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...track events are scheduled for next Wednesday, November 3, while the field events will take place on the following afternoon. As there is not sufficient straightaway space under the present arrangements to hold a 220-yard dash, the sprints will be limited to 100 and 160 yards. There will be no high hurdles and for the same reason, as the elimination of the furlong, the low hurdles will be limited to 120 yards...
...hundred and sixty yard dash was substituted for the two-twenty because of lack of straightaway. This event was won by H. W. Davis of Standish, with A. S. Simmons, a Smith man, and Norrie, a Gore man, capturing second and third. Davis' time was 17 1-5 seconds. The quarter-mile gave Standish a first place when P. Gossler crossed the tape in 56 3-5 seconds. S. P. Hutchinson and Barral, both of Smith, took the other two places. D. H. Wallace, running for Gore, won the gold medal in the half-mile, when he crossed the tape...
Tomorrow's regatta events include nothing but sculling races, all of which will be rowed on the half-mile up-stream straightaway. There are a total of 19 men entered for the four different events, and some unusually good races are expected...
...over 150 candidates, including a few of last year's men, from which to build up a university team. The track men will probably have the use of the large drill hall, devoted until recent times to training aviators. This hall contains space or a big track, a straightaway, and also for a basketball court and other gymnasium equipment. The new hall, together with the out-door board track, the baseball cage and the Schoellkopf Field will give Cornell an athletic plant equal to any other in the country...
...board track which is used every winter will be laid between the Locker Building and the cinder straightaway before the end of the week, so that work can progress upon the boards in spite of snow or frozen ground. The baseball cage will be heated and lighted for the field event men, including jumpers, vaulters and weight-throwers. A large number of candidates for this department are needed, since it is usually the weakest in the University team...