Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-26
HARVARD.
UNCERTAINTY PREVAILS.
No One Is Able to Pick Winners of In
tercoIlegate Contests.


Boston. May 25.-There was fully as
much uncertainty over the final out
come of the intercollegiate athletic
championship this year at the close of
the preliminary events In the Stadium
at Harvard this afternoon as when the
teams representing nearly score OF
universities and colleges in the East
were first selected for this chief event
of the athletic season a month or more
ago.
Still, Yale by qualifying 20 men in
the trials today, to IA for Harvard and
IL each for Pennsylvania and Cornell,
seems tonight to be in somewhat bet
ter shape for the final tests tomorrow.
To be sure, the long distance runs have
still to be settled and while Yale is
not regarded as being strong in the
mile il is expected that one or two
Wearers of the blue will score points
i'm the two mile event.
Yale qualified five men in the 20
yard dash, three in the 100, three III
the 22O-yard hurdle, and two each in
the half mile run and the broad jump.
On the other hand. Pennsylvania men
easily won three of the four trials in
the 220-yard dash and two of the four
heats in the 100-yard dash and the
Philadelphia college was the favorite
for carrying off these two events.
Harvard made the best showing in
the high Jump, in which the Crimson
men secured three out of the five
places. Harvard. however. was I'M
placed in the low hurdles, the ham
mer. and the broad jump. a fact which
it was thought, will materially affect
the scoring ability of the Crimson team
tomorrow.
1t was in the quarter mile, the half
mile. the hammer throw and the pole
vault the Cornell representativ Is
showed UP particularly strong. The
Ithacans are also regarded as strong
in the nile and two-mile. which will be
run off tomorrow, and it is expected
that Cornell will be considerable Of
factor in the final result. In the first
heat of the half-mile run Carpenter of
Cornell ran a pretty race with Baker
of s yarthmore, and Seink of Column
ba, While in the second heat Town
send Of Cornell. after allowing Par
sons OF Yale to make the pace, passed
him in Sle stretch and won by num-
Der of yards. finishing very strong.
Fhe~ frature, Of the 100-yard dash was
the shutting ouSof Lockwood of Har-
ward, who was regarded as Crimson
point winner. In the 120-yard hurdle.
Turner of Cornell made the best time,
Is As seconds. although Castleman of
Colgate, who won his heat. was not
rushed and is the favorite in the finals
tomorrow In the 440-yard dash. three
Cornell men finished very strong. but
as the three place men in the two
heats all drew away from the rest of
| the bunch, none Of them eXerted them
| selves.
| The best time in the low hurdles was
| made by Hubbard of Amherst. "A IS
| seconds, and a fine contest is looked
| for between he and Castleman tomor-
| row.
In the four heats Of the 22O-yard
dash, the three Pennsylvania winners
were SO far ahead of their COMPETE
tors at the finish that one or two
looked back as they crossed the line.
The best time. however. was made by
Dodge of Harvard in the last heat, %
seconds fiat.
The weight events were well contest
ed ana IN the shot put it needed better
than Al feet to qualify, and in the ham
mer Horr of Syracuse, the leader
hurled the missile IA feet and half an
men. The Syracuse giant was a factor
IN Doth the weight events, being only
= one men behind Maxwell of Swarth-
more in the shot put.
IN 'ne jumping, the strength of Har-
vard IN the high jump was one Of the
SURPRISES of the afternoon. only Penn.
= syiNahia ana Yale getting a nI,ce in
" ing cent. Tie crimson, however M,
snu' OUT completely in the broad hmm