The Portland daily press., 1899-06-05
cLoUDMAN's GREAT FEAT.
Equaled Worlds Record in 100
( Yard Dash.
Bowdoin Won In the intercollegiate
Mest-A Record breaking esthesiss.
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NPEcKAb 10 THE PRRss1
Materville. Me. June;8 The Maine In
tercoliegiate meet was held this afternoon
ON the Colby athletic track. 1t was one
Of the. most successful meets ever held.
Five records were broken, the hundred,
two-twenty, broad jump, discus and shot
put. Bowdoin won with 70 points. uni
vsrsity of Maine second with ss, bates 10,
and Colby y. The most remarkable per-
formance OF the day was by ID. II. Cloud
man Of Bowdoin in the hundred yards
dash. He ran away with the field In his
trial heat and finished with ten yards to
spare in the phenomenal time Of Q 4-b sec
onds. and In the final repeated his per-
formance In exactly the same time. This
equals the worlds intercollegiate record.
In order that there might be no dispute
John III. Burleigh. civil engineer, was
instructed to measure the course. He
certified that the distance from the start
pointed out by W. f. Garcelon, starter,
TO the finish pointed out by Prof. Lee.
the referes, and two judges at the finish
was 800 IS feet Thus the course was
about 10 inches over 100 yards The
watches of three experienced timers all
pointed to AS seconds; also that of a
spectator. Cloudman also equalied the
New ENGLAND record in the two-twenty
Of % s-5 seconds made by A. &. Autenius
Of Amherst, which breaks the NJ. I, @.
A. A. record of % seconds In the broad
jump he broke the M. I. G. A. A. record
Of 90 feet, 2 Ia inches by jump Of 81
feet. 1-2 inches. Cloudman Is six feet,
3 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds.
Edwards of Bowdoin ran away with his
/, field In the low hurdles, trial heat. In
the final he fell on the first hurdle and
was left nearly two hurdles behind but
got up and won beautifully by i've yards
in "a l-5 seconds.
Snow also had the quarter all his own
way as usual. He eluded what looked
like an attempt to box him by running
away from the held 90 yards from the
start. He finished 20 yards good in. 81 SEQ
onds.
The half mile was won in minutes,
S-5 seconds by ., @ Merrill of Bates.
Kurdish OF Bowdoin was close tecond
and won a pretty race.
Hadlock of Bowdoin had things all his
own way in the high hurdles and won
both trial and final heats in is and IS 4-5
seconds respectively.
The mile run was pretty from start to
finish. Wheeler of Bomdoin when only
few yards from the fini sh pluckily
passed Merrill of Bates and finished first
by yard in 8 minutes, 9 e-5 seconds. I
Vhs bicycle rAcs was slow until the last
hal e., L.
( and Clough Of Bowdoin won handily in
minutes, % seconds with H&mlin of
Bowdoin second.
The pole vault was disappointing.
Clarke of Bowdoin with record of 10
feet. 6 inches was picked for a sure win
ner, but his pole broke and he was un.
able to go over feet, inches, with an
other. Hersey, U. of NJ, won; Clarke,
Bowdoin, second; height feet, inches.
In jumping of for second place Clarke
went feet, s inches.
There was good sized Held in the two
mile run. 1t was an Interesting race to
watch. For six laps there was not much
change In the positions OF the runners.
Chase Of Colby kept the pace for most of
the way. On the eighth lap, Merr III of
Bates and j. Il. Sinkinson of b owdoin
took the lead. Sinkinson kept ahead un-
til 60 yards from the finish when Merrill,
French and j. d. Sinkinson passed him
and finished in the order named in II
minutes, 10 seconds III
Grover Of Maine state took first place in
the discus with 100 feet, 8 inches; Young
of Bowdoin, second; Richardson of
Bates, third.
The shot put was surprise. In the
trials Grover, Godfrey and Saunders quail
lied In the order named, Grover put be |
ing 80 feet, l-2 inches In, the finals in |
the afternoon the order WAS ex actly the |
same. After three trials each Godfrey 1 !
B1wdoin tried for the record and put Ii |
40 feet. inch, which beats the Maine
and New England records.
The winning high jump was prettily
wen by Hayes of Bowdoin, Stevens of
Colby second. and Hamilton of Bowdoin
third; height 5 feet B l-2 inches
The event of the dry was Cloudman' g
work IN the hundred and stwo-twenty.
Never before has any such speed been seen
In Maine as he showed in the hundred
yards Rollins, U. OF NJ. who finished
second is also a fine runner and was well
mp at the tape. III. j. Hunt of Bowdoin
ran finely in tie two-twenty and fin
ished second, having passed Rollins thir-
ty-f1v yards from the finish.
j. H. Sinkinson of Bewdoin ran very
plucky race in the two mile and with a
little more experience will be q point
winner for sure.
Bowdoin scored in every event. In an
but two more than one POINT and In tile
broad jump all nine points were won by
the neutrality-suspicious., Cloudman, Hunt
and Edwards.
The score:
TRACK EVENTS.
100 yards dash--Won by II. Fl. Cloud.
man of Bowdoin; second, +. NJ Rollins
of u. of NJ. Time, 9004 -5.