Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-08
ILLINOIS TRACK
AGGREGATION TO
MAKE TRIP
Team Will Consist of % of
the Best Indian
Athletes.

Urbana. ILL.,, April S.-Coach Harry
ellis champion Illinois track aggre-
cation is burning the cinders despite
the cool weather that has threatened
to slow down the intensive training
before the trip into the southwest
next week.
The team, which will consist of %
Of the best Indian athletes, will leave
here Thursday afternoon, April Is,
arriving in Houston. for the Rice in
stitute meet, Saturday. April Is. On
the following Wednesday the Illinois
runners will invade Austin for their
contest with Texas university.
The trip, which is a spring training
tour. will be h first of its kind ever
attempted by a western track team
and the second ever made in the
country. Harvard travelled to the
Penn relays last spring and then
toured through Virginia for the first
collegiate spring training trip for a
track team. 4
Coach Gill believes the trip has sew
eral outstanding advantages for the
team, necessitaung early training on
the part OF. the Indian runners, here,
with a week Of training in the warmer
south. This. he says, will put the
Illini on edge for it's coming meets,
the first of which.will be the Drake
relays.
Although the team has not been
selected yet, it is almost certain who
will make the tour In the dashes
Illinois will have Bob Ayres of Hins-
dale va sophomore, who captured sec
ond place in the indoor conference
meet and also in the fifth annual
lllini relay carnival. He will meet
who is credited in the south with a
3-5 seconds century. In the quar-
ter mile run there will be Douglas
Fessenden, Paul Sweet n Fred
Schlapprizzi. Fessenden. the sophie
more from Onawa, Ia, has been step.
I ping the distance in so seconds eel
4 and Schlapprizzi, who is from st
race. Paul Sweet is the third 440 mar
who is keeping the trio under the s.
second mark. Bob Ayres is the fourth
man on the mile conference relay
championship quartet.
Captain Howard Yates, Buffalo, n
Y, broke the conference half mile
record during the indoor season and
is stepping a pretty two lap race al
present. Kloepper is the second ir
Aurora, Tex; Patterson of Houston
Tex. and Eddie Wells of Oak Park
compose the trio of milers. who are
going strong.
For the two mile, Illinois has Rus.
sell Wharton of Moline. He not onl,
has been u~ndefeated, but he clipped !;
good margin off the two mile indoor
conference record. established b,
Mike Mason of Illinois many year:
ago. AS running mates he will nave
Swanson and Scott, the two who fin
ished in the order mentioned behind
Wharton in this race. making a SWEEP
in points.
Sam H. Wallace of Wheaton and H
Smith Wallace of Chicago are tht
chief barrier leapers, Franklin John
son, sophomore from st. Louis, is tn
third hurdler. He also is a broad
jumper. H. NJ. Osborne, the famou:
Illini broad jumper and high leaper
will be one of the Indian mainstays
for he las been clearing over 6 fee
3 inches in the high jump and goint
farther than % feet in the broad.
Another star ON the 1llini outdoor
squad is Milton Angler. a sophomore
one of the greatest javelin thrower:
in America. He travelled to Antwerp
with the American Olympic athletes
two years ago and was the only Am
erican to place i'm the javelin event
His best throw is 200 feet.
kappenmacher. another sOpho
more. will take the place of Johnn!
Weiss in the discus throw. Cannon
will have the 16 pound shot and Carl
son is, an all around man, being es
pecially good in the ~javelin and discus
throws. Sam Hill is the one Hin
hammer thrOwer.