Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
ATHLETES REPORT
FOR TRACK WORK
Tech Students, Numbering rs,
Plan Early Spring Start;
Many Candidates

over seventy five candidates answer
ed the first call for the Tech track
team yesterday afternoon. Coaches
Hill and Peet met the candidates and
outlined plans that will be started in
operation the week after next. Next
week will be the week for examina-
tions, and as a result there will be a
lull in athletic activities.
Harry Eyster. crack dash man. is
the manager. He announced his sched-
ule several days ago. Oscar Sutch, the
best distance lad ever developed at the
Maroon institution, will be captain.
This lad was discovered two years ago
at an interclass meet. Before that
time he had never participated on the
track. The following candidates re-
ported:
List of Candidates
weight events; John Beck, half mile; ;
John Keller, half mile; William Wag-
ner, weight events: Lawrence Heagy.
pole vault; Ralph Brough, half and
mile; Frank Rooms. quarter and half
Victor Bihl, ne and two mile; William
Hoerner, half mile; William Pleam
dashes; Samuel Arch, distance events:
Walter Bashore, quarter mile; Ralph
Michener, pole vault; Earl Schwartz,
hurdles; c. H. Isril, half mile Karl
Hofsommer, sprints Blair Hefkin
jumps and pole vault; Luther Eckert,
dashes; Vernon Hawbecker, distance
events; William Rothrock, distances:
Raleigh Evans, dashes and broad
jump; Earl Sherk, one and two mile
events; Norman Todd, dashes; John
Black, hurdles; Henry klugh, Jr. broad
jump; George Germer, high jump; B.
Aldinger, distances: Foster NCockIin.
high jump; Fred Beecher, quarter, half
and hurdles; George IIorstick. one mile:
John Paul Jones, 30 0and 440 dashes;
Albert Michael, weights; Harry, Ebert.
distances; Earl Philippelli. 100 and 440
dashes; Ferdinand Beck, hurdles and
pole vault; Leroy Strawhecker. poul
vault; Anthony Wilsbach, weights and
hurdles; Edwood Nell, pole vault;
Burke BuwersoX, broad jump.
Promising Dash Men
Henry Balm, weights; Rudolph
Shaub, half mile; Walton Kerstetter,
half mile; Ralph Shader. half mile;
Norman Berlin, 220 dash: Karl Beck,
weights and hurdles; Fred Pye. dis
tances; Harry Musselman, high jump;
Ear Richwine, sprints; Robert Lutz,
dashes Jacob Davidson. dashes; Neil
Pickering, jumps; Joseph Sellers, dis
tances; Leon Melick, quarter and half
mile; Martin Miller. weights Edward
Harris, weights; Roger Harmon one
mile; Frank Gipple, quarter mile; Harry
Syster, dashes and broad jump; Will
liam Fitzpatrick, weights and high
Jump; Hetzel Davies, 44O dash; Nelson
llibschman, dashes; Kenneth Boyer,
hurdles and high jump; William Har-
1is, dashes; Fred Lauster weights: AL
vim Zimmerman, hurdles: William
Heane, half mile; Victor Hoar, dis
tances, Lynn Cook. one and two miles;
Gordon Matter, distances; Fred Haehn-
len, weights and high jump; Ray BaX-
ter, 100 and 220 dashes.
Samuel Arch, distances: Oscar Miller,
high jump; William Wachtman, jumps:
Paul Weston Shaffer, quarter mile;
James Peifer, distances: Chalmer
Moore, 440 dash, and Joseph Gastrock.
distances. With this array of candi-
dates that contains the cream of the
team that was victorious last season,
together with the pick of the grammar
school winners, Tech will begin at
once to prepare for the meet at Phila-
delphia the fore part of April to which
the Maroon will send it's quarter miIers
TO participate at the carnival.