Evening star., 1909-06-06
ILLINOIS BEST IN
TRACK AND FIELD
0utpoints Other Western COL
Ieges for Athletic Su-
premaCy.

MARSHALL FIELD. CHICAGO. June
5.-The University of Illinois captured the
| western track and field championship this
afternoon by winning the ninth annual
conference meet with a total of 36 points,
Leland Stanford was second with os
points and University of Chicago fin
| ished third with q points. The following
are the other scores:
| Wisconsin, H. Purdue 6; Minnesota. g.
Michigan. ): Colorado. 5: Western Re-
serve, 4: Miami. 4; Indiana, 4: Notre
Dame. 8; Knox, 1: Iowa. /. Northwest
ern, Ripon. Lake Forest and Beloit failed
| to score.
balanced aggregation. as 1t was we'll rep
resented in practically every event. The
Illinois clinched the meet by winning the
relay race from Chicago after a hard
| battle.
| When the relay race was started I'LL
nois had 81 points; Leland Stanford, IS.
| and Chicago, IS. The victory for the
Pacific coast athletes and third place for
Illinois would have swung the tide to the
stanford team, but the first two runners,
Stoltz and Scott. dropped so far behind
| that 1t was impossible for the two speedy
westerners. Miller and Wyman, to put
the team back into the race. Stanford
| finished far in the rut, in fourth place,
with Minnesota, the only other starter.
last. Illinois scored in all but four of the
fifteen events on the program. Stanford
won the 44O-yard dash, the half mile. the
pole vault the hammer throw and the
shot put. Two Leland Stanford athletes
Crawford and Miller-were tied for in
dividual honors with 10 points each.
Crawford won the shot put and ham,
mer throw. while Miller captured the
quarter and half mile runs.
Chicago was in the running until the
two-mie run was decided. Stoplet, its
star distance runner. was counted upon
as certain winner in this event. Stop
let took the lead. according to his usual
custom. and finished the first mile and
a quarter in easy fashion. Tilotson of
Michigan Agricultural ran close upon his
heels with an easy space-devouring stride.
At the beginning of the sixth lap Tillot-
son jumped into the lead, but Stoplet
was running at his heels. Passing the
stand at the beginning of the next to
the last lap. Stoplet made futile ef-
fort to pass his rival, and he gradually
fell behind. Tillotson won by a large
margin. Connolly Of Minnesota made
sensational finish and passed Freeland
of Illinois in the last few steps.
The one-mile run was won by Dohmen.
the Wisconsin runner. but only after the
hardest sort of a fight with Dana of
Notre Dame and Comstock OF Chicago.
The time4.34 4-5-fell far below the ex-
pectations.
Crawiey. the all-round star Of Chicago,
failed to do anything out OF the ordinary.
The quarter-mile run was easy for
Miller of Leland Stanford, but Hanley,
the captain of the victorious Illinois team,
nosed out Wyman of Leland Stanford for
second place. The half mile was another
feather in Miller's cap. as he easily de-
feated Hull of Minnesota and Rohrer of
Illinois
The pole vault was another Stanford
triumph Scott taking the honors.
Brudage of Illinois was a surprise In
the discus q he 9Si1v defeated OSfhnff
the Wisconsin strong man.
Portmann, the Western Reserve giant.
scored his only point with a third in
this event.