Kansas University Weekly.
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ATHLETICS.
FIELD AND TRACK EVENTS.
The Annual Meet Next Week. and the Kansas City Meet May 23.
The annual field and track events of the University which will be held next week at the Driving Park, promises to be the most successful field meet the University has ever had. Aside from the usual rivalry of the individual men, there are other inducements for this year's team. The Cowan medal for the best all round athletie of the University will find its owner in the local meet, the records of the men for the Indoor and Field Day meets determining who shall wear that distinction. Then the track team of twelve men that will go to Kansas City to contest with the Y. M. C. A. team there will be selected from the winners of the local events. A fine selection of prizes has been secured, and first and second prizes will be given in each of the fourteen events.
The program for the annual meet consists of the following events:
100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, 440 yard dash, 1 mile run, 120 hurdle, 220 hurdle hammer throw, shot put, running broad jump, running high jump, standing broad jump, pole vault. One-half mile bicycle (open), 1 mile bicycle (handicap), 1 mile relay (class race).
A splendid entry list is being made, and there is going to be a general smashing of the University records, so Prof. Cowan thinks. The
race for the Cowan medal will be interesting. Sanderson, Sherman and Foster are now in the lead as a result of the Indoor events, and each of these men will go into two or three of the field events.
The relay race will be a novelty, as it is the first one to be run anywhere in the west. The relay races are all the rage in the east. The regulation race is a mile run between four men with a relay at each quarter. As it was impossible to work the relay race into the regular program, it has been decided to make this race a class one between the six schools and classes in the University, and a class prize will be given the winner. There will be four men from each class, one at each quarter mile, making twenty-four men in the race.
The Field Day with the Y. M. C. A. team at Kansas City, May 23 is arousing a good deal of enthusiasm at Kansas City. It will be the first visit of a college track team to that city. There are to be twelve events contested for, and points counting 5, 3,and 1,for first second and third places. Each team will be composed of twelve men and no more than three men will be allowed in any one event.
The events are as follows:
100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, 440 yard dash, 1 mile run, running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault, hammer throw, shot put, 120 yard hurdle, 1 mile bicycle (open), 2 mile bicycle (handicap).
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