Evening star., 1909-05-30
HARVARD BEST OF
INTERCOLLEGIATE
Yale Second. Pennsy Third
and Cornell Fourth,
All BunChed.
TEAM SCORES.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

new American record as we |. were made
in the intercollegiate games at the Har-
ward stadium today.
The new American record was in the
two-mile run, in which =. J. Taylor Of
Cornell was first to break the tape, in
8 minutes, - 3-5 seconds That was
just one-fifth of a second faster than
the performance of Alex. Grant at
Travers Island. September -, 1903. when
in special race he set up new figures
for this country. Taylor. unlike Grant,
ran on track that was slightly soggy,
and his race was in ali respects a grand
one.
Wilton C. PAUL. OF Pennsylvania COW
cred a mile in minutes IL 4-5 seconds.
beating by two and four-tifths the rec
ord for the intercollegiate mse ct, made on
the stadium track in 1907 by Guy Has
kins. another wearer of the Red and
Blue.
AS usual, the pole vault record was
cracked. Only yesterday four men raised
it from - feet to II feet "a inches.
Today c. S. Campbell of Ya.e cleared
the bar at II feet. 3h inches, and left
it at that eminence. He tried later on
to do II feet ) inches. but could not
accomplish it.
Where Crimson Scored.
Harvards sprinters and field me n scored
so well that the crimson won the meet.
Everything went according TO the dope
and a little better Harvard men had been
figuring th.rty-seven points for their
team. but the total was 30 LILO points.
Yale, which fell down badly, was second
with 81 TO points. Then came Pennsyl-
vania. 221s points; Cornell, 2O15 points;
Michigan. Ia points; Princeton. 4 points:
Swarthmore, Haverford and Syracuse. )
points each; Dartmouth, > 10 points; Co
lumbia, points and Brown, point.
The Michigan men, Dull West and Hall.
jumped out into the lead at the start OF
the two-mile race, Hall setting the pace
for the first half mile. Closely attending
him. besides his teammates, were Light
ner of Yale, jacques OF Harvard, and III
the middle of the bunch was Taylor. Hall
stepped to the first quarter in G5 80 sec
onds: in the next lap West led for bit
of the way, but Hall once more was IN
the. lead as they came to the half mile
This was covered smartly in . minutes
l6 80 seconds. Jacques, who had been
saved out of the mile run, was running
sluggishly in the middle of the bunch,
rarely further up than sixth place Tha
Wolverines kept right on pacing, alterliat-
ing as they did SO. unit! the tntee-qlarters
We're covered in = minutes - seconds
1t was about mere that Taylor began to
make his presence fell. He came up slowly
as The crowd rounded INTO the back
stretcn ana ran On the outside near Dali
for most Of TIL" lap. Thus ii was that he
was d step or 50 ahead of the Michigan
runner When the Two went 10y the mile
post jacques moved UP to ABOUT hftl
place, with Lisltner and W est ahead OF
him.
Lightner for a Time.
From the moment that the Comedians
red head showed near the front the pace
became much brisker. He didn't lead sor
long, as LightneI OF Yale shot by the
bunch. Hall of Michigan dropped oaI
about a mile and quarter, leaving h!S
other two teammates close up TO the lead
ers. However. LiGhtner was in front
from about half mile. going by the tin-
is line in ) minutes ~ 40 seconds at IL
mile and a quarter, and then doing the
mile anu a half in minutes IL seconds.
Taylor took charge of the race soon aft
erward. He dashed to the front and be-
gan what was really a squirt for half
mile. He made t..e pace a bit too hot for
any of them 10 hold although Duh certain
ly was not easily shaken off. The Mlch-
gan track captain dashed along IN second
ping before West and Jacques, in that
order. The others were nowhere. Tl,eEs
was only a quarter of a mile left Whtn
Taylor paced over the line in mihu q
% 40 seconds, and Ii could be seen tifist
ne was going some when he made hs
final eighth of his distance i'm I'll 10 sst,4
onds. o-
Red was plugging down the back stretch
great guns when the condition OF affairs
behind him changed d little. Duli was mis-
hfu1 attendant IIpbtn4r and
West had ialien back, jacques made a
bid in the back stretch, and tor a nom mt
showed enough speed to give the lmp.es-
sion that he had a chance. Ii was Tor d
moment only, however, because Taylor
put on a bit more power and swung
around into the home stretch, going like
a race horse. Dull, who ran a magnili-
cent race, never gave up trying. but his
finest efforts did not prevent the gap at
the end from becoming about ten yards.
Dull did not nave To work to save second
place because jacques was very tired
and more than twenty yards behind MIN.
est struggled in fourth.
Paull's Beautiful Race.
Tayors performance was decidedly
noteworthy, but Il WAS no better as a
piece Of running than Paul did in the
mile. In fact. il probably was not as
good When the men went TO the post
for this race, the first OF the afternoon,
JACQUES of Harvard was not among them.
rh. event proved the wisdom OF saving
him PAUL had among his rivals McGee
of Princeton ard a couple of Michigan
men, Tower and Nay and the important
ones These were the placed men in the
event MCGEE and Pan sons another
princetonian, essayej to Go = little pac-
Ing but PAUL was running his own race,
and before sixty yards had been covered
he was in front and going like a whirl-
wind He bothered about no on. else
and dashed along full of Soing. He cover
ed mis- first quarter in 81 n. seconds and
was going as peacefully could We
imagined. Using long stride, but cover
ing his ground with the great-st Of ease.
the Pennsylvania boy tipped alcA@ and
made his half mie in o.; IL. Paul WAS
- yards ahead of his field then. Three
quarters of the journey lie did III :;.iu 80,
and then was about IS yards ahead. MI
this time McGec was we'll ahead of the
two Michigan men, and the rest of the
contingent wasn't anywhere.
PAUL just hreeZed by the finish line in
All 40. about - yards ahead of Nc
Gee.
The most unusual part was the un-
concerned demeanor of the Pennsylvania
lad He turned away after the finish and
walked as calmly over to the timers as
at.