The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30
YALE SPRINTERS
WIN THE HONORS
Carnival Of Relay Races
at Philad elphia.
Special Dispatch to The can.

PHILADELPHIA. April 29.-Yale car
ried of the honors at the annual carnival
OF relay races held under the auspices OF
the University OF Pennsylvania on Frank
lin field to-day. the wedTeTs OF the Dlue
winning the one-miie two-mile and four
mile championship relay races Although
PENNSYLVANIA was disappointed in the
outcome OF these events, she is happy be-
cause one Of her men now holds the
broad lump record. a. G. KTaenZlein. who
is also the American championship hur-
dler. jumped q feet 3l3 inches, breaking
the American record Of % feet So inches.
held by L. Prinztein Of the New York
Athletic Club
over 5000 persons attended the carnival
Of sports. It was a great success, over
eighty preparatory schools and colleges
being represented. The greatest race of
the day was the one-mile college relay
championship. There were three teams
entered In the eyent-Yale- Pennsylvania
and Chicago University. II was an eA-
citing contest between the first two
teams Gleason Of Yale just beat Cooke
Of Pennsylvania in the first quarter ne
runners in the next quarter were Luce
for Yale and KraenZleln for Pennsyl-
Vania The latter made up the ground
lost by his predecessor, but soon played
out and when the third pair OF men took
up the running Yale had lead Of twenty
yards The final quarter was very eX-
citing. the spectators rising and yelling
ike MAD. Inc NeeL lew hSDuIt- LDI
( Pennsylvania, by magnificent dash al
most caught Boardman, Yale's fourth
runner. The distance was too great,
however, and the Yale man won the
quarter and the race by about ten yards.
The Chicago University men could not
stand the pace and were out Of il after
a half-mile had been run.
In the two-mile and fOur-nile relay
championship Tales man got a good
lead and won both events rather easily.
The one-mile relay race between Colum-
I f~r~ .af4Ff
contest. the Columbia team winning by
a small margin. There were more than a
/ dozen one-mile relay races between col
/ leges and preparatory schools, and many
were very closely contested. The sum
/ marles@
/ one mile, college relay championship-C.
I Gleason, c. T. Luce, Z. r. Fisher. D. Board
nan Ys Deskdn rs fSof TAks6ar3 b. Pehnsy
I. vanis second; D. P. Trude II. 3. Slack. F. 5.
/ White W. a. Maloney Chicago. third Time,
+ one mile. relay-Johns Hopkins. Baltimore.
won; University OF Maryland second Time,
10 yards, special W. b Tewksbury Penn
sylvanla, won; J. F Mulligan, Georgetown
/ University second; H F. Warren, Yale, third
/ Time. y seconds.
one mile. interschoastic-south Jersey Insti-
/ tute won Central High School, Washington,
! d c.. second; Central High School, Phiadel-
phla, third. Time, 3;44 10.
Two-mile championship-Yale won, Pennsyl-
vania second. Time. $40
High jump-W. Carroll, Princeton. feet !
/ inch won; !. X. Baxter, Pennsylvania second
I 2. p. Conkling. Haverford, third
Shot-put, special-Richard Sheldon. New
YORK Athletic Club, ~ feet ~ inches, won; J.
! G. MeCracken, Pennsylvania. second; G. Gar
/ land. Pennsylvania. third Sheldon broke the
intercollegiate record Of 43 feet Sia inches made
/ by J. C.. McCracken.
! 22Q-yard handicap-F H Warren. Yale q
/ YARDS, won; S. 5. Sharp a yards). second; G.
Drumheller, Pennsylvania g yards), third.
Time, 22st- seconds.
Running broad jump-A. c. Kraenzlein
/ Pennsylvania, leaped "a feet 3lz inches. break
! ing the American record OF % feet S7s inches
held by L. Prinztein. New York Athletic Club;
Meyer Prinztefn, Syracuse University % feet
2h inches, second; 7. G. McClain, Pennsyl-
/ vana, third
Four-m mile championship, Yale and Pennsyl-
vsnia-Yale won easily. Time, 1875.
One mile preparatory and high school cham
pionships-Hiil School, Pottstown. Pa. won;
South Jersey Institute. Bridgeton. second ;
! Berkeley School, New York, third. Time,
/ 3.25