Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-26
AMERICAN ATHLETES WIN.
They Defeated the English Cracks in
 Six Events.

American brawn over English strength, American methods oyer Eng fish ideas, American speed over Eng fish slowness-these were the triumphS of the country over Britain in the i1l- ternational track games at Berkeley Oval yesterday afternoon.
 White flags fiuttered, collegians yelled and pretty girls applauded the stalwart young athletes of Yale and Harvard, who were surpassing their British cousins in all the events save the three distance runs, and became the property of the American victors.
 Twice, in the hundred yards dash, and in the hurdles. the palm of victory was snatched from the visitors by tue narrowest of marginsAa yard in the sprint and six inches in the hurdle. 4 The Englishmen proved beyond a doubt that their men can defeat in long distance runs the pick of our two representative universities.
 The games brought only one broken record, when H. w. Workman, Cam bridge man. took one and one-fifth sec onds from the American intercollegiate record of 9:53 1-5 seconds for the two- mile run. Again this Englishman went to the fore in the half-mile run, winning in 1:53 1-5, two seconds be- hind the worlds record and the best performance in America this year. :. An unpleasant incident was in the sprint. Through some officials stupid blundering the runners arranged them selves for the start on the wrong mark. When they had safely run the race it was found after the slow time of 10 7 D seconds had been announced that the competitors had covered 105 yards in- stead of 100. There was no remedy except re-running the race. and this the officials refused to sanction on the ground that the result of the contest would not have been altered by cur tailing the distance by five yards. liar grave, they said, led from the seventy five yard mark to the finish. This seemed to be the true state of the case. but the Englishmen appeared to think that the Yale man had gone in the lead only in the last five yards. md that at the true 100-yard mark Hind, the Britisher, had led by two or three feet
 The visitors would have been better pleased to have the sprint repeated, but they admitted that it was not of importance, as it could have had no bearing on the ultimate question of the days winners.
 Nearly 10000 people found their way into the different grand stands, packing them solid with color and life. It was an enormous throng for New York to send to track games. The summaries:
 Running high jump-won by J. s. Spraker. Yale, height feet 11a inches: R. F. Herman, Harvard. second. 6 feet F inch; Howard Smith, Cambridge, third, feet 101a inches.
 Running broad jump-Won by J. g. Spraker, Yale, distance 9 feet 4 inches: A. W. Ristine. Harvard, sec Ond, 21 feet 4 inches; W. D. B. Hen derson, Oxford, third, 19 feet inches.
 Throwing the sixteen-pound hammer Won by ". A. Boal. Harvard. distance 136 feet s inches; E. E. B. May. OK ford. second, 12S feet. 3 inches: w. E. B. Henderson, Oxford, third, III feet 415 inches.
 One hundred and twenty yard hur- dle race Won by J. H. Converse, Har- yard: G. R. Garnier. Oxford, second; E. Allcock, Cambridge, third; time, 15 3-5 seconds.
 One. hundred yard dash-Won by w. H. Hargrave, Yale: A. E. Hind, Cam bridge second; J. E. Haigh, Harvard, third; time, 10 2-5 seconds.
 Quarter mile run-Won by E. c. Rust, Harvard; Dixon Boardman, Yale, second; R. W. Barclay, Cambridge, third; s. A. Weave, Oxford, fourth; time, 90 seconds.
 Half-mile run-Won by H. W. Work man, Cambridge; J. R. Cleave, Oxford, second: F. B. Bryton, Harvard, third. Time. I'm 5 3-5s.
 One-mile run-Won by F. o.. Cock shOtt. Cambridge: IT. W. Gregson, Cambridge. second; H. s. Knowles, Harvard, third: time, Am 26 1-5s.
 Two-mile run-Won by IT. w Work man. Cambridge; E. W. Mills. liar yard. second; c. ]. Swan, Harvard, third; time, 9m sos.