Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-01
WEST DOES WELL AT MEET
Chicago Takes One of Big Events at
Philadelphia.
INDIVIDUAL TO NoTRE DAME
Pennsylvania Wins High jump
Through Good Performance of
Burdick, Eastern Intercol-
IeRiate Champion.

PHILADELPHIA, April so-The cast
won two and the west one. of the three
blue ribbon events at the University of
Pennsylvania's annual carnival Of relay
races and field sports on Franklin field
here Saturday. Chicago university cap
tured the classic one-mile college re-
lay championship OF America from a field
of eastern quarter-mile runners, while
Pennsylvania took the two-mile national
relay championship and was beaten IN the
stretch for the four-mile relay American
championship by Cornell.
Individual honors were won by Notre
Dame university, the capable performers
Of the western institution winning three
of the six field events. Pennsylvania won
the high jump through the good perform
ance OF Burdick. the eastern intercol-
legiate champion. Chrisholm. the eastern
intercollegiate champion, won the l2O-yerd
hurdle event for Yale.
Horner. the eastern intercollegiate cham
pion in the shot-put. won that event for
Michigan and Tilley OF Dartmouth was the
winner OF the hammer throw. Martin Of
Notre Dame won the 10O-yard DASH Was
son of Notre Dame. the western inter-
collegiate champion, took the broad jump
and Philbrook of the same institution, and
the western intercollegiate champion in
the discus throw, won that event.
Gardner Wins Pole Vault.
Gardner of Yale, Murphy of Illinois and
Dukes of Cornell tied in the pole vault
for first place at twelve feet, three inches.
On the toss-off. Gardner won first.
The freshmen one-mile relay champion
ship OF America was captured by Dart
mouth, whose opponents were Pennsyl-
vania and Columbia
The national one-mile relay champion
ship for preparatory schools was won by
Exeter academy and the one-mile national
relay championship for high schools went
to Boston English High school after a
hard race The Boston school was COM
PEELED to break the American high school
record to win.
The most exciting race was the four-mile
relay championship between Cornell and
Pennsylvania, the only starters. Pennsyl-
vania led all the way until the last mile,
when Jones of Cornell passed PAUL of
Pennsylvania, the college record holder for
a mile. An eighth of a mile from the finish
Jones, who was just behind PAUL, shot in
front and won by about twenty yards
The time was IL minutes So seconds break
ing the American record held by the Irish
american AtnleUc CluD. Inc time by
miles was: +:Sl9s, s:Ol. 1S:S2h 1855
Chicago Takes One-MIIe. Race.
In the one-mile college championship
race Chicago was we'll up when the last
relay started. Davenport, the star Chicago
runner, went out in front and won. Michi-
gan was second, Cornell third and Penn
sylvania fourth. The time by quarters
was: 0:5O1s, ,1:414S. 2:S226. 3:21%.
One OF the greatest aggregations of coll
lege athletes ever drawn together in
single meeting competed. While the east
ern and western intercollegiate champion
ship meets. are more important, todays
carnival was the most complete athletic
meet ever held in this country
On the cinder path and in the field APP
proximately 1900 athletes represented
nearly $50 educational institutions of the
east, west and part of the south Among
these were a score of the largest univer-
stiles, forty-four Of the smaller universities
and colleges, forty mine preparatory schools
and academies, sixty high schools from as
far west as Chicago and more than sixty
grammar and parochial schools in this
vicinity.