Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-10

Deen dDle 10 accomplish IedL miner
to impossible by scoring eighteen points
with two men in three races. This at
tempt was made with Jones and Berna,
undoubtedly the two best middle and
long distance runners in the United
States.
What Cornell Tried to Do.
1t was the plan Of Coach Moakley that
Jones should win the mile, Berna take
second in the same event and that Berna
should then repeat by winning the two
miles and Jones by taking the half mile.
A careful study of the points will show
how closely Coach Moakley was figuring
and will prove that II the Ithacans had
gotten away with this daring move they
would have lost the meet by only half a
point. Coach Moakley had planned to get
eight points out of the mile, five points
out of the two miles. and ten points out
Of the half mile This would have given
Cornell q total of twenty-three points. In
addition to these three events the tina
cans got two points out of the quarter
mile and half a point in the pole vault.
This would have given Cornell 25h points.
or Just one-half point less than Pennsyi-
vania scored. But at the time of the
mile run. when this sudden shift OF men
was made, it looked as though the tina
cans would score point in the l.0-yard
dash, as they almost certainly would have
a false start, while Cozzens looked good
for at least three points in the quarter
mile.
After the crowd saw the mess which
Cornell men made of the mile and two
mile runs the>fear was. expressed in some
quarters that neither Jones nor Berna
was running up to the form of 1911 IL
should have been easily seen. however,
shat Jones lost first place in the mile Dy
his anxiety to set the sort of pace Wnlcn
would enable Berna to get second. In
doing this Jones underestimated the
ability of Taber of Brown and Madeira
of Pennsylvania. AS t turned out, either
one Of these men could have run the mile
in time better than APO. The race itself
was most unusual because the first half
was run in 213 and the second half in
2O7 JONES' on account of the assistance
he was trying to render Berna, must have
wasted close to seven seconds tnroughout
that race, and the ease with which he did
done well under 4.15 had he so desired.
He gave further evidence of this when
later in the afternoon he made new IN
tercollegiate record of 1.5S 40 in the hall
mile.
he attempted the impossible. The writer
mas seen nearly all Of the best college
distance runners within the last rev
years try the feat of doubling up IN the
mile and two-mile runs and scoring III
III.
was first added to the intercollegiate pro-
gram, only one man had ever scored IN
both events. He was Coldwell or dar-
ward who In 1903 won the mile IN 4-5o
and was then fourth in rather slow two
miles, Had he anything like the sort OF
competition that there was last week the
Harvard man would have been fortunate
to have even scored a single place In one
of these events. Another great runner
who tried this was Jonn reagan Oh
they saw an opportunity to win the meet
from PENNSYLVANIA, and to help out the
Orange and Black Creagan. after having
qualified for a place in the half mile
Friday and won the mile Saturday In a
rainstorm in the time of 424 10. started
thirty minutes later In the two-mile run:
The winning of the mile, however. had
taken so much out of him that he was
forced to quit at the end OF the n1th lap
inst as Berna did Saturday.
That Berna dropped out was no ref1ec-
tion on his ability as a runner, for he is
undoubtedly the greatest tWo-mfler that
this country has today. He was merely
mna lle to accomplish the impOsS Bile, and
n will probably be a good many years
before any other coach permits his men
to do what Moakley did Saturday.
All-Around Strength Won.
The meet showed the well rounded
track team to better advantage than the
team of stars. There is. however. no
certain rule to tell which team is the
more likely to win the Intercollegiate.
the team with the stars. who are capable
of picking up firsts, or the team with the
greater number of competent men to get
seconds, thirds or fourths. 1t all depends
upon the way that the smaller colleges
cilt into the points Of the big ones. AS
a matter Of fact. the Pennsylvania track
team was undoubtedly the best balanced
team Of the year and could have beaten
any other team entered In dual meet,
just as 1t beat Cornell.
Weather Helped Pole Vaulters.
Referring to the individual perform
ances there is no doubt that R. A. Gard
ner's work in establishing a new worlds
record of thirteen feet one inch in the
1,ole vault was the most remarkable of
the meet. Never before has any athlete
ever been able to scale the bar at the
height of thirteen feet in actual COM
petition. Four years ago Gilbert Of Yale
was reported to have beaten thirteen
feet in practice several times. but he was
never able to do 1t In competition. Had
il not been for the splendid weather with
which the meet was favored 1t is ex-
tremely unlikely that Gardner could have
gotten over the height he did. Probably
feet il allowed to start the bar at any
height they saw fit and to vault just
when they felt like 1t. In competition.
however. every man must take his turn.
which makes it impossible for him to
perform up to his real ability. This event.
however, is a most uncertain one and
eth err Babcock of Columbia or Wagner
of Yale is likely to beat Gardner at any
time, though there Is not much likelihood
Of them beating his worlds record for
some time to come.
Another man who deserves particular
mention is Reidpath of Syracuse, the only
double winner of the day. Reidpath would
have won sufficient fame for himself by
his sensational performance Of IS for
the quarter-mile run. but In addition to
this he ran a semi-final heat in 100 yards
and then in the final won in q 2-5 sec
onds. This was q most sensational per-
Torrance and had Reidpath been pitted
against a man of the caliber Of Craig,
both starting fresh, it is not unlikely that
a new worlds record Tor, the distance
would have resulted.