The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-28
Chicago
Winner
At Mile
Wins Relay Champion
Shipin Penn Carnival
After Ten Years.
Gallaudet Is Beaten
By a Small
Margin.

PHILADELPHIA. April IA mon
ster crowd Of 1900 people saw the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania thirteenth an
nual relay carnival on Franklin field
this afternoon and cheered itself hoarse
over scores of exciting finishes in the
relay events and excellent performances
IN the field and special events. More
than Loo athletes were on the track and
arena. and the meet was the most sue
cessful in intercollegiate history.
The honors Of the day were very well
distributed. The University of Chicago.
after nearly ten vars Of trying. finally
captured the one-miIe relay champion
ship, the Westerners leading Pennsyl-
vania TO the tape by twenty-five yards,
in 1925 2-5.
Michigan Gets Four Mile
The University of Michigan carried or
its fifth successive victory in the four
mile relay race defeating Pennsylvania
by more than one hundred yards. The
time for this race was only 1915 40
Columbia University proved the sur
prise in the two-mile race, and romped
away with the championship after an
exciting last quarter mile with Dart
mouth. The fine sprinting Of link, OF
the New York team, was what won the
victory for Columbia. After being an
parently beaten, he came along in the
last one hundred yards with a wonderful
squirt and won the race by ten yards.
The time was Sill 4-5
The l20-yard brought out one Of the
finest quartets of hurdIers ever seen
at these relays. The event was won by
Shaw, OF Dartmouth, in the fine time Of
Is 2-5 seconds. equaling the intercolle-
giate records held by a. c. KranzIein.
Hubbard, Of Amherst. was a good sec
ond. being beaten by only yard and a
half. Mccullough, of Pennsylvania, was
third. and Talbot of Cornell. fourth.
RulOn-Miller Takes Hundred.
In the 10O-yard. two Princeton men.
Rulon-Miller and Gamble and Read, OF
Amherst, worked their way through the
preliminary heats. Rulon-AInler won
the final heat, beating Read by one and
one-hah yards and Gamble by three
yards. Although the sprinters had
slight wind at their backs. the time was
only 10 2-5 seconds.
The best performance of the afternoon
In thc field events was The pole vaultinp
Of Allen. OF Syracuse. The Syracuse
man first won the event with a lean of
II feet 10 inches, and then went after
the demOl:shing Of records. On his first
attempt he cleared the bar at u feet.
which broke the Eastern INTERCOLLEGIATE
record. Then he moved the bar up and
scaled it at y feet 1a inches. He made
desperate try 20 get a new worlds
record at y feet inches, but could not
negotiate this height
Kruger 0utpOints Garrels.
There was an upset In the sbot-n,,t i,
which II was thought Garrels. the Mich
gan wonder. would win. But Garrels
who has been doing 45 and 48 feet of
late. could not shove the missile out as
Tar as Kruger, Of Swarthnore ana
was beaten BY three inches. Kreuger's
put being 4S feet 9 inches. Talbot of
Mercersburg, was first in the hammer.
with a throw Of 153 feet 9l5 inches Tai
bot, who is only a school boy. finished
Up his days work by getting third in
the discus throw
Motif, the Pennsylvania star was
first in the high jump, with a fine lean
Of six feet
In the one-mile relay the Chicago team
led almost from start The second
Pennsylvania runner Haydock. made
up some OF the lost ground. but his was
a hopeless task, and Merriam, of Chi
cago' finished twenty yards ahead of
Cartmell.
In the fOur-mile relay race Michigan
Won the f=st relay with twenty-fiye
yards to spare and continued 10 increase
the distance in every relay except the
second, in which Root, for PENNSYLVANIA
cut down Michigan's lead to ten yards.
Gallaudet Second.
Athletes from the South figured prom
inently in many of the track events
The first TO Win distinction were the
quartet of members representing st.
James College. f. Warfleld jr., A.
Stevens, NJ. Crawford. and J. T. Harri-
SON. captured the third college race.
beating out Gallaudet by the margin of
re" feet Scarcely had this triumph !
been recorded before the Westminster
College relay team. composed of W p
Brown. W. l.. Marks. J. r. Mitchell. ana
J. 9. Mckay. won the next college race
in most pressing fashion. beating |
teams from Washington and Jefferson. |
Western University OF Pennsylvania, |
and the crack runners from Vfllanova /
College.
Western Maryland College team ran /
close TO Haverford in the next one
mile event, while Johns Hopkins had to /
be content with third place in the class /
with Lafayette. Swarthmore. Ohio State
University, and Pennsylvania state Col
lcse.
C'Boyle Doesn't Run.
There was much disappointment at the
uthdrawal Of O'Boyle. Georgetown.
VINO was entered in the 1OO-yard He 7
WIS drawn n the third heat with Rich I
ards, OF Massachusetts. Schoonmaker.
OF Princeton, and Gambler. of Princeton.
lie made false start. was penalfzed
one yard, and then withdrew from the
race without starting.