The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-04-05
WEATHER MAN
BUNGLESTICER
TRACK PLANS
Right Kind Of Training Is Not
Possible With Cinder
Track in Wet and Soft
Condition. q
TRIM ALLSTARS
Fifteen Men Will Make Up M.
U. Retinue Which Will :,
Likely Meet Occidental
on Return Trip. 2

The track team Of the University o.
California defeated a picked team from
the universities and colleges. Of South
j ern California last Saturday by the scors
OF ia 10 26. The men picked to con
test against California were .reputed &c
be Of the best athletic timber in the
Gold Stale and the team was supposed
to be one Of :he strongest the University
OF California track team has gone up
against in some time.
The case with which the Bears over.
came their adversaries does not make
Missouri's chances seem any brighten
when the Tigers clash with California
at Berkeley April Is. Missouri's team
this year is composed mostly of new men.
There are but six letter men back for
track and field competition this year.
While the team has moi won the victor
les that former teams representing Mis-.
souri, have, it is because other Valley
teams, against which Missouri has on.
tested this year, are much stronger than
in several years. Kansas and Nebraska
fall in this lot, the only teams to finish
ahead Of the Bengals this year.
Weather conditions have been handi-
Gaping the local track team to a great ex-
tent. There has been little weather that
has permitted the Missouri athletes to
work outside, and as the California meet
is TO be an outdoor meet, this condition
has held the Tigers back. The weather
has been so inclement the latter part of
the winter and this spring that the men
have had little opportunity to utilize the
board track just west of ROCKWELL Gym
nasium, and as there is no indoor track
in the gymnasium, it has meant that
the men have moi gotten all of the prac-
tice they should have.
SIMPSON OPTIMISTIC
Coach Simpson is optimistic, even
with this handicap. There have been
several Of the board track records brok-
en- this year, four in all. Coach Simp-
son says that his men will give a good
account of themselves.
Neither is Bob" worrying about the
result of the meet California won last
Saturday aiggains. tie all.star team from
Southern California. He AYERS that with
such a score, the team representing
Southern California could not have been
a strong one, and that the score demon
sirated the weakness Of one team more
it did the strength of the other.
The local boys have had some oppor-
to work outdoors the las; few days.
They have worked outdoors Of lae when
the weather would scarcely permit it,
but necessity drove Coach Simpson to
order his men to get on the cinders.
TO DECIDE ON SECOND MEET i
z. G. CIevenger, athletic director, is
expecting to hear definitely today or to-
morrow lust what team Missouri will
meet en- route home. 1t will probably |
be Occidental. The team will stop Of
for a day in Ogdon, Utah, on its way to
Berkeley to break the monotony of the
The list of Missouri's entries will be /;
.ent to the Athletic Department Of the
University of California either next FRI
lay or Saturday. Fifteen men will be
;hosen from the following: Brutus Ham
lion, captain; Earl Maxwell, R. W.
Waddell, E. E. Brasfeld, J. o. Ruark,
Bert Evans. r. C. POague, Tad ST
nons, F. C. Burrill, X. G.. S~chnebley.
Roscoe Hill, Lewis Stark, Don Faurot,
sam Utz, Charles Ogle, Herbert Bunker,
Trowbridge, Harry Lee, and John
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Missouri's team this year is not COM