Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-08
COLBY barriers HuSTLINC FOR STATE
meet BEST OUTLOOK EVER FOR THE
BLUE-GRAY TO HAVE CRACK SQUAD
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Waterville, April More than
forty candidates answered Coach
Mike Ryan's first call for the spring
season today at Colby College with a
large number of very promising men
among those who reported to the
veteran Colby mentor. This morning
the men were given a light workout
and then a long lecture by Coach
Ryan on the season that lies in front
of the Colby track team. The after
noon section worked out in the col
lege gymnasium because of the heavy
rain that fell all afternoon.
Coach Ryan expects a number OF
men will report along the end of the
week and then the actual work of the
candidates will begin. While Coach
Ryan will give a considerable part of
his time to the new men who have
reported, a larger part of his days
will be spent with h.s crack relay
men in preparation for the coming
relay. meet at the University of
Pennsylvania when the Blue and
Gray will meet some OF the fastest
teams in the eastern colleges on the
cinders in one mile relay race
, last week of May.
The University . of Pennsylvania
games are annually attended by a
crack Blue and Gray team and these
games arc considered the closing
and most important in the track
schedule of the Pine Tree state COL
lege. Last season at Philadelphia
Coach Ryan's charges lost out by a
matter of a few inches when Hamil-
. ton college pulled in ahead on the
! last lap of the race. However, Mike
feels that his team this year is faster
than it has been for some time and
j the wearers of the Blue will fight for
their place in the meet.
With the state meet but five weeks
away, Colby will have to do some tall
hustlng in the track line ir order to
be on near footing with the other
! three Maine colleges. This year the
state meet will be held at Lewiston
doin. Colby and the University of
Maine. The meet is scheduled for
May 1, and all of the four colleges
have some fine material this year.
Coach Ryan feels that more than
one record will so in the state meet
| this year and, while he is not say
ing anything about his crack dash
man Aittlesdorf some believe that
| the New Jersey freshman will break
the state mark in the century dash
which was hung up by Cloudman of
BOwdoin a number of years when
| he covered the distance in As Sec
onds. Officially, Mittledorf has clip
| ped off the cinders on ten and fifth
! seconds at the interscholaStic meet
| held at the University of Maine last
| spring when the lad from New Jer-
| sey was at Coburn Classical lnsti-
| tute
| Captain Hearon and Everett Fran
sen are two more stars that Coach
; Ryan will enter in the meet along
with McGarry, Taylor and Brown.
All of these men have been on the
f! Blue and Gray relay team this last
season and all have shown. ,consid-
cradle ability in their line.ar Brown
Promises to be one of the best, quar-
, ter milers that Colby has to boast.
and if he keeps up his good, work OF
! this winter. he will make a strong
bid for a place in the state meet.
! The first dual meet that Colby has
had since the World War Will be held
, in Waterville on May when the
| Blue and Cray track team will en-
, terrain the Northeastern cinder men
! on the local track and field. From
/ all appearances, the two teams show
i up about equal on paper and Coach
Ryan's barriers will have to step out
| to keep on top Of the heap. The
| meet. being just previous to the
state title meet, should attract some
attention.