The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28
Runners Capture Track and
Field Championships for
Fourth Time in If Years.
FIVE RECORDS LOWERED
IN BIG ATHLETIC MEET
Jones Clips Fifth of a Second
Off Worlds Record for
Three Mile Run.
BY Associated Press.


CAMBRIDGE. Mass, MAY 27.-The
runners of Cornell today captured the
intercollegiate track and held champion
ships in the Harvard stadium for the
fourth time in eleven wears.
The meeting was made historic BY the
breaking of five intercollegiate records
and the eoualins OF three others; one
OF the new marks. that for the mile run.
made by J. p. Jones of Cornell. stands
for the worlds amateur record. His time
AIS o-5. is one-fifth OF a second better
than the record OF Tommy Concn tina
has stood for sixteen years.
Other events III which former efforts
were surpassed were the haf-miie and
two mile, the shot put and pole vault
and the auarter-mie
There was a grand fight for honors be
tween Cornell, Yale Michigan and Penn
sylvania. but the frs, two colleges iei
the others behind
Cornell 5oi, Yale. .iS: Michigan. "a;
Princeton S: Harvard 6: Amherst and
Columbia. ; each; NJ j. T.; S1-3; WI
liams 3: Rutgers and Pennsylvania
State. each. and Brown j.
Records Are Broken
In the shot-put Joseph Horner. Jr.. Of
Michigan threw sc feet 7s inches. beat
ing the record OF Is feet 81 inches. In
the mile sun Jones allowed Paul OF Penn
sylvanis. holder al the record of a min
utes II Is seconds. 10 take the pace for
three quarters Of the distance. In the
iast lap Jones dashed ahead and finished
fresh twenty wards 10 the good. setting
new ngures for the event
In The two-mile run Borns OF Cornell
led from the start. The stadium was
thrilled by the announcement OF new
time OF Q minutes % 3 seconds. com
ago.
In the half-mile there was, another
grand effort by Jones. who broke the
tape in ! minute ii i-5 seconds. beating
the old record OF minute o6 seconds
Meanwhile Babcock OF Columbia ana
Gardner of Yale were having a vaulting
PREVIOUS record effort of u feet IL inches
the bar was pushed I'D To II feet Ss
inches. a. height which Babcock cleared
and which Gardner could not accom-
pIish
Cornell has now four legs i'll The inter
collegiate cup and needs only one more to
obtain possession.
The Summaries.
Running l.igh jump-Dalemple OF Nj. |.
T. Burdick and Fsrricr of Pennsylvania
tied at 6 feet; Enrigh of Dartmouth.
fourth.
1oo-yard dash--Craig, Michigan, first;
fourth. Time. As seconds
Two-nile run-Berna. Cornell. first;
Michigan. third; Wilmington, Harvard,
fourth. Time, 9:25 Is; new American
record.
ish-N6Ed udSu--1tuHet -aillilSISt. lHSis
Sawyer. Princeton. second: Gamble, Mich
igan third; Saff. Michigan. fourth. Time.
IS as seconds: ties record.
l20-yard hurdles-Chisholm, Yale, first;
Sibolt. Cornell. second: Havens. Rutgers,
third; no fourth place. Time, Is 2-e sec
onds.
Shot put--Horner, Michigan. first; Kill
patrick. Yale. second: Kanseller, Cornell,
third; Bartlett. Brown. fourth. Distance.
46 feet "a inches; new record.
Mile run-Jones, Cornell. first: Han
avan. Michigan, second; PAUL. Pennsyl-
vania. third; Lawless. Harvard fourth.
Time. minutes L. rs seconds. a new
worlds amateur record:
Pole vanli--Babcocs, Columbia, first,
Gardner Yale. second; Byers. Yale. and
D'Autremont. Cornell: tied for third.
Height. IL feet SB inches
226-yard llurdles-Clisholm. Yale. first;
Stibolt: Cornell second: Cummings, Har-
ward, third: iIaydock, Pennsylvania.
fourth. Time. ~ As seconds.
Broad jump-Holden. Yale. first: Moyer
Pennsylvania. second; Msthers. Pcnnsyl-
yanis, third; La Flame, Pennsylvania.
fourth. Distance, 22 feet * inches.
e20-yard dash-Craig, Michigan. first:
Ford Cornell, second; Cooke, Princeton
third; Ross. Michigan. fourth. Time,
u 1-5 seconds.
SS0-yard run--Jones. Cornell first; Put
nam. Cornell. second: lacquer Harvard,
third; Bodley. Pennsylvania, fourth.
Time, minute 81 d-5 seconds; new rec
ord,
Hammer throw-kiley, Dartmouth,
lrst; B4dden. Dartmouth. second, Childs,
Yale. third; Tim Murphy. Pennsylvania.
fourth. Distance. l45 feet "a inches.