The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-04-19

championship after the first event, the
one mile run, had been won by Brad
ford of Stanford. Stanton then won the
100, Cowles took the 120 yard hurdles,
Stanton came back with a sensational
victory in the quarter mile and was
followed by the unexpected success of
Gaines in the two mile run. Johns
kept up the good work by running
dead heat with Horton, Stanford's crack
hurdler in the low hurdles. Paul won
the 220 nat race and then Stanford
broke in with a victory in the half
mile.
STANFORD STRONG ON FIELD
The field events brought Stanford up
with rush in the points table. By
some peculiar process of mathematics
the Stanford men figured that if they
could win the relay race they would
win the meet. They did win 1t, and
went into a delirium of joy, but as the
results came in from other events they
became serious again and had to do
some more figuring 1t was not until
the broad jump, the next to the last
event on the program had been decided
that 1t was really known which side
had won.
Although Stanford took first place,
the Berkeley men scored enough points
TO hold slight lead they had previ-
ously obtained and the result assured
them of ultimately carrying OF the
official result had been. announced In.
the broad jump the California men in
the stands knew that their team had
won. Hats were thrown high and the
men danced about with the wild aban-
don which usually marks the close of
the annual football game They cast
about for some object on which to ex-
tt.ofr
their captain, Stanton. He was raised
on the shoulders OF group of men and
carried In triumph complete circuit of
the quarter mile track
This left only the pole vault and the
big crowd, which had followed with
keen interest every move on track and
field throughout the day, slowly dis
persed. The pole vaulters went at
their work to determine the individual
winners. although the result could not
effect the general outcome. After
vaulting until darkness set In, the
competition ended in Bellah of Stan
ford winning a total height of IL feet
g inches. When all had failed to
clear the bar with the exception of Bel
lah the cross piece was raised to 10
feet 6 inches, two inches higher than
the coast and intercollegiate record
held by Fred flanagan. BY. this time It
w dS 50 0dI A. tfidl LIS CIoSS piece COULD
hardly be distinguished and Bellah was
possibly deprived of chance Of estab-
fishing new record
FALL SHORT OF RECORDS :
The competition showed that both
universities lacked sensational per-
formers in the field events. Their eff
forts fell far short of the records In the
weights. The broad jump, which was
won by yandervoort of Stanford, was a
meritorious4 performance, as he fell
short only half inch on the record
held by Broughton.
81 The quarter mile race was looked
upon as the great event of the day. In
this two Stanford men werA pitted
against six wearers of the blue and
gold. Wyman. the crack representa-
tive of Stanford, drew the pole, while
Stanton was next TO him. Wyman
broke quickly and set a sizzling pace
for the first 200 yards Stanton did not
make his bid until he had reached the
head of the home stretch. when he
came on with great gamencss. and
gaining inch by inch finally won by
two yards. The Berkeley rooters near
iy split their. throats in an effort to do
justice to the sensational performance
of the captain.
Just before this race the Caiifornians
showed a. note OF triumph in their
cheering when Cowles won the 100
yard hurdle race covering the sticks
in Is As seconds. tying the former
record. This race was a great .disap-
pointment to the stanford men, as
Horton their main reliance e. in the
hurdles. ran unpIaced.
The half mile ranked with the quar-.
ter. as one Of tile great races of the
meet. Ia this Lee Of Stanford set a
fast pace after hghting for the lead