The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-11
TED MEREDITH JUST
NOSES OUT HIGGINS
Ties GOO Yard Record in Hot
FinislI--CamplmlI 20
Yards Behind.
TABER Runs FASH VILE

'NT'l''b 'hf NhlNi : ltttlu 1tl hhi NbFut
yesterday IN the Millrusc 6Go. feature
event of the annual Millrose A. 4. games
at Celtic Park. The record uf | minute
20 30 seconds was made by Homer
Baker last year IN u race at Travers
Island In which the Pennsylvania nier
was beaten badly. Yesterday Meredith
got his first shot at the mark. not having
run that distance since. lie made A
great bid To beat of lie Roy Campbell OF
Chicago and j. r. Higgins Of Boston, hut
only euualled the record. which every
body expected to be lowered.
Meredith's work was not the only fine
performance OF the day. Norman y.
Taber, formerly OF Brown and oxford
universities. smashed the Celtic Park
record for the mile. when lie ran from
scratch against II poor field and finished
with 80 yards to spare in 4 minutes
II So seconds. Taber caught his neld
at the half mile post and had to run in
paced for the last two laps on the quar-
ter mile track. His fractional times
were; Quarter. 81 1-5 seconds half
mile, = minutes . 20 seconds. and three
quarters. 3 minute II seconds.
After a rest of about an hour Taber
came back on the track FOR the $50
yard handicap and showed some more
great running. He had to run from
soratch around an unwieldy field. yet
hlpped all but one man. T." .. Meehan
OF the Meadow Brook A. A.. who had
30 yards handicap. ana beat him to
the tape by only about seven yards.
Meehan's time was | minute - Is
seconds. Taber was clocked separately
In l minute 80 seconds.
The general excitement In n series OF
close finishes for most of the events
merited a better attendance than the
SCant 5000 spectators present. TIL only
disappointment of the day was lie Roy
Campbell. the noted Chicago University
middle distarcer, who swept all before
him In his section. Campbell was twenty
yards back Of Meredith when the Penn
nicr breasted the tape In the invitation
race. But where Campbell disappointed
Higgins was Il pleasant surprise that
made up for the West.rners failure.
When the tire" lined up for the start
higgins had the pole. with Campbell on
The outside and Meredith in between. The
latter. who wore the colors Of the
Meadowbrouk \. &. OF Philadelphia, al
lowed Campbell to shoot ahead to tn"
turn Ia front. Higgins preferred TO bri't;
up the rear. Thus their positions re
maincd throughout the irst iap-'amp'
lcll Looping along with u ',issorSiih'
stride and towering half u head tallc'
than the others Meredith IN his graceful
swing two yards back. and Higgins tn"
. FbllA' iFAhli' wv W. - ''' 'N'
stride.
Campbell turned the furi"nP m - -"
seconds ana tu" uuHrttr Oh 81 J." s''
guds. Higgins. q Holy 'foss boy WE"
suddenly l,aped into fam" - week ago
10y winning the half mile in the Eastern
tryouts at Boston for the national cham
pi"nShip, at san Francisco WiS the mrs.
To- challenge Campbell iIAli way
around the las, turn he simply threw
himself ma, the conference champion
ana took the lcad A- he passed Mere,
ann the 'att"r nleo pui on '''Ath ana
shot ahead of Campbell. The Chicago
man was done then II, dropped yards
ni,n o,.r, .t., mntl mo was had las,
WIN VIZ ~ NV" ~ " ~ v"' ."
Meredith easily shouted the crowd
IRON, hume. TIE plucky Bustuuian
tnugn, ho'b ,honsh and th,y reached
the lin" Only tw" yards apart.
men brought an wen closer finish. Thu
"'., D. sr,.y ,n.,,., u,ms. in mo
ytrns |" ,g, 'r"aN n"''p ,'ouSs III, '"s
quarter. a half and "A mile. Abel Il.
kivI,t .n,hor for IN, Irish. was 100
AIDS behind q r. Kelly When the last
relay hogan me 'Ist runners OF three
NV" load ,, o IiInt r,,cI the ara, ons
d, ,m a., .,I ac ,ho h,c ,r,,,h o.
, u"'' VIZ Gnu W NV ',NS,'ol'n, va"
for Kelly. with 100 yards TO go he
!, N Was SUI wi,h ,W " rn.n > ,Hn, w Dr,,pI h,v Du, wo np
the race had it been a yard longer,
!, Some ~ thus" Ia the stands cried Dead
!; heat" hui Kelly had won by about
''sn' meme IN" summaries
20 Nard p1sh ''Ised I" J'hn Wana-
maker commercial Institute 'Iunior III
> vision Won hy g.. Olsen O. yardsl. WI
/ .am' S'hu-'S 90 YARDS; second II Haura-