The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-03-09
ILLINOIS CARRIED
OFF ATHLETIC HOKORS
. Won First Place From Notre
Dame at Indoor Meet by Mar
row Margin.
MALONEY MAKES A RECORD.
Set Mark of Seven Seconds for
High Hurdles-His Brother,
VIII Maloney, Won Special
HaIf-Aiile Race.
MALoNEY MAKES A RECORD.

Members Of the University OF Illinois team
Carried OH athletic honors at the Coliseum
last evening in one OF the best indoor meets
ever witnessed in this city. capturing sew
eral of the events and showing well In all
their classes. Notre Dame University fin
ished a strong second. and only yielded first
place to the nlinoisans by n Few points
In the events wherein The University OF
Chicago had entries good contests were
wltre: sei. the Maloney boys putting up ftns
exhibitions in the hurdles and in the special
half-mile event. This last race. the feature
OF the evening card. was won by VIII Ma
loney OF the Chicago College, defeating VI
fendell OF Notre Dame and Billy Moran OF
the ST. Louis University.
one Of the most Interesting contests OF
the evening took place in this race. Cfcn-
dell setting a dizzy pace from the start
ard leading fer four Laps with Maloney
close behind. On the start OF the last lap
Naionoy forged TO the front, and. with
UfenGeil racing close behind. the last lap
was run at n .heart-breakinG elm. Maioney
IGenGell second. Billy Moran. the St Louis
University representative. was beaten off
after the first lap. The time was 2:c3i-o.
Fred Maloney captured the fifty-yard
hurdle from j. Kirby by protesting the lat
ter's victory under clause - of the y. A.
L. rules. which provide that when a scratch
man and n handicap entry run a dead heat
the scratch man IL TO be given the victory.
The pair ran a dead heat in a senifinal.
bAAl GalstiAtE neat WAS run, IlC TtSLlL
that Kirby finished first. Naioney falling
near the tape and skinnins his arm badly.
he protested the victory, however: and was
under the rules, Kirby being in receipt OF a
handicap.
NIaloney was 10 have appeared in n spe-
cial race over high hurdles against Herbert
Of Notre Dame. but on account of the Sc
were shaking that MalOney received In his
was substituted. Herbert won the race in
seven seconds fat. establishing q record for
the distance. All previous indoor records
have been either at forty or forty-five
yards. SO his mark Will probably bs ac-
copied. 4
Interest I'm Relay Races.
Local interest centered mainly In Ire re-
lay races. where ST. Louis had representa-
tyes in each race of the sort. In the inter
collegiate relay. one of the hest races ot the
evening resulted and in the early stages
The Notre Dame track team proved too
strong, however, and won by q wide mar
gin in the closing laps
vas the first starter in the relay, opposing
staples Of Notre Dame and English OF IN
evening for the first lap and a half. was
passed for an instant on the last turn by
Staples. only to come with n rush and fin
ish abreast OF the latter. sending Edgar
Mclean and Kirby of together.
Mclean showed we'll in the first lap. hut
Kirby and Miller passed him. From that
time on the race was between the visiting
colleges. Notre Dame winning in e:2l- The
winning team was composed OF Herbert,
Gearing. Kirby and Staples.
Dan Dillon OF the ST. Louis University
won the pole vault with an actual vault OF
! him in advance of Hans WuIf.. WHO was
second with a vau'- of li inches and a ham
dicap of 4 inches. which placed his mark at
los.
Probably the prettiest race OF the evening
was the mile run; the perfect work of the
H~enry-being the feature Of the event. Ket-
eel started from scratch, while Henry had
:he shortest handicap in the race and
served as pacemaker for his tesrnmate
The 40 ran Ike ~clock-work. keeping up
an even and stead striGe, which they quick
cred in the last two laps, when the lead
sers we.e faltering. land which drew them
sin. They anisTed shrst and second lin 4:5s,
The High School. team, composed of Ben
Grey. Kritszch. Messing and Buothby. won
the in-terschoIastic relay race easily. de-
Jeasins the Msstsn Military Acsas lsd ana
named. All the fNsh School boys ran well.
and when GREY started on tie last Zap. the
f alsh sS ssn Tas i iners sMss to as : wide = m M srgin.
On account eta toul IN tire; relay race for
the public chool class. committed by,a Mar
ST. LTus UNIVERSITY Junior team, composed
of DesloGe, Flynn, Hayes and Albert:
J.. Ben Wins Fifty-Ynrd Dash.
In the fifty-yard dash. j. Bell OF the Uni-
versity Of Illinois proved a surprise and
won the final heat in 90 2-5: Kirby getting
second place: G. Hoover OF the Christian
Brothers College showed TO great advantage
In this race. capturing his heat rather easI-
ly from a handicap of eight feet. He failed
% 'Fi THGT and !. o'Neiii. to- st. Louis TnI-
versity representatives. showed great speed
in their heat. and were almost abreast of
the winner at the close, but failed 10 quail
The regfmentaI race was won by Com
pany E's team composed OF r. Sarman. y.
H. l. II-A-A 1-z Ii TaVln- TrDp-nn r
I was second and Company A was third. In
the department relay race T. Nally removed
the stigma which has always rested on
stout policemen by winning the race for his
team after the firemen had secured an APP
parently winning lead in the prevtousay-run
relays. Nally started at least twenty yards
behind Z. Young of the firemen's team. yet
wore him down and won easily. The VIC
torious police team was composed of Nally.
Edom. d. O'Brien and p Manning.
| In the race for parochial schools. the Holy
Name team was given forty yards by its
competitor, the ST. Louns University Juni-
! crs. The latter team, composed of Walsh
| O'F!ynn, Brown and Desloge. won I'm 2:09.
Each member of the teams ran but one lap.
\ really pretty, race Was the finaI event
/! OT-Iynn. a 16-year-oid boy, made the best
showing for the Younger St. Louis .divis-
! could not catch the seasoned Illinois and
Natre Dame men after they once had
passed him. G. Herr:ck o. the University
also of Illinois.
! The meet was splendidly managed and not
a single hitch or delay occurred In the
course of The evening" Coach Martin De-
larey served as general supervisor and
| sent each event of promptly on time. Je-
! rome Karst was referee. .
| THE SUMMARIZES.
The ummaries sTS a. follows:
cuaIify-First hcat. Fred Malon-y. chicago.
Dame. rs IS: third heat. NJ. Manion. S Yards.
:1T Is: fourth heat. j kirby. Metre DANE.
:OG Is: first fral. dead heat between 7. Kirby
and Fred Maloney Rrn-or-J. Kirhv Won: Fred
| Maloney. second: c. Herbert. third. Time. :0s :5.
! Race was protested AMI awarded t. Mal0ney.
! Second event. 5a-yard d~ash-First heat. w.
Marion. { feet. first. :6s Is: second heat. J.
RatcliT. Illinois. 4 feet. first. nc -: third heat.
I " Gearin. Notre Dame. 3 feet. :5 2-5: fourth
heat. ~. Herbert. Eotre Dane. 3 feet. :d5 as:
f.th heat. J. Staples. Notre Dame. 6 inches.
20 Is: sixth heat. J. Kirby. Notre Dame. ; feet.
90 %: seventh heat. J. PEI. Illinois. scratch:
feet. rs %: first semi1nal. W. Gearin. first:
Rel. uiIrois. first: Kirby. Notre Dame. second.
:o5 50; fnsl J. Fell won: ]. Kirby. second: w.
Gsarin. third. Time. rs %.
Third event. special half-mile-w. HaIoney.
Chicago first: ". IGendeil. Notre Dame, &C.,
oni: w Moran. St. Louis University. third.
Fourth event. high jump-c. G. johnson. first.
e. iuches- Emil Frevrlark. second. ss inches: r.
Quiealberrv q. =. g. third. CO inches.
! Filth event. interscholsstir re,sy-Won bv High
School team: Western, Military Academy. sec-