New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17
Blue Almost Doubles Score
of Crimson Athletes
at Cambridge.
THREE RECORDS GO
BY THE BOARDS
Brown, Poucher and Boyd Hang
Up New Marks for
DIAL Meet.
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fRy Telegraph TO The Tribune
Cambridge. Mass. May ls.-Yaie's track
and field athletes swamped Harvard to-
day i'm a dual meet in the stadium by o.l7
points 10 37l2. winning, as was expected
but doing so by a much greater margin
than had been counted on.
THE New Haven team made clean
sweep i'm three of the thirteen events and
issued forth with eight first places. taxi
ing nine seconds and dividing another.
The Blue also got the most thirds. regis
tering seven and half to five and a half
fer Harvard.
IN spite of the one-sided score thcre
was plenty OF excitement at the meeting
Early in the afternoon one of the LARGEST
crowds that ever witnessed the Harvard
Yale games here saw one dual games
record equalled and three broken. In the
iirst heat OF the day. that in the l2O-yards
high hurdles, W. 7. Potter won in 20 "a
seconds At first It was announced that
Potter had broken the record by flfth
of a second but later il was found that
only two watches had agreed on the iec-
ord time. and SO J. T. Sullivan, referee,
would not allow the new mark.
The three records that were broken.
however. were in the half mile, mile and
two-mile runs In the $50 c.. f. Brown
leading for the entire distance, won IN
I minute a seconds which was three
hfths of a second faster than the old rec
ord. made by Brown himself at last years
meeting a. New Haven.
In the mile r. W. Poucher. OF Yale.
who. out into the lead just before the
half mile was finished, was the winner
in minutes - seconds his time being
a full three seconds faster than that
which Norris of Yale. turned in last
spring The two-mile record was hung up
by a Harvard man. II. st. b. Boyd, who
did Q minutes a. seconds for a dual rec
ord last year but who to-day beat his old
mark by two and one-ifth seconds. his
time being 9:42 40.
barron. the Harvard captain. took both
of the dashes from Cornell of Yale, but
the time in each was slow. Potter, OF
Yale won both hurdle races. Jackson. the
Harvard colored timber topper, being shut
out in the first trial heat in the high event
and then getting only third in the low OBJ
stacle races
In the neld events Oliver tombstone, OF
Harvard. cleared % feet 10 inches in tina
broad jump, as winner. and did six feet
in the high jump. but this was not enough
10 beat Oler Of Yale, who beat Johnstone
/ by half an inch
Yale swept the high hurdles, mile run
and hammer throw. In the hammer throw
Sturgis. of Harvard, who has been throw
ing nearly lt feet. fouled three times.
The summaries follow:
luO-vard dash tnrst heatJ--won by ". \.
b Barron, Dr.. Harvard; T. h. Cornell, nale'
second. W G.. Moore, Harvard. uird. Time
Harvard; X. c. Cowles. Yale. second l. i;
Ricketts, Yale third. Time. O.l0 -. Final
heat-Won By W. \. Barron. Jr.. Harvard;
4. H. cornell Yale. second. l. L. Ricketts,.
yale. third. Time. 0:1O Is.
22O-yard dash Cirst heatl-Won by W; a.
Barron. ir. Hazard 7 H. Cornell SirS T 1als,
O:22 IS. Second heat-Won by l. l.. Rick
Gus. Yale; J. l.. Foley, Harvard second W.
Final I;Hii' 6eai|won by ". \. Barron IT, Har-
ward. T. II. Cornell, Yale second j. l-
Foley. Harvard, third. Time Oh v...
". j. Bingham. Harvard second; j. c. Rock.
Harvard third Time. 0:49 10.
sSo-ysrd rgnUWon BY c. E, BE9Wn t ssa,
ten. Yale. third. Time 1874. (New dual
games record)
one mic run-N on by X W IouCur.'
Yale; H. ". Smith, y ale. second; n. Mex:
Hatch. Yale. third. Time. 4.23 New dual
games recOrdl
Two-mile run-Won by r. St r. Boyd.
Harvard: r. Clark. Yale. second: c.
Southworth. Harvard. third. Time. 9:42 10.
tNcw dual games record)
1870 yard high hurdles FIRST heat Won by
". r. Potter. Yale: ". VI. Shcdden, Yale.
second Time, 0.15 As. equals dual games
record) Second heat-Won By G. a. VIII
let's. Yale T. . Freeman. Harvard second.
Time. ole Final heat-Won by W. +. Pot
ter. Yale. W. VI. Shedden. Yale. second: c. A.
Niletts. Yale. third. Time o 10.
220-yard low hurdles-First heat won by
W F. Potter Yale; A. l.. Jackson. Harvard,
second. Time. 0:25 IS. Second heat won by
w NJ Shedden. IT,. Yale; c. A. Willetts. Yale,
second Time 0.26 Final heat won by ". +.
Potter. Yale; W. NJ. Shedden, jr.. Yale second
A. l.. Jackson. Harvard. third Time. 0:25 rs.
Running high jump-Won by W. ". oler.
Yale: height. 6feet | y inches, J. .. Johnstone,
Harvard second. height. feet; r. A. Douglas,
Yale third, height. feet ga inches.
Running broad tump-Won by J. O. John
stone Harvard. distance, % feet 10 Inches; A.
n Hampton. Yale and r. T.. Matthews, Yale,
tied for second distance u feet o. inches.
Putting sixteen pound shot-Won by A. w.
/ W. +. ROos Yale. second. distance, ~ feet SO
inches: G. E. Brickley, Harvard, third, dis
lance. Al feet o., inches
Throwing sixteen pound hammer-Won by =.
Toughridge. Yale. distance, 1916 feet II inches;
r. : Cooney. Yale second. distance 1873 feet
AZ inches. y. :. Talbot. Yale third. distance.
49, feet 10 inches.
height II feet: L. @. Richards. Harvard and
H. W tombstone. Yale tied for second. height.
/ II feet inches. Second and third points di-
vlied. but tombstone won toss for prize.