Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-25
ULSA POSTPONED ANOTHER WEEK
S00NERLAND WILL
MISS BIG GAMES
Ineligibility of Star Weight
Man Means Loss of Many
Points on Track.
speelal 10 The World.

Special to The World
NORMAN, Okla, March 2t-The
University Of oklahoma has the
greatest array of track men in the
field that COACH Soutar has ever had,
ever after James, the all-around star
from Southwestern normal failed TO
qualify on the eligible list. The great
drawback is that most of them are
freshmen and this years track sched-
ulc, like this years football schedule.
will be chiefly a training season for
next years turnout.
Better conditions among the high
schools of the state and more interest
at the university are given the credit
for the Frightening prospects for
track at the state university. Records
in the interscholastic meet are grad
ually approaching standard marks,
which means that scholaStics are
gradually training up to the point
where they can be developed into
real athletes when they get to college.
And the time has passed at the uni
versity of oklahoma when a man is
considered an athlete only if he makes
the football co."
Two StaIs Lost.
Of course the loss of James knock a
big hole in this years prospects. The
young giant from Weatherford is the
KIND of man who wins points in ev-
crything he enters, and he enters
everything in the weights and jumping
line. The loss of Rodney Edwards,
who expected t. return for the second
semester, robs the Sooners Of one of
the greatest high hurdlers developed
on the Boyd field. He paced the 120
Yards in stride with John Jacobs. who
Is the standard by which the Sooners
have been measuring athletic proves
for a student generation.
Half dozen men are now trying
out for the dashes, the hundred and
the 220. Galloway is usually rated as
the best in the class. other men
Coach Souter is working on include
Hall, Maxwell, Wright. Gahrng,
Decker and Shaw.
Pcttigrcw After Records.
Pettigrew, intercholastic champion
from oklahoma city high school is
specializing on the quarter and the
ralt-mile again this spring, and the
Sooner coach thinks he has i'm the
man Jno who will make collegiate
records that will stand the test of
time. And there is plenty of material
TO keep pace with him in the meets.
Among those who have already begun
training fer the quarter are Laskev,
sharp, Han. Stepss, Gahrihg, Boyle,
Brett and Griffith. Miller and SAL
Waechter are leaders with Pettirrew
in the field for the half-milo
Griffith. Dendy. Bride and Winter
are all men with established names in
the mile run, and Rethwitch and
Fawks have already reported for the
same event. Orr, Tallman, Winter
and Lyle are two-millers so far in
the running.
Altho the low hurdles are McCain's
specially, Coach Souter has hopes of
developing him also into a Whirlwind
on the high sticks. Keener from the
freshmen squad Is likewise a conner.
and Shaw, Stages, Sharp, Vincent.
!oyle Fawks and Vest are looked to
to form running mates. Practically
the same string of men are now try
ing for the 220-yard hurdle race.
Broad jump men now include Bow
Ian, Keencr Bernard Frost. Wright.
Brett, Maxwell and Boyle Huff
bauer Keener, Frost, Vest and Terry
are trying out for the high jump.
Sooners have been lacking a good
pole-vaulter for some years. and the
coach is hoping for an Improvement
with Keener Wright, Boyle and Lip
pert already out and more yet to re-
port.
Weights Real Problem.
The real worry of the season is the
lack of proved weight material.
James was the recognized leader Of
the state in the iavelin throw, and he
was horse in the rest of the weights.
Huffbauer, Frost and w. Holt are
now listed among entries for the lave
lin; Tolbert, Balcer, the Holt broth
ers. Mcbride, Shaw and Fowler for
the shot-put and Huffbauer, the
Hotts, Mcbride, Douglas and Fowler
for the discus. The hammer throw
has been discarded on account of
Hanger of injury to spectators, espe.
cially during practice
Kendall First Opponent.
Sooners will match their cinder
path powers with teams in one of the
strongest schedules they have had
provided for them in recent years
1t is considerably less than month
before Kendall college will meet them
i'm the initial contest of the season.
April IA. oklahoma will go to the
University of Texas for dual meet
on April 20 they will meet the Okla
homa Aggies on Boyd field on April
81, then they will enter and at the
same time be hosts for the southwest
ern conference intercollegiate meet.
to be held on Boyd field May IL and
II. The last event on the schedule
Will be the oklahoma intercollegiate
meet. to be staged in Oklahoma City
on May is.