New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
COLLEGE STARS
WILL MEET In
INDOOR RELAYS
Ideal Track Conditions
Should Furnish Line on
Outdoor Possibilities

College athletes will gather In the
Commercial Coliseum Building, Phila-
delphia, next Saturday evening to take
part in the third annual indoor relay
carnival of the intercollegiate Associa-
ton Of Amateur Athletes of America.
Practically every educational institu-
ton holding membership in the or
canization' will send on its full track
team, thereby bringing together more
than five hundred competitors.
The runners will race over the
specially constructed track of the
Meadow Brook Club, which has been
loaned for the occasion, and the re-
siliency offered by the banked wooden
track is sure greatly TO aid the college
athletes in displacing many of the rec
ords. The programme is composed
mostly of relay races, but there will
also be exhibitions in sprint and field
events.
Get Bearings Through Meet
The results will be eagerly awaited
by the followers of collegiate track
and field sports, and especially by the
coaches, as II. will give an insight into
tho strength Of the colleges for the
coming outdoor championship games.
Cornell has lost many OF its stars
through graduation, but the keen-eyed
Jack Moakley, the coach, is sure that
his Ithaca athletes will stand of the
expected bitter competition and win
again from Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Yale and several others.
Many stellar individual efforts are
expected TO be recorded as the athletes
strive TO help their teams carry home
the winning honors. In the compeu-
tions held at Madison Square Garden
during the last two years some stirring
and sensational performances have
been shown, particularly By Bill Blng-
ham. Ted Meredith and Johnny Over
ton. Ted Meredith will be an absentee
this year, as he has been graduated.
But there should be many thrilling
contests 10 keep enthusiasm at fever
heat.
Although the sprint race relays are
ishes. the spectators undoubtedly Will
and difficulty in restraining themselves
when Overton and Linus V. Wind
nagle, of Cornell, meet in the siX-lap
race. The latter turned the tables on
Yale Johnny in the outdoor champion
shin games after Overton had defeated
him in the carnival event last year, so
that both will try TO break the tie.
Overton Now in Top Form
Overton has shown that he is in the
hest form Of his career in the two per
formances no has shown within the last
three weeks. One of his mile efforts
returned the time Of 4:l9 1-5, which is
the fastest ever made on track meas
ured twelve inches from the border.
Only one week ago 0verton was clicked
in 4:203-5 on regiment floor, and
with the springy Exposition Building
track at his command IL is more than
likely that the Blue runner will better
both these performances. Windnagle
is being especially groomed for the
contest, and IL he is able 20 show last
summers form Overton viii know that
he has a fight on his hands.
+. Kenneth Foss is one of the few
champion athletes that Cornell will
display. This pole vaulter has designs
on a new record in his specially. 1t
is regretted that the freshman rule
bars out Sherman G. Lsnders, the ma
tionsl champion of the University OF
Pennsylvania, who, should he be eli
gible to compete, would prove a stub
born opponent for FOss. Both athletes
have cleared the cross piece at a height
Of twelve feet, while Foss won the
event last winter with a vault Of IL
feet inches. Lsnders's spectacular
feats during the few years he has com
peted in this fascinating sport have
gained him many friends. IL IS pre-
dicted no will develop into one of the
greatest vaulters of this country. The
Penn youth depends considerably on
his speed and agility, rather than the
customary strength Of arms, to skim
over the highly raised stick. Few
faults have been noticed in Lsnders's
execution, and these are slowly being
corrected.
Richards After Record
Alma Richards, q student mate OF
Foss, is also eager to enbellish his last
year in college with new figures IN the
running high jump. On this occasion
Richards will be without the keen com
petition offered him by Wesley NJ.
Oler, IT., VINO mas graduated from iaie.
However, the big Cornell all around
athlete will find opposed 20 him rivals
who have also cleared six feet. With
oler as an opponent in 1915, Richards
went over the bar at feet inches,
creating the intercollegiate indoor
record. But IL was only through the
good craftsmanship Of Oler that he
was able 70 set the record figures, as
Richards was allowed an extra trial by
his opponent. Pennsylvania will start
Thibault, Warren and Buckholz, all
siX-foOt men.
One Of the added features Of the
meet will be tho one-mile graduate re-
lay race, which Is sure TO prove an
interesting race. For the last month
athletes who formerly ran for colleges
and universities have been endeavor-
ing 20 get together the best athletes;
Present indications point TO Leland
Stanford, Pennsylvania, Yale, liar-
ward, Cornell, Michigan, Princeton and
Syracuse entering team. On the
Penn team will be Ted Meredith, Joe
Lockwood, Don Lippincott and an
other runner 10 be named, and they are