The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-06
COLLEGE MEETS COMPARED.
Conference Athletes n'd some FSrmld.
able Performances az Champaign.

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To learn that the conference games al
Champaign. IN last Saturday were won by
a non-conlerrnce college Is likely ~ puzzle
mu-' persons. but the conference 10 COM
posed Ut a limited number OF colleges. the
Rig Fight and the other dozen ~ So that
competed at Champaign were invited The
victory ~ Notre Dame In tho meet was not
UNEXPECTED Charles " Wilson, tho for.
m"r Princeton and Purdue track coach.
who Is 10 he with Notrr Dzmc next season,
said In Philadelphia around the time NJ the
] e. 4 4 4 \ meet that the Indiana
athletes probably would win
Inevitably. after the Two intercollegiate
meets are over. the results ara compared.
This year the conference Is very close up
Ia the Eastern games In several things aud
better In others In the eco. 80. one mile,
high hurdles. pole vault and broad Jump
the conference performers lid better than
the Fasteners Tho difference IN the high
jump was small, fraction NJ an inch
What makes The Nura 81 the conference
men all the more remarkable was that there
were double winners who did record break.
Ing work, Ira Davenport. the Chicago
sophomore. easily the fastest quarter miller
In this country for the las, two seasons
won tho tAO yard run IN - IS seconds and
later took the half milo in minute 50 IS
seconds Both 81 these performances we're
better than those done In the East Charles
Beidpath n syracuse ran IN 50 seconds 70
win the t4O yard race az Philadelphia and
George Whurlsy did minute 81 seconds to
take the half mile.
Then again Baker Of oberlin after smash.
ING the conference record for a mile all 10
pieces by doing Z minutes 20 Is seconds.
won tho two miles In . minutes % seconds
The Ohio man looks propcr rival for PAUL.
Taylor or Berna In the East. Percy Tay.
Tor won the mile IN Z minutes y rs see
onds and Tell Berna the two miles in 0
minutes 20 - seconds
! Nelson. from Washington State Concge,
I a reputed . IS seyoHds performer Won
/ both dashes a. m" conference games, but
not In the time done M tho hast Hts 10 I-i
! Seconds and n Is seconds are 10 10 rom
pared respectively 70 Fred Ramsdell's even
/ time ami Ralph traiy.s worlds record fur
I long VA - IS seconds
In the high hurdles rho conference per.
] fnr'uanrc pf Edwards Of california. i5 IS
/ -e"ond- was a hth better than Chisholm
/ nf y ale lid NJ Philadelphia For tho matter
/ Of that Edwards ought 70 he tho faster
/ Il was he Nho a. tho porfola meet won
I from Forrest SWitisun IN o. a % 10, onds
| Ia the low hurdles Fletcher ofNotrr Dame
I ran n trial heat ir q IS seconds. = new con-
/ ference record, but won hts final In - 2
| seconds Ne couldn't have won ~ ina
pres-iyely a. did George Gardner Of Harvard
when the latter did e - seconds At phila-
delphta
horuer ~ Michigan was much better
with the shot than phlibrpok o. NotTe Dame
/ The formers winning p1f ut Philadelphia
wac O. feet Z iuvhe-. W 1i- he ludanlBn
dtd g. feet inches 60 capture the confer.
rnce title 80 also Monllny of stanford
WAS FAR behind Cooucv nj Yale in the hammer
throw. the performance being lln feet :
inche- aud 80 feet . luChe- respectively
French ~ kdu-s- cleared feet I, inch
in the conference high Jump, three ghths
81 an inch worse han lid fcrNi, Eurdick
10 win tho Eastern leAp Nas~DU ~ Notre
bBun who heat Ruhsrts ~ Amherst in the
rcla carnival on April 20. outstripped him
Agai. on their compared work in the broad
lump in the tWo intercollegiate meets. The
Notre Dame man did - feet " inches 10
win ~ Champaign. vi ie the Amherst lad
did - 'eat : d. Inches vt Philadelphia In the
pole vault Nelson Of Yale ga ~ feet -
inches % he compared 90 D. feet a inches
by Murphy Of Illinois