The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25
EASTERN ATHLETES
| WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Yale Breaks TwO-MiIe Race
Record; Brooklyn NJ. T.
School Gets Record.
FAST TINE IS MADE
IN ALL RELAY RACES
l5O0 Athletes Represent 200
Educational Institutions on
Franklin Field.

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-East-
ern athletes took two of the three ma
ficnal relay championship races today
|Ht the annual carnival of sports on
I |FrRnklin field
k Chicago university captured the one
|>uile blue ribbon event, Yale won the
ftUo.mile relay championship and Penn
Fy1vania won the four r-mile from Mich
|sigan university. The freshman cham.
kpionship was won by Princeton. Law.
:renceville, N. j., academy was first in
the preparatory school relay national
championship and the national relay
championship for high schools WIS won
|,oy the Brooklyn manual training high
IJchool.
T. Two records were broken. Yale in
winning the two-mile race reduced the
FA<ollegiate figures from S:04 % to
S5;02 2-5. The high school record Of
[3:33 4-5, held by the Brooklyn. NJ. I.
! 1chool, was reduced two.fifths of i see
|t,nd by the same institution.
r. Fast time was made in other relay
faces. In the final of the 120-yard
etnrdles Shaw of DaGmouth covered the
F.iistancc in only one-fifth of see
md slower than tho world S record of
|t.5 1-5.
r The weather was perfect and $4,000
|s'ersons were present. There were fully
E,500 entrants, representing about 200
| ducationsl institutions.
Ht Michigan Loses
~ Michigan has won the four.mle re-
Fslay race Sin times straight, always in
sasy fashion. This year, however.
won the race. In the first
,ile Beck Of Pennsylvania gave Lover.
|ang. the second Pennsylvania runner,
ESpl of nearly fifty yards. The lat
Efr held it until the last quarter of the
4 eccud mile. when West of Michigan
|fIassed him and gave May, the third
|rlichigan runner. lead Of forty yards.
day Increased this to fifty yards. when
[7io turned the race over TO Dull, the
a Michigan star. William Paul had been
licked to make the running for Penn
E1flyania on the last relay. Duh started
|Uff at n fast clip, but Paul, running
|r1rong, caught and passed him aud won
:. lsily the relay and the race.
! r. Dull was beaten by about seyenty-five
ards. Paul ran magnificent race,
,e time for his milo being 4;2S.
The one-mUc championship was 4 hot
&c down the stretch between Chicago,
jchigsD, Harvard aud Illinois, and it
as not decided unii the tape was
|6aehed Chicago won by few feet
ON Michigan with Illinois third.
RTlPrineeton and Yale were regarded
N so fast in the two-milc race that
ltre of the entrants came 10 the
gratch when the race was called. Yale
ktkid the lead on the first TWO RELAYS,
st il on the third. rcgained it in the
retch on the last lap and won by ten
irds.
Franklin Field Sports.
High jump-Wou by Porter, Irish
thletic club. feet; sccoud. Caufeld,
ale, feet | inches: third, Burdick,
snnsylvana. , feet 10 inches,
Onc-mile relay collcge-Won by New
ork Law school; second Indians,
,nnsylvania Normal school; third,
.ooklyn POLYTECHNIC institute. Time,
~ %.
One-ulile relay college race-Won by
att institute, Brooklyn; second. Mary.
nd Agricultural college: third, College
CITY of New York Time, 3:3i %
Onc.milc relay collcgc-Wou by Car
gle Technical, Pittsburg; second, Unit
rsity of Pittsburg; third, Fordham
iversity. Time. 80 %,
One-mle college relay-Wou by Rut.
rs college; second, Western Mary,
nd college; third, Carlisle Indian
hool. Time. 1881 40.
One.mile relay college-Won by Mas
chusetts Technical: second, WESLEYAN