Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-20
BERRY FAVORITE
FOR VICTORY in
PENTATHLON
Last Years Title Holder in
Fine Condition for Penn
Relay Feature
NO LONGER A NOVICE
By TED MEREDITH


1t looks as IL Pennsylvania will again
win the collegiate all-round champion
ship and the winning Individual will again
be Howard Berry.
Berry who surprised the athletic world
last year by winning the Pentathlon, has
been hard at work on these events ever
since January When the weather would
permit during the winter he threw the
javelin and discus and kept consistently
at work on his running under the stands.
Since we have had good weather he has
been working up on all of the events and
now is in the best of shape
1t is safe to say that he will improve
his total of points over last years by
good margin. for, where he was beginner
in 1915, he is now Il finished product. His
speed his increased a great deal and this
will help him in the dash and broad jump,
His mile running during the winter VIII
make him by far the best man in the 1900
metre.
Many Rivals in Field
Berry will have several good men
against him in Nash, of Rutgers; Burke,
of Wisconsin. and Krushank, of Penn
State but these men excel in the weights
and will fall down in the other events.
For the first time this season we were
able yesterday to get the six contenders
for positions on the one-mile team out
together. Glasses SeeIlleu 10 llletlclS WIN
some one or two each time, but yester-
day they all reported at IL o'clock. The
work consisted of several starts, an easy
quarter and then about half hours
practice with the baton.
This has always been fault of our
teams. passing the baton, so great stress
is being laid on its perfection this year.
AS | said before, second can be gained
or lost by the passing of the stick. Al
ways before, when we had the team OF
Kaufman, Lockwood, Lippincott and my
self, we felt that safety was worth more
than that second, as we were usually rea-
sonably sure to win and never lost race
while together; but this year we fell that
we need that second if It is possible to
get it,
Newsletter Practices
Newsletter, who has been laid up from
vaulting, due to sore legs, turned out
Yesterday and cleared IL feet without
much trouble. This looks rather en-
couragng. When he can do IL feet in
practice you can usually expect lot
more in competitions. Newsletter is a
good competitor.
The makeup of our one-mile team is
lust as puzzling to Doctor Orton and
as to the members of the squad. All the
men are going in fine shape and the new
men seem TO be going faster than ever, l
should not be surprised to see great up
set of the dope as TO the personnel of this
team. In fact. don't see how Dorsey can
be kept Off: ne Is running like a sprihter
now. With his fast half-mile work he
should be all the better for quarter.
But this will all be decided on Saturday
by the trials, but until then / would hate
to try to pick them from observation.
Freshmen TryOut
Doctor orton held his freshman trial
heats yesterday. There were two heats
and the first three men qualified for the
final which will be run on Saturday morn
ing. From the looks of the freshmen they
will have a craekor-jaek team with Elmer
Smith as anchor man. They are very
liable to break the freshman worlds rec
ord of 3:25 AS, held by Kelly, Bacon,
and rnvgaIF