Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
The Records Compared.

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The figures printed above might lead one
a. first thought to give the championship to
the west, but there are two very important
considerations which would reverse this
judgment The first is the weather condi-
lions. The Cambridge meet was marred by
a perfect gale that blew In the faces of all
the sprfnters and distance men. Not the
slightest shelter was afforded the athletes
from the wind, and competent judges de-
cared that the wind slowed up the track
performances two seconds to the quarter
and in the 220-yard run full two seconds.
little protection was furnished for the
10o-yard run and the high hurdles but
even this was but little relief the wind at
times being strong enough to almost blow
man off the track. The best proof OF the
handicap of the wind Is the performance of
Cartmell, the University of Pennsylvania
Splinter who has beaten 10 seconds for the
100 yards and 81 % for the furlong event
consistently all year, and he simply ran
away from his competitors, with the excep-
ton of his team mate, Whitman, In both
events. Had there been no wind both
sprints would have been run in record
breaking time
The same was true in the quarter-mle
run. in which Rogers of Cornell. Dives of
Harvard and Colitton OF Lafayette had
beaten 80 % seconds, yet against the
strong wind could Go only 81 1-5 seconds.
In the mile and two-mile runs the suprem-
shown by the fact that even against the
wind they beat the western records.
Another Consideration.
The second consideration is this: In a dual
meet at least three places would count in
the scoring, which would make a victory
for the east certain. In the broad jump.
high jump and shot put the first three
point winners in each event in the east beat
he afTfr Of ia IrY1a in
meet. In the broad jump, for the east
feet, while Weber of Stevens. the third
place man In the east. outjumped Heath OF
Michigan, the western winner
In the shot-put the record of Dunlap Of
Michigan, the VESTS first man. was only
-. liz. whereas Maxwell of Swarthmore
who scored third in the east. made a put
OF 43.0S24 inches. nearly q foot better than
the western winner. In the high jump FIVE
men in the east did better than the win
ners of the west
In the hammer throw the west has the
advantage. the third man in the conference
meet tying the throw of the winner in the
east, which was 149 feet IA inches. The
west also enjoys superiority in the pole
vault, though this event Is such An uncer-
tain one that the result might be reversed.
In this event the west had two men. who
beat the record vault in the east. Samse.
the winner, mace MS new word record OF
12.047s, and Haggard of Drake cleared
12.0Os4. a performance which would have
attracted wide attention but for the vault
of Samse. The best the east could do was
IL feet 10& inches, new eastern record.
The uncertainty of the event is we'll illus
trated by the work of Gilbert, who tied for
fourth in the eastern intercollegiate with a
leap of IL feet 6 inches, and then the next
week made q new world record of u feet 3
inches only TO lose it two days later to
Samse.
In all of the runs the east has a greater
number of first-class men than the west
and this would undoubtedly rebound to the
advantage of the east. great deal Of
criticism is heard in eastern circles because
their officials did not make possible the pro-
posed dual meet The facts In the case are
that the east was afraid, after the perform
ances of western men at the relays, that
they would be beaten in dual meet This
intersectional meeting is surely coming, and
when It does arrive there will be some new
intercollegiate records set up.