Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29
pEhNSY so YARDS BEHIND
Yale Runners Beaten Nearly
Lap.
OVER $1,000 PERSONS PRESENT
Field and Track Events Held by UNI
versity Of Pennsylvania on
Franklin Field.

Special Dispatch to The Star
PHILADELPHIA. April 2s.-One worlds
record was broken and a collegiate record
was tied in the twelfth annual relay car
niv2l given by the University OF Pennsyl-
vania on Franklin Field this afternoon.
The University of Michigan four-mile relay
team smashed the best previous figures for
the distance by II Is seconds. going the
route in 1s.1o2 -5. and Swain Of Pennsyi-
vania and Phillips of Cornell both tied tho
best previous pole vault record, clearing
eleven feet eight inches. The records made
in all the other relay races and special
events were above the average and marked
this years carnival as tho most successful
of the long series
Everything conspired TO make the occa-
sion memorable one warm sun shone
from a cloudless sky and only a few ntfui
gusts OF wind interfered with the speed of
the runners More than 1900 athletic en-
thusiasts took advantage Of the perfect day
to watch the work OF the more than 800
competitors, representing more than 300
schools. academies and colleges
The best races on the program were tbe
one and four-mile college championships,
the high school CHAMPIONSHIPS ami the raca
with the University OF Virginia. the Car
Isle Indians, Lafayette and Iehiph as
starters Pennsylvania won the one-mue
stellar event by eight yards from Syracuse.
with Chicago third by ten yards Whit
nam and Haydock, the Quakers' first and
second men, held the Syracuse and CHI
cago runners even, but in the third relay
tartmem, the red and blue star. opened q
gap OF six yards, which Bonsack. on the
maj relay, increased two yards The lat
ter ran his relay in 40 % seconds The
Quakers time was within 40 seconds Of
the worlds record for the distance.
The Four-Mile Relay.
There were three starters in the four
mile event which ended tho afternoons
sport. pennsylvania was on the inside
-hicHlsan next and Yale on the outs,da
Jones of Pennsylvania and Malonev OF
Michigan ran shoulder TO shoulder for the
hrst mile. the Quaker breaking the taro
scant haf yard In the lead. Yale mas al
ready thirty yards in the rear. and n was
evident that the Ellis would no, on, o.,
Inquire In the result
Inc University of Virginia. Johns uo,-
kins and Western Maryland were the o,i,,
southern Institutions to make a creditahl,
showing. In the closest race of the after
noon Hopkins went down before Swartb-
more WAh barely daylight between The
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LAFAYETTE In the second fastest race of the
carnival, the men from Easton running IL
mile In 3.23 40. There was little To c6ooee
eetWeen Vlrginians and Lafayette i'm the
nrSt three relays, but Colliton, the Easton
coAeges star. with a record of 40 ID for
tne quarter, was a bit too speedy for Cant
"aples and won out by ten yards
daAaudet failed to show. being beaten
to a. standstill by Western MARYLAND. 81
johns of Annapolis and Delaware Colleges
George Washington was entered, but failed
TO start.
Central's Runner Spiked.
An unfortunate accident to Kemuer In
the first relay put the Central High School
of Washington out of the running for the
high school championship. Rounding the
first turn the Washington boy was tostled
and spiked, being shrown on the outside OF
the track He lost fifteen yards. Sherman
and Clagett running second and third
for the capital city school. held their
own, Clagett bringing his team into
third place The speed of the Chicago,
Baltimore and New York schools on the
final relay was too much for Capt. Wallace.
and he finished In fourth place, being
beaten twenty yards
For the first half of the second mile
Ramey of Michigan trailed Terry OF Penn
sylvania. Then the Wolverine rushed to
the fore and finished his turn with forty
yards to spare over the fast firing Quaker.
From this point the race developed into
procession, although Zoe ana Rome OF
Michigan added very little to their lead over
Haskins and Root of Pennsylvania, the
Wolverines finally winning out over the
Quakers by fifty yards Yale was 300 yards
put up by Hall on the last relay would
have been Tapped The Pennsylvania quar-
tet also broke the previous record for the
distance finishing in 1924 10, 20 seconds
better than the former time.
Two-Mile College Championship.
For the first two relays in the two-mile
college championship Pennsylvania also
looked dangerous, but the lanky men from
Dartmouth spread themselves on their
third and fourth turns, landing the first
honors with a margin OF ten yards over
Columbia, the Quakers being the same dis
lance back in third place.
Mercersburg Academy made q runaway
race of the Preparatory School champion
ship in which the Centenary Collegiate In
stitllte of New York nosed the famous Hill
School out of second place in the last ten
yards.
on the program. twenty-eight of which were
relay races.
Dick Dear Runs Dead Heat.
In the special IoO-yard dash Dear Of Penn
syIvania ran dead heat with Castleman Of
Colgate, Gamble of Princeton finishing third.
A stiff head wind made the time slow. This
was also the case In the 120-yard hurdle.
which also went to Castleman Armstrong
of Princeton being second and Hubbard OF
Amherst third.
Michigan scored first and second in the
shot put Coe winning with a put or 40 feet
lib inches ard Dunk finishing second. The
east also went down before the west In the
hammer throw, Parry OF Chicago whipping
SheylIn to a standstill the latter barely es-
Gaping being pushed into third place by
wilkinson, also from the windy city. In tho
discus throw the west made clean sweep,
CARRIES and Coe OF Michigan finishing first
and second, with throws of l26 feet and Ia
feet G inches. Parry of Chicago was third.
Without exerting himself Mt. Pleasant,
the dusky Indian brave from the Carlisle