New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
Runs Away from Hedlund and
Taber in Making Worlds
indoor Mark.
DARTMOUTH WINS RELAY
Keats Cornell Team at Two
Miles Despite John Paul
Jones at the Colum-
bia Games.

,. University relay CdlhlNai ih wv '
r,.incut armory last night N'''"''
,.adioc from start 10 finish oie'"o'
.,,o !, minutes IS 10 seconds. tnr'''
srbs of a second better than the INN
,',ae hv oscar HodlunG. of the Boston u
a, linz. New York Athletic Cluo games
a, Madison Square Garden on "eu"''
day evening. ~,
/, WAS one of The greatest races ina
LAYERS OF the sport here have ever sVV'''
for Kiyiat set off at a burning pace anu
,l,hough no one in the vast armoTN IN
.o.,ed him to Keep il up he held II lap
sf,or Ian and virtually ran away from
uodlund and Norman Taber OF Brown
University. Hedlund hnlShto seeo'N'
,hi-ty-five yards behind tho marvellous
i<i,sat and Tabcr was fully half Zap
hch,nd the boston man. beaten and COM
,l.,elv outrin. NJ. j. GeisS. unattached
vas the only other starter in the race
hr. .bc mace was so hot for him that he
dronped out at the sixth lap, when he was
mos, half a lap behind the flying kiVia''
I<iyiat was off with the gun, and In the
first dozen yards was fully ten ieet IN
front Of Taber Hedlund was third ana
Geiss in the ruck. Al the end of the trs'
Ian Kjyiat had increased his lead. while
uedlund dogged along in Taber's tracks
inst 2 stride behind. Kiviat, never heed
ING the other runners. went right along.
and az the half-mile mark was going so
we'll that il seemed only a question OF
bv how much he would win; provided, of
course that he did not overestimate his
own powers.
This was the place where Hedlund made
his iump. and he passed Taber and went
ont after Kiviat. He found it impossible
however, to gain on the sprinting staten
Island youth. and Kiviat sped to the tape
10 the wild cheers of the crowd.
1Iohn Paul Jones holder of the world
amateur record for one mile, iahed 10
bring the Cornell two-mile relay team 10
victory. Dartmouth won. despite tie iact
that the great Jones ran his best IN the
las, half mile and made UP many precious
Yards that Finch, one of the Cornell quar-
,et that won the trophy last year in time
Iivalllng the worlds record for the dis
lance. had lost on the third relay.
Wien Jones set ont on his Impossible
ask in The final relay Of what was one
OF the most stirring races OF the msht
10 was cheored to the echo by a Wildly
enthusiastic crowd that damned the ar
,norv from the floor 10 the giiders None
If the disorder that marred the Columbia
-ance last winter was in evidence now
ever. and everything 50 far as the CROWD
vas concerned went off smoothly
Dolan. of Dartmouth, who was me
las, of the Green four To take the trach'
was ir the lead. and Lawless, OF harvard
some thirty-hve yards behind Dolan' was
stin more than "a dozen yards ahead OF
Jones. In the first three hundred Nards
Dolan GAINED slightly on the Crimson and
Cornell runners. but with the relay nan
run Jones Embossed his wonderful speeu
and foot bv foot cut down La"less uhul
ho passed the Harvard man at the end OF
the second lap. Then he set Out al.e'
Dolao. who Lad let up trlhe IN the hi"-
ing mace he set for himself N the His'
few hundred yards.
Jones was fully twenty-five yards in inc
rear and had only a couple or laps u
nm when he started after Doiah' Inc
Dartmouth man seem 10 be IN oao coiiu'-
ton and Jones gradually made up se'er"i
Yards but when the bell rang Tor the
last Ian he was still twenty yards behino'
4, ,bis stage Jones redoubled his cnorts'
hut Dolan found himself and tore arouio
The hack turn and into the stretch WIN
e,ch sneed that Jones could not POSSIBLY
overtake him. Down the stretch 'ie wv
came. but Dolan more than heid MS o", u
and finished eighteen yards IN lroH' ~
the peerless runner from Cornell.
One of the best races or the night "dS
The intercollegiate relay race IN CLASS d.
I'm which the quartet from Fordham I'm
yersi,v defeated Brown University ana
New York University That the maroon
clad runners were returned victorious was
due TO the speed. endurance and uniaitef-
ING courage Of J. J. sullivan, who ran
an the anchor relay. sullivan took up the
race Some ten yards behind McLoughiln'
n Brown who was leading and running
strongly. Like Splinter in hfty-yaru
dash. sullivan went out in mad pursuit
He crept up slowly. ever 50 slowly AT
first. and Mclaughlin swept around OF
the hell lap. leading by confortaoie
margin. and victory seemed assured.
Half a Ian from home Sullivan threw
on, the last ounce OF his speed, and theh
followed A finish that was never sur
passed In all the races seen in the ar
mory Head back his mouth Wide open
and straining every muscle IN ms TIRE"
body. the FordhaIn runner closed the gap
The crowd rose 20 its feet. cheering t"e
plucky effort until the roof OF the armory
fairly rocked Yard by yard sullivan
came I'D on the Brown man. who fough'
gamely 10 hold his lead. Forty yards from
the wire Sullivan caught him. runh'hs Oh
the outside and. shoulder TO shou'oe'
The BOYS rounded the turn togethei'
For half a second Sullivan seemed 70
faltcr and the cheers died. but ne Was
Irish. with Irish grit 10 the bacKooh''
and he urged those muscles into the iaS'
drive for the finish. now only few EardS
away. lie forged ahead by a foot, then q
yard. and he went away from McLoush-
lin. to win by perhaps five yards. Alter
the finish. as he walked slowly across nv
floor the crowd rose In Dody anu
choered him for fully two minutes.
Holding the lead from start 10 hniHn'
Aolumbia University won the one-in'le III
Acolleglatc relay championship rom '"e
teams Of Harvard. pennsylvania anu
Syracuse universities. which hnisnc' III
the order named. Columbia won by per
haps fifteen or twenty yards the o'h'r
teams struggling along about inc SAME
distance apart. Don Lippincoti' VINO "o"