San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27
College Athletes in Meets
Galore From Now Until
Summer Vacation Begins;
Walter Camp Looks for
American Victory, as
Usual.
BY WALTER CAMP.

COpyElBnt. IJz9. by COnSOl. PreSS ASS n.
New York, April 28.-There never
was a season of track athletics that
offered followers of the cinder path
as many thrills as this season of 1924,
now under full steam. with the Penn
Drake and the Ohio State relays writ
ten into history.
Collegians all over the country are
in the heat of preparation for one of
the busiest track seasons this country
has ever witnessed. Every week end
from now on offers its quota of thrill
ers.
Next Saturday. May 3. Yale meets
Dartmouth and Penn at New Haven,
while Syracuse meets Penn State at
State College. and the Navy. Pittsburg
and John Hopkins hold a triangular
meet Mt Annapolis. The Army meets
Columbia and Virginia at West Point.
Rutgers goes out to Easton to meet
Lafayette and Carnegie Tech goes to
Princeton to compete against the
Tiger.
Yale VS.. Princeton.
On May 10, the Yale-Princeton
dual meet will be held at New Haven,
Hanover. and the Harvard-Tech con-
test at NJ. /. T. field. Columbia and
Rutgers meet the same day at New
Brunswick. while West Virginia
tackles Pittsburg at Pittsburg. Penn
State takes on the Navy ut Annapolis,
Lehigh meets Lafayette at Easton and
Cornell meets Penn at Philadelphia.
May IT brings Harvard and
Princeton and Dartmouth and Column
bia at South Field. New York. Col
gate and Syracuse clash Mt Syracuse
May 81.
The Yale-H Harvard dual meet comes
off May 81 at Cambridge, on the
same day that the New England in
tercollegiate are held there.
On May 30 and 81. Harvard will
play host to the intercollegiate. while
the Army and Navy are fighting It out
at Annapolis.
June Z brings Pittsburg and Penn
State together at State College, and on
June Is and IA. the fir i Olympic try
outs will be held in the Harvard Sta
dunn.
Meanwhile. the calendar is all clut-
tered up with dates for preliminary
sectional competitions for the Olym-
pics. The first of the series will be
held May II at Stanford Stadium
and one at Portland, Orc. The Stan
ford meet will decide the merits of
entrants from Utah, Nevada. North
ern California. Hawaii and the Phil
ippines. That at Portland will dis
pose of the candidates from Montana.
Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
Alaska.
One Right After Another.
On May "a, Los Angeles will start
meet for New Mexico, Arizona and
Southern California athletes. Then fol-
low in quick succession New Orleans
meet, May 30 and 81, a Lawrence,
Kans.. meet May 81. and competitions
at University of Iowa and Ann Ar
Dor on the same date. There will be
meets June at Atlanta, Ca, and
Yankee Stadium, New York. BY the
night of June Z all the competitors
will have been selected for the big
Harvard Stadium tryouts which come
the following weekend.
Then we shall see our Olympic team
sail. and sit back to await with keen
interest the cables that tell how they
compare with the athletes of the rest
of the world.
The United States thus far, since
the revival of the Olympics, has oceu-
pied a premier position, and the
writer believes we will again. But the
other nations are coming on fast and
will give the American team hard
struggle