The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-06-11
VICTORIOUS FARMERS.
Oregon Agricultural College
Wins the Athletic Cham
pionship.

The o. A. c. boys, straight. hearty and
manly, defeated the State University
handily in the field and track events at
Salem last Saturday afternoon. Three
otAer colleges contested, but they had no
hopes of winning.
Out of III points o. A. c. made 55Hs
Eugene IS, Newberg I5H, Monmouth 7,
and Salem I. Corvallis won seven first
places IN IA events, seven seconds and
six thirds. Sites, O. A. c., reduced the
Northwest record on the 44o-yard run.
Bruce Burnett smashed the Oregon col
lege record in the halfmlle, Will johnson
in the mile walk, Art Simpson in the
mile run, and Frank Crawford equaled
the Northwest record in the 22o. Hlg-
/ gins and Kykendall, of the U. Of O., and
Hester, of Pacific college, broke college
records i'll the Ioo-yard dash, I2o-hurdle
and pole vault respectively. The score by
events was;
Half-mile run-Won by Bruce Burnett,
o. A. c.; Osborne, o. A. c. second
Bishop, u of O., third; time, 2:o6 S.
1oo-yard dash-Won by ]. L. Higgins
U. of O.; Kelly, o. A. c., second; Craw'
ford, O. A. c., third; time, o.Io is.
Mile run-Won by A. J. Simpson, o
A. c.; Reed, U. of O., second; Stanley
P. c., third; time, 4:5o.
22o-yard hurdle-Won by D. V. Kuy
kendall, U. of o; Nelson, P. c., second
White, u of O., third; time, o:27 As.
44o-yard run-Won by E. P. Sites, 0
A. c.; Redmond, P. c., second; Livesey
w. u, third; time, o:53 Is.
21o-yard dash-Won by Frank Craw
ford, o. A. c.; Colvig, o. A, c., second
Higgins, U. of O.. third; time, o:23 Is.
l Mile-walk-Won by William J Johnson
O. A. c.; Huffman, o. A. c., second; De
Lashmutt, U. of O., third; time, 7;43.
Two-mile bicycle race-Won by |
Scott, U. of O.; Riddle, o. S. N. Sc; SCI
: ond; Metcalfe, P. c., third; time, sac q
12o- yard hurdle-Won by D. v. Ku,
Y kendall, U. of O.; Nelson, P. c.. second
S Kelly, O. A. c., third; time, o:I7 as.
t Broad jump-Won by D. " Kuykei
; dali, U. Of O.; Osborne, o. A. c., secont
Williams, o. A. c., third; 1e feet q
@ inches.
Shot put-Won by Gallagher, o. A. c
Smith. U. of O., second; Walters, o.
: c., third; distance, "a feet 81 inches.
Pole vault-Won by Hester, P: G
=. Simpson, o. A. c., second; William
10. A.<C., third; height, 9 feet inches.
= High jump-Won BY D. c. Allard,
i S. N. S.; White, U. of o.; second; Pric
l. p. c., third; height S feet inches
= Hammer throw-Won by A. ]. Thar
,. o. A. c.; Bodine, o. A. G; secon
r, Elden. o. A. c., third; distance, Io2 fe
5 inches.
ID H. E. Judge, of Portland, acted
, referee. and gave general satisfaction
4 his manifest fairness.
About $50 people went by boat to
ness the games. They had long t
ed for the returning boat w:s IIH hours
Nv tue route, getting into Corvallis at
,o nj. Sunday morniag. However
seemed happy as they came ashore.
= was a very orderly crowd, excepting
- the occasional cheers for the victory
-, MULrNoNiAH'S INTEREST.
A. The Multnomah Athletic club ha
-, meet arranged with Eugene to take pi
~ after the Salem field day. Owing to
Dudes defeat the contest was decla
nc off and Multnomah proposed meet "
rt- the q. A. c. The Farmers energetica
er- declined. They have no use Tor
PortIanders. The boys have had SC
experience with them and are not 10
ing for any more. The Multnomah
members who were at the games Sa
= = day felt so badly over Eugene's de
~. that the Corvallis lads would suffer