New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-28
Remarkable Performances Seen
on Muddy Track at Penn
sy|vania Relay Games.
GUTTERSON A SURPRISE
Place on Olympic Team Assured
by 24-Foot Jump-Reidpath
Shows Great Form in
Relay Race.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune

ances marked the relay games at the Uni
versjtv Of PENNSYLVANIA to-day. despite the
fact that an incessant downpour of rain
fell for the greater part Of the afternoon.
soaking some five thousand spectators to
the skin and making Franklin Field YER
table duagmire. Pennsylvania took two OF
the championship races, but the third went
10 Syracuse Although marred by unpro-
pitious weather. the meet was probably the
greatest that PENNSYLVANIA has ever held,
and had the DAY been clear ii is altogether
probable that a whole sheaf of new rec
ords would have been made
Notwithstanding the fact that Cornell
was not represented by single athlete
and that neither Yale nor Harvard had a
relay team on the track, the number OF
school and college teams that competed fdr
exceeded all expectations. Athletes from
nearly every state east of the MISSISSIPPI
and some from as far west as Missouri ana
Minnesota and from as far north as Mon
treal more than made up for the absentees'
Cornell, with its powerful two ana four
mile teams would have made the Perloc-
ton Of the afternoons sport absolute. AS
II was, the meet showed that the Cni'cd
States will have athletes par excellence
,,b,r tho time comes to select the team that
goes 10 the Olympic games In Stockholm.
The performances that stood out above
o,bsrs were the remarkable broad jumping
of Reidpath Of Syracuse University. in the
one-mile championship relay. Gutterson
cleared a feet "a OF all inch in his winning
iump under conditions that were the leas'
favorable Imaginable The jumping PIT
itself was a mass Of heavy mud. while the
take-off was slippery. Nevertheless, IN SlN
attempts Gutterson cleared more than-'
:eet. making his best distance on his third
trial Jump. GutterSons performance IS the
best that has been done in this country IN
Years and takes its place with the recorh
breaking jumps of Meyer Prnsten and
Alvin Kraeuzlein GutteIsons jump to-
Gay was within four inches Of KraenZleins
intercollegiate record and within six inches
Of Prinsteins American record. Even on
this performance alone Gutterson has IN
doubtedly Won for himself d place on the
olympic team.
Reidpath. Of syracuse, in winning the
last relay Of the one-mile championship
race, marked himself as one of the greatest
Quarter-milers OF the day. Reidpath was
timed for the quarter IN ~ seconds fat over
track on which 81 seconds would have
been considered fast. There was an inch
and a half of heavy black mud all the
way around the circuit, ard Reidpath
ploughed through it with powerful stride
He started on his relay twelve yards behind
Sanders. OF Illinois. and gradually over
hauled his man. finally getting him at the
end OF the backstretch. The two held to-
gether around the turn. but in the stretch
Reidpath opened with tremendous sprint
and literally jumped away from Sanders,
beating him by six yards. If the track had
been in any Kind of condition and Reid
path had run the same race he could not
have helped but cross the line in 4S seconds
or perhaps slightly under that figure.
The one-mne relay was by far the most
spectacular Of the day. Six teams faced
the starter and for three-quarters of the
race not more than thirty yards were be-
tween the first and last runners. In the
last lap the men got strung out more, but
they all finished well together Waldron,
Of Syracuse got off in the lead, but at the
end Of the first furlong Macdonald, of CO.
lumbia, shot ahead and at the end Of the
lap had a fve-foot advantage over the
Syracuse man. who in turn was leading
Wilson. Of Illinois. Patton, Of Columbia,
took I'D the running at MacDOnald's touch
off and although both Champlin. Of SYRIA
cuse. and Hunter. Of Illinois, pressed him
hard. he held the pace up doggedly ana
tore around the track, touching off Brady
the third Columbia runner to lead Of
yard
The Columbia man was unequal TO the
task Of holding off the combined challenge
OF FogC. Of Syracuse and Cortis, Of Illinois,
and on the backstretch was forced into
third place. Fogg held the lead until the
turn for the home stretch when the west
erner bore down with terrific speed and
svept past him. He finished the relay with
a clear lead Of twelve yards while Foster
Of Pennsylvania. worked into third place
bv outrunning Brady. 1t was in the last
relay that Reidpath made his remarkable
effort. Bonsib. who relieved Brady took up
the running for Columbia and tried to
catch Mercer, Of Pennsylvania. in the first
furlong He oUtdid himself. however. and
although he managed 10 overhaul Mercer
the strain told. and he was forced TO drop
hack Davenport passed him on the stretch
placing the Chicago team fourth. Onto
Wesleyan. the other entry, was last.
Pennsylvania carried of both the two
and four-mile championships and shared
the honors Of the day with Syracuse. The
Western teams, except In the special
events were decidedly out or II MlClBan
was beaten rather Unexpectedly in the
four mile relay after ii seemed 10 have the
race well in hand. In the two-mile races
Minnesota led at the start, but was soon
passed by Pennsylvania and Princeton
who fought It out TO the fnsh. the QUA
kers finally winning by dozen yards. In
the four-mile race the margin was less be-
tween Haimbaugh. of Michigan and Nc
Curdy Of Pennsylvania, the latter pulling
ON ahead in a wonderful sprint down the
stretch.
In the schoolboy races there was lot
of excellent running. which reached a ell
max when Mercersberg Academy in the
preparatory school championship broke the
American and the worlds record, clipping
three seconds off the old mark Of minutes
30 Is seconds. Meredith. who was the
anchor man on the Mercersberg team. ran
his quarter in 30 is seconds. and some OF
the watches caught his time At 40 20 sec