New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07
Ted Meredith. Hero of the
Hour, Wins Thrilling
Race for QuakerS.
pICHARDS SETS NEW
MARK IN HIGH JUMP
p.un State Surprises Yale in
-s0,Yard Race-COrnell First
in 5000 Yards.

u.roys we're we'll divided az the first
,.soor meet Of the intercollegiate As
..;.ton g Amateur Athletes OF
,n,ries. better known as. the I. c. A.
"A. which was held at Madison
s.,.r, Garden last night. Pennsyl-
ma Harvard, Dartmouth. Cornell,
r.,nrb,s and Pennsylvania State all
God Of the fruits of victory in the
~ races. which furnished the best
a .,or, and excitement Of the widest
A'T n, cuakers took the prize in the
y bersl4cd medley relay in clink-
roce i'm which Ted Meredith, the
Manic flyer. was called upon TO run
y. hest 10 keep OF Granger, Of Dart
mouth, o,oo
n. fouy.r,sn teams. after dual race
,';.b Princeton. the only other team
.r,sreS: Columbia sped 10 a well and
20 earned victory In the l,bOO-yard
,slsv Pennsylvania State sprung
.srn,ise or Yale by defeating the Blue
- !Sc final heat o. the 150-yard race;
n.,.rouib WAS the winner Of the 1000
vs,5 relay after q thrilling struggle
LIN Yale. while Cornell, true TO its
b,,, tradition. scored decisive trl-
vwnb in the S.O00-yard relay, the only
ont.snd-out distance run on the pro
grsmme.
MoHatts Mark Excelled.
Ilns Richards. the former Univer-
city Of Utah student, who competed for
Cornell Jumped 70 fame in the run
ming high iump. with a leap Of feet
I inches. which set new intcrcoiie-
giste record The old mark was feet
IS. inches and was made by Tommy
NoEatt. of the University OF Pennsyl-
vsnia. Richards was nard pushed oy
Wesley Oier. Of Yale. VINO was second
with feet inches.
Meredith, timely victory IN the
medley race was the most popular OF
the night From the crack Of the gun
me contest was "a thriller Eight
teams faced the starter and the plan
was 10 have the first run 200 yards,
the second 500 yards. the third 800
Yards and the fourth 200 yards. The
teams that lined up were Brown, Co
lumbia. Cornell, Dartmouth, Fordham,
Michigan. y. Y. L. and Pennsylvania.
There was O Jam when. ti,e teams
we're sent OF. and al the hrst turn
here VAS a Wild scramble with three
q the runners SPRAYING IN the moor.
The referee was keenly alert and re-
called the runners for h new start.
The crowdinc was less marked the sec
ond time and Don Lippincott, the
Quaker star, showed the way at the
end Of the relay with few scant
inches 10 spare over Trenholm, OF
dartmouth Michigan was running
tbirs Brown fourth. Cornell fifth, CO.
lrmbs sixth. Fordham seventh ana
New York University eighth.
Frank Kaufman, New York Doy'
was the second of the Quakers 10 60 TO
ne firing line, but he found the pace
sr nv Legav. Of Dartmouth, too tas'
ana dropned to second place. halo
ran. Of Brown. worked his way 70
third place. and Michigan was fourth.
The positicng Of the other teams re-
NAMED the same.
Dartmouth still kept the lead In me
third relay. and when Granger toucHeo
Of he had a fve-yard advantage over
Meredith. The other teams were wei
in the ruck Columbia had already
dropped out. and Fordham and New
York University had been Tapped. The
Olympic champion held fi.nselt !ust
behind GRANGER until they had reacnea
the 5OO-yarG mark Then Mereoith
made his running. he shot past Gran
ger with lightning speed and opened
upa rap OF ten yards. With that leao
ne seemed satisfied and ploughed on
around the track.
Granger Shows Stamina.
Granger. however, did not Know
wDer he Vas beaten, and in the laS'
Ian no let loose a terrific squirt IN
vain epdeavor TO catch Meredlth. ne
feU sbcr. b., five wards at the end az
though Meredith did not seem 10 push
himself In his last sprint for the tape;
Brown faltered at the end and droPpeu
behind Michigan and Cornell, Whlc"
finished third and fourth. 49,.
Cornell made a runaway race OF m
s0OO-yard relay. From the hrst the
hbacsns ,rcro I'm front and were never
in DANCE of being headed. Massachu7,
.etts Institute of Technology ana
Pennsylvania were the only otheI
starters Tic Ouakers fell down BABY
and finished q poor third, a luIl zap
behind the Cornell four. NJ. l. W" wa
second. half q lap in the rear o. tue
ltnacans. NJ
1t is hand to say how big crowd
would have turned out for the Geo h''"i
q the weather had been propllouS'
As IL was. close TO twenty-five nun
bred persons found their way hroueH
the blizzard and had an evening OF raIe
sport. Although relay races ana ilelu
events made up the programme Unei0
WAS plenty Of keen competition. .,
Pennsylvania State College, consld,
cred a rank outsider, drew hrst Dlooo
by defeating Yale in heart-oreaklhe
race in the 75O-yard relay. In the
heats Cornell disposed of COLUMBIA
and the State College boys showed
sign Of their real ability by out-run-
ning the University of Pennsylvania
team. Yale, after getting bye de-
festeo Cornell in the seminal. g,
Columbia raced TO an unexpected
victory in the l,500-yard relay. This
despite the fact that Ted Meredith was
On one Of the opposing teams. In the
FIRST heat Columbia was drawn against
Harvard
Teschner. the first OF the Crimson
sprinters, fell on the last turn. and
Monroe, Of Columbia, had to hurdle
him.
Harvard was leading by five yards
when the accident happened. and al
though Monroe was thrown off his
stride and lost several yards. the Har-
Yard man, when he picked himself up,
vas twenty yards back. That present,
ed an insurmountable handicap, and
Columbia rOmped home an easy winner.
rennsyivania drew a bye.
The three teams met in the final.
Columbia surprised itself when Brady,
r1nnisg FIRST in a reversed team order.
Slpned into q tbrec-vard lead oVer