Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1910, Page 25

PART F.VE SPORTING PAGES 1 TO 4 XXXIX—NO. 33 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. PORTS OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1910. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Omaha Prepares for Big Indoor Track Meet; gtét—é Bé.se Balleeague Being S,er—iouslvl Debated BRIGHT FOR BIG ATHLETIC MEET Prospects Are that Two Hundred Competitors Will Enter Field and Track Events. MANY SCHOOLS TO TAKE PART Universities, High Schools and Y. M. C. A’s Propose to Send Tea: CHANCES GOOD FOR City Has Several Performers Who Hold Records in A. A, U. OMAHA MAKING READY AUDITORIUM "o Remove Stage, Allowing Room for & Track-— Fifteen Events Are to Be Heid. Construction of Omaha sportsmen are becoming enthus- iastic over the big indoor field and track meet which s to be held at the Omaha Auditorium March 4. Omaha has some ex- ceptionally good athletes and their rooters look to mee them carry off some of the coveted prixe Hagensick Is an athlete in prime condi- tion who lives in Omaha and holds the western Amateur Athletic union pole vault record of 11 feet 9 inches. Paul Anthes is an Omahan who holds the western Ama- teur Athletic union high jump record of b feet 11 inchos, and Bert Linn, now re. slding in Omaha, holds the Pacific coast high jump record of 6 feet and also the shot put record. These and many other 8004 - athletes In Omaha are expected to keep some of the bacon in Omaha. Men prominent in athletics_all over the west are becoming Interested in the meet and have signified their intention of being present. The three leading judges prob- ably will bs Dr. R.'G. Clapp of the Uni- veérsity ‘of Nebraska, J. B. Modisett of Sloux. City, western representative of the Amateur Athletic union, and Fred B. Barnes of Kansas City. Medals will be glven as first and second prizes in the individual events and silver loving cups in the team events. It is-estimated from the large number of favorable replies which have been re- celved that over 200 athletes will take part in the events, of which there will be prob- ably fifteen on the program. It is thought that no more'could be run off in an even- ing. If the entry list is as large as an- ticipated some of the preliminary heats will be started at 7 o'clock in the evening. The stage will be removed from the Auditorfum to make the track lar us possible and the ends of the track will be ‘talsed to permit the runners to take + the turns at a fast cilp. Boxes will be placed around the track the same as for the horse show and the band will play. Most of thé numbers on the program. will be. track events, as they are much more interesting to spectators than the fleld contests, Several relay numbers will be run as that is by far the most interesting of all track contests. An effort is being made to have each college and university send at least four students so they will have a full relay team. The colleges and universities and asso- clations which have favorably reported are: Kansas university, University of Ne- braska, Drake university, Towa State uni- versity, Ames, Grinnell, Morningside, high echools at Omaha, Lincoln, York, Council Blutfs, South Omaha and Des Moines and athletic assoclations from Kansas City and Chicago. The Young Men's Christian as- voclations which nave responded ore Omaha, Kansas City, Lincoln, Sloux City, Fremont, Columbus, York and Hastings, Track Events. 0-yitd dash, handicap. @-yard invitation, seratch. S-yard Interscholastic. b0-yard low hurdle, Quarter mile handicap. Falf mile handicap. Milo handicap. interscholastic _rela Young Men's Chrl Tntercolleglate relay. Army relay, Fort Crook and Fort Omaha. Special relay for firemen, policemen and letter carriers. Fleld events. Shot put, handicap. Pole \ault, handicap. High jump, handicap. ndicap. lan assoclation relay. EXAMS STOP IOWA COACHES Athletes Devote Time to Warding Off Flank TIOWA CITY, la, Jan. 2.—(Speclal)— Exams are on this coming week in the Urlversity of lowa and as a result Coaches Griffith and Delaney have devoted much of their attention to urging the athletes to escape the “flunks” and the ‘‘cons” by industrious study. The basket ball and track work has been disorganized as a result, for the candidates have been readily dismissed or excused on the plea of “I must attend a quizs. entire semester, 8 maximum amount of en- couragement has been given the students to desert mental training necessary to prevent faculty displeasure, 'We are mighty anxious that none of the men.get plucked this semester," said Coach John Griffith. “Both the track and basket ball squads are working nicely and Mr. Delaney and I are anxious that the outlook will not be dampened by the results of the semester exams.' However, the basket ball men are under & ‘handicap In thelr scholastic work be- cause this next week Minnesota will be played Thutsday evening on the home floor, while. Friday the team goes to Ames and Baturday, the Hawkeyes go to Des Moln where Drake is played in the new Drake & mnasium. Delaney, ni¢knamed by the newspaper men as “Sphinx" because of his reticence on “'dope,” I8 expending the cholce words in hfs ‘Vocabulary toward the instilling of pepp” Into his large group of candidates. With ‘his marked pecullarities the coach is makidg progress and his work so far has been satlafactory despite his eccentricities. Manager Earl O. Eager's bluff on the foot ball scedule has been called by the Jowa management and unless the Nebrask Sttitude Is wmore conclllatory this coming jweek It is not probable that the two insti- titions will meet on the gridiron next fall. 3 auch & state of affairs develops the loss of the game will be keeuly regrotted by the lowa student body. As many of the athletes are in the college of law, where the examinations count for the the physical development for the DETROITREADY TO PLAY HOST Bowlers Prepare to Flock to Amer- ican Bowling Congress. PRIZE LIST IS5 LARGEST EVER | A1 Sections of the Country Will Be | Represented at the Big Tou ment, Which Promises to Eelipse All Others. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 29.—Less than two weeks remain in which bowlars have time to mall their entries to the tenth annual tournament of the American Bowl- Ing congress, to be held in the Wayne pavilion in this ety starting February 27 and ‘running two full weeks. Secre- tary Abe Langtry of Milwaukee wired the local committes today that he would reach Detroit early the coming weoi and cpen offices. Fis coming is usually. the signal for the big flow of mall entries definite shape with his arrival. Predic- tions this year favor a total of 425 five- men teams in the main event and a cor- responding number in the singles and doubles. This expected entry will give a prize list of over $25,000, against some $21,000 last year in Pittsburg. Last year the officials running the meet figured on an entry of 400 clubs at this time of the year and were disap- pointed by only twenty-six clubs. There were several reasons then, however, to keep back tha entries, chief of whick was the fact that the country was just get- ting over a bad year—1808—in which the usual depression in business atrendant upon a national election took placs. The last year has been & banner one in busi- ness, ‘with everybody working full time, and the bowlers now haye the money to spend for the annual junket Another point that is drawing the en- tries this year is the mnearness of the tdurnament to the .centsr of population, Detroit's location being far ahead of any place where the meet had been held as yet. The heaviest gains are expected to come from Cleveland and points in north- ern Ohlo, western New York, including Buffalo and Rochester; Chicago and Illi- nols points, eighty clubs alone being ex- pected from the Windy City and suburbs, and from Canada, nearly every city and Atown in Ontario being banked on for at least one team entry. Accommodations at Detroit will be away ahead of anything the howlers have had befcre, not even excepting Garry I.orr- mann’s big Cincinnati meet. T'.e pro- moters of the Detroit meet >.ve made better terms with the Amer’.an Bowling congress than have ever hbeen granted any ¢ity assoclation before, and it looks as though Detroit will join Cincinnati in making the big meet a financlal as well as a bowling success, the otaer eight meets all having cost their promoters money. Fourteen New Alleys. | Fourteen alleys will be lald for the big tournament which will be devoted entirely to the American Bowling congress meet, no special matches or “women's chumpion- ships” being allowed on them this year. The workmen will start laying the drives a week from tomorrow, Brunswick-Dolke continuous alleys belng installed, along with the same equipment of pin-spot tiers and other accessories that were used with such marked success at Pittsburg. In ad- dition to the tournament drives there will be six additional alleys on the floor below which will be available for prac- tice before the regular games by all en- trants, as well as for special matches. At no other meet have the bowlers bean atle to get practice in the same building as they rolled their American Bowling con- gress games in and this feature is ex- pected to prove the feature of the present meet. Wayne pavilion, where the alleys are to be held, is within ten minutes’ walk of the heart of the city Where the big stores, theaters and banks are located, while many of the leading hotels are from one to five minutes’ walk, the two largest railroad stations being almost alongside of the drives. Not even Milwaukee had a more convenlent location for the hall. Round-trip rallroad rates to. the big meet will be a fare and & third from all poings In the United States, while the Canadian entries will probably get a one- fare for the round trip, the cheapest rate ever granted the bowlers. Louisvil'e sent in the first entry two months ago, while El Paso, Tex., expects to hold the long distance record at the present meet, one club having pald its entrance fee. Kan- | Nebraska, Minnesota and Co)or::o all expected to enter teams, while ::;: elllorx: teams, New York, Philadel- phia, Baltimore and Washington, should contribute between thirty and fifty from the seaboard. Even with the tenth meet still in em- bryo the alley sharps are already dis- cussing the 1911 meet and indications point to the fight for the next gather- ing being betwesn Rochester, N, Y.; To- ronto, Ont., and Columbus, O. Log rolling will not start actively until the end of next month when the advance guard of the delegates will show up at Detroit. DISCIPLINE TEST OF THE GAME Ability to Accept Things as They Are Easential in Ball Player. Base ball attracts mapy a youth by its glare and glamor of fame and publicity. It's a grand thing to be a successful player, to stand in the spotlight of public favor and hear the plaudits of admiring thousand sweep over your head. But there's another side to the business that must be considered by the man who hopes to win in this marathon of hyman effort. That is the impersonal side. Ball players, you know, when considered from a business standpoint, are merely chattels. Down in a remote Arkansas town the other . day, Charley Schwitt, the Detroit ecatcher, asked a friend who had come from the north, “Has Detroit traded me yet? Down here I never hear what's going on in the winter.” There's the test that base ball applles to those who would espouse it thelr calling—"Has Detroit traded me yet?" And what If Detroit had traded him? Schmidt, as & good soldier, would have accepted the conditions and sald nothing, though he might not have liked them. It is not always the man who can come up to the bat in the last of the ninth with two out, the bases full and the score egainst his side, and knoek & home runm, who gives to base bali its fundamental strength and stability; he's essential to the game, but the final test comes in the diseipline. The man who keeps himself In good physical cindition, plays his best sach day, accepts Lhings ak they are-he is the one who stands under the wnstitation of base ball as an enduring foundation. and the tournament will begin to assume HASTINGS (NEB.) HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL TEAM FOR 1909, Some Clean Young Athletes Who Made Good Record WICHITA FANS MADE HAPPY Isbell’s Release by Comiskey Makes Hit with Kansans, ‘WELL KNOWN PLAYERS SECURED “Iasy” Wil Have Shaner, Belden, Altchison, Shackleford and Bo- hannon Among Others on Hin List, WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 2.—(Special)— Wichita fans are more than pleased that Frank Isbell has secured his 1eiease from the White Sox and will be at the helm this summer to guide th> .obbers through the Western league season. It took no less a personage than Isbell ‘0 make up for the loss of-Holland, who goes to St. Joseph. Among the well known players who will be with Izzy this yeaPare Shaner, who was on the tossing staff last yegr, and Ira Belden, whom Holland got in a trade for Pennell. Middleton and Pettigrew cf last year's outer garden are expected to return. Altchison, 'Shackleford and Fat Bohannon are scheduled as members of the flinging corps. Jarnigan is & new southpaw from Iowa college clrcles and Locke 18 @& new find on whom Izzy s banking. Hassler and Hunt were taken on at the close of last season and will be glven a tryout. Shaw, who was acquired from the Bos- ton Natlonals, 1s counted upon as the catching mainstay, and with him will be Jockerst, who grew up In the back woods and was developed in a way in the Kan- sas State league last year, Isbe 15 reiying on his old friend Comis- key to help him fill out his infield posi® tlons, and especially for a good shortstop. He has the hearty support of the fans of Wichita, who are eager for. the season to start. He has arranged exhibition games with Oklahoma City, Bartlesville, Musco- gee and Enld, and should have his team in better condition for the opening than the teams of the more northern cities. SKI TOURNEY. NEXT MONTH National Competition at Cole Draws Large Numbers. ST. PAUL, Minn,, Jan 2.—Arrangements are nearing completion for the national ski tournament which will be held at Coler- aine, Minn,, February 19 to 20. Men are working on. the hill course, which should be in excellent condition for the jumpers during the meet. Entries have been ye- celved from some of the best clubs in fhe north and the cracks of the northwest are expected to compete. The Norge Ski club of Chicago will'send four jumpers, Andrew Schanke, Ed Anderson, Adolph Swenson and Harold Smedirk. The Chicago organ- tzation has plans for securing the 1911 tour- nament and it will make a bld for staging the contests near Chicago when the na- tional convention meets, February 20 and 21 The approaching event Is arousing ne numbers of transplanted Swedes and Nor- weglans in Minnesota. Many families will attend the ‘tournament, coming miles to see the national sport of the countries of the midnight sun. Bince the great numbers of Norwegians have setfled in the northwest the sport has spread to others than the immigrants and is becoming very popular in the ter- ritory where the snow falls deep and stays. It is understood than an Indian ski runner, who has cast away the snowshoes of his fathers, will compete in the races. Good Prospects at Grinuell, GRINNELL, 1la., Jan. 2.—(Special.)— Coach Dougherty, the first pald coach Towa college has ever had, has issued a call for the base ball candidate and beginning next week the ball tossers will work out regu- larly in the gymnasium. The prospects are the best this year that Grinnell has had in the last five years. Irstead of fll%ndll\l altogether on the itehing staff. Dougherty will have a well Janced infield und outfield. Jarnagin, the star twirler, s .n’lblo under the lowa assoclation rules and It is probable he will pitch most of the state games. considerable enthusiasm among the great | Wesleyan Team Takes Measure of York College After Slow"But Rough Game Min- isters Win by Score of 81 to 28. UNIVERSITY PLACE, Neb, Jan, 29.— (Special.)—Nebraska Wesleyan univereity ‘Friday night in a very rough' gamme, by the score of 31 to 22. Wesleyan sufferea fromi over con- fidence, counting too much on last year's score of 91 to 12, on the York floor. the large number of fouls called, thirtys four on York, to twenty-four on the | Wesleyan boys. The outcome of the game | was never in doubt, the low score being accounted for by the fact that the visitors played a guarding game through- out. % Meyer, Simonds and Swan played a good game for Wesleyan, though far below their_usual standard. Bowers and Down- ing did the best work for York, the latter doing well on the foul throws. ton, umpire; timekeeper, Keester; scorer, Lemfest. accepts the proposition made to him re- cently by Denver backers of Fred Eames, the new three-cushion billlard champion, vidual billiard match. this that plon 100k proposition seriously. money, De Oro expects to be in has a challenge In to meet the winner. LOSES Feature Match of Day. HOUSTON, Tex., Jan, 20.—The of the fifth day of the was won by Ben shooting at’ sixteen with Fred Gilbert Barstow of St. Louls, yards, in a shool of Spirit Lake, la., Wahoo, Neb., sixteen yards, | the 100-target race on S, In the shoot-off at 25, Barstow Gllbert and Walters, 2. Captain Marshall presented Mr, trophy, a dlamond wateh fob. In the professional class Gilbert who tied in broke 24, Tom Haney Murrell of Houston third with 188 Dénver was second with ham of Ingleside, Il ard of Nacogdoches, Tex., third with 184 186, J. Beatrice for State Leag BEATRICE, Neb., J 29 Local base ball men so far have taken I\ tle intérest In the movement started at state base ball league. Some have ex- ressed a desire to see such an organiza- lon perfected, and Beatrice undoubtedly would Join such an organization if the mat- ter is properly brought before the proper parties. As yet no move has been made to send dels ary to attend the meeting to be held for the purpose of organizing a state league defeated York college at basket ball here The game was exceedingly slow on account of Lineup: n gton entered a joint application for N A e S on. YORK. |College Park, Md. Carl G. Fisher of In- Bwan <uoies Bowsrs | dlanapolis was appointed chalrman of a Meyer (Capt. - Downing | committee which will receive applicatfons e L. |l A0k} Trowt | r. aliot ' dates ‘Tor\mviatich aad balleon Field goals: Simonds, 1; Swan, Me{el". flights. The applications ust be- filed by 2; Beck, 1; Ware, 2; Bowers, 2; Downing, 2; Trout, 1. Foul goals: Meyers, 19 out of 34; Bowers, 1 out of 6; Downing, 7 out of 13. Officlals: Clark, referee; Ather- DENVER AFTER BILLIARD MATCH | — Offers Big Prize for De Oro and Fred | NEW YORK, Jan. %.—If Alfred De Oro | the Colorado metropolis will be the scene next spring of an angle game for the big- | gest stake ever contested for in an indi- The westerners say they will put up $2,00 on Bames If De Oro | will wager as much on himself in-a special mateh of 150 points, to be played in Denver. After De Oro finishes his engagements on the Pacifie coast he probably will drop off at Denver on his way east and consider He feels sure :: ":;’:;x’""";;'r:: :'“;"“"! "'::“::‘d“’:’“ South Omaha sympathigers, for the visitors upon the Denver proposition as easy Denver when Hueston plays Bames next March, as he GILBERT SHOO'T-OFF | Ili8, the ledd of Genoa was graduably n\‘\rc()lllli and 'Ué ten minutes or more both -— teams alternated. Colling twice tled th Ben Barstow of St. Louls Wins he feature Sunny South shoot -off | twenty-three yards, and Finley Walters of Barstow with the was high with 184, Barstow second with 189 and In the amateur class Captaln Jack Wolf of Milwaukee was high with 1%, Smith of R. Gra- | and Herman How- (Special.)— | Grand Island the other day to organize a Thirteen Aero Clubs Delegates in St. Louis Congress Will Be Asked to Determine Value of Air Craft in War. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2.—Congress is to be petitioned, according to a resolution adopted by Aero clubs here today, to de- termine the value of air craft in war. A committee from the Aero clubs is to call on President Taft and ask him to undergo steps to insure the development of aerial craft. The conference, which was presided over by Cortland F. Bishop, presi- dent of the Aero Club of America, repre- sented aero clubs from thirteen cities and | states. | Mr. Bishop represented by proxy the aero clubs of New England and California. payton, O.; Kansas City, Peorla, IIl; Rochester, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Bal- timore and Washington had representatives here, . Applications for the international avia- tion and balloon races were announced from Kansas City, Peorla, Ipdianapolis and Philadelphia™~ Baltimore and Wash- March 1, and the dates allotted by March 15. The place for holding the international aviation and balloon contests will be de- |elded on by the Aero Club of America within thirty days, If the international aviation contest is not given to St. Louls it is plannéd to hold flights here in May or June, with Paulhan | s one of the contestants. ) GENOA AGAIN IS DEFEATED South Omaha Basket Ball Team Wins 20 to 16. The South Omaha High school basket ball team defeated the excellent team from G noa, Neb., Friday at the Young Men's Christian assoclation gymnasium at South Omaha, by a score of 20 to 16. The game whs played before the largest crowd which has ever witnessed a like ormance in South Omaha. This crowd repald for the interest taken by one of the most excit- ing game ever seen. By a whirlwind fin- ish the South Omaha boys won in the last four minutes of play in & game which up to that point was even and equally con- tested. The first half ended In gloom- for the had piled up a score of 11 to 6. They also excelled in teamwork, and in clever pass- | ing. They won the fouls also with greater regularity. Things changed in the second half, when the South Omaha boys struck their gait andiplayed around and around the visi- tors, especially toward the close. By some lucky goals by Stryker, Dickman and Cal- score by goals from fouls, and as often the Genoa boys would take one. With ten minutes to play, Stryker got his machine to work and one of the finest rallies pos- sible began to swing vietory to the local side. Back passes were a tning which pus- zled the visitors and tnrew them off guard. Collins started the onslaught by & good goal. Shields slipped up from his pe sitlon as guard and put oné througn. Dick- man found the basket and Stryker made | two. The rally would have probably been earlier if the referee, Mr. Lamb of Genoa, had not tossed the ball poorly at the center each time. Stryker's reach had always made it possible for him to start the play as he desired, but the bad throwing of the/ referee made it impossible. With victory in sight the large crowd rose to & frenzy of excitement and shouted it- self out of breath, and when time was alled could hardly be made to believe the game was over. Lineup: / | SOUTH OMAH. | collina Dickman Stryker (C), Bhisids pire: Bar- 2 to 16 In fa- Defeats Wisconsin, CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—In an overtime game the University of Chicago basket ball team t No delegates were defeated University of Wiscousin here tonight, 16 to 14 STATE BALL LEAGUE LIRELY Hastings Takes Immediate Action on * Proposition, PLANS TO FORM CORPORATION Assurances South Omaha is Willin to Join and Fremont, Grand Island and Nebraska City Are Ready. HASTINGS, Neb, Jan. 29.—(Special)— The movement for the organization of a state base ball league was given additional impetus at a largely attended meeting of Hastings fans in the city hall last night, Preliminary steps were taken for the form- ation of a local corporation to control the Hastings team and a committée was namad to begin at once a canvass for the sale of shares. The most notable feature of the meeting was the unanimity of the demadn for orgenized base hall. Tt was the sentiment of all present that Hastings and several other- citles over the state have outgrown independent base ball and that if a league canrot: be maintained the game must be abandoned. Recent assurances that Fre. mont is ready to take a place in a state circult has made it practically certain that a league can be satisfactorily formed, as Haetings, Kearney and Grand Island have been ‘in this mood for a long time. With these “four towns as a starter it Is belleved here there will be no difficulty in muster- Ing two other towns to make up a six-club the two remaining places - are South Omaha, Councll Blutfs, ~ Columbus, Ne- braska City, Beatrice,” Norfolk' and Fair- bury, Ld 1t is understood here that Nebraska City already has a ‘fund of $2,500 available for base ball this year. The manager of the South Omaha stock yards team has been in correspondence wtih tho promoters of the league and has given encouragement that a league team would ba well supported there. ‘The mention of Council Bluffs as a prospective member aroused, considerable enthustasm ‘last night, a nuhber of the fins belleving that place more desirable even than South Omaha. Rising Tide of Interest, The meeeting disclosed’ a rising tide of tase ball Interest. and It was apparent at the outset that the funds necessary to put over the local end of the enterprise will be easily forthcoming. The association of last year has a balance of $08.65, which is avaliable, I8 & nucleus to the league fund, This money was held by Treasurer J. C. Willams, who recently died, but last night it was turned over to William Nel- meyer, who was elected as his successor. At the suggestion of Herman Stein it was decided to tdrm a eorporation following the enlistment of the necessary capital to ex- ploit the Hastings team. Shares will be made In the sum of % and the financlal committes, composed of Messrs Charles Vastine, Philllp Yager and Willlam Nel- meyer, will glve certificates to the: gub- scribers, these to be taken later In ex- change for shares of stock. Although no effort was made to raise funds last night & number of persons present announced subscriptions for a total of more than 100 shares and others sald they would give Mbepnl aid. . THe, committee expects to bring the stock sale up to $2,000 by Mon- day afternoon, which, with the amount already in the treasury, will give a fund of $2,50. The financial committee will also corres- pond with other towns where league base ball ‘has been agitated and suggest that similar steps for organization be taken at once. They will advise local endorsement of the league proposition in the various towns, immediate solicitatlon of funds and action toward local incorporation, chosen ‘to attend the meeting In Grand Island on February 9 for the reason that it s believed here It would be wiser to hold the meeting in one of the eastern towns, preferably Fremont. The western towns need no urging, but (Continued on Page Two.) WANTED, COACH FORCINDER PATH Cornhusker Track Athletes Left With- out Leader at Beginning of Training Season. CLAPP WILL NOT HANDLE SQUAD Decision Makes it Necessary for Ne- braska to Secure New Man, STEFFEN MENTIONED FOR PLACE Chicago Star and Yale Man Are Pros- pective Candidates. ONE TRIP FOR BASE BALL MEN Early Date of Easter Vaecation On mes Board to Abandon th Southern Long Journey LINCOLN, Jan. 20.—(Special)—Another coach problem confronts the Nebfaska athletic mentors. Dr. Clapp, for several years Instructor of cinder path tactics, has resigned his position as coach, though not as physical Instructor, and the Cornhus- kers are looking for his successor in the track work. So great a task Is the picking of a cinder path coach—as it'presents many of the features which marked the job of deciding on a foot ball teacher—that just now the brows of the Nebraska authorities are deeply furrowed. Several former Nebraska. track athletes have applied for the position which, Dr. Clapp formerly held, but their requests have not been recelved with much. favor by the local board. The Cornhuskers wish— more this year than usually—to have a winning bunch of representatives on the track and they are Inclined to the idea of getting an ‘“outsider” to handle their candidates for the spring running and fleld events. An eastern man or a midde west- erner Is the coach they would like to get. A Yale graduate would sult them perfectly, although a Chicago or Michigan man would be satisfactory. Because the University of Towa has Coach Delany, an easterner, who is bright- ening up the Hawkeye prospects for the Missourl valley meet in June, Nebraska's Board of Control desires to get just as g0od a coach so the local cinder path artists will not be under a great hendicap when that important gathering is held in Des Moines. The Cornhuskers have their hopes. set on winning the conference games and they want to get the best results possible out of thelr athletes. Only & single event defeated them last year In the games, when Grinnell, coming up from - behind, nosed out a victory. Students Want Tried Coach. The students at Nebraska feel that their athletes should have won last spring, ,and, now that Towa has come up with a winter coach, they want their athletic board to get a proficlent teacher who can put the Cornhuskers ‘Into just as good shape as Delaney does the Hawkeyos, Director Stagg of the University of Chi- cago has recommended Walter Steffen, the former star of Marcon athletics, to the Ne- braska board, and the election of that young man is now belng considered at the local school. A Yale man, who recently coaches at acuse university, Is also under consideration by the Cornhuskers. If the eastern coach can be secured at a reasonable salary he will _be given preferénce over Steffen, because the Cornhuskers believe in the . coaching methods employed at Yale. 'Prof. Clapp, secretary of the local board, is himself @ Yale graduate, and he held the world’s pole vaulting record in 1898-99. He is & pleader for a man from his alma mater. In-lieu of the eastern man, should the salary proposition stand in the way of hix selection, the Cornhuskers will prob- ably turn to Stefffen and ask him to take the place. The Maroon has not filed an application for the position, but it i known that he would acept an offer of the position at a fair salary. Steffen has had no experlence as & coach except In helping Director Stags handle the Midway track men. In that work, though, he is said to have shown a keen knowledge of the fine points of coaching. Stagg says the young man hes done exceptional ‘work. While a student at Chicago Steffen w captain of the track, foot ball and basket ball teams. On the track aggregation he was a fleet runner and made a few -excellent records. Dearth of Track Material, No matter whom the Nebraska board elects as toach, though, he must needs be a man who can develop material rap- idly, for the state school is this year shy of veterans for the track team. Gradua~ tion last spring, fallure to return to the university and conditions in stulies all served to cut down the visible supply of tried men for this spring. Most of the veterans on the squad, however, have thelr “future before them,” and they ought to come out In strong form during the training season. The ghort distance running events exhibit the real glaring holes. Wildman, the fast Century sprinter, I8 no longer among the midst of his former students and is now | flirting with the fatal step that leads te the wedded life. Of last year's sprinters Campbell and Reed are still in service. They were both fast and gave promise of acquiring * exceptional speed by another season. During the present week Harry Minor, & foot ball and track veteran, came back to school, and his appearance will give the short distance group another recruit. His best event when he was on the team in 1908 wab the 220-yard dash. When school closed last year It was expected that Swanson, & treshman from Aurora, would come baclk this winter, but he did not. He was con- sidered the speediest 100-yard runner in school last year, and won the short dash in the Charter day meet. His presence this spring would have added great strength to the short runs. Captaln Burke and Reed probably will be the stars in the 40 event. The former ran this event in record time & year ago and' hopes to lower his mark next season. Reed probably will run second to him. Just now these four men—Burke, Campbell, Reed and Minor—appear to be the only tested runners that.the Cornhuskers have in sight for the dashes and longer stretches, The runs are no shorter of men than the other departments, though,. snd will aot