The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
MAKES
GOOD IN TRIALS
BELIEVED REAL FIGHT WILL BE
BETWEEN PENN AND COR
NELL IN FINALS TODAY.

4 n CAMBRIDGE, MASS. May 3d.
Todays trials in the intercollegiate
games, the forerunners of the great
championship events in Harvards sta
dunn tomorrow were run Off under
splendid conditions, barring a slight
wind that was bothersome in the
half and quarter mile runs. Nothing
4 happened in the preliminaries to
change the aspect that this years
championship will be won only after
q gruelling fight between the athletes
from Pennsylvania and Cornell. and
the ANAL outcome not resting more on
the abilities Of these teams against
each other than on what some Of the
stars from Michigan and Yale show
they can do.
There were trials in II OF the Is
events the mile and two mile runs,
~ usual being passed over until the
second day. In the trials Harvards
showing was the greatest surprise,
- Of the crimson athletes getting in
to the finals However. Harvard'n
team IL not one to pick up many Of
the leading places IL indeed more than
ono Of them. Pennsylvania did not
get quite so many men into the finals
~ she expected. scoring only nine,
while the Ithacnns had 10. Dartmouth
also played nine men. but fell down
badly In the quarter mile run and
high jump events In which the Han
over team was very strong at the
New England games.
The Pennsylvanians were eiated
over the form shown by Mercer in
the broad Jump and twenty-three feet
one inch placing him first in the f.
nails However, Mercer did not look
30 good in the furlong fiat race al
though both Lppincott and Patter-
son, of the Pennsylvania team came
son of the Pennsylvania team came
through beautifully in the 100 and
220-yard dashes, the former winning
his heat In the century in 10 seconds,
the fastest of the trials Lippincott
in the 22o dash. was caught by the
watches In 90 l-5. the fastest time
of all the six heats necessary to eIimi-
nate. Pennsylvania. however. did not
even get a qualifier In either the high
tump or hammer throw.
John Paul Jones, of Cornell. was
in fine form for the half miles. win
ming his heat In ] minue, SIS As sec
onds this, however. being slightly
faster than the other two heats won
by Brown. Of Yale, and Marceu, Of
Dartmouth. Brown looked mighty
strong. and as IL he would make the
racing very fast tomorrow Taber
the Brown middle distance man, did
net compete in the half mile, saving
himself for the mile In the finals
wendell. Of Wesleyan, ran two good
heats in thr hurdles
Hammctt, OF Pennsylvania State.
and Potter. OF Yale. both did IL In
is seconds fiat Griffith, of Penn
sylvants, did not have 10 extend him
self NOT did Jackson, If Harvard, who
viii he dangerous in the finals
The Californians did not do as well
as they expected to do. Beason quail
fed in the high hurdles and I'm the
high lump being ono OF the four men
In the latter event who qualified at
feet 10 inches. In the high jump
neither Sargent. OF Michigan. nor
Douglas. OF Vale, could clear feet.
10 inches, at first, but when thew had
TO fght it out for the fifth qualifying
place the Michigan jumper finally
cleared feet. II rs inches to beat
Douglas. on within Yale had figured
30 strongly. Shattuck, of California,
qualified in the hammer throw. Saw
yer, of Michigan, and Wagner, Of
Johns Hopkins, were the two sprint
ers who showed more than was ex-
pected today. and both should figure
In the final points. The shot putting
was good, while in the hammer throw
Gable. of Harvard. led with throw
OF 1856 feet Wagner, OF Yale. APP
pears to have little something on
all the other poic-yaulters