The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-20


were here, there would be a larger attend.
anoe In New York. The public interest
In athletics has been stimulated greatly
In this city OF late. returning almoAt TO
the point where II was ears ago.
II Columbia 10 able TO provide q place
ON South Field where there will be q 22C
yard s~traightaway, which can easily BE-
done, and II there are stands enough
| there to accommodate the crowd Of 10000
or more persons who may be expected
to attend the meet, there Is small question
that the games will be held there as soon
as the field is ready. At any event thu
much Ii certain: any adequate Held IN
New York city has the call for them eet
just as aeon as one can be found. New
York being q sort of neutral ground ano
the easiest city for most Of the competing
colleges to reach 1t meets with favof
for those reasons too
POLE vAuLTINa RECORDS.
tryouts for the pole vault on Friday,
all the men who qualified exoelled the
record for the event. The first four me
Barr, Campbell, Cook and Pickles, cleared
IL feet ~ inches. Nelson and Vein
cleared IL feet d inch, but the FORMER
qualified as the fifth man in the a on
The next day Campbell OF Yale made q
IcCOTu VI IL l0ot % hiS''Sc
event. There was at first some doubt
about the awarding Of record medals,
Some persons were Of the impression
that each succeeding attack on the record
would be rewarded with extra prizes.
but that was not the case. The only
record medal given will be presented TO
Campbell, as the competition ID regarded
as complete only after the second DAY q
vaulting.
Oddly enough Vein. although I'M
placed. got his varsity letter al FrinoSso
because he vaulted IL feet u inch, making
a new record for Princeton. That en-
titles him to his letter. So also with
Dwight OF Princeton. who got his r for
running the high hurdles in is 2-S seconds
in the Cornell Princeton dual meet.
That broke the Princeton record too.
The Daily P1neetonidn explains these
awards both inaccurately. 1t says Vein
got his p for vaulting .12 feet ~ inches
in the intercollegiate meet. Had he
done that he would have qualified in the
first Ave. 1t says also Dwight got his
letter for running is 2-5 seconds in he
preliminaries to the intercollegiate games.
He beat Welsh Of Syracuse in the second
trial heat in 10 seconds and was third
in the semi-finals.
YALE's SUPREMACY.
The history Of pole vaulting In the
intercollegiate games shows q remark
able ascendenoy in this line Of sport
on the part Of Yale's athletes. 1t was
not until 1888 that any Yale man
scored a first in the pole vault In these
games, 80 that Yale's record for the
twenty-five meetings since that OF. 1885
occasions since then Yale men have had
the championship outright and on three
other occasions. when there were ties.
a Yale man got q gold med
The longest succession OF victories
was from 1898 to 1901 inclusive. when
four Yale men won outright and two
others were in ties for first. Yale won or
was tied for first in 1888. 1890, 1891. 1897.
1894. 1895. 1897. 1893, 1899. 1900. 1901. 1904.
1905. 1907, 1908 and 1909.
The most remarkable pole yaulter' in
this country, Walter Dray. Is q Yale man.
He holds the American amateur record
Of u feet o inches and q fraction. and did
hold the intercollegiate record before
another Yale man broke it. He still
holds the collegiate record OF IL feet
50 inches. Dray has the proud record
Of winning three gold medals in the
intercollegiate pole vault and as many
record medals.
In 1905, when he first won. he raised
the record from II feet 9 inches. where
Ward McLanahan. another Yale man,
had put it in 1904. TO IL feet l0H inches.
4 nav ma M AhNi h' a'Hty Stt " W
Grant Of Harvard and Jackson OF Cor
nell in tying for first bettered II by q
quarter of an inch. Dray won in 1907
and shot the mark up an inch.
1t was last year that the four. Yale
Q Dray. Campbell. Gilbert. and Mel:
sweeping the deck in the vault. In
qualifying for the vault Dray. Gilbert
and Nelson. together with Cook Of Cor
nell. made a new intercollegiate record
Of ~ feet That lasted a year Camp
bell Of Yale added 81 inches to 10 last
month in Cambridge.
Outside of Yale no n has been a con-
sistent winner in the pole vault. Prince
ton has won it outright four times and was
in that famous six man tie OF 1901. Co
lumbia has won it three times and has
been in a tie for first place once. Har-
ward has Won it outright twice and has
been in ties twice. Pennsylvania won il
twice and has been in one tie for first,
Lafayette has won it twice INT Lehigh
and c. c. n. Y. each once, Cornell once
was in a tie for first.
The first year OF the pole vault, 1877,
IL was won at 7 feet 4 inches. The next
year 0 feet was touched, c. FabreRou
Of C. C. n. Y. having that record. The
record advanced right along, except for
1881. until in 1888 II, P. Toler Of Princeton
cleared 10 feet. By 1891, when E. d.
Ryder, Yale, and H. F. WEIGH. Columbia,
tied for first. the mark was 10 feet
inches. c. T. Buchholz OF Pennsylvania
made it IL feet az inches in 1895, and IL
has fallen below II feet only once since
then. The record was made new prac-
tically every year after that.
In 1897 Bascom johnson OF Yale cleared
II fee So inches, pretty near the record
The following year r, @. Clapp OF Yale
and ". w. Hoyt Of Harvard earned
laurels by doing IL feet A. inches. That
was good for one season, because the next
year ,Clapp won all alone. with ll>feet
s inones. In 1902 Dan Horton OF Princeton
put it UP to IL feet Z inches, a feat equalleo
by Harry Gardiner of Syracuse the mex,
year. Ward McLanahan of Yale put /,
up two inches further in 1904. and theI
came the moderns, SO to speak.
THE GREATNESS OF DRAY.
Dray, who has made a peculiar study
OF the game. began to be busy. As .
~schoolboy in Oxford Acacemy he wal
beaten by some performers at 10 feet
0 inches or 30. but he put time on the
event and he learned about all that wal
to be known about 1t. The results OF his
studies are being seen now, for the mer
who worked with him and learned what he
knows are beginning to show. Prophecies
as to what is to be accomplished In pole
generally known are vague and rash.
Dray and Gilbert have done Is feet IL
practice on more than one occasion, anc
Il seems not unreasonable to expect tina,
vaulting ~ feet Q inches after no great
while will be a common thing. When Il
takes record breaking performances two
years straight TO qualify IN an event
Il can be seen that the quality OF minds
at work on i has improved greatly
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