The evening world., 1911-12-23
hn Paul Jones, for Ithacans,
and White, for Tigers, Stand
Out As Individual Stars
Among College Men-Rec-
ords Made on Track and
Field.
7 HE curtain hes Just dropped
on an unusually interesting

Dnpscted hsppenipU and sensational
achievements In all branches OF
U0ostA 1911 will 90 down in attn
|lstic history - the year In which
Princeton defeated her great rival,
Yale, In oil four major sport on.
counters between the two institu.
Mons. triumphing In baseball. track,
(rowing and football. Incidentally,
Iths year Just closed marked the 70
urn Of Princeton to intercollegiate
eowing circles, after an absence Of
twenty-five years from contests Of
tAis kind. The Orange and Black
oasSmen made . most suspicious re-
entry, too. defeating Yale with their
maiden crew and giving place only
to The champion Cornell eight In .
tArsecornered q on Carnegie
Lake on May 20.
tho laurels for the year 80 to Cornell.
The men from the high hills about
Cayu0a Lake have been putting forth
Hganto efforts for the last nve or six
years IN svery branch Of sport and
theif wonderful record for the past
year 10 a tribute to clean athletics. In
I'M Corncla has not only won more
championships in various aports than
any other college or university but she
haa made q better record In this re-
spsct than was over made before. In
nvo different branches the Ithacans
seteblbhed their supremacy beyond
secnblance Of a doubt and In a sixth.
namely. baseball. they made an excel
lent record and have some claim to a
oNe which the powers that be found Il
W. dimouat to award. owing to the
nUvefse1s Of form Of the leading con-
tsnasrA
'ITAAoANe MADE HISTORY ~
WINNING FIVE TITLES.
0ernears hve championships are
treok. rowing, hockey. c~ross-country
an1 fencing. The track championship
70 veubly oreditable. owing to the fact
enAe ell the events at the intercol-
lsoietes were we'll contested and the
cAItoTs OF the performances very high.
TIA rowing championship IL. of course,
an old story. as Is the c~ross-country
championship. It being the twelfth con-
se0utivs time Cornell has romped to
victory In the latter event.
In ne matter of the crew the coach
Ing Of Courtney was more than ever
the predominant factor. as the Cornell
eight was unusually light and their
victory due to the excellent form the
"Old Man" taught them. The Cornell
hockey team. which did not suffer de-
feat all season, was ar infant In the
intercollegiate Hockey League. being
only in its second year as a member
Of that organization. The fencing team
which carried on nrst honors achieved
the distinction of being tine first COM
bination to defeat the Army and Navy
with the foils.
II was on the track. however, that
Cornell athletes achieved the greatest
distinction. 1t was the Ithacans first
victor since 1908. Coach Moakley de.
veaoped Q well-balanced team. strong
IN every department of track and field
work except the sprints, but. OF course.
the work OF Jones and Berna, the first
in the half mile and the mile and the
second IN the two-milc event were the
predominant features OF the meet, as
"a faet they were OF American track
history for the year. Five records
were broken at the Cambridge classic
and three previous records were
equalied. II 10 seldom hat one year
brings the setting OF 30 many new
marks.
Two other achievements were made
on the track by college athletes which
are especially worthy OF mention. On
Nov. 8 r. l.. Beatty OF Columbia Uni
vsrsaU put the iG-pound shot IS feet
~ iDches. beating the intercollegiate
record made this year by J. Horner Of
Michigan by two feet, The other was
the psrbormance OF the Cornell four
mle relay team at Buffalo o n March 3.
Tho quartet coached by Jack Moakley
/, ana consisting of Finch. Putnam, Ber-
Npa and Jones ran four miles indoors
y the remarkable time Of II min. 43 3-5
secs, establishing a worlds record.
JONES AND WHITE STAND OUT
IN COLLEGE ATHLETIC WORLD.
Ths nams of ]. =. Jones of Cornell Il
As closely bound up with the track his
tory of the year as that of Sam Waite
of Princeton Is with the season on the
Grtdtron. In fact these two men stand
in a class by themselves as the indi-
viduAl sensations OF inc year. Jones
\ won the mile In the Princeton and PENN
| sylvanla dual meets, took first place in
the cross-country championship and at
E.the intercollegiate track championships
IVA established new American records in the
half-miie and mile events, thus proving
mis- superiority among college runner
al the half. the mile and s!x-mile events
ana lea win little doiot IN the minds OF
followers of track athletics as to his
{. ability to "c.ean up" the intervenlnn
distances should tine occasion presen,
itself. Jones Is the most natural dis.
lance runner Moakley has produced. and
At 10 very probable that the future will,
bring even greater performances by h!al
than ne has already made.
Sam Whites work OF the grldiron was
the same stellar variety. In both the
Harvard and Yale ga,les tie Pr!nc-t ton
4 layer was the man OF the hour. and his
\ >ng runs won both games for the Jer-
eytfes. besides making White the foot
ali hero OF 1911.
Tho year Just closed brought . notice