New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-28
WEST SHOWS UP STRONG
RACE FOR COLUMBIA.
Michigan and Chicago Also Win
Relay ampionships.

Columbia carried Off the honOrs in the three
classic events Of the annual carnival OF sports
to-day on Franklin Field The national cham
! pionship one-mile relay race was won by Chi
cago from Pennsylvania. her only opponent:
| Michigan took the four-mile championship in
easy fashion. and the two-mile championship
went to Columbia after hard struggle.
No records were broken. but the thrty-seven
events. in which there were nearly eleven hun
dred contestants. furnished high class sports for
the more than fifteen thousand persons present.
The list of entries for the three great races OF
the day was not large as usual which was
somewhat of a disappointment. The reason
given for this was the lack Of condition of many
teams. because of the backward spring season
In the one-mile relay championship Pennsyl-
vania was without the service of Taylor the
great quarter-miler. Chicago took the lead in
the first relay and held It throughout to the
/ finish, winning by about fifteen yards
Columbia held the lead in the two-rnile race
until the fourth men took up the running when
Jennings, of Dartmouth. shot out in front. His
effort was too great for his strength. and Column
bia regained the lead and won by dozen yards
Yale was out of the race after her third man
! started.
The four-nlile race was procession. the crack
Michigan team never being headed by Penn
! sylvania. the only other team entered
The championships for high schools and pre-
paratory schools furnished fine sport, good time
being made, Notwithstanding strong wind.
Hill School. Of Pottstown. won the preparatory
school championship. and Brooklyn Manual
| championship The Wendell Phillips High
| School, of Chicago did not get place
! The special events on the programme were
notify contested. This was plainly shown IN the
| l2O-yard hurdles in which Shaw, of Dartmouth.
had to sprint the distance in 1925 seconds to
win from Hubbard, Of Amherst equalling the
! collegiate kraenZlein.
One of the star performers of the day was L.
Talbot of the Mercersburg CPenn) Academy.
The young giant. who is only nineteen years old,
won the hammer throw and took third place in
the shot put and third in the discus throw.
c. Allen, of Syracuse. after winning the pole
! vault at II feet 104 inches. tried 10 equal the
! worlds record of u feet AS, but the best he
| could 90 was II feet IA inches The sum-
| mares:
Training; Philade!Phia General High school, second
Preparatory schools Zone mi,e)-won by Nm School
ond: ST Paus school, Garden CITY, Long Island third
Freshmen Zone miIe)-wOn by Pennsylvania: Prince
ton. second Two starters. Time. 1888 Is.
chicago g9ssiey barker 1nse Psansy
Two starters Time by quarters; o'l 1872 80 2:So'
Two miies-wo. nby. Columbia GIoyns. Sanders,
shpley. Jennings). second: Yale tWillhms Frissell
Tilson. Parsons! third Time by half miles ZOE SO.
-Four miles-won by Michigan Cialoney. Ramsey Coz
and Rowe: Pennsylvania daiSe Root Jones ana Has
One mile preparatory schools and academes)-Won by
Georges school Philadelphia; Peddie Institute Highs
town y. j. second; Polytechnic Preparatory school,
Brooklyn. third Time 3}9. ,,-,,,.
l. mile (coleges)-Won by CTsinus. Collegevine
Penn; Brooklyn Polytechnic institute second; Brooklyn
/ Law School, third. Time, 3:4s2s ,, -,
One mile-Won by St Johns college Annap9ils; Gal-
one miie-Won by Westminster College. New Whining
ton Penn; Washington and jefferson. second; western
IJniversitv of Pennsylvania third. Time, 3:42s-
one miie-Won BY Haverford college; Western Mary
l land second Rutgers. third Time. 8:S3 ,-,
one ne-Non by Massachusetts Institute OF Techho-
! WESLEYAN. starters). Time 1876.
/ second: Lafayette. third. Time. S8O7s 49,,
one hundred-yard dash-Won by Rulon- Miller Prince
ton REID. Amherst. second: Gamble Princeton third
ne-IirdTed- i-tveuty-yard hurdls-won by Shaw.
Yarmouth: Hubbard Amherst second: McCulloch Penn
pole Tauit-won by Allen. Syracuse II r. loi+ In;
ra5ngs chicago. II # in. second Norris Illinois, II
IIjgL irnr-Won Mofit, Pennsylvania, 9 feet Ris-
l L. 5S,gate feet fnches, second. r. l. and r. G
! f5yesr1an Cornell tied third at o feet inches
| Sbot rut-Non by kreuger. Swarthmore 43 feet .
inches. arres Michigan ~ feet 90 inches second
Talbot Mercersburg Pa) Academy Al feet ~ inches
/ third No.. ,,,.-Aor- ,Ea Zoe.
Syracuse 1876 feet q Inches. second
! TI-sseiI Chicago 146 3 inches. third
| broad fump-Won by O'ConneI y T. A. G. q Ieet
q Inches Mount Pleasant Carlisle Indians. u feet %
inches second Smons, Princeton q feet inches thiro
| T1scns throw-Won by Garrels. Michigan lS5 feet .
inches IIor Syracuse inches second lalbot
! Mercersblrg l25 4 inches, ;hiId