New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

Pitted against each other in the final
relay. the pair broke into their stride
with the Quaker leading by FIVE yards
an advantage hard won by Don LIP
pincott in a spirited duel with Wilcox,
of Harvard. That five yards was what
cost Bingham the race, for though ne
spurted and spurted he found catching
Meredith akin 70 chasing a shadow.
Around the track they tore, Meredith
digging his spikes in with almost super
human power and knitting forward with
terrific speed Bingham, keenly alive
70 the demand on him, struggled not
only to keep the pace, but TO gain even
an inch. II was a task too great Tor
him. And thus they few 20 the tape,
not an inch more or less between them
than when they started, running as X
coupled together by some invisible link.
Meredith's time for the quarter was
0:48 2-5 and Binghsm's was the same.
The worlds record for the race,
which the Quakers surpassed, was
3:1S is, hung up by Mel Sheppard,
Harry Gissing, II. Schaaf and jim Ros-
enberger, of the Irish-American A. C.,
in 1911. The Pennsylvanians' time
clipped 3 2-5 seconds off the old inter-
collegiate mark set up in 1902 by Har-
ward.
Record for Princeton.
Princeton won the two-mile cham
pionship race, in the record time OF
1855 3-5, after a heartbreaklng strug-
gle with Chicago and Yale, and Cor
nell captured the four-mile title event.
Yale, Princeton and Chicago came
TO the tape in the two-mlle race shout
der TO shoulder, and Mackenzie, or the
Tigers, in a desperate effort, hurled
himself headlong across the line, beat
ing out Chicago by inches, while Yale
was third Yale scored in the fresh
man championship.
Mercersburg Academy won the prep.
school championship after an uphill
race with Exeter, and Central High
School Of Washington won the high
school mpionship, by defeating
Manual Training, Of Brooklyn, and
Morris High, of New York.
Two other records went by the
boards in this, the most spectacular
meet ever held on Franklin Field.
Alma Richards, CT Cornell, Olympic
high Jump champion, cleared 6 feet
) inches in the high jump, smashing
the collegiate record Of 6 feet 1 inches,
which he himself set w in the indoor
games in New York last month.
Richards shook Wesley Oler, Of Yale,
at feet inches, and his winning
lump was feet 4 inches. Then he
went out for the new mark, and, Ia
vored by wonderful turf and a light
ming take-off, swept over the bar at
feet 5 inches. He tried TO clear .
feet 6 inches and failed.
John L. Phillips, Of the University
of Idaho, forced his way into the
limelight of fame by hurting the
iavelin a distance of III feet ~
inches. Phillips smashed the marx
made by Mike Dorizas, Of Pennsyl-
vania, in 1914, by feet, but he needed
every inch of his mighty heaye TO de-
feat R. l.. Nourse, of Princeton, who
hurled the spear 175 feet 34 inches IN
his first attempt. and set new mark
which stood only until Phillips came
through with his phenomenal throw,
which Is only feet under the Amer
lean record Nourse strove 20 outdo
the man from Idaho. and registered a
throw of l76 feet SIS inches for sec
ond place.
Howard Drew Invincible.
Although slightly lame, Howard p.
Drew. of the University OF Southern
California, raced in his invincible form
in the 10O-yard dash. Drew won his
trial, semi-fnal and final heats IN even
time, and wasn't pressed at all II. l..
Smith, Of Michigan; d. knight, Of Chi
cago, and |. Howe. of Colby. the ma
tional 220-yard outdoor and 1O-yard in
door title holder, came through the
finals and finished in that order be-
hind Drew.
Fred Kelley, the Olympic hurdles
champion from Southern California,
had more trouble in winning the high
hurdles than Drew had In taking the
sprint Kelley found himself in the
final matched against Simpson. OF Mis-
souri,; Hammitt. of Penn State, and
Frank Ward, Of Chicago. Simpson had
proved his ability by taking the semi
finel in 0:l5 2-5. the fastest time OF
the day and exceptionally good for a
race run on turf.
Kelley and Simpson were in adjoin-
ing lanes in the final, but the Califor-
MAN got the jump at the start and had
a yards advantage at the first hurdle.
Simpson tried hard, but could not gain
back the yard. and was beaten by that
margin in Is 3-5 seconds. Hammitt
was third and Ward fourth.
There were surprising performances
in the pole vault. Fifteen men cleared
the bar at IL feet 3 inches. and the
event was won by Newsletter. OF Penn
svlvania, and Foss, OF Cornell, who did
70 feet 10 inches. Foss sprained his
wrist in trying for first place.
Mercersburg Academy, which first
showed Meredith 70 the athletic world.
disclosed another startling sch0Olboy
L. fv, tel .
preparatory school championship re-
lay. Smith ran his quarter-mile lap
in 80 2-5 seconds, by far the best
schoolboy time since Meredith's time,
and pulled an almost certain defeat
into a triumph for the Mercersburg
lads over Exeter. Mercersburg trailed
all the way until Smiths wonderful
sprint turned a 50-yard handicap into
a l0-yard lead and victory.
Great Weather for Games.
The weather man turned on his finest
brand of July heat, and a burning sun
scorched down on the field. II the
track was soggy on Friday il was the
direc: opposite to-day, even the turf
over which the hurdle race was run
being lightning fast. A gentle breeze
from the southeast swept lazily across
the field with just enough strength 20
watt clouds OF murky dust on to the
spectators, whose perspiring counte-
nances blotted up every particle, with
the result that there was a dearth OF
soap and towels in Philadelphia to-
night.
Although more than $4,000 specta-
tors crowded the stands, the throng
was not the greatest which has been IN
attendance at the relay carnival This
was probably due to the fact that the