Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-13
HARVARD BEATEN.
Yale the Victor in Dual Games
at New Haven.
Yale Scores 81 Points to the Crimson's
47--Scveral Surprises.
Result 81 Games in Doubt Until The Last Event
o: The Day.

New Haven. Conn. May l2-In the very
last even: Of the most exciting track
meeting that has ever taken place be
tween Yale and Harvard the sons of Eli,
Saturday afternoon. swung Il victory
away from the crimson.
In the frs: seven events on the pro-
gram Harvard led Yale in the point win
ming by a comfortable margin. In the
eighth event Yale tied the score. Then
for the next three events the score see
sawed
Finally Harvard's veterans slumped
badly in the hammer throw ana Yale
jumped ahead. The score then stood.
Yale g. Harvard AZ, with only The pole
vaulc to be contested. Nv winning frs;
place Harvard might have TIED the score,
bat III" blue captured all three places.
which made The final score, Yale 81. Har-
ward H.
This vas the FIRST meeting u fight for
the new trophy cup given to tie blu, AMI
the crimson by tn" graduates. Yale Will
get her name on the cup first
1t was hardly 4 surprise Ia Yale to win
the games. Mike" Murphy has said all
along that his team could win even with
out Roardman ana Fincke. The under
graduates believed Mike" and were con
fident of a victory
Harvard was equally confident, and GER
tainly had good reason TO be. for Yale
picked up points which no one believed
she could win.
There was never a contest in which for
tune s"e-sawed so constantly for three
long hours from one contestant to the
other. There never has been track
meeting that SO aroused Yale's enthus-
iasm as this one.
Again and again the Yale grandstand
went frantic, and when Teel won the two
mile run. which first swung the victory
away from Harvard, a thousand Yale men
followed the contestants down the last
hundred yards Of the race. yelling like
lot of mad men and literally tramp!ng
each other under foot.
AS Teel stumbled over the finish line
and fen in heap the crowd grabbed him
up and rushed off the field with him amid
a scene of enthusiasm such even the
big football games do not often equal
hundred Harvard men in the middle
section of the grandstand also did their
part when it came to cheering. Though
small in numbers they We're strong I'm
lungs.
The rain which fell all day Friday and
all Friday night in bucketfuls let up early
Saturday morning and for four hours Il
strong wind dried out the running track
and made it fairly good for the contest.
BY , o'clock. when the games were called.
the wind had died away and the sun had
forced it's way through the clouds. Aside
from a portion of the track near the fin
ish of the 220-yard straightaway distance
the conditions were first-class.
Over 5000 people, the biggest crowd on
record, at New Haven for track games.
saw Yale win. Hardly a single spectator
left the field before the struggle had been
decided.
All told it was a great day for the blue
and for Mike" Murphy lie was as hap
Ply as a boy over the victory. which pleas
ed Yale nightly.
Two Yale records were tied in the 800
yard hurdle and the 100-yard dash Five
Yale records were broken. the shot put.
the hammer throw, the two-mile run. the
2a0-yard hurdles and the 220-yard dash.
The dual games records in the shot put
and the o20-yard dash We're bot. broken
and a record was established in the two
mile run which almost equals the inter
collegiate record.