The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-07
STANFORD MAKES
GREAT SHOWING
Team Defeated by Utah Wins
Second Place in All West
ern Meet.

Marshall Field. Chicago. June g.
Chicago won the annual track and
field meet of the intercollegiate con-
ference on Marshall field this after
noon, scoring "a points. The teams of
Leland Stanford, Jr.. university and
the University of Wisconsin tied for
second honOrs. with 20 points eacn,
Illinois, the former conference cham
pion, was fourth. with is points. The
meet was so close that the result was
not counted until Merriman won the
last event on the program, the 22O-
yard hurdle.
No records were broken, but May Of
Illinois tied the western record in the
10G-yard dash, running in AS sec
onds The real feature of the after
noon was the desperate race in the
two-mile run, Carr of Michigan Agri-
cultural college finishing with a sensa-
tional sprint and defeating the second
and third men by inches only. Out
side of this race the results were
largely according TO form, although
the failure of the Leland Stanford Jr
men in the distance runs and the field
events was not expected and had
much to DO with the teams inability
to win first place.
Merriam Is the Star.
Merriam was the star individual
performer of the day gaining victories
i'm both the events in which he took
part. Jacobs of Chicago took the pole
vault with comparative ease. Bellah of
Leland Stanford failing because he
could not control his pole after he had
cleared the bar. May of Illinois won
the shorter dash, though Nelson of
Colorado gave him the hardest kind of
IL f,T
ing across the tape half an inch apart.
The scores:
Chicago, "A: Leland Stanford, 20;
Wisconsin. 20: Illinois. Is; Grimmell,
Il; Purdue, s; Michigan Agricultural.
g. Ames, Z; Indianapolis, I; Beloit, l;
Marquette. l: Lawrence, l; Colorado
Agricultural l.
Summary.
4iO-yard rum. w Merriam. Chicago,
first; +. F. Lindberg. Illinois, second:
J. O. Miller, Stanford, third. Time
80 %
l2O-yard hurdIes-F. ]. Natwick, Wis
consin, first; o. G. Fifield. Purdue, sec
ond; H. /. Horton, Leland Stanford,
third. Time-:15 40.
Pole vault-C. S. Jacobs, Chicago, first;
height, Y feet. S. H. Bellah, Leland
Stanford second; height, II feet 10 inches.
W. X. Jones, Illinois, third; height, II
feet inches.
J.
ford; II. I. Slaght. Grinnell, and w. J.
SchOmmer, Chicago. tied for the three
places. Height. feet 10 inches. Martin
won the toss for the medals.
SSO-yard rum. o. Miller. Leland Stan
ford. first; c. J. Oviatt, Michigan (agTi-
cultural, second; j. w. Davis, America,
third. Time-1:57 %.
Shot put-O. P. OstOff. Wisconsin first;
distance, A feet ] inch. ]. p Schommeg.
Chicago. second. distance. Il feet incIses.
II. L. Hort n, Leland Stanford, third;
distance Al feet ! inch.
220-yard dash-H. II. Huff Grinneli
won; w W. May Illinois, second; J,
w Nelson. Colorado Agricultural, third.
Time-:22 L.
Tw0-mile rum. ]. Carr. Michigan ag-
ricutural, first; J. f. Waggoner, Ames
second; H. H. Maundrel, Leland Stan
ford, third. Time-9:56 10
Hammer throw-D. p. Crawford, Le-
land Stanford, first; distance, 1SS feet
AZ inches. Z. w. Lambert, Ames. sec
ond; distance, 1856 feet ~ inches. c. B.
Eyer, Lawrence, third; distance 135 feet
IL inches.
Two hundred and twenty-yard hurdles
y. W. Merriam, Chicago, first: L. Gar
diner, Illinois second; o. S. Fifield, Pur-
due. third. Time. :25 2-5.