The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-03
OKLAHOMA CARRIES
OFF THE HONORS
Friends and Paramount Are
Badly Defeated.
RESULT OF TRACK MEET
Agricultural and Mechanical
College the Victor

The Oklahoma Agricultural and Me
chanical College, of saltwater, carrie
of the honors in the big triangular trac
meet held here yesterday at the fai
grounds. between Friends University
Paramount College and that school. Gu
of the thirteen events the a. and NJ. Col
lege got nine first places, Friends tw'
and Paramount two. In the total nunbe
of points the A. and NJ. College re
ceived 651s, Friends &c and Paramount %.
Referee Lewis. of saltwater, called tbs
meet promptly at 2:30 o'clock, and large
crowd of spectators was present. TIL,
track was in pretty fair condition, and
the three teams were all in good shape
and ready for the struggle. The first
real signs that there was going to be an
intercollegiate meet were the familiar
college yels. Paramount and Friends
had the best of the roofing crowd.
The first event was the 100-yard dash.
In this Saltwater entered two men, Tree
man and Tarr, the first OF whom won
first place easily. Paramount was repre-
scented in this event by Hill and James,
and Friends by Young and McCully. Hill
and James won second and third places
respectively. freeman dashed out ahead
of his contestants like flash and was
fully fifty feet in the lead at the out
come Fairmount's 100-yard men did nice
work and won deserving honors.
The next event was the hammer throw,
In which Saltwater won both first and
second places with hands down Hall and
Clark threw for Saltwater. Foster and
Softer for Paramount and Hoyt for
FRIENDS.
The one-mile run was full of excitement
and, since Saltwater had already won two
first places the crowd considered that it
was about time for things 10 take a turn
and let the other fellows win, but the Ok
lahoma racers, Chandler and knauss,
won first and second. In this race Chand-
Ter covered that distance in 4:42 minutes.
in the outcome he was sixty feet or far
Their in the lead, and he, too, turned his
head to look at his competitors who were
struggling along far behind, with some
OF them out of the race down the track.
II is said that this record is very near
the worlds record, and that Chandler is
preparing to contest for first place among
the mile runners of the world. When
he finished he was cheered by all the
spectators, regardless of the colleges.
Everyone conceded the fact that Still
water had the swiftest man on the mile
run that there was on the ground.
Holmes and Van Buskirk who repre-
scented Paramount in this race. ran a fine
stretch and. considering that they did
not have the practice of the Oklahoma
athletes. they are to he praised for their
efforts. Holmes got third place in the
race. Rich and Coppock, of Friends. also
ran very good
In the high jump, which was the fourth
event, Friends won the first place
through their very excellent jumper,
McGill. who cleared the pole at > feet
and Z inches. Softer. of Fairmounc -,
ceived second place and the third was
divided between McCmly OF Friends. and
Clark of Saltwater The jumping was
extremely interesting from beginning to
finish and considerable excitement was
stirred up Mcbride. of Saltwater. stayed
in for only a short while and Darling. of
Paramount, dropped out also. after the
pole had been moved several notches
above the start. All of the boys showed
their practice i'll this event, and did some
good work.
The fifth event was the li0-yard run
That was won by Saltwater through
their men. Talbot. who got first place
and tombstone. who got second. Fair
mount was represented by Isely. who
won third place, and Cooke. and Friends
had McCully and Andrews in the race
The Friends boys appeared rather weak
and looked as if they had not had suf-
ficient practice. In fact, this was demon
strated throughout the meet. 1t could
be plainly seen that the Oklahoma track
team had been preparing for the event.
and that they did not leave home with
the intention of getting beat Talbot
made the 40 yards in 81 seconds.
The broad jump was the sixth event.
and Saltwater got first place. with
Friends second and Saltwater third. Nc
Bride. who won first place for Saltwater.
Jumped - feet g. inches Tarr. third
place, for saltwater. jumped 10 feet 3
inches; Boone, second place. for Friends.
jumped ~ feet AZ inches; NIcGm, for
Friends. L feet inches; James. for Fair
mount. Is feet II inches. and Softer. for
Paramount. l. feet Il inches This event
occasioned considerable yelling from the
spectators. and college yells were preva-
lent in all their freshness.
The seventh event was the coward
dash. which was won by freeman. for
Saltwater. in just exactly 81. seconds.
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Second and third places We're given to
Softer and Hin, Of Paramount Lovett,
Stillwater's other man in this race. la
bored under some difficulty and did not