The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-25
II 1T HAPPENS
IT'S HERE
RECORDS BROKEN
IN RELAY RACES
Eastern Athletes Capture Two
OF National Championships
on Franklin FIELD.

Philadelphia. April st.-Easteru athletes
took two Of the three national relay cham
picnsh.p races today at the annual car
nival Of sports on Franklin field.
Chicago university captured the one
mile blue ribbon event Yale won the two
mile relay Championship and Pennsylvania
won the fOur-Hils race from Michigan
university. The freshman characteristic
was won by Princeton. LawrencevuIe y
j., academy vas first In the ureparatorV
scnool national championship and IA Ha-
uonal relay championship FOR Ligu sci psis
vas won by the Brooklyn manual t..I-
ing high school
Two records wore broken. Yale. in win
ming the two-miie race, reduced the col
legiate figures from sea % TO SOP %
The high school record of 1893 40 for the
mile, held by the Brooklyn manual train
ing school, was reduced tWO-fifths of a
second by the same institution.
Fast time was made in other relay
races In the final Of the l2)-yard hurdle
shaw of Dartmouth covered the distance
m only one-fifth Of a second slower than
the worlds record of 10 is.
Tie weather was perfect and 1900 per-
sons were present. There were fully l.59
entrants representing about 300 educa-
uOnal Institutions
Penn Defeats Michigan.
Michigan has won the feur-miis relay
FACE six times straight, always IN easy
fashion This year, however, Pennsylvania
won the race. IN the first mile Beck OF
Pennsy lvanis gave Lowering. the second
Fsansy lysnia runner. lead Of nearly
ilfty yards. The latter held il until the
last quarter Of the second mile when
Y est or M-cnigau passed him and gave
May the third Michigan runner a lead
OF forty yards. Nav increased this 20
fifty yards when he turned The race
over 20 DOL. the Michigan star VIII
liam Paul had BEEN picked 70 make the
running Tor Pennsylvania on the last re-
lsy. Dan started off at q fi-st clip. but
Paul running strong. caught and passed
MIN. and Won easily The relay and the
Dull was beaten by about seventy-fiv.
Yards. Paul ran magnificent race the
time for his mile being f:2S
The one-rnile championship was hot
race down the stretch between Chicago
Michigan. Harvard and Illinois. and il
was not decided until the tape was
reached. Chicago won by a few feet from
Michigan. with Illinois third
Princeton and Yale were regarded as
so rast in the two-mile race that none
Of the other entrants came 70 the scratch
when the race was called. Yale held the
lead on the first two relays, lost il on
the third. reg2ined il in the stretch on
the last leg and won by ten yards
The Summary.
Four-mile relay, national championship-
Won BY Pennsylvania Beck. Levering,
Kahn, Paul: second. Michigan CBohn-
sack. West, May. Duln. Time-lS:ZS 60
Ohio state university, only other entray.
did not start
One-mile relay, high school. national
championship-WOn by Brooklyn manual
training high school; secord, Atlantic City
high school; third. Philadelphia n E NJ
r. school Time-3:33 2-5. breaking high
school record Of 1888 40 made by the same
school last year. University high school
Of Chicago also started
Broad jump-Won by Mount Pleasant
Dickinson college, % feet 312 inches: sec
ond. Fitzpatrick. Yale. % feet inches:
third. Nixon. Cornell. % feet inches.
Ia al col.
pionship-WOn by Chicago Davenport.
Comstock. Timbling. LingeD; second.
Michigan university Craig. Gamble. Le-
ger. kiecl0; third. Illinois Gindberg.
Richards. Hodge, Pettigrew). Time
1926 As.
Discus throw-Wou by Hord. Syracuse.
ISL feet inches; second HOrner. Michi-
gan, $50 feet So inches; third. Dearborn.
eX-Wesleyan. lis feet inches.
l2o-yard hurdles, three heats and a heat
for second men. winners of four heats
qualifying for final-First heat. won by
Dwight, Princeton; second. Rand Hsr-
yard; third. Hartranst. Pennsylvania.
Time-:15 IS.
High iump-Wou bv Porter. Irish-Amer-
lean Athletic club, 8 feet; second. Can
field, Yale. feet II inches, third, Bur
dick. Pennsylvania, . feet 10 inches.
Hammer throw-Won by Talbot Cor
nell, leo feet 1919 inches; second. COOuey.
Vale. 156 feet 9 inches: third GoebeL Yale.
15i feet inches.
Two-mile relay. national college cham
NlonSIlp-N on DA 1dle ~ has. Mann.
Eirkassjoff. SDitzer); second. Princeton
whitley. Laird. MCGEE, Frantzl Time
500 %, breaking collegiate record of
500 2-5. made by Michigan in 1898. Co
lumbia, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth did
not start
One-mile relay, freshmen championship
Won by Princeton tSawyeT. Granger
Mckinney, Black: second. Pennsylvania
(RiddeIl. Masters. Smith. HaydOck). Time
SEE
i20-yard hurdle-Finai won by Shaw OF
Dartmouth: second: Dwight Of Princeton.
third. Rand. Harvard. fourth. Beese.
Harvard. Time-.15 %.
f00-yard dash-Won by Foster Harvard:
second, May. Illinois; third, Dawbarn,
Princeton. Tme-.10 10
Pole vault-WOu by Nelson. Yale. II feet
II inches. second. Barr. Harvard. cleared
bar at II feet II inches and decided not
70 try any further. third. Mills. Cornell.
II feet inches.