The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-18
HIGH SCHOOL TO
START TRAINING
FOR TRACK SOON
Number of Events Are Seized
uled for Richmond Men
This Year.

Richmond high school track men
will start spring training as soon as
the weather conditions permit, which
will probably be In about two weeks.
Coach Eekel said, Tuesday.
Eckel will devote his entire time
this spring to building good track
team, as the high school will enter
more meets this year than 1t ever has
in the history of the school. Manager
Vernon is negotiating for three dual
meets besides the two tri-state con-
tests and the Indiana high school
meet at Earlham, which the Richmond
track artists viii lenter.
The first meets on the program will
probably be the dual events, one with
Muncie, II that high school places
track team In the field one with
Technical high school team of Indi-
annapolis and the last dual meet to
be with Steele thinly clads Of Day
ton, Whether the meets will be stag
ed at Richmond or at the other
schools has not been decided.
Enter Tri-State Meets.
The regular track meets which the
locals will enter are the Tri-state meet
at Miami university, where Indiana,
Ohio and Kentucky high schools will
compete, and another Tri-state meet
at Cincinnati university, where repre-
sentatives Of the same three states
will line up.
The Indiana high school state meet
will be held at Earlham college, May
%. Earlham authorities are making
plans for big meet and Richmond
high school after years of poor show
Ing in track and field events, will
come out with q number Of men that
should make Q showing and again
reinstate the school in the Indiana
track events,
In 1904 when the first state meet
was held at Bloomington, Richmond
got one place when Manford annex
ed third in the hammer throw for the
Red and White. The following year,
at Lafayette, Guyer of the locals, earn
ed first place for Richmond. hurting
the hammer los feet.
In 1906 Richmond won mare places
than ever before and since. Guyer
that year took second place at ham
mer throw, Cain won third in the mile
run, Allison in his first track work
won third in the 22O yard hurdles and
Guyer annexed third place in the dis
Gus throw.
Plenty Of Material.
The next year the track meet was
held at Earlham and Richmond failed
to grab a single place that counted
The following year, 1908, at Blooming
ton the results were the same.
Ii was 1909 that Allison made Rich
mond record breaker In that year
at Lafayette Allison made two high
school records that still stand. He
did the 100 yard hurdle in 1S 1-5 sec
onds and the 220 yard hurdle in 26 As
seconds. He was the only man to
make place.
From that year on track enthusi.
asts dwindled at high school until the
school authorities became discouraged
and did not place a team in the state
meet. One year. 1913, when the track
meet was held at Earlham the high
school lads competed with the same
results ending the meet with the point
column nil.
This year Coach Eekel will have
more material to choose good track
team from and should be able to build
one that will make some kind of a
showing in the meet to be held at
Ear,ham this spring
Among the men who will be in line
for track work are Eversman, Latta,
VanAllen, Doliins, Price, Gaylor and
large number of men who have
worked on the track before and some
new candidates that possess the abii-
ity to develop into excellent track
men.