Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-14
0RTON Will COACH
Penn TRACK TEAM
Maxam, Landers and KraenzIein
Will Assist While Robert
son Is Abroad
SPEEDY BASEBALL DRILL

THE University Of Pennsylvania
L track team will be we'll taken care
Of, so far as coaching is concerned,
during the absence Of Coach Lawson
Robertson, who leayes next Monday
with tho four mile team for England.
Four athletes whose names have been
indelibly inscribed in the athletic rec
ords of the University will give their
time to the training Of the squad for the
relay games and also for the meets
that are due shortly after the carnival
is over. Robertson and the milers are
not expected to return to Franklin Field
until three or four days before the an
nual carnival. and lie will have but little
time to devote to the coaching Of his
team.
George Orton. who held the coaching
reins on Franklin Field after the death
Of Mike Murphy and until the arrival Of
Lawson Robertson, will have charge of
the coaching Of the athletes. He will be
assisted by Al Kraenzlein, perhaps the
greatest all, around star in the history
Of Penn 8 track athletics. In 1000
Kraenzlein won four first places in the
Olympia games, a feat that has never
been equaled. Sherman Landers, cap.
tain Of the 1910 team, and Bob Maxam,
one Of the stars Of last year, will also
aid Orton in whipping the trackmen into
shape.
Landers was pole vault and broad
jump champion in his last year
OF intercollegiate competition, while
Maxam last year finished second in
both the 22O and 40 and is one of the
four men who broke the worlds one
mile relay record last year in the Amer.
ican Legion games on Franklin Field.
Practice Starts Monday
Active work for the track squad will
start on Monday. With the exception
Of the milers and the half milers the
other athletes are taking a we'll deserved
rest this week after the strenuous cam
paign indoors. On Monday they will
start active work for the relays and the
outdoor meets.
Kraenzlein will pay particular atten.
tion to Fred Chow. the Chinese athlete,
who won the running broad jump in
tho intercollegiates last Saturday night
with q leap Of q feet 10h inches.
Until Ned Gourdin, Of Harvard; broke
record =, t holder fer the broad jump; Under
Chinese to win his letter at the Uni.
versity in track, should be able to add
several inches to his best jump.
Orton, who in addition to looking
after the trackmen will also be keeping
the relay entries in shape, looks for on,
of the greatest outdoor seasons in yeah
this spring. "The wonderful running
indoors this season leads me to believe
that outdoor marks viii be the danger
when the athletes reach the top of
their stride," said Orton this morning.
First Baseball Game
Coach DR.. Cariss, of the baseball
team, believes that the diamond stars
are also going to rate very high this
year In intercollegiate ranks. The best
squad In years Is practicing daily on
Franklin Field. Yesterday afternoon,
taking advantage of the excellent
weather conditions, Cariss selected two
teams for q short game. The regulars
walloped the rockies, but not with the
ease that the railbirds expected. The
new men showed a surprising amount
Of strength and made the veterans
hustle for narrow verdict.
Tonight in the Weightman Hall pool
The Red and Blue swimmers will wind
up their season with Columbia as the
party of the second part. Little diff
ficulty In defeating the New Yorkers Is
expected, as Penn severely trounced
them in the Morningside Heights pool
less than month ago.