The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-09

Il n NA N0ASdA1tAoLA3 10 W DubBiDi6 Cilutu-
pions. Last year Stanford tied for SEQ
ond with Wfsconsin and was not far
behind Chicago. From the results OF the
games this year on the Coast both STAN
ford and California appear very strong.
In Miller. the half miller. who won the
conferences event last year for Stanford,
the Pacific Coast colleges have a sure
b he did last year. and In fact In almost
every one Of four OF five racing perform
anoss has done very close TO 1853 for the
bali mile He has not been timed for
worse tina 1869 in any competition IN two
He also is . ye::Ty !ss. MAJ IL .hs quarter
mile, n here Stanford has Wyman. a
do q little bit better than that. Miller Is
good enough to give Wyman q close race,
even after one Of his fast half miles. The
Westerners have also Crawford, . hammer
thrower and shot putter, who has thrown
thar ~ feet with the hammer and
is putting the shot very CLOSE to Is feet,
70 mat he Is likely to get double brackets
In. the high hurdles California has
Cowles, who did Is IS seconds In that
went e9ualing tho dual meet record.
In the pole vault neither college has this
year anybody "a good a. Bellah, a u foot
man. who was doing stunts last year.
Inc vault was won at IL feet 2 inches IN
this years games.
POLE vAULTNo DEVELOPED.
1t may. be. remarked how wonderfully
the standard Of intercollegiate oompetf-
don has improved In pole veulting In re-
cent years. Formerly a man who was
consistently good for II feet Q inches
would have Seol regarded as a wonder
and certainly would have had no difficulty
IN cleaning up any competition In which
he entered; and that was q matter Of
n isss thar five years ago. When Herton
Of Yale were vaulting about ii fest Z inches
or % people considered those marvellous
performances. It 10 certainly q great
Jump from the early days OF the intercol-
legiate pole vault. when eight or nine feet
was good enough,to win, up to about four
years ago. when II feet o inches was con-
dered q marvellous performances.
Once the IL foot mark was reached
there came q regiment Of II foot
vaulfers. MoLanahan Of Yale made this
mark. but the conditions under which he
made the vault were scrutiniEed very
closely and 1t vas decided that there
was too much wind stirring at the time,
because IL was not believed that any man
exceptional performer.
In h last two or three years such men
as Dray and Gilbert Of Yale, Cook Of Cor
nell, Bellah Of Stanford, Jacobs Of Chicago
and Barr Of Harvard all eclipsed marks
Of IL feet. The record for several
years preceding 1905 was held by Dole.
q Pacific Coast o~ollegian, who Had done
In games out there. but with the charac-
teristio suspicion in the East all Coast
records are regarded guilty until proved
innocent, and there was some private
doubt about this mark, although It stood
In the record books.
However. when bray and Gilbert got
busy with their attoks on the records, all
ago now since Gilbert vaulted something
over IL feet in games at Celtic Park, but
his mark was o o collapsed by that of
Dray OF Yale, whosirst vaulted IL feet 55
inches, and then In the relay games at
Philadelphia last year yaulted IL feet az
inches, which now stands as the college
record. Subsequently he vaulted IL feet
record. 1t Is also declared that both
Dray and Gilbert in practice have cleared
Is fest, but these marks. OF course. have
not been made In competition, 0 have
they been certified, 80 that they are doubt
full performances.
Every one Of the men in the last group
mentioned has vaulted better than II
IcCt y lCitS5 ain DOWdudyb III Ludl 10 IA
pected to vault in the intercollegiate games
whose best Is only M feet. It was only
hast year TINT q schoolboy won the cham
pionship Of Westchester county in the pole
varlt by doing II feet Q inches. Other
int~erscholastic performers have gone
close to IL feet.
Just what has caused this remarkable
burst in pole vaulting is hard to say. but
for a long time there was a considerable
Of very poor vaulters. The
Of better methods Of approach
the bar and an easier style in clearing
It added several inches to the possibili-
ties Of vaulting. but as pole vaulters come
In all shapes and sizes 1t Ia a to deter
mine what the cause Of this great i'm
ROWING AT GEORGETOWN.
Although rowing at Georgetown has
been going along very slowly all year,
there vii be a Blue T and Gray crew 81 on the
to the American Henley on May ~. The
College Journal is authority
for the statement that Georgetown is far
from the idea Of dropping intercollegiate
A plan has been developed
to keep up interest In the game and TO
assure having a crew eventually which
The plan adopted has been commented
on favorably by those who know the
at Georgetown.
The Georgetown publication says: After
for years to develop crews u OF
green men for competing in the biggest
regatta In the world It wa found
the efforts thus directed were futile and
that II Georgetown would again attain
4 high place among the varsities Of Amer
she must begin at the bottom and
m, So 1t r she has only = fresh
man Grew rowing under the colors OF the
I'D school, while In another twelve months
here should again be a varsity out work.
ne for honors on the water.
besides the eight regulars and four
,ubs from this years freshman shell
thers will be half a dozen veterans and
, couple Of ex-prepe and a squad Of new
nan 10 pick from. There will be a nucleus
,ro,nd which the coach can develop q
NEEDY eight and there will be enough
out for positions TO make tho
,ompetition for seats hot, thus influencing
training. But 1.-THE everlasting |
but again appearsl outside support
must he given in order that facilities in
yachting and practising will be as they
Mould Be at q place OF Georgetown's
sThe Alumni, for years dormant while
he students have struggled, must awake
y thsir Alma mater. The old ark must
"a repaired, the Robert Collier over
,auled. new shells and sweeps purchased
md n fund created for the payment OF
expenses. For years the cry has
LET the oarsrnen do something
than the alumni will help But now
49,. -oy and unlaaa tina old