New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
KV|AT WINS THE BAXTER
Bonhag and Gissing Drop Out
After a Furious Race.
NEW YORK RUNNERS SCORE
Defeat Boston Relay Team in
Pretty Finish-Walsh Sets
a New Mark.

flc iiIldOI PERFORMANCE VI
year ago. A. r. Kivist tie plucky staten
Island athlete won the Baxter mile at the
Athletic Club. in Madison Square Garden
last night Kiviat covered the distance In
,242-5. hut he might have gone second
or two faster had It been necessary.
high class field Of distance runners
toed the mark. and all looked ut" They
included George Bonhag. holder Of many
records: J. TAFT. the best Of the Canadian
milers: Harry Gissing. Of middle distance
fame. o. r Hedund. tho sturdy Boston
runner; p. S. Harmon. Of Dartmouth, and
]. ". Bodley, jr., Of the University OF
Pennsylvania.
With the gun Bodley sped away In the
lead, but Kiviat soon took no the running,
followed by Bodley. TAFT. Bonhag and He'd
lund At two laps they were all in
bunch. with Hedlund running last A little
later Bonhag took the lead closely at
tended hy TAFT, while Gissing moved UP
alongside of Kiviat. The half mile. which
was covered In 200. saw the men running
as named. Shortly afterward Klvist length
ened his stride and raced 10 the fore. Gis-
sing and Bonhsg began dropping back and
so did Bcdley but Hedlund and TAFT hung
on tenaciously.
Shortly before the bell rang for the last
lap both Gissns and Ronhag stopped. the
hrst named apparently feeling the effects
~ his hard quarter of a mile earlier In
the evening. Throughout tire last lap He'd
iund pressed Kiviat hard. but in the stretch
the Irish-Amercan runner outstripped his
man 10 the tape. winning by about three
yards. Hedlund was fully seven yards in
front Of TAFT
Harry Gissing's remarkable finish won
the dual team race between the New York
Athletic Club and the Boston Athletic AS
socation. This squared accounts for last
wears race. when Boston won because OF
disnuallfcs tion.
The teams were composed as follows
Boston. O'IIsra Lee. Prout and Merrihew;
New York, Edwards Wood, Wather and
Gissing. They ran as named
At the start O Hara CUT out the pace,
closely followed by Edwards The New
Yorker contented himself with trailing for
two laps. and then almost caught his
man. but OHsra gave Boston a lead Of
yard
When Lee took up the running for the
visiting camp he rushed away so fast as
to open UP n gap of five yards between him
and Wood. The last named then raised
New York's hopes by increasing his stride
and passing Lee a quarter of lap from
home. Wood gave Walther a four-yard
lead. which Prouts of Boston, promptly
wiped out
After passing the Winged Foot runner
Prout had TO so at his best TO maintain
the advantage. In fact. Walther pressed
him so hard that there was scarcely yard
between the pair as they touched of.
AS IL was, Merrihew sped away on the
last quarter a scant three feet IN advance
Of Gissing, who made no effort to pass his
man until the bell for the last lap. Gssing
then made his effort. and passed his man
rounding the Madison avenue turn, though
MeTihew stubbornly contested every inch
Of the ground. Thereafter Gissing main
tanned the lead and, running himself out TO
the limit beat the Bostonian by three
yards at the finish. The time was $3.50 As.
In the first sem-finsl heat Of the seventy
W. r. Bursch, OF the home club. beat the
gun stride and won quite handily in 3-5
seconds lie was aided by 9-foot allow
ance. r. Cooke. OF Princeton, the scratch
man, won his first heat but he failed to
get placed in the semi-hna dash.
The decisive sprint resulted in a victory
for g. W. Bleistein, a New York Athletic
Club msu. with 7-foot allowance. He
beat 4. L. Richter, OF the Loughlin Ly.
G,t- ~
first four was so close that the judges had
difficulty in picking the men.
Probably the "cassiest" performance OF
the evening was the winning OF the mile
walk by George Goulding, the Canadian
champion. Gouldng, who was on scratch,
conceded allowances all the way up to
forty seconds His walking was a revea-
ton. and with little fuss or exaggerated
movement he skinned over the floor in
manner that left his opponents behind as
if anchored Gouding won easily in the
remarkable time of 6:33, the fastest mule
ever walked indoors.
The old record OF II feet 10 inches for
throwing the 56-pound weight over bar.
held for the last seventeen years by James
s. Mitchell. was shattered by Con Walsh.
The New York Athletic Club giant got
the big ball over the cross piece al 10 feet
10 inches This enabled Walsh 10 win the
event from scratch +. j. Mcdonald, an
other scratch man, got second place, with
IL feet
NJ Mcdonald, the crack timber topper
from oxford University, started from
scratch in the 70-yard hurdles. but being
out Of condition was unable TO get up. H.
with a 3-foot handicap. won the final heat,
barely beating w Edwards, the University
of Pennsylvania scratch man. A. A. ChiS-
holm. the scratch hurder from Yale. looked
like a winner until he tripped over the
asst gate The time was lis seconds
The hve-mie scratch race resulted in the
defeat of Tom Collins. the indoor champion
at the distance. Both VIM Bailey and
Harry McCinn Of the home club. led him
across the finish line. The winners time
was 25:5i 3-5.
II was a typical New York Athletic Club
gathering. Boxes and arena seats were all
filled with the usual liberal proportion of
women, while, higher up, the balconies and
galleries presented a solid mass OF human
ity. By the time the preliminary heats in
the da sh had been disposed of there were
probably six thousand persons present.
Popular music. classical and otherwise, was
rendered by the band under the direction
Of Frank Stretz. TO the approval of all
on the well balanced programme were
fourteen track and FIVE field events The
5j-pound weight contest was run off under
different conditions than usual. in that the |
men threw the missile over a bar instead
OF up against an overhead board.
roItn1f,na accounted for tha ,,,ilo