The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-08

rise above ; feet 81. inches. and tied for
second place with ". T.. b. Henderson OF
Cambridge and 7. O'Connor of Ireland
Baxter's jumping elected frequent cheers
The final heats OF the hurdles gave Amer
lea her fourth victory out OF hve evsnts;
Kraenzlein walking away from Pritcnard
and winning as he liked In :l5 20 Nothing
was ever before seen In England ike
Kraenzlein's lightning flight and me crowd
broke into loud applause as the PRIDE OF
Pennsylvania broke the tape.
Pritchard. the Indian champion. was sew
eral yards behind.
In the quarter mile run Dixon Bosrdnan
Of the New York Athletic CAB failed to
win his heat. He was beaten by W. a.
Walsh, one of Sco,land,s best runners. u.
III. Long OF the New York Athletic Club
beating William j. Holland OF Georgetown
University. who was second. and several
MoIoney Of Chicago University had a
walk-over In his heat for the quarter mile.
Stanley Rowtey OF Australia Harvey II:
Lord of Chicago University and Waite OF
Syracuse backing out.
Another heat was won by c. G. Davison
from Henry Berry Slack of Chicago Unit
versity. Dawson. 1t will he remembered,
ran for Oxfcrd-C Cambridge and beat Board
man. the representative Of Harvard-Yaie.
Up TO this stage the crowd though num-
herring about 5000 persons, lad Keen sim
guiarly undemons,rative- Now ard again
'Rah. rah. ran /" was heard from Pernsyl-
vania's supporters. but on the whole tie
THE Americans are going to VIM was
the general expression when the heats
started. and # generally proved true. In
the meanwhile the four-mile had been fin
ished in excellent time. but a. L. Newton
OF the New York a. c.. the ociy American
who could stand the pace. finished far be-
hind the winner.
In the four-mile run America had five
entries. Alex. Grant, University of Penn
sylvania. who apparently WAS much out of
form. gave up after a mile. and Dick
Grant Of Boston soon dropped behind and
finally stopped.
simultaneously the hammer-throwing and
pole jump were in progress. John F1ana-
gan OF the New York Athletic Club aston
ished the spectators in the former event.
His first throw was lel feet inches, while
T. F. Kelly the holder of the champion
c. McCracken of University OF Pennsylva-
mia soon dropped out, only covering 134
feet T Truxton Hare OF University of
Pennsylvania did better. with lT feet s1s
inches
Proceeding with the hammer-throwing.
Flanagan improved on his first throw by
two feet and won easily. Kelly could not
nearly touch his own record OF Isl feet, but
just managed to beat Hare.
The final of the half-niie run was very ex-
citing PrincetOn's captain. Cregan. led I'M
til the last 100 yards. Then, amid the great
est excitement. Tysoe;, the holder OF the
and snatcned victory from America in COM
parativsly poor time, which Cregan should
have beaten IL he had been in anything like
his usual form. But; like the majority of
the Tigers. he seemed 10 have stalled by his
extended stay In England.
Krae nzlein had hard work in the long
jump. +. OConnOr, the Irishnan, was a
close second with Y feet "a inches, and p.
while William +. Remington and T. b. Nc
Claim both of University of Pennsylvania,
scored q feet inches and y feet 1Is inches
respectively