The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-15
THE DUAL MEET.
Tom Burke Reviews the
Games for The
Spy.

ZION IN worcester, Wnlcn SeiluS 81 many
young men to Harvard and has good
ly representation at Yale. The general
feeling in the city over Harvard's vic
tory was one of exultation, the more
so because the winning team is cap
tanned by a Worcester boy, James I.
Roche, Jr., who has led high school in
terscholastic teams to victory.
Worcester is recognized at Harvard
as the home of good athletes, and It
is a noticeable fact that the winning
teams last year and this had former
high school captains as leaders. IL. II.
Fish, former track representative of
Worcester academy, ana A. Munson
Butler, captain of last years high
school teams, are members of the Har-
ward team, and their presence attract
ed attention and made supporters for
the team in the schools of the city.
The games at New Haven Saturday
were the most interesting that teams
of the two great universities have en-
gagged in, and review of the meet
from the standpoint of a contestant
will be reished. Thomas e. Burke, the
nonpareil quarter-miler of the world,
who is a member of the Harvard team,
and won the quarter mile dash, Satur-
day, from Boardman, the much-lauded
Yale man. has summed up the games
for The Spy. Boardman has been con-
sidered the greatest quarter-miler IN
the world a man who would be likely
to lead Burke to the tape and NOW
down all aspirants for championship
honors and what Burke has to say OF
him will be interesting. The king OF
Athens" in his review, writes as fol-
lows:
"The day was a poor one for the
meet on account of the shower and
heavy wind which blew down the back
stretch. But Harvard has come to look
upon a rainy day as a winner since the
foot ball game last November.
"The attendance was large, consider
ing the weather, the Yale supporters
far outnumbering the small band of
rooters from Cambridge. The Ellis, both
athletes and admirers, died hard, tight
ing it out until the last event was fin
ished.
yale showed a surprising strength
on the track, while Harvard quite out
did herself in the field events. The
wearers of the crimson were confident
of victory from the first, and could not
see where the Ellis had a possible
chance for victory Yale men, while
they hoped for a favorable result, did
not dare to back their opinions. and
there was very little betting on the re-
suit of the games. The betting that
was done was on the result of the quar-
ter mile.
1.-THE finish of the final heat of the
100-yards dash was nothing less than
grand. At rs yards it looked as if Jim
Roche, the Harvard captain, was a
sure winner, as he was leading at that
point with Blount of Yale and GUM
Ian of Harvard within foot of him.
The finish was so close that the spec
tators were unable to pick a winner,
but the judges said that Blount had
won by six inches, and Quinlan had
finished the same distance ahead of
Roche. Butler of Worcester, who has
been troubled for two weeks by bad
leg, broke down in his heat and was
not able to finish. Roche ran game
race in the 22O yards trial, but worry
as to the result of the games upset him
and he was not able to do himself JUS
tice.
"Of the other track events the quar-
ter mile is interesting, as Boardman,
the man heralded by the Ellis as the
greatest quarter-miler in the country,
met Burke of Harvard. Burke led all
the way, Boardman hanging on his
shoulder until the home stretch was
stretch, Boardman, encouraged by the
shouts of the Eli men, attempted to
pass Burke. The Harvard man res
pended with a squirt and gradually
drew away from Boardman. who strug-
gled gamely but finished four yards
worse than 40 As seconds. Fish, the
ex- Worcester Academy runner, who
won the event for Harvard last year,
was thrown all over the narrow track,
lei Ia IN W
although he made a wonderful squirt
near the finish.
I'm the $50 yards and one mile runs
the Yale men outclassed the Harvard
runners, while Harvard hurdlers took
first and third in the high hurdles. and
all three places in the low.
yale has the greatest trio of pole
vaulters in the country, and as it was
dark when the event was called and
Harvard had no chance for a place,
Roche, after a conference with Frank
Bigelow and Billy Denholm, decided to
forfeit the event to Yale. The field
events were peaches and cream for
Harvard. they winning the shot, the
high jump and all the Llaces in the
hammer and running broad jump. In
the broad jump, Charlie DAILY, recalling
many five-yard runs on that same field
last November, proceeded to cover %
feet inches on his first down.
yale was disappointed at the result
of the games for the cup which was to
be competed for by the two colleges
during a period OF nine years was won
by Harvard, Saturday being her fifth
victory. The graduates of the two
colleges have voted to give a new cup
valued at $500, the college scoring the
greatest number of victories during
nine years to become the final possess
sor of the trophy.
Jim Roche has made an excellent
captain, and is exceedingly popular
with the members of the team. He has
worked hard for the success of the men
and his efforts have been both fruitful
and appreciated
"Boardman of Yale is a fast man in
the quarter and a capital fellow per-
sonally. But he is not the phenomenal
runner as predicted by the papers. He
has great speed and an easy action, and
can probably do 40 3-5 seconds on a
good track. He should develop. but at
present he has no chance against either
Long or Tewsbury in the 300 yards
scratch race at Bayonne City, May 80
Boardman has been running three
years and displays remarkable judg-
ment in his races. He is 5 feet IL inches
in height and weighs las pounds Next
season he will either beat the world or
have shot his bolt but the chances are
that Dixon Boardman will be the fast
est quarter miller in the country in a
year or two.
.sThe Harvard track team will con-
tinue training for the Mott Haven
games in New York May 26 and q.
but Roche is not particular about the
result Of these games, as the champion
ship is conceded to the University Of