Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-14
COLLEGE TRACK MEETS.
Cold Weather Did Not Bar Good Work
 of the Teams.

Tn the track meet between fale and
 Princeton held here on University field Saturday hinged till the very last moment on one event. / the pole vault. Dray of Yale won this, and the met went to the Ellis by score of 54 to 50. When the yaulters were attempting fair heights the score was announced at AS all. The Tigers only representative in this event was Veg in, sophomore and novice in in- tercollegiate contests. Vezin and Dray both cleared II feet inches. Then each had two trials, missing the bar at II feet 3 inches. On his last attempt the Yalensian got over, but Vezin failed.
 Miss Martha Gardner of Hartford, one of the two present students at Vassar college holding champion ships, was unable to approach her own record or to win better than third place in the event in which sne i is champion at the annual field day contests at Vassar college on Satur- day. Miss Gardner has the record of 16 1-3 seconds in the 100-yards hurdles. Two records were broken Saturday. Mildred Villas of Cleve- land made feet 10 3-4 inches in the fence vault, beating the college record by a quarter of an inch. Inez Milholland of London put the eight pound shot 31 feet 7-8 inches. beat ing the previous record of 29 feet II 1-2 inches. The sophomore class won the honors of the day.
 Hartford High lost the track meet with Hotchkiss school at Lakeyille on Saturday, the final score being 73 to 23. William Trayers Jerome, the dis trict attorney of New York, who lives near the school, refereed the meet.
 The Harvard interscholastic track meet held Saturday afternoon in the Harvard stadium was won by Ando- yer with 49 2-3 points. Volkamann school was second with 21 1-3 and Exeter third with 16 1-3. Worcester academy, Boston Latin school, New ton High school, Stone school, Brook line High school, Noble and Greenough school, Powder Point Providence tech, Quincy High school and Durfee High school followed in the above order.
 Saturday was Trinity lucky day in track athletics as well as on the dia- mond, as the men sent to Worcester won the meet from Worcester Poly technic institute, 7S to 5S points.
 In a finely contested field and track meet, the Naval academy won from the United States Indian school at Carlisle, Pa, by score of 60 1-2 points to 43 1-2 points. -
 Williams defeated Wesleyan in the annual track meet on Andrus field scoring S5 points to Al by Wesleyan. The track was partly submerged with water, but nevertheless fast time was made in many of the events,
 The first freshman track meet be- tween Yale and Princeton was mark ed by some excellent performances. Yale won by 66 points to A. D. w. of Yale captured both The hurdle races easily. He scored the highest number of points. Conway of Yale hurled the hammer 142 feet 8 inches. Princeton's best man malS- ing only 115 feet Goebel, the Yale wrestler, secured second place ip both the hammer and the shot put. | In the 100 yard dash Carey of Yale made the distance in 10 seconds, with | he wind blowing strongly at his 1 pack. Lo Montague won the 22G and ] was second to Carey in the 100. The i distance events were slow, owing to i he wind and cold prevailing.
 Rutgers defeated New York uni | 'ersity in a dual track meet by a core of 49 to 47.
 Amherst lost to Dartmouth in the | lual meet by score of S2 to A. The meet was the first ever held be- ween the two colleges. The track vas quite heavy owing to tee slight now which fell Saturday, but lespite this fact some fast time was made in several events.