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with Gaussen dogging his every stride.
When the sprint came at the far turn
neither man could gain an advantage. anG
they fought through the stretch on prac-
Ideally even terms.
Taber made pretty pickup for oxford
a the third relay began. and jumping to
the pole. forced a sizzling pace through
the third mile-a pace so fast that he
tired i'm the last quarter and could not
respond to Maderias remarkable sprint
in the stretch. The pace also made 1t
possible for the Pennsylvania man to turn
the mile in ~ As. the fastest OF the
four by 10 seconds and more, and 10 give
McCurdy a lead of a good twelve yards
over Jackson for that last hard mile.
The Englishman was impatient and
closed the gap In the first quarter but it
needs took much OF strength that might
better have been held in reserve. once,
however. the lost ground was regained
Jackson settled down behind McCurdy,
and for two laps they raced stride for
stride, each outstanding so far as possible
the, forces so soon TO be needed.
Jackson looked worried as the final lap
began, and appeared undecided as 10 tho
plan OF racing for the lead or OF being
content TO await developments and run
on the outside. Whether ne chose wisely
or not will never be known, but he took
the latter course. and as a result was
forced 10 go bit wide for the rest OF
the grlling journey
Rounding the far turn for the last time
Jackson made his jump. but McCurdy,
wide awake. was ready for the sprint,
and like a team they raced into the
stretch and down to the finish line, with
2, 900 hoarse voices shouting and cheer
ing The race was In the blood
Thirty yards from the finish the slight
iostling Of two tired, wellnigh exhausted
men seemed TO handicap McCurdy and
cost him half stride. In any case. Jack
son forged to the front by a good yard
and the race looked over. McCurdy. how
ever, was not yet beaten. He lacked not
courage. He knew not surrender. On
the two men fought and struggled, and
in the last stride both fairly hurled them
selves at the worsted and broke IL al
most as one
Dead heat" shouted hundreds. Nc
Curdy. McCurdy." screamed the Penn
sylvania men. Jackson howled others.
and then everybody who did not rush for
the track sank back TO get a fun breath
and recover
Jackson won The judges agreed, as
did others who were on the line, but the
margin was too narrow to rob McCurdy
OF one whit OF glory or honor. II was a
race.
AS said before. the time was 1906, fast
for the going and shivering weather.
Cornell holds the worlds mark OF 1855,
set at the same games In 1911, when
Jones, Berna, Hunger and Putnam es-
tablished the figures.
The time by miles this afternoon was
as follows:
First mile. Bacon leading. i:S5; second
mile. I.angner leading. 4:34 third mile,
MADEIRA leading, 4:22 As; fourth mile
Jackson winning. i:25 is. -Four miles,
1905.
AS the figures show. the last mile was
the slowest. Jackson ran in perfect form,
with long, sweeping stride and wonderful
action, but a man who knows him init
mately insisted he was not quite himself.
and the race rather bore this out. Still.
he won, even If I'm doing so he ran him
self out
Athletes, young and old. from grammar
schools, parochlal schools, high schools
preparatory schools. academies, colleges
and universities. gathered for the well
named carnival In numbers that defied
counting. II was not gathering OF East
ern clans either. The ambitious runners