The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-10
Pill SBURY ATHLETES
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Jones First Home in 800 Yard
Run at Interscholastic
Meet.
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Chicago, June 9.-For the fourth sue
ccssive time, Lewis Institute squad of
athletes today carried away the banner
emblematic of the championship Of the
University Of Chicago's interscholastic
games. In the fifth renewal of the
event on Marshall field Lewis gathered
total of twenty three points, defeat
Ing by good margins the two Detroit
schools, it's closest competitors.
fell the honors of setting new United
States interscholastic marks, which,
with the cracking of all but two or
three of the maroon interscholastic rec
ords, made the meet easily the most
remarkable one ever held under the
auspices of the midway school. Freeney
of Ida Grove made his town famous by
clearing the bar in the pole vault at
IL feet 81 inches, quarter Of an
inch better than the mark made by
Morris of Englewood two years ago,
which has stood as the best in the
country.
Griffin of Joliet hurled the discus 1872
feet Az inches. The best previous
mark was 11S feet 2A inches, made by
himself in the University of Illinois
games this year. Griffin g victory gave
Joliet it's only points. Detroit univer-
sity school came prepared to make a
strong bid for first honors, and took a
lead at the start. but the Lewis team
was not to be denied, and gradually
pulled into first place, clinching its
position when Page ran second to Ben
OlIel of Ann Arbor in the two-mile run
It was the winning of first and Sec
ond places in the broad jump that gave
the West Side school its best advan.
tage, and finally put the others out Of
the running.
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Of II 1-3 points, which put it in second
place easily, and Detroit Central High
gathered IA: L. Talbot of Kansas City
Manual Training High gave a good ac-
count of himself in the twelve pound
hammer throw, setting a mark Of 1855
feet 5A inches, only two inches under
the national record and becttng the old
Marshall field mark by over twenty
feet.
scholastic record in the discus throw
Griffin Of Joliet set mark that prob
ably will stand for a long time unless
he cracks it himself He Is an athletic
looking chap, built on the order Of Gar
rels of Michigan, with strong shoulders
and long muscular arms. Griffin had no
serious opposition, for the winner Of
second place was eleven feet away from
his mark, and in turn was closely
Griffin required only a few trials in
the event to carry away the five points
for his school, while the others used
all the trials that were allowed them.
The second race Of the 440-yard run
brought out a remarkable contest, in
which J. c. Evans Of the Northwestern
college preparatory school of Naperville
won by coming from the rear of a
group of fourteen and beating r. A.
Mills of Morgan Park by two feet.
The time was not so good as in the
first race, but it was one-ffth of sec
ond better than the previous Marshall
field record. Summaries:
12o-yard High Hurdles-Torrey. Detroit school
first; Patterson, Detroit University school sec
end; Mnton. Central high, Kansas City, third
Craig, Detroit Central. fourth. Time, is l.;
seconds.
Running High Jump-Patterson, Detroit Uni
versity school. and Palmer. Morgan Park, ant
Stevens. University high. tied for first. Height
feet inches. #ashburn, Evanston, fourth
feet inches.
1872 feet AZ inches. Talcott, Kansas Cit!
Manual Training. second; III feet II inches
Fegan Culver, third: III feet Ok inches. Ran
one-mile Grammar schooD Relay Race
Walter Scott school. first; Forestvile school
school. fourth Time. 1892 2-5.
22O-yard Dash-Blatr. Hammond, first; Wild
man, Detroit Central, second: Turner, Grinnell
iowa. LnHui Snltn, HeDrOn, lnO., 1Ourth Time
% seconds.
Running High Jump--Patterson Detroit Uni
versity school. and Palmer, Morgan Park acad
envy, and Stevens, University high school. Chi
cago. tied for first; Washburn. Evanston, III
fourth. Height, feet inches.
Pole vault-Freeney, Ida Grove, Iowa, first
height, II feet 81 inches Wilee, West divi
inches. Reinaker, Lewis Institute, third
height 10 feet inches. Horner, Grand Rapids
fourth: height. 10 feet 6 inches.
22oyard Low Hurdles-Malcomson. Detroi
University school. first; Way, Hyde Park. SCI
ond; Craig Detroit Central. third; McMartir
West Des Moines, fourth. Time 20 seconds.
Running Broad Jump-Nicholl. Lewis inst
tute, first; distance, % feet inches. Watson
Lewis institute, second; distance, 81 feet 81
inches Mills. Morgan Park. third; distanc.
Fl feet 2 inches. Stevens Morgan Park, fourth
distance, 81 feet.
44o-yard Run (second race)-Evans, Nortl
western college prep school, first; Mills Mo
gan Park, second: Nicol. Lewis institute. THIRD
~ Bohnsack, Lakeview, fourth. Time, 81 2-5 SCI
onds.
One Mile Run-Dohmen. Milwaukee We
division, first; Hannevan, Detroit Central higl