Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-31
Harvard Athletes Capture
Field and Track Meet.
Yale Comes Second, Pennsy
Third and Cornell Fourth.
Fast Time on Track and Some
SPLENDID Exhibitions in Field.


white walled Harvard Stadium on the
banks of the Charles Saturday evening,
one of the greatest track and field
meetings in the annals OF sport had
been brought to a close With three
meet records smashed to smithereens,
two of the three being all American
collegiate records and one of those two
being an American amateur record as
well, and with fast time on the track
in all races and splendid exhibitions
in the field events marking all of the
competition, the 34th annual track
ana field championships of the Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association will
live long in the memories of those who
were fortunate enough to witness it.
Harvard's crimson shrted sons for
the 18th time in the history of the as
ISOLATION carried off the premier point
honors The Cambridge collegians tai
lied 80 10 points. Harvard's rivals,
the men of Yale, We're second, with
25 40. Mike Murphy's men of Penn
sylvania with 22A points, nosed out
Jack Monkeys Comedians with 20R
points for third honors. Michigan was
fifth, with IA, and then in order came
Princeton with Z, Syracuse, Swarth-
more and Haverford with each; Dart
mouth with 2-15, Columbia with 2, and
Brown with ].
1t was tho great running of Foster,
who beat out Dawbarn of Princeton in
both the sprints, the fine team work
of Harvard in the quarter-mle, the
exertions of Captain Rand and Gardner
in the hurdles the agility of the
w, bo itrI, i,,y, 20
vauting and Little's victory in the
shot put which gave Harvard the
meet Jacques, who was looked on as
a certainty in the mile for Harvard,
was held back for the two-mile event,
where he was run off his feet by Tay-
lor of Cornell and Dull of Michigan.
Yale made a gallant uphill fight, but
was handicapped by poor work of her
| men in the trials, by the lack of good
long distance runners and by the unex-
pected weakness of several of her
weight men, Pennsylvania was uneX-
pectedly strong in the track events,
but was weak in the field. Cornell
was strong in the field and in the two
mile, but fell down badly in the sprints
and hurdlea With a small team,
Michigan showed up remarkably well.
especially in the distance runs. One of
the surprises of the meet was Daw-
barns defeat in the sprints. which
came as shock to Princeton.
The three record breakers We're p.
7. TAYLOR of Cornell, w. c. PAUL of
PENNSYLVANIA and c. S. Campbell of
Yale. In a thrilling struggle with
JACQUES of Harvard in the two-mile
event, Taylor raced to victory, cross
ing the line in the great time of
q.27 81, smashing the former lntercol-
legiate and collegiate figures of 9.34 AS.
made over the same course in 1907 by
Floyd Row of Michigan, and the
American amateur record of 927 AS,
hung up by Alex Grant of the New
York A. c. at Travers Island in 1903,
and eoualled indoors by George Bon
bag of the Irish-.American A. c. in the
Columbia College games in Madison
Square Garden, New York. last win
ter
The summary:
100 yard dash--Won by r. c. Foster,
Harvard: r. {. Craig, Michigan, sec
ond; G. f. Minds, Pennsylvania,
third; w. L. Dawbarn, Princeton,
fourth. Time, 10 Is seconds.
22O-yard dash-Won by r. c. Foster,
Harvard; W. L. Dawbarn, Princeton,
second; G.. w. Mind. Pennsylvania,
third; L. Watson. Harvard, fourth.
Time, 81 35 seconds.
440-yard run-Won by T. s. Blumer,
Harvard: w. Palmer, Haverford, sec
ond; Z. f. Leegr, Michigan, third; H.
w. Kelley, Harvard, fourth. Time,
SO 3-5 seconds.
Half-mile rnn-Won by A. F. Beck,
Pennsylv ania; w. G. PAUL, Pennsylva-
mia, second; C. NJ. French, Cornell,
third: r. "A. Splitter, Yale, fourth. Time,
I'm. IS 3-5s
Mile run-Won by w. c. PAUL, Penn
sylvania w. l.. MCGEE, Princeton, sec
ond; G. l.. Tower, Michigan, third; y.
IC. May, Michigan, fourth. Time,
Am II ass.
Two-mile run-Won by p. J. Taylor,
nell; G.. A. Dull, Michigan, second; H.
Jaques, Harvard, third; G. c. West,
Michigan, fourth. Time, ON. q 3-5s.
12O-yard hurdles-Won by L. V.
Howe, Yale; j. l.. Hartranft, Pennsyl-
vania, second; w. NJ Rand. Harvard,
third, third; ]. c. Talcott, Cornell,
fourth. Time, Is 2-5 seconds.
Howe, Yale; Gardner, Harvard, sec
ond; j. L. Hartranft, Pennsylvania.
third; r. M. Rand, Harvard, fourth.
Time, "a 2-5 seconds.
FIELD EVENTS.
Running high jump-Tie between
r. G. HARDWOOD, r. p. Pope and S. c.
Lawrence Harvard; e. X. Palmer.
Dartmouth. and w. Garfield, Yale.
Height, 5 it. 11h in. Points on this
event, Harvard, 3-5; Dartmouth,
Is; Yale, 2 Is.
Shot put-Won by c. c. Little, Har-
ward, IS it. in: w. F. Kruger,
Swarthmore, second, As #. 31a in; ]. J.
Horder, Michigan, third, As feet; L. J.
Talbot, Cornell fourth, 43 TT. in.
Pole vault-Won by c. S. Campbell,
Yale, IL it. 81 in; J. l.. Barr. Harvard,
and L. T. Nelson, Yale, tied for second
and third places at - feet; z. r. Cook,
Harvard, and J. T. Pickles. Pennsyl-
vania, tied for fourth place at II IT.
6 in.
Broad jump-Won by E. T. Cook,