The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-17

Fry then rushed at it and slipped but
Sheldon sent Yale's spirits up with a
jump of 2 feet IA inches- Then Oakley
and Hatch followed, but the latter balkS,
half returns, goes again and makes an
unrecorded jump. But poor Fry comes
up smiling and makes mighty efIort
and the crowd roars and ne lands. Inc
"Ohs'' are repeated with cheers, as the
marker gives him p feet q inch. Smell
don follows and scores p feet IA inehes.
All looks dark blue for Oxford. Hatch
goes on again. makes a half start, re
| turns, runs and jumps, but falls behind;
Fry follows with a jump of q feet
inches and Sheldon finishes again, jumps
where his heels touched, while the crowd
laughs. Finally Sheldon cleared Y feet
II inches and won, Fry second, Y feed
q inch, and Oakley, Oxford, third, q
feet Y inch.
Hard Row to Hoe.
The half-ruile was called at 6:1s p. M
Americans in good spirits, although
I'VE have a hard row TO hoe, now; Los 4
| ing the hurdle race hurt cur chances;
OFF they go, oxford leading at the starI,
Then Sanford, Yale, works to the ITont
amid the greatest excitement oil the Gay
| The last fifty yards were run at q yer t1e
rife pace, and Jordan was getting 70 Tue
trent, although Sanford spurts ana stIog
giles CALAMITY. Jordan finany neauS ,; ;2"aI
falling in the arms of spectators, with
Sanford second aTuid hurricanes of ap-
oxford then had won four events to
Brown Yale. led off with 80 feet in the
shot-put, and OAfoTo repileQ VIII IN o. ;ro re-
oxford could not manage TO do better,
and put the shot with an evident feeiing
| TO convection when EIickok again com
| passed Il feet 2 inches. Against this OK
| ford struggled vainly, though gamely,
until t5ickok gave the coup de grace with
! a put of Il feet ~ inches, and the
event was Yale's.
The high jump proceeded quietly; the
enthusiasm was WIG, but il became uni
versal as Sheldon lightly comprised fine
! jump. Other efforts followed, some sue
cessful and others ending fiat on the
grass. Ali knocked the bar down at 8
! feet inches. The jumpers then tried 1t
again, when upon Sheldon clearing It,
Wild uproar broke out from Yale. and
| from the partisans of the American team
oxford followed and knocked the bar
down. Cady placed handkerchief in
front for his feet and cleared it again for
! Yale. SWanwick, Oxford, also cleared it,
a feat which was received with much tu-
mutt by the Oxfords. Sheldon jumped and
failed, and Captain Hickok was seen to
| be rubbing the Yale mans ankle. Gard
ner, oxford, then made a failure, and he
was followed in this by Cady of Yale.
| Then Sheldon cleared feet S2s inches
amid the din of rival college cries. Then
which brought forth renewed roaring ap-
plause from oxford.
In the meanwhile, Sheldon was rubbing
his knee and soon afterwards tried again
and failed. The crowd at this point took
up what they, supposed to be Yale cry
S nfgan te MED aip ag 99a 81 a a and
so did Cady. Finally, Swanwick jumped
orce more and failed, and the event was
suit was hardly doubtful unless Yale
could win the half-nile run, in which
event the whole contest would have been
a tie. At 7:3O, the pilot started the men
on the half-mile run. the report echoing
over the grounds and losing itself in
roars of encourag cement from Yale as her
colors, were carried to the front in the
first lap. Greenhowe Oxford, however,
was running evidently with much reserved
strength, and he pushed to the front,
causing the Oxfords to yell like mad men.
Pond could not down him, though Yale
yelled never SO hard in her efforts to en-
courage the New England runners, and
Greenhowe came in ahead of Pond by six
riches in a terrific only to be seized by
the arms of the yelling Oxfords, raised
a!oft and carried along the track. After
the finish poor Pond was completely ex-
htusted and fell into the arms of two
friends. who fairly carried him from the
field, while a few feet distant the VIC
torious Greenhowe was being borne along,
hoisted upon the shoulders of the bowling
crowd.
A Summary.
The following is a summary of the in
ternationaI athletic contest which OK
ford won by 515 events not four points,
to Yales 31a events
100 yard dash-Charles B. Fry (Wadham
coIIege,) first; Gilbert Jordan. University
college), second; Ashley Pond, gale '94),
! third. Time-1 :0215.
12O yard hurdle-William L. Oakley,
Christ Church). first; G. D. Hatch, gale
'96), second; Thomas G. Scott, (Hart-
ford college,, third. Time-:l6 Is.
440 yard run-Gilbert Jordan, Univer-
sity), first; G. Sanford, gale L. s., sec
ond; Ashley Pond, CYaIe), third. Time
81.
Half mile run-wilfred Greenhowe,
(EXeter), first; Francis Rathbone, (New
college). second; W. S. Woodruff, Yale
, '96), third. Time-2:0O As.
; One mile run-Wilfred H. Greenhowe,
(EXeter), first; J. e. Morgan, gale '96),
/ second Time-4:24 2-5
: Running broad jump. P. Sheldon,
yale '96), p feet II inches; c. P. Fry,
(Wadham), p feet q inches; W. ]. Oak
: ley. Christ Church,, q feet 4 inch.
5 Running high jump. P. Sheldon
(Yale '96), and Eric D. Swanwick, CUni-
: versity college), tied for first place at {
feet So inches. The event was divided.
Putting shot-W. o. Hickok, gale '96)
. 4 feet II inches; Alexander Brown
; yale '96), 40 feet; Arthur F. Mailing
: GXeterl, 80 feet 31A inches.
, Brown. yale '96), 1o4 feet; George S
Robinson, (New college,, 1O1 feet II
4 inches.
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