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Kansas University Weekly.
ATHLETICS.
ANNUAL FIELD DAY.
A Good Program of Events and a Big Entry List.
A good program of events, and a big list of entries insures a successful day for the Annual Meet of field and track sports.
The meet will be held at the Driving Park, Tuesday, May 19, and operations will begin at 2:30 o'clock.
Twenty-eight handsome prizes have been kindly donated by the Lawrence merchants, which will give one each to winners of first and second places in each of the fourteen events.
From the records made in the various events will be chosen a team of twelve men, who will go to Kansas City, May 23, to compete with the Y. M. C. A. track team there.
Two items of much interest are the Cowan medal award and the class relay race. The medal offered by Coach Cowan is to go to the man scoring the greatest number of points in the Indoor and Field Meets, the winner to be termed the all-round athlete of the University. As a result of the Indoor Meet, Sanderson, Sherman and Foster lead for the medal. Each of them is entered in several of the field events and will make a close contest. Besides these men, who now have a big advantage, are seval others who are by no means out of this race.
quarter, twenty-four men in all taking part. This race is under the direction of the class captains and a cup will be given to the winning class.
The events and entries at Wednesday noon are:
The relay race will be the first one run in the West, and will no doubt prove an interesting feature to the day's sport. The race will be for a mile and will be strictly a class event. The four classes of the art school, the laws, and medics and pharmacies will enter. This will make six men on the start, with a relay at every
100 yd. dash—Hill, McMurray, Sherman, Voigts, Beeler.
220 yd. dash—Sherman, Hill, Ransom, Squires.
440 yd. dash—Davis, Hamill, Rench, Baldridge.
Mile run—Clark, Holliday, Henderson, Alexander, Hamaker.
Pole vault—Sanderson, Clark, Davis.
Shot Put—Foster, Outland.
120 yd. hurdle—Rench, Sherman, McMurry.
220 yd. hurdle—Rench, Sherman.
Running high jump—Sherman, Sanderson, Griggs, Alexander.
Running broad jumpVoigts, Cowley, Sanderson.
Hammer throw—Foster, Outland.
Standing broad jump—Rench, Martindale Anderson, Cowley, Outland, Sherman.
$ \frac{1}{2} $ mile bicycle, (open) race--Clarke, Maxwell, Morrison.
1 mile bicycle(handicap) race—Keely, Maxwell, Morrison, Clark.
Varsity Wins a Good Game.
The visiting Hawkins base ball team from Fort Leavenworth were handily beaten last Saturday by the 'Varsity team in the prettiest game of the season. The fort boys brought their brass band and one hundred "rooters" in a special car. This caused the most spirited
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