The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27
WESTERN RUNNERS
HEAVY Winners
IN MEET 7
ILLINOIS TAKES MILE RELAY
CHAMPIONSHIP AND MIcHI-
GAN WINS TWo-MiLE.
TAKES TWO RACES
Red and Blue Freshmen Break Record
in Winning Mile ReIay-Pennsy
Varsity Takes Four-Miie Event
Phillips Exeter Wins.


Phillips Exeter Wins.
Philadelphia, April 26. Western
runners took two of the three big
events at the annual carnival of relay
races and field sports on Franklin
field today, the University of Illinois
winning the one-mile relay college
championship of America and Michi-
gan taking the tWo-mile relay ma
tional championship. The University
of pennsylvania won the other ma
tional championship, her mile runners
being more than a match for the other
milers in the four-mile contest. In
winning the two-mile relay, Michigan
cut two-fifths Of a second off the rec
ord, her milers going the distance in
eight minutes flat.
The Pennsylvania freshmen, with
Meredith, the Olympic champion, run
ming as anchor nan, won the one-mile
freshman relay national championship
in the record time of 1926 4-5. The
' record vas 1926 As. The clipping off
Of this record was due to Meredith's
running, who covered his quarter-mile
relay in 40 AS econds.
The one-mile preparatory school
championship of America was won by
Phillips-Exeter, in 1926 As, breaking
the worlds interscholastic record for
the event of 1927 is.
New Records.
A new worlds record for the discus
throw was made by l.. T. Talbot, for
merly Of Pennsylvania State college
and now of Cornell. He threw the
weight 142 feet IL inch. The worlds
record was 141 feet 4 3-S inches, made
by M. J. Sheridan in 1911.
In the pole vault Curtis of Syracuse
won with a vault of IL feet 6 1-2
inches.
In the 1%00-yard dash, J.. c. Patter-
son of Pennsylvania won in 10 sec
onds flat.
Talbot won the hammer throw, 1913
feet Z inches.
Crowley of the University of Vir-
GINA won the 120-yard hurdle in
Is ga seconds.
The broad jump went to WATSON Of
Notre Dame, who jumped % feet 2 ga
inches.
At least three champions Of whom
much was expected were crowded out
yesterday. Thomas of Princeton, in
tercollegiate 100-yard dash champion,
failed to qualify for the semi-finals
in his race. A. S. Wright of Dart
mouth, holder of the worlds record in
the pole vault, was forced out at IL
feet 1-2 inch. His record is 10 feet
2 1-2 inches. Nicholson of Missouri,
after equaling the worlds record Of
Is LIS seconds in his heat of the 12O-
yard high hurdles, was disqualified.
Summary.
100-yard dash, final-Won by J. C.
Patterson, Pennsylvania; M. E.. Rob-
ertson, Syracuse, second; R. M. Mar
shall, Pennsylvania, third; j. Har-
land, Princeton fourth. Time, 10 Sec
onds.
120-yard hurdle, final-Won by ].
Crowley, Virginia.; J.. r. Case. Illinois,
second; A. J.. Griffith, Pennsylvania,
third; G. Hammitt, Pennsylvania,
State, fourth. Time, Is 3-5 econds.
In the semi-finals Nicholson Of
Missouri failed to qualify, knocking
down too many hurdles.
Hammer throw-Won, by Talbot, ex-
Pennsylvania State, with 1853 feet z
inches; Gable, Harvard, with 1874 feet
II inches, second; Kohler, Michigan.
with $50 feet 3 inches, third: Engle-
horn, Dartmouth, with 147 10 1-2
inches, fourth.
one-mile college relay, champion
ship of America-Won by rflinois
(Henricson, Hunter, SanGers. Cortis):
Pennsylvania, second; Dartmouth,
third; Chicago, fourth Time,
1929 As.
Phillips Exeter won the one-mile
preparatory school relay champion
| shin of Apoarino IN O.Oc TX lroolx
ing the worlds i~nterscholastic record
of 1927 is, held by Mercersburg.
Mercersburg was second and Evans
ton, ILL.,, third.
One-mile freshman relay, college
championship of America-Won by
Pennsylvania (Kelly, Bacon, Lock-
wood, Meredith); Columbia, second.
Time, 1925 AS, breaking the former
record for the event of 1926 AS, made
by Illinois in 1910.
Shot-put--Won by r, l.. Beatty,
Columbia, with As feet 3 IL inches:
Kohler, Michigan, with As feet 10 1-2
Inches, second; Talbot, ex-Pennsyl-
vania State. As feet 4 IL inches,
third; Roos, Yale, A feet 7 inches,
fourth.
Broad jump Won by Watson,
Notre Dame, with % feet 2.3-4
inches; Gooch, Virginia, with 81 feet,
II inches, second;' Harrod, Johns
Hopkins, with q feet 6 inches, third:
Hammer. Pennsylvania, with 81. feet
4 "a inches, fourth.
Discus throw-Won by Talbot, ex.
State and x-Cornell. with 142 feet 1-2.
inch; Thatcher, Missouri, with 1870
feet. second; Englehorn, Dartmouth,
with 1877 feet 9 inches, third: Kohler,
Michigan. with 1875 feet 5 1-2 inches,
fourth. Talbot's distance is said to be
a new record.
Four-mile, college relay, champion
ship of America-Won9 by Pennsyl-