The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-04-21
H. R. H. s. BOY TO
STANFORD MEET
HUGGINS SETS NEW MILE RECORD
Local Lad Defeated All Corners in Port
land Saturday and will Compete
in Big California Contest.

| SISotSA IiuSSlllS iSll lueSudN after
noon for Stanford University, Calf.
ornia, where he will run Saturday ir
the one mile race in the bic
lnterscholastic Track and Field Meet,
which is and annual affair at the Calf
ornia university. After the wonderful
performance of the local athlete in
Portland Saturday the plan was sprung
here of sending him to the gathering
of preparatory school athletes at Stan.
ford next Saturday. 1t was learned
that the meet was to be held Saturday
through local Stanford man, who had
Huggins entered in the mile by tele-
gaph Monday night. The nigh school
students and the business men literally
contributed to pay the expense of the
runner to California and in less than "a
hours he was on his way.
The interscholastic meet at Stanford
is the biggest affair of the sort on the
coast and each spring several hundred
lads representing preparatory schools
of California, Nevada, Oregon, Wash
ingtOn and Arizona gather on the
Stanford campus to enter the contest.
This is the first time. that Hood
River High School has ever sent man
to this meet and no schools outside of
Portland in Oregon have been re-
presented before. 1t is a great show
ing for as small school and town as
Hood River to send young athlete 600
miles to compete against the best
youths from five states.
1t is believed here that Higgins has
a good chance to win the one mile race
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that II the events are arranged in
convenient order, he may enter the half
and quarter distances. In the race at
Portland Saturday he beat Burns, who
last year under the Hill Military Acad-
emy colors won the interscholastic
at Stanford. He ran indoors in :39
which is better time than he had ever
made before and better than Burns did
in California last year. On the excel
lent Stanford track outdoors Huggins
should make still better time. His
time Saturday was one second faster
| than was made in the Stanford inter
class meet this spring by the varsity
| runners. Higgins will arrive at Stan
| ford this afternoon and have two DAYS
to rest before the race.
Chester Higgins, local high school
student, was the bright particular star
of the indoor track meet at the Column
bia University in Portland Saturday
Huggins not only won the mile race
from the older and better trained and
more experienced runners of the
University of Oregon and the Oregon
Agricultural but he set new record
for the mile on an indoor track in the
northwest, run it in A minutes and 80
seconds. Although Higgins was the
only entry sent from the Hood River
high school by his victory in the mile,
the local school tied for second place
among the preparatory schools and
tied for fifth place among all the en-
tries. The University of Oregon won
the meet and 0. A. G. came second.
Lincoln high school of Portland led
the prep school division.
Hood River also had a part in the
victory for the u. of O., as Sid Hen
derson took first place in the shot put
by heaving the 16 pound weight 36
feet, liz inches. This gives two gold
medals for first places to Hood River
boys.
In opening its account of the meet
the Sunday Journal said:
Young Higgins, an 18-year-old
athlete, of the Hood River High
School, ran the fastest mile ever re-
corded on an indoor track in the north
west when he won the open champion
ship medal for that distance at the
seventh annual indoor track and field
meet of the Columbia University
Athlete association yesterday after
noon. The new record established by
the Hood River boy was a minutes and
80 seconds.
"This time is much faster than the
average made in outdoor intercol-
legiate track meets and is all the more
remarkable in that it was made by a
young man yet in his teens"
The Journal thus described the race
"As was stated before, Huggins won
the mile event, but only after he had
been forced to extend himself to the
last notch by Mcclure of Oregon, who
allowed his competitor to obtain too
great a lead before making his move.
When the Oregon man started to sprint
the last lap, he was 30 yards behind
The spectators thought the Hood River
boy would be overtaken when Mcclure
had reduced this gap to a few feet,
but the youngster let out notch and
was just able to stall off his opponents
challenge, and to break the tape an
inch or two in advance of Hayward's
sterling distance man, who would have
taken the race in another stride.