Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-19
DELAWARE TEAMS
RETURN FROM TRIPS
Track and Baseball Outfits Had
Disastrous Tours; Ball Team
Plays Navy on Wednesday.

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening.
Newark. April I9.-Delaware College
track and baseball teams returned
home Sunday after a disastrous trip
last week when victories are con-
sidered The track team lost two meets
to University OF Virginia and Navy
while the baseball club dropped all four
games played on the trip, to BuclSnen,
Is 70 s: Penn state, 10 1. University
Of Pittsburg. Z TO /. and Carnegie
Tech" to 2.
While the track team lost its two
meets the trip demonstrated the fact
that Coach LeCato has developed some
excellent material and that Delaware
has an excellent chance TO capture the
middle states championship meet TO be
held al Johns Hopkins next week when
such colleges a. Rutgers. Lafayette. Le-
high. Johns Hopkins. Swarthmore,
Haverford. New York University.
stevens and others VIII compete.
The Virginia meet was lost S4 10 -
points. It was shown that Delaware
has Just as good material in many
events as Virginia but was handicapped
by not having as much material. Vir-
ginia with a student body Of 1000 to
select from naturally has more material.
In this meet each team captured seven
first places but Virginia run its score
UP by taking most Of the second and
third places.
Delaware men IN this meet establish
ed four new Delaware records and tied
one other. Pittman won the 100 yard
dash in 10 seconds fat thereby equally
the Delaware College record held jointly
by Hayes Wilson and G. o. Smith. He
also won the 220 yard dash and re-
peated his performance at the Navy on
Saturday winning both the 100 and 220
yard dashes.
Fred Harner also won two events at
Virginia taking the $50 yard dash in
ZOE 2-5 which is a new Delaware record
and also won the 220 yard low hurdles.
Booth won the one mile run in 4.34
which is a new record for a Delaware
athlete and BetzTner established new
Delaware record for the shot put which
he won by a heaVe of fraction over
SO feet. Mcdonnell won the pole vault.
| Virginia is looked on as having one Of
the strongest if not the strongest track
team in the south. There is every rea-
son to believe that Delaware could have
won two more events at Virginia in
case il would have given the Blue and
cold the meet. IneSC were tAS QudILeT
and two mile.
Harmer in the quarter and Booth in
the two mile could probably have turned
the trick but when the events were run
there was no doubt about the result of
the meet and Coach LeCato decided he
preferred to save the two men for the
Navy meet on Saturday and did not
start them.
IL was a three cornered meet at the
/ Navy on Saturday. Johns Hopkins also
being entered The Navy scored so
| points. Delaware 80 and Hopkins but T.
As stated, Pitman again won the 100
/ and 220 yard dashes over a slow track
! Harmer took the quarter mile in fine
/ form while Betzmer again came to the
/ front winning the javelin with a throw
, Of 167 feet 51a inches which is another
| new Delaware record. Betzmer also got
| second in the discus and second in the
| shot put His performance in both
/ meets was excellent.
/ Booth. Delaware's crack long distance
/ runner was defeated in the one mile run
| by Curtis of the Navy who, however,
! Booth forced to make the time in 43O
1 on a very slow track Curtis also won
/ the half mile. lie is recognized as one
| of the best long distance men in the
country and was on last years Olympic
! Coach Shipley and the baseball squad
| arrived home from Pittsburg early Sun
| day night. While Delaware lost all four
games played on this trip the team put
! up a good article of ball according &c
! Coach Shipley at Penn State and against
| Carnegie on Saturday losing the latter
4 game by a score Of to 2. Hans Wag-
ner, former star shortstop of the Pitts
| burg Nationals. is coach of the Carnegie
| Tech team.
| Delaware baseball team will go tc
| Annapolis on Wednesday to play the
| Navy and Rutgers win be here Friday
The track team viii compete with
Stevens in a dual meet here on satur.
| day.