The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-24
MICHIGAN'S ATHLETES
CARRIED Off HONORS
Hundreds of Trackmen Partici-
pated IN Carnival at Phila-
delphia.
ROSE WAS PROMINENT
He Equaled the Worlds Shot-Put
Record Stubbornly Fought
Relay Race.
ROSE WAS PROMINENT

PHILADELPHIA, April 23.-The Univer-
sity of Michigan carried off the honors on
Franklin Field this afternoon in the annual
carnival Of track and field sports held under
the auspices of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. The Michigan men won four firsts,
and in doing 50. Rose. freshman. equaled
the worlds shOt-put record Of forty-eight
feet and two inches. held by Horgan. of
Ireland. IN an exhibition trial, after win
ming the event, Rose, who is only seven
teen years OF age. put the shot forty-eight
feet three and one-half inches but the fig
ures will not stand I'm the records, because
they were not made in competition.
Yale won the one-mile relay race for the
college championship OF America and the
pole vault.
The event Of the day was the four-mile
race. 1t proved to be a stubborn contest
between Michigan and Yale, the Western
team winning by about yard. Prince
ton. Columbia, Harvard and Pennsylvania
were out of the running after the first
mile. The Yale and Michigan runners kept
together throughout the race. In the last
relay Parsons. OF Yale. and Kellogg, Of
Michigan, ran abreast for more than 100
yards in the last quarter when the West
ern man slowly forged to the front
More than 1900 persons watched the 500
athletes perform.
MISUNDERSTANDING hurdle:
First heat-M. s. Catlin, Chicago. first; +.
w. Bird, Harvard, second. No third.
Time, :1S Second heat-F. w. Schulz.
Michigan, first: Lashburner, Cornell, sec
seconds. Final heat. F. W. Schulz, Mich
tgan. first: NJ s. Catlin. Chicago. second;
L. Ashburner; Cornell, third; Time. 10 80.
lance as feet. 2 inches. equalling the world s
record, held by ID. Morgan, of Ireland;
second. Glass, Yale; third. ]. S. Boyd,
exhibition shot put: made As feet, s1z inches.
observation-disclosures dash: First heath. A.
Blair. Chicago, first; r. j. Torrey. Yale,
second; Dougherty. Villa Nova. third.
Second heat-A. II. Hahn. Michigan.
1rst; w. {. Schick, Harvard, second; w. 8.
Rice. Chicago. third Time, 10 1-5:
Final heat-A. Hahn, Michigan, first; w.
G. Shick. Harvard, second; C. A. Blair,
Chicago. third. Time, 10.
Broad jump: T; P. Hammer Pennsylva-
Syracuse, second; Percy Remington. Col
lege of Pharmacy, third.
Discus throw: c. Swift. Iowa University,
ia feet inches. first; Speik, Chicago, sec
ond, Catlin. Chicago, third.
High jump: S. s. Jones, New York Uni
versity, feet, first; w. c. Lowe. SYRIA
third.
One mile: College relay: New York Uni
versity, first; Rutgers. second; Lehigh,
third. Time. 1884 Is
One mile: College relay, BuckneI first;
johns Hopkins, second; Dickinson College,
third Time, 3:35-
O44C OOlitSe TSldy, syracuse UNI
versity. first: University OF North Carolina.
second Only two entries. Time, 1886.
Hammer throw: r. ID. Dewitt, Princeton
los feet AZ inches, first; T. Shevlin. Yale,
second; c. Van Duyne. Syracuse third
One mile college championship of Amer
lea: Yale, hrst; University of Pennsylva-
MIA; second: Georgetown. third. Time.
One mile relay; high school champion
ship OF America: Philadelphia Central.
first; Chicago Hyde Park, second: wor-
cester High School, third. Time, 1888 rs.
The two mile championship relay race
was won by Pennsylvania by default: Yale,
the only other entry, Withdrawing her
team.
Four-mile college relay championship of
America Dame, Stone, Perry, kellogg,
Michigan, first; Yale, second; Princeton,
third. Columbia, Harvard and Pennsyl-
vania also ran. Michigan's time 10 miles
t:42 1-5 9:z3 AS, 14:03 %. 1852 3-5.
Pole vault: McLanahan, Yale; Behr.
Yale; Gring, Harvard tied at II feet
inches. In the toss-off McLanahan was
given first. Behr second and Gring third.