The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-08
TRACK-F|ELO TALENT
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By JAMES u. ('TED") MEREDITH.
Especial Correspondent of Universal

BY JAMES T. ('"TED") MEREDITH.
Especial Correspondent of Universal
Service.)
New York, May 6.-Never before
was the track and field talent more
equally distributed throughout the
country than this year. In the recent
Penn relays we saw the 100 yards won
by Scholz, from Missouri: Thompson,
of Dartmouth, was first in the
hurdles; Landers and Reynolds, of
Penn, won the pole vault and high
jump, respectively: Bradley, of Kan
sas. was the best man in the all
round event, and the Middle West
teams finished well up in the relay
a new competitor in the East, and
the only representative from the Pa
cific coast, came in for their share of
the honors by winning the class 81
championship mile relay and by plac-
ing a man third in the penthalton.
This shows that no section of the
country is going to have monopoly
of the places on the United States
olympic team and also that the off,
Gals are going to have a merry time
picking the six men that are TO be
taken for each event
This meet brought out a great num-
Der of new men and in looking over
each event 1t is safe to say that the
country never had as much fine ma
terial as this year The men that
have been in the games as stars in re-
cent years came UP to their old marks
and in many cases were doing shade
better, but the surprising part of the
races was the new fellows that came
out
Take Bradley, of Kansas, who won
the penthalon from Bartels, of Penn.
TIL iG has hnnr he9 rG
doing such work until this meet.
Bartels, due TO his win OF two years
ago and his second place last year
against lie Gendre, of Georgetown,
was the favorite with lie Gendre out
due to a broken leg and cunt, of Red
due To a broken leg and cunt, of Red
! lands, came on with a great record.
but Bradley, by consistent work in
each of the five events, had a total
much better than his competitors.
Another new man that looks very
good and who is new to the public is
Yates. of Illinois, who ran the last leg
for his team on their two-mile relay.
! Running yards back Of the leading
| Enghshman with an impossibls
amount OF ground to pick up in or
| der TO win, he turned a. very good
| half and on even terms would
| have given the best Britisher a great
race. Yates is miller, but he GER
| tainly could easily come down to the
{ halt and go along with the best OF
! them.
One man that does not hit his stride
and II looks as If he would have a
difficult Job to get back to his old
! form--is Frank Shea, of Pittsburgh
In 1918 Shea ran a quarter in 47S5
seconds in the Eastern intercollegiate ties
and it looked as if the record was his
in another year, but since that time
he has been in rather hard luck
through a bad case OF pneumonia
Then pulled tendon, and now hi
has trouble with the nerves in his
legs, so that lie cannot do all the WORK
necessary. Last Saturday Shea did &
fifty second quarter. but did not locl
ta be the man of couple Of years
ago,
The running OF the English team
is still the talk of every one when tht
track is brought up. There is nj
doubt hut what everyone was foolet
about this team except Al Schrubb
their trainer, and Lawson Robertson
tAe- Penn coach. SehFahb was yer,
close with his Information prior II
! the race, and in fact told those ma
asked him that he was very sorry tina
he had such poor team to go agains
the wonderful teams in this country
1t now develops that Schrubb wa
taking everyone in for a ride. Rob
ertson made Sthe open statement tina
the Englishmen would do very fas
time, and he was given the laugh b
all that saw them in training. espe
: cially after the showing of Montagu
, in the three mile race. The point |
=, that those that thought the English
i men no. the runners they are wer
: drawing their conclusions as they di
a because the visitors did not train a
!, our boys do Robertson was judgin
purely frcn the looks Of the men an
the fine condition that he could Sc
was there.