Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-28
BIG ATHLETIC SEASON
CLOSES At DELAWARE
Blue and Gold Athletes Have
Starred in Track and Base
ball Activities.


Newark, May 2s.---university OF Della
ware baseball season comes to q close
this afternoon when tho team plays
Dickinson on Frazer Field. The tennis
season also ends today with n match
here with Swarthmore and the track
season closed last Tuesday as Muhlen-
burg, scheduled for next Saturday, cam
celled. While the baseball season. from
the standpoint of victories, was only
fair. the track team had the best sea-
son in the history of tho institution.
What is especially regretted by every
member of the track team is the fact
that this is the last season Mt Delaware
for Track Coach j. NJ. LeCato. Le-
Cato has coached track ut Delaware for
three years and in that time has de-
veloped some great athletes. He is
looked upon by those here who have
watched his work. as a wizard con-
sidering the performance he consistent-
ly gets out of the men. Even at that
he has not been able TO devote. all his
time TO the teams, as I'm addition To
coaching track he also teaches bac-
teriology in the university. LeCato
goes to Johns Hopkins in September to
join the faculty of that university. but
IL Is said that he will also assist in
coaching track there.
Coach LeCato has developed some
track men at Delaware who have at-
tracted wide attention by their per-
formances in meets this year. This is
especially true of Retzmer. a freshman,
who has been smashing iavelin and
other records all season. Betzmer holds
the Delaware javelin record and at the
Penn relays in April he finished second
in the Pentathlon javelin event. He
won the javeiin I'm the Middle States
meet at Johns Hopkins and established
new record for the Middle States AS
sociation.. Last Tuesday. in a dual meet
at Swarthmore, Betzmer made his best
tavelin throw of the season, with q
heave of 176 feet. s - inches, a record
for the Swarthmore field. He has won
the Javeiin In every meet that Delaware
entered this year with one exception
In addition to the javelin. BetzIner also
holds the record for the shot put at
Delaware and almost equally as good
with the discus
Booth is another athlete who has
shown wonderful Improvement under
the coaching of LeCato as a long dis
tance runner. He has established new
Delaware records In both the mile and
two-mile runs and at Swarthmore last
Tuesday, he won the mile and two-mile
the same afternoon. Booths greatest
performance was against Crawford, the
Lafayette crack at the Middle States
meet In the mile event he and Craw-
ford ran dead heat and he took so
much out of the much footed Craw-
ford that the latter failed to win the
half-mile event, which most all the cx-
perts had previously conceded to him
s-.sfa Al f.Ixf
veloped Pittman into one of the best
sprinters and probably the most con-
sistent performer at the 100 and geo
yard dashes that Delaware has ever
had. Pittman has a record of 10 Sec
onds fiat made this year, and has won
nearly all Of the sprints that he has
entered this year. he has never been
defeated in dual meet on the local
field.
Fred Harmer is another star of the
team who has done wonderful work
under LeCato. His best performance
OF the season was the winning OF the
44O-yard dash in the Middle States
meet against classy field. IIarmer is
also good at the SS0-yard distance and
has developed into a crack low hurd-
ler. These are only a few of the men
who have shown wonderful improve
ment this year and who have assisted
in putting Delaware in the forefront in
track and field sports.
Mcdonnell is one of the best pole
vaulters in the Middle States circuit
and took second place at Baltimore.
Middletown has generally gotten
point or two every meet in the high
jump and the same can be said OF
Humphries in the 5avelin, shot put and
discus. Fouracre, a freshman shows
promise of making the best quarter
miller Delaware has ever had Smith.
Lilly, McMullen and Haynes have an
performed well in the quarter and half
mile events Delaware easily won the
class relay she was entered in at Penn
and made a new mark for that class.
After dropping the first two meets
with the strong University of Virginia
and the Navy teams. Delaware has not
lost dual meet They have defeated
Stevens, Hopkins, Haverford and
Swarthmore and most of them by large
scores. In the Middle States. Delaware
finished third only one-sixth of a point |
behind Lafayette for second place.
Captain Wilson and McMullen are the |
only two members of the track team |
who win be lost by graduation, SO the |
prospects are exceedingly bright for
even a faster team next year
Delaware has had an in-and-out year
in baseball. The team got a good start |
by defeating Dartmouth and Hopkins.
but then followed a disastrous trip !
through Pennsylvania, when games |
were lost to BucknelI, Penn State, Uni /
versity of Pittsburg and Carnegie, and |
on the return home, another game was |
lost TO the Navy. 1t is claimed the |
pitchers were in poor shape on the |
Pennsylvania trip. but Rothrock and |
Collins, the two crack southpaws have /
been going good in most games since /
then. Following the Navy game. Della
ware defeated Rutgers. Trinity, Stevens |