Evening star., 1898-05-30
PENNSYLVANIA THE CHAMPION.
Twenty-Third Intercollegiate Field
and Track Sports.

Twenty-Third intercollegiate Field
and Track Sports.
The twenty-third annual meeting of tho
intercollegiate association was brought to a
most successful co1clusfon late Saturday
evening at Berkeley Oval and the athletes
from the University of Pennsylvania dupli-
Gated their success OF hast year by carrying
off the championship honors with score
of 5O& points out Of a possible 154
The Princeton Tigers were second, with
% points; Harvard's athletes third. with
25 5-6. and the sons Of Ell fourth. with q
score Of % %. and Syracuse led the re-
mainder with nine points.
Eight intercollegiate records and one
worlds record were excelled. To the cred
1t Of Pennsylvania five of the new records
must be placed. McCracken. the heavy
man, accomplished wonders with a sixteen
pound hammer, as well as the shot, and es-
tablished new intercollegiate records in
both events. Kraenzlein of Pennsylvania
smashed the records in the high and low
hurdle races. and in the latter event Great
ed new worlds record. winning by seven
yards from Bremen Of Harvard who three
years ago established a worlds record in
the same event Of "A 3-5 seconds. Satur-
day Bremen ran second to Kraenziein, who
clipped one second off the record
hraenzlein also made good showing in
the broad jump, being third to Prinstein
Of Syracuse and Percy Remington of
pennsylvania These three men in their
jumps surpassed all previous intercollegiate
hgures, and the winner, Prinstein, almost
equaled the worlds record established
three years ago by Rosengrave at Sydney
Australia. Prinstein was only one-eighth of
an inch behind the Australian record, and
his jump Saturday beats all American and
English records.
Fetterman Of Pennsylvania walked away
from the field of competitors in the one
mile walk, which he won by over fifty
yards, in 6:45 20, beating the intercolle-
giate record by 1925 seconds.
New ngures were made at pole vaulting
by Clapp of Yale and Hoyt of Harvard,
each of whom cleared the bar at II feet
an inch.
In the sprints another Pennsylvania,
IeWksbury. carried off all the honors by
easily winning the hundred and two hun
dred and twenty. In the running high
jump four Of the contestants tied at 5
feet IL 1-S inches. one of them being ]. D.
lnsor or Pennsylvania, who holds the
record Tor this event. having jump of 9
rect q inches to his credit.
The Columbia University wheelmen were
expected to capture the five bicycle events
on the program, but they succeeded in get
tng nrst honors only in the quarter, half
Ray Dawson finished first in all three. The
finish of the five-mile bicycle race was
grueiling one, in which Dawson. who
locked all over winner in the last fifty
yards, was passed by Ripley of Princeton
apcut twelve feet from the tape, and the
Princeton man won by a length, Dawson
nnishang second, with two other Columbia
men third and fourth.
Schade and Moran OF Georgetown Uni
Versity captured the mite tandem bicycle
race very cleverly BY .tAree-quarters of
ler 9Th from Williams aid Schwarz of CO.
lrmbia. Ripley and Miller of Princeton
were very close up third, about six inches
bia. 80
Following is the score by points: Penn
syiyania, 80 "a: Princeton. %; Harvard.
25 SO; Yale. % %; Syracuse. 8; Johns Hop
ad Rins,. 5; Columbia. g. Williams. 3; Cornell.
26A; Georgetown,
The Big New London Race.
Harvard and Yale have agreed upon June
22 as the date for the three-crew race at
New London. and although CornelPs deci-
sion has not yet bsen communicated to the
other colleges there is no doubt expressed
| but that the date VIII 'be agreeable to her.
Cornell has granted the request received
| from Yale and Harvard. asking Cornell to
row the triangular boat race June q in
stead OF q or "a. An al swer to this effect
was Immediately wired to the captains OF
the Yaie and Harvard crews, and the graft
ncation OF the Cornell navy was expressed
Tor the courtesy shown by Yale and Har-
Vsfd IN their efforts to arrange matters
satisfactorily to all parties.