not been
filed, but there is overton who is sure of
a place in, two out of the three longer runs.
Farwell may be good for couple of
points in the hurdles Braden did A feet
with the shot last Saturday, which should
be good for miner place in the intercolle-
giates Oler will score we'll in the high
jump, and with Hampton and Oler, both of
whom have bettered 23 feet, Yale should
take a couple of places in the broad.
Buck and Nagel both did IL feet inches
in the pole vault last Saturday, which |
means that hale proDuDly VIII nave n say III
the split-up of the various ties that usually |
result when the vaulters meet
Pennsylvania has few points which |
be disputed. Kaufman will score I'm |
two events, either the 100 yards and low
hurdles or the 100 and 220 yards. New
stetter and Sewell will divide the points i'm |
the pole vault with the best of the bunch |
Bertoet can show 20 fe in the broad |
jump; Mathews and Dorizas should figure |
in the weights; Dorsey and Scudder are |
possibilities in the half and Thibault and |
Crane will be at their best at that date in |
the high jump,
We win not be out in the cold altogether, |
and will surprise lot of those people who |
figure us as out of the scoring.