St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-09

and fair proportion of ladies. There was
the usual display of students in athletic
costumes. and sophOmores in the glory OF
''mOrtar-boards," but the ''varsity' boys
of Minnesota are by no means dudes.
Prof. c. 0. Duplessis, who acted as
referee, was early on the ground, but owing
to some hitch in the arrangements
it was late when the sports began.
Prof. Mclean, president of the club, in
augurated the exercises with neat little
speech and exhibited the silver cup. to be
the trophy of the class whose members took
most prizes. The result showed it to belong
to the freshman class, or the 'SS boys, who
won nearly all of the matches.
THE EVENTS.
The sport opened with a 120-yard hurdle
race over eight hurdles, the match to be
against time. Freshman Willard hoped
the ropes in 81 seconds, winning over
Junior Crafts, whose time was 81 3-5.
The mile race was dry and uninteresting
until the last lap came, when the men
Spurted. Grant, freshman, won over Swan
son and Voge in 6:33 SIS.
A 1o0-yard dash was the best sport of the
day. The starters were Smith, 'SS; King,
SO; JennisOn, 'S7; Greenwood, 'S5. and
Emery, 'S7. An exciting burst ended in
dead heat between Smith and King, and in
the deciding heat Smith won in the good
time of 10 As seconds. King then raised
the point that the race was to
have been best two heats in three,
and after some vigorous kicking among
the freshmen, Smith agreed to
try another heat. The run was hard and
was won by King in II seconds, but Smith
claimed a foul, in that King had elbOwed
him, and the referee finally allowed it,
giving Smith the heat and race, to the glee
of the freshmen.
Crafts won the first event for the juniors
by beating Willard, OF IS, on a standing
high jump, covering feet. 81 inches,
against feet Z inches for Willard.
A 50-yard sack race between COe, fresh
man, and Kalambach, sub-freshman, was
very tame and was won by Coe in II is
seconds,
A second Junior victory was won by
Adams, over Crafts, also junior, in throw
ing the base ball. Adams longest throw
was 303 feet inches, while Crafts covered
just 300 feet.
McGregor, freshman. had walkaway
from Grant and Anderson in the half mile
dash, winning by half a lap IN 3:07 2-5.
The first sophomore victory was in
the standing broad jump. The entries
were Todd, Reed, Butts and Stacy. Reed,
the sophomore, covered 10 feet, IL inches,
the best jumps of the others being: Butts,
9 feet, u inches; Stacy, 9 feet, II inches;
Todd, s feet, inch.
Crafts, the juniors champion, won the
hOp-step-and-jump, getting over 35 feet,
1 Is inches of ground, while Reed, the SOph-
omore, covered but 81 feet and inches.
In the quarter-mile dash Willard scored
another freshman victory, winning over
Riblet in III Is.
The mile walk was uninteresting from
the fact that Butts, freshman, was the only
regular entry. To make race Voge agreed
to take half lap and start, but Butts won
easily in 9:39. is.
The prettiest race of the day was the
eighth-mile dash between King, junior, and
Reed, senior. The men ran like team, King
winning by neck in 81 seconds.
In the running broad jump there was an
other good-sized kick. Crafts of $50
jumped Is feet inches, and Smith of 'SS
cleared 16 feet 6. Crafts claimed an incor
rect measurement for Smith, but the referee
disallowed it.
Butts, freshman, was the only man who
came up for the standing high jump. He
skinned the pole at az elevation of feet
219 inches and was given the victory.
The sports ended with a tug-of-war be-
tween the freshmen and junior classes, four
Oh a side. The juniors weighed 6O6 pounds
and the freshmen 500, and over the differ
ence of ten pounds there was great wrangle
by the freshmen. Finally, the men took
the rope, Messrs. Jennison, Burnell, Ham
mond and Bassett pulling the junior end
and Messrs. Butts, Hobbs Twitchell and
Felt the freshmen. When the word was
given, the freshmen gave pull that at once
settled the tug. The Junior end began to
slip and in moment the freshmen had won.
This ended the sports and the victorious
''freshes'' made the welkm ring with their
hrlzZas. The cup was awarded them and
they left the ground happy.