Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-25
MEREDITH LOOKS
FOR ANOTHER NEW
HALF-MILE MARK
Ted Thinks Winner of Col
legiate $50 Must Do Bet
ter Than 1:52 Is
By TED MEREDITH

Pennsylvania's track team left this
morning for Boston and the men will stay
at the Hotel Lenox during the intercolle-
giates on Friday and Saturday. The Penn
team is made up of is athletes, which is the
least number the Red and Blue has sent
20 this meet in many years.
We are going with the hope of finishing
third and expect to total at least 20 points
How we will get these points it is hard to
tell but with the luck breaking even with
us, we should not get less than this
number.
Kaufman will be our only representative
in the 100-yard dash, and with Tommy
Lennon also will run the 22O yards and
IL Is in this event that he stands the most
chance Kaufman is not a poor prospect
in the 100 yards, however for he has been
going good all year over the century. When
he tied with Van Wrinkle, of Cornell, in 10
fiat he was running in good shape and has
become much steadier off his mark since
then.
Lawson Robertson expects Lennon to do
something in the 220. He has seen Lennon
run for the past four years around New
York and says he Is capable of doing %
seconds if in good shape, and did better
thar that two years ago in the Metropoli-
tan Championships when he ran dead
heat with Alvah Meyer in 2l As seconds.
I win be our only entry in the 44O, but
the half-mile.
Humphreys is our only man in the mile
Cotton and De Korn will run the two mile
Warren both hurdles; Crane, Thibault and
Turner in the high jump; Bertolet and
Buchholz in the broad jump Mathews and
Dorizas in the weights and Newsletter and
Sewell will be our vaulters.
Scudder Should Place
Out of these men we can only feel sure
l,,,tt tI,.a l1tF
a chance according to their past perform
ances. Scudder should place some where
in the half-mile as he has been running
well all year. His trouble is in his inexperl-
ence, and IL he runs himself all out ana
uses good Judgment he should run under
15B and this will place. He is a strong
fellow who does not know his own ability
and the only way for him to get to be a
good. dependable runner is by a lot of
competition. Dorsey ran under 1.56 in the
Cornell-Penn dual race and should be bet
ter now than at that time.
Cotton surely will be well up In the two
mile race, He has improved about 20 sec
onds this year and 1 figure him to finish
third.
should the high jump be little off form.
I think Crane and Thlbault will step in
and help divide the points for the last two
places
Bertolet is one of our best possibilities
of the men who are dark horses. He has
been going well all year. ana Win lHe he"
form Robertson has given him believe he
will be in the scoring He has beaten
Wordel, of Dartmouth, and Culbertson, of
Cornell, this year, and both of these men
have scored in previous years.
Mathews, in the hammer, should place
this year. He has been improving steadily
and now Is throwing II 145 feet in practice.
The fact that he always improves his
throws from two to five feet in competition
makes me believe we can expect something
from him on Saturday
Dorizas Dependable
Dorizas is another good man in cOmpeti-
tion and can be depended upon to do bet
ter when the excitement of competition
comes along. Here is a place we have not
counted, and should he come through our
stock will go up considerably,
Newsletter surely will place in the pole
vault. l have picked him for second. but
have a feeling that he will catch his form
perfectly, and either tie FOss or beat him.
Newsletter never has been as good as he
was at the relays in 1915. when ne tied
with Foss at 12 feet 10 inches, but he has
been working hard for this meet with one
object in view, and that is TO beat his Cor
nell rival. and 1 would not be bit sur
prised should he do this Sewell is a pos
sible point for us he has been going better
this year than last and should do 12 feet.
Judging from his vaulting of the last two
weeks
All the men are in good shape and will
stand up under the competition as well as
any Of the teams, l feel sure, 1t always
has been true of a Pennsylvania track
team that 1t goes better In the intercolle-
glates than is expected We fell down in
the last two years on this, due to acci-
dents to our sprinters, but 1 think you
will find this years bunch up to the mark
as competitors, which was set by Mike Muir
phys pupils Of a few years ago.
/ am in as good shape as l could hope 10 |
be. I hope 10 win both the quarter and |
half but think the fields in both events are !
much better this year than eyer before.