The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-27
SPORTING ITEMS IN BRIEF.

The annual crack and field champion
ship OF the intercollegiate association
OF the Amateur Athletic Association of
America, was concluded Saturday at the
berkeley .Q:al, New York.
AS ANTICIPATED the battle for the cham
liOnship cup was fought out to the bit
ter end, and when the final reckoning
came, the anxious boys from New Haven
saw with dismay Harvard the victor by
the splendid score Of A points.
To the surprise of the spectators Cor
nell took fourth place with Is well earn
ed points 1t Is the first time in her
many years of competition at the games
trat the ithaca institution has scored
a first, and when Gallagher trotted
home in the two-mile run and Sears out
ran all competitors in the 220 yards not
a man on the grounds begrudged her
two first prizes.
The University of Pennsylvania is
relegated to seventh place, after having
held the championship for the past four
Years Harvard has not won the cham
pionship since 1892
On the basis of five points for first,
three points for second, two points for
third and one point for fourth, the fol-
lowing table shows the score: Harvard
Al, Yale 80 So, Princeton 16 is, Cornell
Is, Georgetown 10, Michigan 2-3, Penn
sylvania 5 SIS, Columbia 5, New York s.,
Rowdoin 4, Syracuse u.
\ The Americas cup races will begin on
September q, Sir Thomas Upton hav-
ling by cablegram agreed to that date
and promised to have formal request
fixing that as the new time set by the
Royal Ulster Yacht club.
The Valkyrie H., Lord Dunraven's de-
feated yacht in the Americas contest
in 1895. which is lying in Gouveorock
bay, is to be broken up today.
The intercollegiate track games be-
tween the universities of Nevada and
Utah at Reno. New. We're won by the
former by a score of 60 to 68.
The University OF Oregon won from
tho Multnomah Athletic club in the field
meet at Portland Saturday. The final
score was: University of Oregon 81,
Multnomah ~.
AS result Of the brawl after the
Hart-Creedon fight in which Dave Sui
Ivan of New York was knocked out by
Dave Husbands and the police had to
q,lell general mixup, Mayor Weaver of
Louisville has decided that he can no
longer tolerate the sport there. and has
called the attention of the board Of
safety to the matter. Among the contests
scheduled for the near future were bouts
between Garvin and Hart Of Louisville
and Joe Choynski and Dave Sullivan Of
New York and Terry McGovern.
James r. Keene's Conroy the first
three-year-old to win a Brooklyn handi-
cap, cantered home a winner at the
Gravesend race track Saturday with
odds of to l against him Herbert
| finished second, with Standing in third
position. The favorite, Banastar, was
away back in the ruck, unable to get up
his speed in the heavy going.
Findlay S. Douglas of the Nassau club,
Long Island, won the Metropolitan golf
championship Saturday afternoon on the
links of the Apawamis club. at Rye. N.
y, defeating Charles H. Seeley of the
Weeburn golf club, Stamford. Conn.,. by
II UP and 10 to play. Drenching rain fell
continually. Seeley's showing was disap-
POINTING, as Douglas clearly outplayed
| him.
| At the Indiana intercollegiate field