New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

the front with the crack Of the gun ana,
hugging the rail all the way, stayed In
front to the worsted, finishing with some
thing in reserve
Of the nine men who were left TO fight IL
out for honors In the Quarter-mile dasn.
seven of them had records better than Of
seconds 1t was a classy field, and the
winner would have GENE mighty close 10
the record on q faster track and less wiho
to buck in the stretch. When the men
shot out o. the chute, Ridpath, OF syria
cuse was two yards in front, and ne was
able to maintain that advantage almost 10
the finish, Macarthur. of Cornell, running
second the whole distance and gaining
little on the leader at the end. Sawyer OF
Princeton, and Young, of Amherst, had
stiff argument for third place. the Tiger
getting the third medal by the narro~est
of margins
Joe Horner, the Michigan all-around star
confined his efforts to putting the shot, ana
il was wise move, for the husky "oiVer-
inc took first honors. with a mighty heave
Of IS feet az inches. Ted Coy, Yales foot
ball leader, ball tesser and shot puttef'
made good toss of 43 feet sla inches
which gave him third place, and Johnny
Fitzpatrick managed to squeeze into fourth
place. despite his crippled condition.
surdick's Good High Jump.
The result in the high jump was just as
might be expected. figuring on the work
of the trials yesterday. Burdick.- of Penn
svlvania, though unable to equal the rec
ord. cleared the bar at feet l inch, and
took first honors. Palmer, of Dartmouth,
was second, getting over s feet
New York colleges scored 31a points IN
the meet H. S. Babcock, of Columbia,
tied with Gardner, of Yale, the intercoi-
| legiate golf champion, for second place IN
the pole vault. and getting 2la points for
! his good leap of Il feet. W. c. Fielding.
of New York University, was the other
point winner, he getting / point for his
triple tie for third place in the high jump
with Farrier, of Pennsylvania, and Law
| renee, of Harvard.
| Though Cooney, the Yale gridiron war
| rior, sent the sixteen-pound hammer 152
! feet 3 inches, Andrus, his teammate, and
another football star, was unable to DO
better than third, Speers, of Princeton, get
ting the place. Simons, another Tiger, TOOK
| the other point.
In the broad Jump, Captain Pete Little
of Harvard. showed great pluck His ankle
was wrapped in bandages and every move
4
Even with this big handicap he was able
to finish second to Roberts. Of Amherst
the latter clearing q feet IA inches. Only
ia inches separated Little and Latham, OF
Michigan.
An analysis of the results shows that
Yale's athletes lost the meet because some
| of her men failed TO equal the form they
| have displayed In the preliminary season.
| Notable among these men was Max klrJas-
soft in the half-mile. He evidently was
overturned having competed steadily evel
since the nidwinter indoor meetings.
On the other hand PENIS athletes sur
prised even their own trainer. Wolfe
third place in the two mile. Farrier's point
in the high jump and Bayiiss point in the
mile were performances hardly expected.
| Fine Day and Big Crowd.
| 1t was a perfect day for the spectators
The sun beat down as if il were midsum-
| naer, and there was a stiff breeze SO that
1 the heat was not oppressive. The great
stands surrounding the oval began to III
early and when the first event was called
| at 8 O'Clock there were probably ten thou
| sand persons on hand to witness one of the
| greatest meetings in the thirty-hve-year
history of the Intercollegiate Association of
| Amateur Athletes OF America. AS was to
be expected the Pennsylvania rooters far
outnlrnbered those of the other colleges.
hut still Yale Harvard, Princeton, Cornell,
and even Michigan, did not lack for en-
thusiastic supporters. 1t was the official
/ opening of the straw hat season in Phlia-
| delnhia the row upon row of broad white
lids" looking much like banks OF snow