The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-08
Gill PLANS TO
TAKE e TRACK
men TO SOUTH
Wharton of Moline Counted Upon
to Annex First Place In the
TwO-Mile Event

Urbana, Ill, April S.-Coach Har-
~ Gills champion Illinois track
aggregation is burning the cinders
despite the cool weather that has
threatened to slow down the inten-
sive 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 10, arriving in Houston for
the Rice Institute meet Saturday,
April Is. On the following We'd
nesday the Illinois runners will in
wade Austin for their contest with
Texas university
The trip, which is a spring train
ing tour, will be the first of its
kind ever attempted by a western
track team and the second ever
made in the country. Harvard tray
eled to the Penn relays last spring
and then toured through Virginia
for the first collegiate spring train
ing trip for a track team.
Coach Gill believes the trip has
several outstanding advantages for
the team, necessitating early train
ing on the part of the Indian run
ners here, with a week of training
in the warmer south. This, he says,
will put the Illini on edge for its
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 Hinsdale, a sophomore, who cap
tured second place in the indoor
conference meet and also in the
fifth annual Illini relay carnival.
He will meet the famous Lindsey
of Rice Institute, who is credited
in the. south with 8 3-5 second
century. In the quarter mile run,
there will be Douglas Fessenden,
Paul Sweet and Fred Schlapprizzi.
Fessenden, the sophomore from
Onawa, Iowa, has been stepping the
distance in so seconds, even. and
Schlapprizzi, who is from St Louis,
has been pressing him in every
race. Paul Sweet is the third 440
man who is keeping the trio under
the 50 second mark. Bob Ayres is
the fourth man on the one mile
conference relay championship
quartet
Captain Howard Yates. Buffalo,
n. Y, broke the conference half
mile record during the indoor sea-
son and is stepping a pretty two
lap race at present. Kloepper is
the second in prominence. Gordon
McGinnis of Aurora, Tex Patterson
of Houston, Texas, and Eddie Wells
of Oak Park compose the trio of
milers who are going strong.
Moline Boy Star.
For the two mile, Illinois has
Russell Wharton of Moline. He
not only has been indicated. but
he clipped a good margin off the
two mile indoor conference record,
established by Mike Mason of Illi-
nois many years ago. AS running
mates he will have Swanson and
Scott, the two who finished 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
the chief barrier leapers. Franklin
Johnson, sophomore from st. Louis,
is the third hurdler. He also is
broad jumper. H NJ. Osborne, the
famous Illini broad jumper and
high leaper, will be one of the In
dian mainstays, for he has been
clearing over feet inches in the
high jump and going farther than
% feet in the broad.