Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-26
PENN FRESH SHOW /.
SPEED IN TRY0UTS.
Hayes, Of WiIIiamsport, Does
$40 in SIS 2-5s. on Outdoor
Track Under Poor Conditions
OTHER TIMES EXCELLENT

Il the University of Pennsylvania track
team, is going TO have an exceptional
squad OF middle distance runners for
the next three years, was demonstrated
yesterday afternoon on the outdoor
board track on Franklin Field, when
the tutor held tryouts for the freshman
one-mile relay team for the Erasmus
Hall meet Saturday night.
Robbie sent his squad Of quarter
milers through n time test yesterday
that showed several remarkable quar-
ter -milers among the first year men.
Conditions were anything but good for
excellent times. yet the yearlings
SKINNED around the boards with all the
speed of n June afternoon.
Most of the athletes we're bundled In
heavy jerseys and long trunks to keep
out the wintry blasts that swept across
the track and made inactivity costly TO
cxtremities. 4 stiff wind that blew
against the runners hindered them par
ticularly on the turns, yet the first
year men SKINNED around as though
nary an impcdiment was in their way.
The weather conditions yesterday were
slightly worse than they were on Mon
day. when the varsity men ran in their
Hayes Speed King
Jimmy Hayes. one Of the best middle
distance runners ever turned out by
Williamsport High, proved the dark
horse Yesterday. The up-State young
ster shot around the two and half laps
to the quarter track in 80 20 seconds.
Previous to yesterday Hayes was vir-
tually unknown, but his running makes
him an excellent prospect for the var
sity next year. In addition to running
the quarter Hayes is also capable in
The half.
Sam Kerr, intcrscholastic champion
Of the Mountain States In the West and
former Utah Prep student. finished sec
ond in the time trials to Hayes. Kerr
finished the quarter in 80 80 seconds.
Kerr is speedy in the quarter, half and
mile runs.
Following Kerr in the time trials
came Fisher, former interscholastic
cross country champion and half mile
titiehoder in Northern New Jersey. He
finished in 55 As. Fisher formerly ran
for Newark Central, famed for Its mid
die and long distance stars.
Hy Jensen, a member of the Cedar
Rapids High School two-mile relay
team, which captured the interscholaStic
championship last year and broke the
schoolboy record. was the fourth man
70 be selected for the team. His time
was SO seconds fiat. Eddie Mitchell,
formerly of Northeast High. who fin
ished in 1925 seconds, was the fifth
man. He will act as substitute.
In addition to those already men
h. fnll
times: Shredder. formerly Of Hartford
High. Connecticut. and Connecticut
half mile schooboy champion. with,
81 j seconds; George Keogh brother
Of the freshman football coach. 81 40:
Peak. IS seconds: lICIanC. the fresh
man intercollegiate cross country cham
pion, - 10; Sphere, 80 10, and Muir
ply. G1.
McLane and Jole Ray
McLane, who halls from Oklahoma,
where he set that district afire with his
"ensational running in the mile and over
cross country courses, will probably be
entered by Penn in the one and -one-
half-mile championship race in the
NNrose games NEXT Wednesday night.
,Ioic Ray. the brilliant distance runner
from Chicago, is entered in this-evcnt.
u
battle, as the Oklahoman is in excellent
shape.
George Kistler. coach of tho Red and
Blu" swimming team. yesterday received
word from Annapolis that the Middies
would be unable TO meet the Penn mcr-
men there Saturday afternoon. \ re-
port reached kistler yesterday that the
meet had been semi officially called off
He wired Immediately and received con-
frmatOn Of the report.
No future date was set for the meet,
kistler leaving that up to the author
ties at the Academy. According to the
Of the Middies' team, several
Of the star swimmers on the squad are
i'll in the infirmary and their secondary
material not being strong enough he
asked that Penn postpone the meet until
later.
The poStponement was n keen dis
TO the Red and Blue team
which IL in excellent shaDc and ready
20 prove to the Middies that they have
harder task on their hands this season
than last to defeat the Red and Blue
mcrmen. The great battle Penn gave
The championship Yale team two weeks
ago has filled the team with enthusi.
ISM. and they expect to go through the
of the season without n .
'CverSe.
Chase Fresh Captain
Paul Il. Chase, one of this stars q,
the freshman team, was yesterday ,
elected MS captain of the yearlings for !
the season. Chase last year won the !
20 yard swim in the interscholastics
md was rated as one of the best school .
BOY swimmers in the East. He entered
the Wharton School at the University
rom the Brooklyn Polytechnic School,
Five additional schools Yesterday on.
.ered the interscholasuc basketball
ournament that starts in Welghtman
Hall on February IS, and continues
hree weeks. This brings the total mum.
ler Of institutions from six different
States up to slxty-one, probably the
Grgcst entry list of any interscholastic
Quincy held in the country or at least
n this section.
La Sale Prep was the last Of the
Ocnl schools to enter the tournament.
Their list was sent In yesterday, bring.
ng the number of prep teams up TO
'ishtcen. Last year the total number
If schools, both high and prem In The
meet was thirty five, one less than boif
Is many prep schools as are entered
his season.