The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
COLUMBIA'S TRACK
SQUAD VICTORIOUS
Beats Wesleyan, 76 to so. by
Its Superiority in Field
Competitions.
GRAHAM TRIPLE WINNER

Overwhelming superiority in the field
events enabled the Columbia track team
to swamp Wesleyan In IN" frat dual
meet Of the year on South Field yester-
day afternoon by score Of IS to so.
The Blue and White aggrega zion had
to fight tooth and nail for every point
in the track events and led by margin
Of two points when they were over.
Capt. Frank Brady. crack hurdler and
quarter miller. didn't start because Of a
faculty order which ruled him Ineligible
for failure TO keep his scholarship up
to the standard.
Brady's absence. though a sad blow
to the team. gave Crackers Graham an
opportunity to shine in his stead. Ora
ham took both hurdle events with the
ease with which Brady IL accustomed
to do II and reaped 22 feet I inches into
first place In the running broad jump.
contributing In all Is points to Colum-
bias total. He won the 100 yard high
hurdles from n teammate. Vollmer. in
the fast tune OF Is i-j seconds by six
yards. In the 220 yard low hurdles
lick OF serious competition hiloWeu MN
to loaf along and he won by twelve
yards In 20 % seconds
Wesleyan sprans several surprises.
not the least of which was .. G. Whit
ney's victory over Al Harvitt in the
century. The visitor won by three yards
after leading by twice that distance at
the 80 yard mark. He came right back
a few seconds later and captured the
asa..er ht,e run from FRANK , "ne, Wi
po,,.r nho ni,, wh,,n.v ' . nv, for
Camp in The $50 ward run. Whelan
hung back for the frs, iap and then shot
from las, to iir.; place with 300 yards
still untraversed. Potter hung on tena-
clousiy and turned into the baclxs,retch
,no IDS hahinI ,ho cn,unohia n,s.
He spurted and passed whelan twenty
yards from the finish and won by four
Inc feature race OF ,he Gay resulted
In the two mile run. when Louis
O. Smith. the diminutive Columbia dis
lance man and q X. eastman OF IVES
-, ,a,,,, o.. $3.50 o.. con
'es",' "a.'Ieu strioe ior suIue ioI ovV
yards. Smith IN poor sprinter 80 he
challenged eastman early. The latter
accented and ,be n,ir s;ar,sd N raca
Tor the last quarter mile eastman
looked like the better finish man. but
Snkth threw caution ana form 10 the
winds and sped IN on his patter stride
,r, a.. $500, 10
The pair were shoulder 10 shoulder 100
yards from the finish. In the last ten
yards eastman cracked under the strain
.,I ,urhta1 ,cro,s tho e,ish a h.a,an
anu ,ui'nIeu across me nnisn pea,eh
man py three Earne. Inc summarizes
100 Yard Dash.-Won By o. e whitney
Wesleyan. A Har,itt, Columbia. second
IL ID KrsfYt Wesleyan third Time
10 2-b seconds
100 Yard High Hurdi..-won by g r.
Graham Columbia: ID " Vollm.r Co
iumbia second: l.. r. Williams. wesleyan
third Tim. is is seconds.
800 YARD Low Uur,l,s-won by q r
Graham, Columbia; l. r. Williams. IVES.
l.yan .econd. I A sutton Wesleyan
third Time IS 2.s second.
asO Yard pash-Won BY A Haryitt CO.
mrubl,. II - Krafrt W.sj-v.n second
o. q Whitney. W..ieyan. third. Time. ~
second.
40 YARD Run-won nv q & whitney
WESLEYAN: r Wh,l,n ,;olumbia second.
S.kard, Colurnbla third Time
- ..rond.