Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-13
INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET.
The Farmers Won - Record
Smashing the Order of
the Day.

Willamette University, a points;
Pacific University, II; Universe
ty of Oregon, As; Oregon Agri-
cultural College, 81 points, is the
unadorned tale of the inter-col-
legiate field meet Saturday at
Salem. A chapter devoted to the
performances of o. A. c. might
consistently be profusely embel-
lished with ''ifs," but they are
not permitted in the story that
goes into history for future gen.
erationsto consult. Furthermore,
Eugene requires all the available
''ifs' to make presentable story
of her part in the meet, and in
the light of success we certainly
can afford to present our stock of
excuses to the Eugene correspon-
dents and those Portland papers
which have SO presistently and
unjustly belittled the athletic
|pretentions of O. A. c.
1t was unfortunate that so many
of U. of O.'s best men were out
of form. Hug, for example. was
so i'll that in the weight events
and the discus he was able to
take first places ouly. But other
U. of O. men came to the rescue
by taking second places in the
weights, thus in a measure, COM
pensating for Mr.. Hugs failure
to take both first and second. It
was evident to U. OF o. the day
before the meet that her best men
would not be able to do the work
on which she based her hope of
success. She could not realize
on Frissell, the gilded yellow
brick imported from Nevada, be-
cause he had "lacerated" muscle,
and would not, therefore, in all
probability be able to take first
and second places in the dashes,
hurdles, broad and high jumps.
Then it was decided that for a
few first places the management
could not afford to ''lacerate" the
tinsel of their treasure, and he
therefore did not enter any of the
events except the broad jump, in
which he made merely an exhibi-
tlon effort. Henderson, U. of O..
was slated to take third and fourth
places in the events in which Fris-
sell was to have first and second,
but he also was unfortunate in
having a sprained ankle. and
could not do the work assigned
him in the earlier calculations.
This was the first meet of the
intercollegiate Amateur Athletic
Association of Oregon, since 1893.
The trophy to be awarded the
successful college team was a
handsome silver cup, and it has
been added to the large collec-
tiOn of other trophies at O. A. C.
However, in order to retain it
permanently a college must win
In three successive seasons. Med
|als were also awarded to those
taking first and second places in
each event. Of these, o. A. e.
secured fifteen. In this meet all
OF the old l. A. A. A. records were
broken, excepting three, name
ly the high jump IS feet
8 inches). neld by Buck
lngham, O. u; the shotput (41
feet 2 inches), held by Sanders,
w. u, and the hammer throw
1Io feet I inch), held by Smith,
U. of o.
A new Northwest record was
made by Greenhaw, of o. A. c.,
IN the half mile, having gone
the distance in 1854 as against
the previous record of 2:o2 held
by Edmunson of Idaho. This
was a remarkable event of the
meet. Both Greenhaw and Pc
terson of P. U. were know to be
fast and that the Northwest rec
ord was likely to be broken, but
which of the two was the faster
it was difficult to predict. In the
test they ran together, leaving
other contestants in the rear. AS
they came into the last hundred
yard stretch, Peterson essayed a
squirt but he was ''all in" Green
haw thereupon lined out good and
strong and it was apparent that
he was master of the situation.
The o. A. c. boy had the race
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