The New York herald., 1921-01-09
PENN COACH FACES
DIFFICULT TASK
Lawson Robertson NeedsPrOm-
ising Material to Make Up
for Loss of Stars.

Special Despatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
another championship track and field
team, Lawson Robertson Pennsylvania's
coach. realizes that a strenuous job Is
ahead. He will need some promising
such stars as Jimmy Patterson, the
famed freshman sprinter, who left COL
lege last fall and entered Colgate; Ed
die Shields. the cross country star and
one and two miller. who has gone into
business since the Christmas holidays
Rush Smith, the sprinter who has been
laid up with pneumonia and may not be
able to get back in running togs this
season, and Sherman Landers. the broad
jumper and pole vaulter, who was grad
uated last June.
Robertson. however is fortunate In re-
tanning such a skilled middle distance
runner as Capt. Earl Eby. the Chicago
lad, who had threatened to leave college
in the fall after his return from the
Olympcs at Antwerp. Eby ran second
% the famed Hill OF England in the 500
meters, and also had the satisfaction of
beating Il. G.. ID. RudA- the oxford stu
dent who performed so admirably In the
Penn relay carnival last April. With
Eby available for the half mile, Penn
has one of the best 1880" men in the
country. Robertson also intends to use
him as quarter miller. with the hope
that Eby may be able to do what Ted
Meredith performed some years ago
when he turned in a double victory i'm
the intercoliegiates.
Bob Maxam, the Washington lad. also
st..I II 4 DoI.
TO use him In the sprints and 440 yard
dash. Maxam was best known as
quarter miller before he entered Penn,
but in the last year or so Robertson has
been trying TO make a sprintcr out OF
him.
In Harold Lever the Iiion. n. Y. lad.
Penn has ono Of The most promising
sprlnters In collegiate ranks. Lever
strained O tendon last spring. but re-
gained his form in the final meet with
the Cornell freshmen and was star.
Robertson expects TO keep Eby, Max
am and Lever busy in the various In
door meets this winter $50 that they
will be ready when the spring rolls
around. Robertson's plan IL not to over
work his men on the board tracks. but
he believes In keeping them in shape.
Penn's most promising high Jumper
Is Bill Reynolds, the lad who came
along with n rush last spring. In Ev-
erett Smalley the Red and Blue has
clever low hurdler. He also takes
spin over the high sticks, but does not
negotiate them with the same skill as
the low. Larry Brown. the Pacific coast
lad. will be groomed for the mile. George
Meredith, the younger brother OF Ted,
Is also out for the quarter mile.
Three Of PENIS star boxers are MEM
bers Of the Philadelphia team which has
been picked for intercity bouts in Pitts
burg and New York. This trio are Capt.
Tommy O'Malley. the former national
amateur 1873 pound champion; Nate Bes-
sell, the up Slater, and Tom Cowcll. the
freshman heavyweight.
Atlanta and Birmingham have asked
for intercity meets during the Easter
recess and an offer has been received
from New Orleans. The University OF
Minnesota informed Major Pickering at
the collegiate meeting in Chicago that
IL was anxious TO arrange a dual box
ing meet with the Red and Blue. The
Minnesota team does not care to come
East. but Is perfectly willing to defray
Penn's expenses to Minneapolis.
Joe Wright coach OF Pcnn's crews.
has returned from his home in Toronto.
Work on the machines has started, with
the newcomers being given the pref
erence, until the big Canadian has an
opportunity to look over the entire
squad