The Portland daily press., 1898-02-07
BoWDoIN IN 1T.
Her Men Competed With One o
Harvard's Teams.

| Boston, February 5.-The ninth annua
| indoor games of the Boston Athletic asso
citation were held in Mechanics hall this
evening. One of the most interestina
athletic programmes ever presented il
this city drew 5000 spectators to the hall
which was completely filed land the meet
| ing was a complete success. Almost
every event was well contested and the
world's record of minutes and 10 sec
onds hello. by Harvard in the mile team
race was lowered in the Harvard. Yale
| contest, which was won by Harvard in
| the splendid time of 3. II 2-5. The worlds
record of 4 3-5 seconds in the forty yards
dash was equalled by L. W. Redpath,
'98 of Harvard. The interest of the even
ing conferred in the team races of which
there were eleven on the programme.
The closest of these were the Harvard.
Yale; Boston lege-Massachusetts Insti.
tute of Technology and Brown Dartmouth
races which were won by the first named
in each instance. In spite of the large
number of entries and the length of the
programme the events were admirably
run off.
The forty yards handicap brought out
106 starters and 81 heats were required to
bring the number down to the finals The
mile invitation was a disappointment.
Grant of Harvard did not enter and J.
Bray Of Williams won easily.
In the high jump, j. ID. Winsor: Jr.
Pennsylvania, scratch, cleared 6 feet z
inches and won the event. i
The Harvard team race was won by the
sophoInores, the freshmen, juniors and
seniors finishing in the order named. The
Boston College Technology race was the
prettiest of the evening Boston College
was left far behind in the second quarter,
but gradually regained the lead and won
in the closesu sort Of race. Columbia
had an easy thing of it with Cornell and
won by good margin. The University
Of Pennsylvapia-Holy Cross race beat the
best previous competition record, but help
it's place for only few minutes.
In the Harvard Yale race, Bigelow OF
Harvard got the lead at once and it was
retained during the entire race though
the Yale runners kept it nip and tuck
contest for thirty laps. In the last lap
Fish of Harvard drew ahead and won
by fifteen yards.
The second Harvard team competed
with the Bowdoin team, winning in 8. 20
1-5. The Harvard team was composed Of
e. J. Green, A. W. Blakemore, e. ID.
Fullerton, 5. p. Goddard. ~
The Bowdoin men were Captain Clar-
ence f. Kendall, '9e, of Biddeford, who
won the largest number of points at the
Maine Intercollegiate Track and Field
meet last spring, and9won two goid4nleds
ais at the New England intercollegiate
Athletic association games at Worcester;
Mr. Edward Stanwood, Jr. '0S, of Bos!
ton, who was very prominent IN track
athletics in the Brookline High school,
and has been prominent since his entrance
at Rowdoin; Mr.. Donald F. Snow, 1901,
OF Bangor, who has won the quarter
mile several times in the Maine Inter-
scholastic meets, and Mr.. John Gregson,
1900, of Worcester, Mass, who has run the
quarter On the Mechanics hall track in
90 seconds. AL of these men can do the
quarter in SO seconds, or better on
familiar tracks.
The selection Of the team from Bow
doin, one of the smaller colleges to COM
peet with Harvard was recognition of
Bowdoin's high standing in college
athletics. The team did not expect to win
but made oreditable showing.