Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-26
THREE new RECORDS
IN RELAY CARNIVAL
Pennsylvania Wins Mile and
Michigan the TWo-MiIe
Race-Dray's Great
Pole Vault.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. April 25.-Al-
ways productive OF new records. the
University of Pennsylvania's fourteenth
annual relay carnival saw the establish
ment of three new marks today. One
of these was a worlds record. another an
intercollegiate and the third an inter-
scholastic record. In the pole vault
Walter Dray. the diminutive captain of
the Yale team scaled the bar at the
dizzy height of II feet 6h inches. This
! was one inch better than his own pre-
! vious mark of II feet ga inches. which
. he reached one year ago. The intercol-
legiate mark to fall was that for the
Z two-mile relay race, which Michigan won
! easily in 8 minutes 3-5 seconds. which
! beats by one fifth of a second the long
| standing mark made by Pennsylvania In
| 1902 The honor for breaking an inter
: scholastic record went to the BROOKLYN
| Manual Training School quartet, twice
| winners of the interscholastic CHAMPION
ship of America. The Brooklynites ran
! the distance in 1888 40, beating the Tor
| mer mark held by the Wendell Phillips
High School Of Chicago by one second
While these records were the leading
features of the games, every eve on
| the program was full Of thrilling interest
and there was a continuous round or ap-
+. plause from all sections OF the Dig am
phitheater as the relay runners dashed
madly around the track or intercollegiate
! champions and wOuld-be title holders
strove for honor in the special events.
PENIS Victory.
The University of Pennsylvania one
, mile relay team brought joy to the thou
sands of Pennsylvania hearts by glo-
rious win in this event from the cham
m.
ter struggle every inch of the distance.
Twice the lead alternated. but the Quaker
athletes. showing magnificent condition,
were out to avenge their defeat of a year
ago by the western athletes, and Capt.
Cartmell crossed the line at the finish
four yards in advance of Lingle of Chi
cago in 323 40.
1t should be noted in passing that an
other record was broken, the weather be-
ing the title holder of this honor. 1t
rained. The chroniclers of Pennsylvania 8
relay carnivals do not record another day
since these races were inaugurated In
1896 that the heavens gave anything but
balmy breeze and sunshine to grace this
day. But even the weather man tried his
best to be good and the storm which was
threatening since noon held on Tor three
hours, and when the rain did descend
and send thousands scattering from the
anGands tt departed with as much sud-
1onness and left the track in far better
condition than before.
Dray's Great Performance.
Undoubtedly the feature Of the meet
was Dray's wonderful pole vaulting. This
young man, who stands hardly five feet
seven inches. possesses a brand of con-
sistent invincibiiity that has rarely been
equaled in the college athletic world. No
obstacle daunted him. The higher his
opponents went the higher he could go.
and he took the successive Jumps above
II feet with the same ease and grace as
At IL feet. At IL feet 1O11 inches Parker.
, wayside and at II feet 1 inch Cook of
Cornell and Gilbert, q teammate of Dray.
reached their limit. After clearing this
height Dray had the bar raised to Il
feet 81 inches and cleared 1t as though
he were flying on his very first trial.
Urged by his friends he had the bar put
ut II feet 1O11 inches. but here his
strength began to give out and after two
intellectual attempts he abandoned 1t. The
| competition was the fact that three men
broke the intercollegiate record of II feet
11Z inches.
Credit for the West.
Western athletes made themselves more
conspicuous than ever by their victories.
Besides Michigans feat of winning the
(and creating a. new record in the mile
relay. the west was first in the shot-put
when Burroughs. who halls from the
University Of Illinois. took the shotput
and the discus throw. In the former he
lowered the colors of Kreuger, Swarth-
more's intercollegiate champion. with a
put Of a feet 5h inches while his discus
throw victory was 123 feet inches. In
the high jump Miller Of Indiana and
Thorpe of the Carlisle Indian School tied
for first at q feet 1 inch
OF all the western standard bearers the
University of Michigan was deserving of
the most credit by its victory in the two
mile. The Wolverines had originally en-
tered for the four-mile event. but their
five successive victories and their present
great strength at the distance were enough
to Brighten out all other competitors but
the University of Pennsylvania The loss
OF Guy Haskins. the QuaKers' intercol-
legiate mile champion. reduced the
strength of the Quaker quartet below the
possibility OF victory, and. rather than
make the race procession all the way
the Pennsylvanians combined their
strength in the two-mile relay FORGETTING
the four-mile event to the Ann Arbor COL
legians. This left Michigan free to enter
the two-mile race. but the versatility OF
Michigan knew no limit, and men who
had been trained for the mile showed as
much speed for half the distance. and
after the first relay. which Pennsylvania
won. the Wolverines made this race al
most as much a procession as was ex-
pected Of them in the four miles.
Gallaudet Runs.
The quartet from Gallaudet College
were the only Washington athletes in
the relay races, the Washington Central
High School failing to appear for the
American high school championship, in
which a new record was set up The deaf
and dumb runners were In the college
race with teams from Franklin and Mar
shall Delaware and st. Johns of An
napolis. Westchester Normal School and
Pratt Institute. Capt Kutzleb, the Ken
dali Green first runner, was unable to
stand the swift pace. and finished flfth
and neither Grace. Davidson or Tomlin-
son was able to better the position of the
team
Connors. a Washington athlete, former
1y at PENNSYLVANIA. ran second on the
Wesleyan College team which defeated
Hopkins. Columbia, Lafayette. Ohio
State. Swarthmore and Boston Tech.
Summari
=s-maries.
Relay ma. = impionships -
One mile - Won by Pennsylvania .Uaylock
Whitman. Taylor and CartmeiN: second Chicsec
(Quigley Barker Merriam. Linglel: only two
starter Time In quarters. 0.61 %. i.l2 2.5,
Two miIes-won by Michigan MAY, Rove
Dull Coe): second. Pennsylvania (Hers H.,,ie
Gum, l.. r. JOnes): third Colun,bIa IZirt