New-York tribune., 1901-05-12
YALE WINS DUAL MEET
DEFEATS HARVARD BY 81 POINTS To AZ
CONTEST CLOSE AND EXCITING.
SURPRISES ALI. ALONG THE LINE-TEEL.
OF YALE. BREAKS THE INTERCOL-
LEGIATE TWO MILE RECORD.

GBr TELEGRAPH TRIBUNE.l
New-Haven. Conn., May 1L-Yale won the annual
dual meet with Harvard this afternoon by a clear
ten points the final standing 81 TO AZ This
was managed, however, only by the hardest kind
of work and after three hours OF the most ex-
citing sport ever seen at Yale Field in a Harvard
athletic meet. There were surprises every turn
and the afternoon succession OF unlocked
for defeats and victories. II was the greatest
athletic held at Yale Field. and the fact
that one intercollegiate record broken and two
equalled did make ii any the less interesting.
YaIe's boasted crack place takers. Spraker and
Clapp did not come up to expectations. Instead of
winning the two hurdles. Clapp succumbed TO Con-
and Willis, and took only second in each
event. Spraker, while he won the high jump,
failed completely in the broad and. a series Of
fouls. dropped out of the contest altogether. Yale
took only seven irsts where the Yale men expected
10 take nine, but brilliant work in seconds and
thirds won the day. Yale took seven hrsts, eight
seconds and six thirds, while Harvard took SIX
irsts, five seconds and seven thirds. Yale won the
loo-yard dash. the 22O-yard dash, the two mile rum
the high jump, pole vault. hammer throw and shot
put. giving Harvard the quarter-me run. the half
mile the mile. the 120 and 90 hurdles and the broad
jump. Several of these were complete somersaults
for all previous reckonings Yale expected to take
both the hurdles and the broad jump. while Har-
ward confidently expected to take the 100 and 220
sprnts and the two mile
Teel. for Yale. in the two mile made a wonderful
and broke the intercollegiate record by
seconds. The individual records made by Teei
Hargrave. Dupee. Franchor and Stillman the
features of Iale's games, while for Harvard. Con-
verse, Willis and Behr made the best showing
Teers run in the two mile the most sensational
performance seen on Yale Field in six years. He
was not expected by Yale's supporters TO take
third place previous records. Teel won by
four yards in hair raising race of the day
The field Rad kept fair pace until the middle OF
the last lap. when Gay and Teel braced Teel shot
past Richardson. Of Harvard. like a rocket and
kept up his spleadid burst OF speed until he was
fifteen yards ahead Rich. rdsOn fell into the pace
and on the homestretch gained steadily on Tecl
finishing only four yards in the rear TeeIs e1-
PcOt WIS 80 fe ,,s1F inlI1e onf with en-
thusiasm. II was exhibition of nerve pure ana
H,Tr He made the two miles in s:55 - which is
seconds faster than the lntereoliegiate record n
seconds nat OF the four Yale men Hargrave alone
got place in the finals, when he bore down the
track like racehorse puIhS away lrOIn LIZ B @
of Harvard, at twenty yards, and running so h1ao
Horsrave duplicated the feat. winning out in the
exploit in winning the first heat 6:22 and taking
second place In the finals was hne piece oil work,
quarter mile. The quarter mile was surprise In that
expected to take first lie led half way around thee
track, but tired himself out too soon In the haIf
not in at the finish In this race FTanchor of Yale.
did some most plucky work Though he had Just
the half mile like bulldog, creeping up on Har-
cos iAI5 tb,rS Pa s peTormaca Was Temarkabe
both in speed and grit. The mile showed Weston. OF
but he ala get himself together I'm time al the
last lap The hurdle prove how futile is all proph-
win both events dropped INTO second place with a
dull thud In the 9O yard high hurdles. he won the
the second In the finals Clapp dropped a
step at the sixth hurdle. and was beaten By three
yards In the 90. which was run in O:-5 fiat. Clapp
Wins. ptd'fA Of Harvard. whose work was excellent
of the broad Jump. IN which spraker unsecogntably
missed councillors. spraker won the nigh Jump
falling an inch Of that In the shot put Sneidon'
throw also went to Yale hands down, Stman.
Sned9n made ana F6SS fow f al e nSS
is better than he has done before In compe-
pole vault went to Hord Pease and Thompson. OF
Yale. GOodhur, OF Harvard. failing at ten feet
The summary follows;
gRnor nuiIlf harvard second Webb Harvard third
Two hundred and twenty yard dash-won by Harsrave
Yale Dupee Yale second: LIShtner. Harvard. third
-Four hundred and forty yard dash--won by Clerk
Harvard Hunter. Yale. second Manson Harvard, third
Hair mile run--won by Behr Harvard; Boyntqn. Har
Mile TunIwon by Clark Harvard. Weston Yale. sec
ond: waldron: Yale third Time ;2''is H..
ward. second. Gay; Yale. third Tme,9:'5%
verse. Harvard; Clapp. Yale second: While Harvard
Two hundred and twenty yard hurdles-won by Willis
Harvard clapp. Yale second Converse Harvard third
High jump-won by spraker, Yale It Is in; Ellis
Harvard second. fl. ia In; Rotch, Harvard third
Broad jump-won by shirk Harvard 81 It. II in
Rstine second 2l II. in; Foster. Harvard third. Fl
Pole .vault-Hord. Thompson and Pease. Yale tied at
n3ms ,a sy s'9n E5$D Has IA 9.s r
Yale second ii Il. ei1 in; Beck. Yale third Al IT.