Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-28
DISTANCE IS NO OBSTACLE
AMATEUR SPORT CONTESTS
BECOMING lNTERSECTlONAL
Western Colleges VIII Enter Dtu
Ereht In Ennt ind Middle West.
swedish Athletes to CONF.

That a stretch Of many thous,,,,
miles Of land or water no longer aC,s5
rs bar to amateur sport contests liz 10
BIO again demonstrated during ;he%
coming season of outdoor competition.
sweden Is to send II track team or her
best athletes To America for a sei.ea
Or International meets. and almost
every college schedule shows mo -.
more intersection1l contests This Is
particularly true IN the 1915 football,
rowing. baseball and athletic dates :,
A I'VE to ten day trip across the
continent no longer phases the i'a-
clfc Coast athlete. Stanford and Cali.
fornia Universities are both likely to
bc represented in the big Eastern and
Middle Western intercollegiate track
meets with moro than an even chance
that one or both varsity crews will
row at either Ithaca or Poughkeepsiee
California is at present a member OF
| the Eastern intercollegiate Assocja-
ton AMI Stanford has made applica-
ton For election to membership at the
next annual meeting
Ecth Stanford and California have
competed. off and on for some years
I'm the Middle Western conferences
meets. California also have invaded
tho Eastern intercollegiate champions
ships. hut Stanford has never sent her
athletes to the Atlantic Coast for n
test against the pick OF the Eastern
universities. The two Pacific Coast
institutions are expected to have un-
uaiiN strong track and field teams
this year. and If they enter fair-siaei
squads in the Eastern and Middla
Western intercollegiate meets. which
are SGT FOR succeeding Saturdays. the
far-coast collcgians arc likely to prove
factors OF great Importance In the
final apportionment OF points
The conference records show that in.
recent years these universities have
scored victories in many events. m
1910 both were among the leading.
point winners. year later California
Missouri and Chicago taking first and
second places. California won In 1917
from field of fifteen point winning
/ colleges. The succeeding season tho
berkeley athletes ran fourth, and ~
| 1914 Stanford was second and Caif-.
fornia sixth out Of twenty one col.
! leges to score.
| California's record in the Eastern
intercollegiate dates back TO 1895.
when the const athletes won fftn
place with points. They came back
again in 1900 and took sixth place
/ with points, and two years later were
/ seventh with Q. After LAPSE of elcy-
en- years California tried again and
won seventh place with 10 points, and
IN 1914 took sixth place with IS points
Last season, at Philadelphia CALI
| fornia did not compete, but thirteen
colleges split 1915 points
Eighty-four OF these have been lost
! by the graduation of place winners.
and Ill points arc represented by nth
| letes stu In college. Cornell, the 1yt5
winner. retains the largest numLe.:
! having thirty-one and q half outesp:
the winning forty-nvo and n half ~
year ago Should Stanford and C.tt'&
forn'a hppoar with strong teams -;
May &c and 81, tho splitting of poIs,. -:
may prove disastrous for Cornell. u..
ward, Yale. Pennsylvania, Princct &
ana dartmouth. which finished in Il, /.
order at Franklin field in 1ois