The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-06-14

Pacific university, II.
Willamette University, 4.
The above figures tell the story
of the supremacy of the OAC track
team, and of a victory SURPRISING
any triumph ever achieved on any |
field in the history Of track athletics
in Oregon. It is the story OF the
state meet, held at tSalem last Satur-
day in which OAC men took ev-
erything they wanted, smashed
records at will and sent their op-
ponents home beautifully and tho
roughly skinned, and themselves
;. came home labelled, champions
As the figures show, they took
more points than all the other teams
combined, thus; Number ofpoints
scored by OAC. 81: total score OF
; all other teams, oo: OAC's major
| ity over all, 1o.
Great features of the meet were
the defeat of Peterson of Pacific,
in the half mile by Greenhaw OF
OAC, in the unprecedented Oregon
record of 1853 3-5. the smashing OF
all Oregon and Northwest records
in the quarter by Williams who ran
the distance in 4S AS seconds, and
the smashing of all the usual rec
ords in the 22o by Smithson, who
with Williams close by his side,
breasted the tape at the finish
in 21 Is seconds. After
defeating Peterson with a heart
n breaking record in the half, Green
haw astonished all the experts
shortly afterwards by appearing II
the 44o, which he ran in less than
- 90 seconds, finishing close to Will
=. liams and fat in advance Of all 9th
y er runners. To add to his achieve
ment of the day, within a shor
- time after the 44o, he ran a swif
=, y quarter in the mile relay, Williams
Smithson and Beach being his tear
. mates. and their combined tim
3:36 for the mile. The 2f rs sec
. onds in which Smithson and Wi
- - 1iams ran 22o yards makes the
= average of speed per hundre
!, yards in the event o-72 seconds
" a feature that makes the perform
- ance most remarkable. The pc
ne formances of the two and of Gree
haw, puts the trio in a class t
= themselves among the sprinters
- the Northwest. Very excelle
l in every respect was the perforr
ae ance of Davolt in the mile. It
~ his first season on the track al
W ~ he went against Gates, one of t
~ best men in the Northwest in t
Northwest in the event. Dave
~ finished strong while Gates, W
:, led him but half a dozen yare
~ had given the race everything
,~a, had to give. Davolt's time
= a triumph will certainly come ne
season, at least, if he continr
1eA' under that master hand at spe
development, Physical Direc
'' T1ine. Harold Woodcock of o.
:oo broke the state field record in
49, pole vault, in a vault of 10 7
.oxu inches. The event was suppo:
al y to belong to Claud Swami, but
g. was an off day and 10 fee
" inches was the limit.
A feature of the meet was Il
s in ante-meet guesses by Train
: - Hayward of Eugene, OAC, v
= - not given a place or point in
10 high jump. Merrill Moores pro-
~, the mathematical trainer fs
! - prophet by clearing the pole at
feet seven and taking first pl
'oe and gold medal, Hayward
49, given his own team seven point:
hon his estimate, but what his te
:, actually got was shut out W
,on eue no points. Trainer Hayward {
80 predicted that his team would
by score of 81 to So. His te
lost As to 80.
The OAC men got 1o out of
30 medals awarded at the m
ma They took also mammoth sill
and cup, which if they can hold th
otice, seasons, will become their perm
guar ent property. They also won
Co. undisputed championship of
state, and by their late deci
defeat of the University Of W;
ington team, have a very
cycle claim to the championship of
again Northwest, title that is Ger
1th of no team Of the Northwest st
ella IS would care to dispute.
Not only does the new triul
:, bring fame to his men and to
college, but adds greatly to
already high reputation of Ply
Director Trine as a wizard in
ilk, art of bringing out all that is
&c .