Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-29
HARVARD LEADS
IN ANNUAL GAMES
INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPION
SHIP CONTESTS HELD
KEEN COMPETITION IN EVENTS
AT CAMBRIDGE FIELD
Running; jumping and Weight Hurting
Athletes Make Hard Fiaht-FinaIs
Today Will Be Uncertain
Up to the Finish
BOXING
TBy Associated Press.1

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May $3.50
keen was the contest in the running,
Jumping and weight hurting in the
preliminary events which ushered In
today the thirty-fourth intercollegiate
championship games that the outcome
of the finals tomorrow is m~re uncer-
tain than for many years.
In the eleven preliminary events the
number of men qualified by each col
lege was as follows:
Harvard, 16; Cornell, IA; Yale, 10;
Pennsylvania and Princeton, each;
Michigan and Dartmouth, each; SYRIA
cuse, 8; Columbia, 2; Williams, Brown
Swartmore, Fordham and Haverford,
1 each.
Cornell qualified men in every event
except the high jump.
Yale will be represented in all except
the furlong and quarter mile, while
Harvard failed to get men into the
half mile, the broad jump and the
hammer throw.
Pennsylvania was strong on the
track but weak in the field.
Mayhem of Brown outleaped all other
competitors in the broad jump, and
under the rules if his mark of % feet
9 inches is not exceeded tomorrow he
will win the event.
The same rule obtained in the ham
mer throw, in which Talbot of Cor
nell hurled the missile $50 feet az
inches, and in the shot put, where
Kruger of Swartmore holds the record,
making a distance of A feet 91s inches.
In the last named event. however.
Little of Harvard, who also qualified,
has 46 feet this year, will probably
push Kruger for first place tomorrow
Following are those who qualified to-
day;
1OO-yard dash-Foster (Harvard); Macarthur
and Blass tCornelD; Dawbarn and Gamble
(PTinceton); Craig CGichgan); Minds penn
Kelly CWilliams); Geary CTordham); Fawey
Dartmouth); Burch (Yals).
Half-mile run-French (CornelD; whitley
and Frantz Princeton)i Beck and Paul PENN:
Sanders (Columbia); Baxter (Dartmouth);
Splitter Kirpassoff (Yale). Best time, 1:56 As by
Beck.
shot-put-Kruger (swarthmore); Little CHar-
vard); Horne (Mich.); Talbot (CornelD; Coey
Nale). Best throw A feet Az inches by Kreu-
ger.
12O-yard hurdle-Rand and Piper CHarvard);
Howe and Stebbins CYale) Talcott (CornelD;
Dwight (Princeton); Hartranft PENN; Welsh
(syracuse). Best time 10 2-5 seconds by Rand.
4OO-yard run-Merrihew, Deselding, Kelly and
Blumer (Harvard); Hitchcock and Hurlbut
(CornelD; BIcConger CPrinceton); Leger (Mich);
Palmer, (Haverford); Ross (Syracuse). Best
time 80 2-5 seconds by Leger.
220-yard low hurdles-Rand and Gardner
QIarvard); Howe (Yale); Hartranft and OCon-
nell PENN; Talcott (CornelD; Dwight prince
tom; Craigh (AIlch.). Best time "a 1-5 by
Gardner.
22O-yard dash-Foster and Watson (Harvard);
Dawbarn and Gamble (Princeton); Macarthur
(CornelD; Minds and Newell PENN; Hawley
Dartmouth Best time q As seconds by
Dawbarn.
Broad jump-Nixon and Cook (CorneID; May
hew Brown; Babcock (Columbia) Fitzpatrick
CYale). Best jump 21 feet inches by Mayhem.
Hammer throw-Talbot and Sullivan Cor
nelD; Andrus and Goebel CYale) Horr (Syra-
cuse). Best throw $50 feet 21a inches
High jump-Pope HARDWOOD and Lawrence
CHarvard); Palmer Dartmouth); Garfield
Yale) Pope, Palmer and Garfield tied, feet
10 inches.
Pole vault-Barr CIarvard) Cook (CornelD
Pickles (Penn); Campbell (Yale), tied at Il
feet IL inches. New intercollegiate record.
inches. Former record u feet by Dray (Yale).