New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-13
VICTORY FOR THE Blue.
YALE WINS At THE TRACK ATHLETIC
MEETING WITH HARVARD.
THE Nrw-HAvEN MEN SCORE 80 POINTS TO
THEIR ADvERsARIEs' 5S-TWo WORLDS
RECORDS BROKEN.
by rEIroRApn TO THE TRIBcxE.i


New-Haven Nav I2-YaIe won at the annual
dual track athletic meeting with Harvard this
afternoon before wildly enthusiastic crowd OF
over 900 spectators by fhe score OF - - 81 II
was a stubborn contest. Harvard took the lcai al
the start held it til haIf the games were finished.
and then Yale stock took sudden boom. Inc
Blue forged ahead. ana after four contests
the score stood: Yale " points. Harvard g. AZ
there are fourteen contests each counting eight
points. only nfiy-seven are needed for majority
Of the total-ll2. Yale realized that he hrs, time
in the five years history OF the dual association
the coveted supremacy was within grasp. ana
strained every nerve to secure the lacking five
points. But victory after victory fell TO the Grim
son athletes and at last only the broad and high
jumps remained With champions Bloss and Put-
nam Harvard counted on two PLACES. AZ Yale was
weak In the jumps. But the unexpected happened
when Lewis T. sheldon. whose lame ankle has kept
him Hmpng for a month. tore down the clnder path
md outdistanced Bloss. This elevated the Yale
score to nfty-seven ami assured victory. Sheldon
was almost smothcred by the Wild embraces 81 his
feilov-students and tonight he is the hero u Yale
lie won the championship for his college on pure
sand" hts sprained ankle paining him keenly at
every step
II was a recorI-breaking day and meet OF sen
cral surprises Two worlds records were broken.
three intercollegiate records went down and six OF
the records Of the Yale-Iarvari dual were broken.
W f. Garcel0n. Harvlrds veteran hurilcr. IN his
trial low hurdle race equalled the worlds record
made by ! r. Lee II Harvard. In the final heat
j. J.. Bremen OF Harvard. went hfth Of a second
better. finishing In a 3-5 seconds Garcclon was a
foot behind.
IIickok the Yale football giant. hurled the ham
ner il3 feet II inches breaking the record " III
feet inches which he made at Manhattan Field
last May Hithok also broke the intercollegiate
record FOR putting the shot but lost the contest.
his record breaking throw being an exhibition after
II had been finished.
Herman Thomas Of Yale broke the Yaie-Harvard
Association record IN the pole vault Joseph T. Nor
gan OF Yale clipped the Association record couple
OF seconds in the mile run. and ;. NJ Neville. OF
Harvard lowered the quarter mile Assoclation
record a second
Among the surprises were the inability OF Rich
ards Cady and Lyman. OF Yale t. win prizes In the
spirits and hurdles and The great spurts u Wood
hull OF Yale In the halfmle run ana - Bunne!
in the mile walk. Haryari's chief disappointment
was the failure ~ Eliot, her rccorl-brcakng cyc.st
t. defeat Gienny the Yale crack The Yale man
agemcnt found much fault with the decision Of J.
p NlcEwcn. Of Ncw-York judge OF walking. who
disqualified Allison and Thrali two Yale men who
seemed sure Of places IN the mile walk and allowed
Phillips OF Harvard 10 continue uncha'lenged a
suspicious gait until the end OF the contest. abe
took eight FIRST. seven seconds and five third places.
leaving Harvard six nrsts. seven aeconds and nine
thirds. Nale'H strength lay In her star athletes
HarVard's IN her abundance OF mediocre material
4 summary ana score ~ detail Is as follows