The Washington times., 1904-02-21

yard heats. which brought forth fren.
zied er4es OF encouragement from ths
throats' Of the rooters of Georgetown
prep the high schools. Tome Institute
and the Boys Latin School. The Wash.
ington High Schools carried Off the
honors in the finals. Kent. Central. MI
Ter and Fletcher, Western, finishing in
the order named.
Duffey Breaks Another Record.
In the invitation 5O-yard dash cana
the surprise Of the evening. There v,s
no handicap in this race, all starting
from che scratch Novice and reIav
races mad been occupying the attention
OF everybody. Then it was announced
that another dash was In order. A
glimpse at the program and everybod,,
sat up and took notice Duffey was
70 run again.
The entries included Arthur F. Dufsev
Georgetown; d. TORY. Yale; c. 7
Seitz. Georgetown; c. B. Long. Yale;
G. A Gould, Cornell; ]. F. Sullivan.
Georgetown; Joseph A. Reilly. George
town: Charles Mccarthy. Georgetown;
w Scnich, Harvard; r. Dear. Penn
sylvaniar and II. G. Halleck. Cornell.
and In view OF the fact that Duffey
was not in the best shape. everyone
looked for him to be defeated.
The Iistol cracked and the bunch of
sprinters came down the track so fast
that 1t was all over before one had time
TO draw a good breath. At that they
all saw Duney breast the tape n few
inches ahead of TORY OF Yale. When
1t was ofhcially announced that the
little Blue and Gray champion had
clipped n fifth OF a second of the rec
Crd held by Lon Myers, of New York,
tn ere were many who were Ioath to
i-sIieve II Mike" Thompson was ao-
pealed to
That's right" said Mike. Five and
two-fifths seconds was the time"
rs that right. Phil?' asked another
NO doubt about it." said King, and
the doubter was satisfied.
Relay Races.
The relay races between Cornell and
Columbia and Georgetown and Yale
were by far the most exciting events or
the program. Cornell was exceedingly
as two Of her men fell.
losing so much time that they were
unable to make it up. and Columbia won !
easily. When GeorgeoWn and Yale came |
10 the scratch the cheers We're deafen- |
ng. Long. Of Yale, and Sullivan. of /
Georgetown, started. Long held his 4
nan easily and won his lap by about /
light yards. Clapp took up where Long
eft Off and led Mccarthy all the way. /
the Blue and Gray runner
ought gamely. For awhile IT looked
Is If he would make LIP the distance be-
ween himself and the Vale flyer. but he
ppeared TO shoot his bolt too early. and
when they came around the second time
'lapp had increased Yale's lead bv
bout two yards. Parsons followed
'lapp and Reilly followed Mccarthy.
Reilly started off wei and was making
good run Tor the long-haired Yale
nan. when, at the second turn, he fell. I
lie got up and kept on gamely. but #
'as OF no earthly use. Parsons had
aimed twenty yards and was running
Ike the wind. Johnston finished for
ale. with Mulligan, Of Georgetown. far
ehinN time being 2:S5 is, as against
.4e Jy Columbia.
and Shot-Put.
gh jump Sam Jones prova,l :
king OF his kind by start ,
scratch and winning without ,
est effort. In the mile rnr .
IL the New York Athletic ,
gave all manner OF handi- I
highest of which was seventy
was TOO much for him, as I
tinued on Fourth Page.) ,