Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-25
HOLD NATIONAL
RELAY CONTESTS
COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL
RECORDS ARE BROKEN
FAST TIME MADE BY ATHLETES
IN PHILADELPHIA
Eastern Runners Take Two of Three
Championship Events In Country
Wide Contests on Track at
Franklin Field
[By Associated Press.l

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PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-Eastern
athletes took two of three national re-
lay championship races today at the
annual carnival of sports on Franklin
field.
Chicago university captured the one
mile blue ribbon, Yale won the two
mile relay championship and Pennsyl-
vania won the four-mile race from
Michigan.
The freshman championship was won
by Princeton.
Lawrenceville, N. j., academy was
| first in the preparatory school relay
national championship, and the ma
tional relay championship for high
schools was won by the Brooklyn
| manual training high.
Two records were broken. Yale, in
winning the two-mile relay, reduced
the collegiate figures from 1904 rs.
to 500 rs.
The high school record of 1898 AS,
held by the Brooklyn manual training
| school, was reduced two-fifths of a Sec
| ond by the same school.
Fast time was made in other races.
| In the final of the 120-yard hurdle
Shaw of Dartmouth covered the dis
tance in only one-fifth of a second less
than the worlds record of Is is.
The weather was perfect and $4,000
persons were present.
| Michigan had won the four-mle re-
| lay race six times straight previous
| to today.
The one-mile championship was
hot race down the stretch between
| Chicago, Michigan, Harverd and IL
| linois, and it was not decided until the
| tape was reached. Chicago won by
| few feet from Michigan, with Illinois
| third
Princeton and Yale were regarded as
so fast in the two-mile that none of the
other entrants came to the scratch
when the race was called. Yale held
the lead on the first two relays, lost it
on the third, regained it in the stretch
on the last leg and won by ten yards.
| Summaries:
FRANKLIN FIELD, April 24.-Two-
mile relay, national college champion
ship-Won by Yale; second. Princeton.
Time, 500 Us. Breaking college record
| of S:04 20, made by Michigan in 1905
Columbia, Pennsylvania and Dart
mouth did not start.
One-mile relay, freshman champion
ship-Won by Princeton; second, Penn
sylvania. Time, 1929
One mile. relay, college race-Won by
Pratt institute, Brooklyn: second,
Maryland Agricultural college; third,
College of City of New York. Time,
1884 2-5.
One mile. relay, college-Won by Car
negie Technical, Pittsburg; second,
University of Pittsburg; third. Ford
ham university. Time, 9:55 2-5.
One mile. college, relay-Won by
land college: third, Carlisle Indians.
| Time, 3:31 AS.
| One mile, relay, college-Won by New
York law school; second, Indiana, Pa,
normal school; third. Brooklyn Poly
technic institute. Time, S:44 2-5.
Pennsylvania won four-mile national
championship, Michigan's first defeat
in several years at this distance.
One mile. relay (high school national
championship)-Wo by Brooklyn M.
T. high school; second, Atlantic City
high school; third, Philadelphia N. T..
NJ. T. school. Time. 1888 2-5. breaking
high school record of 1888 AS, made by
the same school last year.
University high school of Chicago
also started.
Broad jump-Won by NJ. T. Pleasant,
| Dickinson college, % feet 3A inches;
second, Fitzpatrick, Yale, % feet 8
inches; third, Nixon, Cornell, % feet 2
| inches.
championship-Won by Chicago (Dav-
export, Comstock, Timbling, LingeD;
second, Michigan university Craig,
Gamble, Leger, Keick) third. Illinois
| Gindberg. Richards. Hodge, Petit
grew. Time, 1925 AS.
Discus throw-Won by Hord, SYRIA
cuse, 131 feet inches; second, Horner,
Michigan, 100 feet S1e inches; third,
Darborn, Wesleyan. 118 feet inches.
| 120-yard hurdle. fnal-Won by Shaw,
Dartmouth; second, Dwight. Prince
ton: third Raud. Harvard; fourth,
Jeefe, Harvard. Time, OILS 2-5.
100-yard DASH flnal-Won by Foster,
Harvard; second. May, Illinois; third,
Dawbarn, Princeton. Time, 0:10 1-5.
High jump--Won by Porter, Irish
American Athletic club. feet; second,
Garfield. Yale; third, Burdick, Penn
sylvania.
Pole vault-Won by Nelson, Yale, II
feet II inches; second, Barr, Harvard.
cleared bar at IL feet II inches and de-
eided not to try any further; third,
Mills, Cornell. II feet 9 inches.
| One mile, relay-Won by Massachu-
sets Technical; second. Wesleyan uni
versity; third. Lafayette. Time. 1881 2-5.
Hammer throw-Won by Talbot,
Cornell, 100 feet 10h inches; second
Cooney, Yale, 156 feet inches; third,
Goebel, Yale, 1874 feet Z inches.