New-York tribune., 1909-01-26
YALE WINS RELAY RACE
roLTMBIE GETS SECOND.
r~rou;na Wins I'en-miIe Run at
the P1stime Games.

The fNo-Tnile CcleEe relay race at the
,as Of the Pastime Athletic Club. in Madison
So Garden last night. The starters were Yale,
MIA Columbia and the College Of tie
-. If New York and each man ran half mile.
=, she first relay Cohn. Of Pennsylvania. set the
ard showed the was until the bell lap. when
- made timely sprint and carried the Yale
"a che front. When he relieved the Blue
-, advantage Of five ysrds over Pennsylvania,
,+b Baird of Columbia close up, while the College
:. +be City of New York representative a
Lediy beaten man
= .tart the second relay Mann kept the Yale
,tors in the van most of the distance. but gave
- IN Kennedy. of Columbia for a lap. while
,xrxrtnr OF Pennsylvania, also moved up practi-
uv na even terms. In another fine burst of speed
hs Yale man again leo at the line. closely followed
hr kennedy and Levering. BY this time the Col
lee. Of the City of New York man was lap be
hnd and ready to quit.
coluuhia's hopes were raised in the early part
~ the third relay. when link rushed to the front
Y,vassof, Of Yale, tolerated this for two laps
wilson of Pennsylvania, began TO lose ground. and
s,;led 10 keep the pace throughout the bell lap
ysvassorf led by yard link, with Wilson ten
Yards back.
sp1tser led FOR Yale all the way throughout the
last half mile. Sanders ran well for Columbia, but
snished twelve yards the bad, and Beck, of
Pennsylvania got third. thirty yards behind the
Columbia man. The time, 500 2-5, only fair.
The intersettlement one-ne relay race was won
.ssnv by the Gordon Athletic Associations second
,.am. while the first team of the same association
r,t the place The time, SAC. not bad.
Iouis Texanina Of tka Carlisle Indian School,
rho finished seventh in the Olympic Marathon run
:. England last summer, won the ten-mile race
after what turned out TO be the most exciting con-
,est of the evening. He won by half lap from
lanes J. Lee, Of Boston. the Junior cross-country
champion ;n the good time Of 81 minutes and q
seconds about two minutes behind the record G.
! oberrneyer OF the National A G., of Brooklyn,
was third.
Esfty-six runners toed the mark, but the pace
gas so fast in the early part that the field was
ssnle,ed bv the time the fve-me mark was
reached Lee was always well up and was in front
going into the seventh mile. Tewanina then chal-
enged and they in the lead for the next
,zn miles with The pack at their heels Lee weak
eaed in last nile. eno the Indian drew out TO
win easily.
James E. Sullivan, president Of the Amateur
Athletic Union, acted referee Charles Harvey
did the announcing. and John J. McHugh handled
the gun.
When the programmes appeared it didn't take
the close followers OF the game long to catch
sight OF z. Z. Nelson, the Boston Athletic Asso-
cs:ion crack, who given q handicap or eight
feet in the sixty-yard dash Robert Cloughen, the
indoor champion at this distance, was on Scratch,
and despite the latter's speed. few believed the
Irsh-ATnerican Athletic Club flyer capable Of con-
cedine Nelson such liberal start Nelson who is
he interschosstic champion, has record OF 10 40
seconds for the 100 yards. All uneasiness was set
however. when IhornaS = ~ brlell- tIe
of6cial handicapper. arrived. o'Brien explained
rhst il was a typographical error. and that the
Boston sprfnter scratch There was gen
sral disappointment when Nelson failed TO start
II the seventh heat OF the sixty-yard dash B.
Devsr, tr OF the IrisIi-American Athletic Club,
ana = A MuiIin. the New York Athletic Club,
-sn g dead heat The latter had sixteen feet and
Dewsr thirteen J. Ramsdell, the tall University
of Pennsylvania sprnter started from the two
foot mark in the third heat, but failed to qualify
Cloughen was also shut out in his heat He ran
well but just failed to get No. The heat was run
in time Of as seconds
Lawson Robertson. the Irish-American crack.
his trial heat handily. with the aid OF three
feet, in S-5 seconds. but he failed TO catch the
judges eye in the semi-inai heat.
There were thirty-fve starters in the half-nile
hsndicap and Z J. Sweeney, Of the Pastime
Athletic Ci1h. with eighteen yards. was virtually
the scratch man. He never had e chance, however,
ane failed 10 get through Eugene Gilmore. the
Dominican Lyceum runner from the ifty-yard
mark SCI terrific pace and won in the good time
o. ! minute g as seconds
6. W Foster. OF the Irish-American Athletic
Club won the e0-yard final heat in e3-5 seconds
The winner had Is feet r. T. Edwards Of the
SeE York Athletic Club. got second
The B-pound shot putting event was won by G
Pellnger. Of the Pastime Athletic Club. with an
actual put Of ss feet IL inches. He had handicap
Of feet " ". Coe. jr-, of Boston, competed
from scratch. but failed to get a prize His best
Effort feet inches. Other competitors were
Martin Sheridan and J. J. Elliott. the boy wonder.
eoth Of the Irish-American Athletic Club. The
formers best put & feet inches. .$nd Elotts
q feet Si9 inches
an unwieldy field Of ffty-odd athletes took marks
al the way up to 100 yards in the mile run. which
resulted in the best races at the Garden
n long time. The scratch men were II. L. Trube.
q the New York Athletic Club, the national cham
BOZ. and Tad White at present unattached. ]. J.
o2aes. the hve-mie indoor champion. had 10
Fsfes. while George BonhaG started from the 20
ysrd mark
Prom the crack of the gun the field swarmed
round al lively pace, and the men were spread
cut al over the track Il seemed wenigh hopeless
loE 0ack-marker to work his way through
bonhag set if he meant 10 do something,
nat be failed show prominently after the first
nan Tru5e beautifully and for several laps
- :. c'osest companions were White and Coillhs-
nhen II came the final effort Trube shook on
As rivals and all but AE IL was. the New
sofk crack finished only yard behind w 8
.s0Dlss OF the Mohawk Athletic Club the winner
= q Mcdowell. a Pastirne man. got third by
IaeHes The time as 1-s was exceptionally fast,
considering the conditions
me New York Athletic Club carried off the maj jor
psruof OF the honors in the 2AOo-yard handicap
-so resy by getting first and third places.
--e fastne team got second.
mere were four men a team, and Hillman,
et1rlhag from scratch in the first relay. made
eiisi si gam for the New York Athletic Club first
H' a great spurt by McEn:ee made another olg
80 ior The same team in the next relay. so that
80 sk sno Haywood had TO do little more than
- their own. Haywood led Sweeney, the Pastine
0F hiteen yards at the finish
SUMMARIES
s,x.aa hundred szd-eshy yard Chsndcsel-wO4 by
Acorn A a. Brookiyn % ysrdsj second: II. Lee
sea s A A t2s yards) third Time. 1a5ss
rs., = a ..s.-i :. 90 ards: ESwsrds y c q
ysrdF'. third time. o:as&
rsss relay race twO miles serstch,-Mon by .a na1e