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...quartet to oppose the M. I. T. Runners in the K. of C. games, Coach Martin has chosen Vinton Chapin '23, a veteran sprinter, and J. S. Murphy Jr. '25. The latter was all primed for the B. A. A. short distance relay, but was displaced at the last minute by Captain Burke. The choosing of Merrill for the Dartmouth relay precludes all possibility of the same University men facing M. I. T. in the race next Saturday as were beaten by that combination nine days...
...preliminary list of runners who are entered for the K. of C. meet in the Mechanics Building, February 17, was announced yesterday and includes 38 University and Freshman track men. Among the entries for the 40-yard dash is R. H. Howard, a sprinter who left college in his Sophomore year and has now returned as a Junior. He will be a great asset to the squad which is particularly weak in the dashes...
Interest in the future likewise was stimulated by the application of the University of Southern California to membership; for if this were accepted. Charles Paddock, noted sprinter, would be able to compete in the spring meet. Formal action on these applications will not be taken till the annual business meeting of the association on March 3. Other applications included Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Hamilton College...
...unwilling men to exercise; it has aided others who wanted to participate, but somehow or other never got around to it, until ordered. It has uncovered varsity timber in many instances; a pole-vaulter who may never before have held even a broom-stick in his hand, or a sprinter who never knew how his chasing after fire-engines in his youth had helped him for college. Compulsory Freshman athletics Las proved so beneficial that some regret that its scope is not broader; that Sophomores, as at other colleges, if not all undergraduates, are not compelled to take part...
...doubtful one of this group of last year's champions is Kirksey, of Leland Stanford, who captured the century dash. He has injured one of his legs and though he is coming East and is expected to run, it is not certain that Coach Templeton will allow his star sprinter to compete...