Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05
AT TERMATH Of BIG
INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET
First Games on Record in
Which Winning Team Scored
Less Than 30 Points.
By Edward R. Bushnell.

{! In the minds OF those who saw the
| thirty-ffth annual meet of the Inter
collegiate Association of Amateur Ath-
jletes of American on Franklin Field of
| the University of Pennsylvania last
week those games will linger as the
most unusual in the history OF the as
ISOLATION. Primarily they were the first
games on record in which the winning
team scored less than thirty points.
Once Cornell won with half a point over
thirty. but Pennsylvania established the
precedent of Il victory with less than
thirty points. In this connection it is d
notable fact that eleven years ago Penn
sylvania also made the highest score
ever recorded in these meets. In 1899
the QNakerS won with Il total of fifty
seven points. or almost as many as the
combined scores Of Harvard, Yale and
Princeton.
| Another extraordinary feature OF this
meet was the fact that it was the sec
ond time III the history of the associa-
| ton that no two events were Won by a
single athlete. With these two eXcep-
tons there has never been meet lii
which the competition was SO keen that
one man could not win two events. In
| this years game F.. l.. Ramsdell OF
Pennsylvania and R. c. Craig of Michi-
gan each scored first and second,
while w. c. PAUL. of Pennsylvania got
two seconds. The only other double
point winners We're Dwight OF Prince
ton, who got a second and a third in
the high and low hurdles, reSpc lively,
and O. w. Minds of Pennsylvania, who
was third in both sprints.
The unusual circumstances referred to
above merely serve to show how keen
has become the competition in these
classic games. Not only is the rivalry
between individual athletes closer than
ever, but the teams collectively are get
: i,,rr tSl,.
Indeed, the time may not be far distant
when twenty points may be sufficient to
win the meet. 4
That only one intercollegiate record
was broken should be cause for surprise
Both days were ideal for competition
though a stiff breeze rather prevented
record-breaking performances in The dis
lance runs. The wind, though, was not
sufficient explanation for the failure o.
the stars to better the performances they
| made in the various dual and other
meets For instance, Reidpath of SYRIA
cuse failed by three-fifths of a second to
| equal his record for the quarter mile:
| Whitley of Princeton failed by like
margin to equal his time OF LOS > . for
the half mile: w c. PAUL OF Pennsyl-
vania not only failed to equal his record
| of 42Oo-5 for the mile made two weeks
| earlier, but was beaten by Taylor of
! Cornell in 4o3 % while in the twc-lnile
run Berna of Cornell just hit the tape
ahead of May of Michigan in $40 30.
In the high hurdles Chisholm OF Yale.
| who has done ID SO seconds. could do but
| IL flat, while in the low hurdles Gardner
| O. Harvard had to be content with q %
| seconds The same was true IN the
broad and high jumps and the hammer
| throw In the shotput Horner OF Mlchl-
| gan, who did 46 feet Az inches, came
| within one inch of the intercollegiate
record !
The only record broken was in the pole
vault in which Nelson Of Yale did II rect
| 4as inches. The pole vault record. by
the way has been bettered nearly every
wear for the last decade. and II Will not
| he surprising if 1t goes UP again next
| year In the two sprlnts the winners
| performed UP to expectations Against
Slight wind Ramsdell did 10 SECONDS LOT
| the 100 yards. while with the aid OF a
very slight breeze Craig covered the ~
| wards in 81 is seconds. thus equalng b.
T. Wefers' world and intercolleglate rec
ord for this distance. Both OF THESE tunes
| were unusually good. but IL Is oouotlu u,
- tho o2O mark of Craig will be allowed
| to stand for the reason that he mus: nave
| been helped by the breeze, which, though
slight, when the race was run. was at the
runners backs all the way.
| Probably the most inexpiicable perform.
| ance of the whole meet was the defeat OF
| PAUL. of Pennsylvania In the mile run
| bv Tavlor CT Cornell. When PauiIs time
| of All 40. made a year ago, Is TAKEN
| into consideration, 1t Is evident tHdt nc
| was not himself this wear though inns
| should not be taken in any way to De
| tract from the splendidly run and wei
| Judged pacing of Taylor. PAUL was
| leading until the last five yards, When
| Taylor overlook him. There was
| look of surprise on Paulfs face as tne
| Ithacan ran to his side. and the QUAKER
! Jumped forward. but too late. Whether
| PAUL really met his master In Taylor or
| was caught mapping by the lthacan was
| much debated among the experts.
| The present intercollegiate trophy cup
| has now been up for competition seven
years, and will become the permanent
property of the university winning it five
| times Cornell now has three legs on the
trophy, Pennsylvania two, Harvard one
| and Yale one
Cornell Oarsmen Still Supreme.
Nearly every college in the intercol-
| legiate rowing world would be glad to
| see some institution wrest the cham
| pionship of the water from Cornell. Not
| that they have any hard feelings toward
| Cornell on account Of the vict cries Of the
Ithacans. but that the sport would be
benefited by passing the championship
! around. Once Cornell has a winning
| streak in any sport it seems impossible to