Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-27
SPAN OF HAND WON
RACE FOR OXON|ANS
Famous Jackson Is Just Able to
Defeat McCurdy, of Penn,
on Tape.

captured the four-mile relay race, the
feature of the Penn relay carnival,
Saturday, at Franklin field, Phila-
delphia, not by the wide margin that
was anticipated, but by the bare span
of a hand. The University of Penn
sylvania relay team was the one to
give the Britishers battle.
Oxford, Penn, Cornell and Penn
State were the four starters in the
race, which was run in the chilly
rain Bacon and Sproule toed the
scratch for Penn and Oxford, respect
lively, and in the rush for the pole po-
sition the pair left the Penn State
and Cornell representatives several
yards behind.
Passing the Penn student stands on
the fourth lap, Bacon cut loose and
battled Sproule round the turn and
into the home stretch. Langner, of
Penn, and Gaussen, of oxford, were
the next runners, and received the
baton from the first relay at almost
the same minute. Cornell and State
were yards behind by this time, and
interest centred in the flying pair of
leaders.
Gaussen took the pace with Lang
ner striding close behind. For three
laps and more they continued in this
order until again in front of the
Penn stand, when both L,angner and
Gaussen broke their gait and sprinted
for the tape. Taber, the former
Brown runner, now sporting Oxford
colors, got away to the pole first,
with Madeira at his shoulder
Taber uncorked a Misunderstanding
pace in an effort to kill Madeira off.
His efforts were unsuccessful, how
erer, for Madeira swung to the fore
on the back stretch and left the tired
Taber twelve yards in the ruck by
the time the waiting fourth men were
reached.
Little McCurdy, the Penn anchor,
started with this lead, but it was
soon cut down by Jackson, the Eng
1ish Olympic champion. The speed
with which he wiped out the gap be-
tween himself and the leader BODIED
i'll for the American hopes. But when
jackson got to McCurdy's shoulder
there he stayed. Striding one and a
half to Jackson's once, the wee Nc
Curdy stalled off the lanky Briton's
grueling efforts to get by On the
home turn, as If by simultaneous i'm
pulse, both McCurdy and Jackson
broke stride and started on the last
sprint.
Round the turn, down the stretch
to the tape they sped, breaking the
tape, apparently, at the same in
slant. Jackson fell back, utterly ex-
hausted, in the arms of friends. Nc
Curdy was able to go to the dressing
room unaided.
1t was not for some minutes later
that it became known that the Eng
fish team had won by a few inches.
Cornell and Penn State were unable
to finish, being lost In the crowd that
thronged over the track to greet the
runners and learn the name of the
winner.
The time for the event was 1905,
ten seconds behind the record. Had
1t not rained, 1t is thought new
record would have been established.
Frank Lagay, the former Central
+ High School boy now at Dartmouth,
: ran the final leg of the one mile
freshman relay for the Hanoverians,
) but was unable to get better than
second to Pennsylvania
Howard Drew the colored sprinter
of southern California, captured the
special 100 yard dash in 10 1-5 seconds
and the broad jump with a leap of
twenty-five feet Fred Kelly captured
the 120 yard high hurdles from a
classy field. Chick Curtis, a New
arker, who was scheduled to start
for Syracuse, in the pole vault, the
event which he won at last year 8
relays, failed to appear.
oxford Men Visit Princeton.
The oxford championship four mile
relay team spent yesterday afternoon
at Princeton as guests Of the Prince
ton Track Association. Captain
Fiske of the Princeton team, with
Keene Fitzpatrick, the trainer.
pointed out to the visitors many
points of interest. Later the Oxonians
were the guests of President and Mrs.
Hibben at tea. Tabor, who went to
Providence Immediately after the re-
lay races at Philadelphia Saturday,
did not accompany his teammates.
Penn at Princeton Today.
Princeton and Pennsylvania clash
at Princeton this afternoon in the
Tigers first big baseball garoe of the
season. The Tigers are out to avenge
last years two defeats, and Coach
Clark will send Wood, his strongest
boxman, to the mound. Sayre will
most likely oppose him for Penn.
Penn to Prepare for "Trip Regatta.
Coach Vivian Nickalls will put his
Penn crews to work this week in
preparation for the Triangular re-
gatta with Princeton and Columbia
on Lake Carnegie Saturday, May 9.
High Rating for Cornell Men.
That the scholarship standing of
men engaged in interscholastic ath-
letics at Cornell Is not so low as has
been asserted by the critics Of ath-
letics, and that the PIP men who
played on varsity teams in a year
maintained a better average than the
1900 members of college fraternities
is shown by statistics compiled for