Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-25
HARVARD BREAKS
MILE RELAY MARK
Crimson Four Wins One-MiIe
Championships in Best Time
Ever Made.
CENTRAL AND ST. AlBAN'S
TAKE TWO FIRST PLACES
Former Gets High School Title-M.
A. c. Only Southern College
Victorious.
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PHILADELPHIA. April "a
One world record. three intercol-
leglate marks and two Pennsyl-
vanIa figures we're the high spots
IN the tWentV-hrst annual relay
carnival OF the | niNersltv ri
Pennsylvania this afternoon. the
most remarkable contests ever
staged In this country With rep
resentatives of eighty colleges
and hundreds of schools strue-
Cling Tor the honors. and all of
the thirteen leading holders Of
world and sectional marks in the
competition. the meet drew 25.0W
spectators and produced a quality
OF competition that was sensa-
tional
The University OF PENNSYLVANIA
one mile relay team was the COM
blnatIon that made the new world
ngureS. setting a record OF 5.lS
for the mile journey. a fifth sec
ond better than the mark set BY
the Irish American \. {. some
years ago. The high jump OF six
ieet five inches bv Richards OF
Cornell. d avelin throw OF w
1eet "a inches by Phillips OF
Idaho University and a new rec
ord OF 7.55 S. BY Princeton in the
two-mile college relay champion
ship furnished the new collegiate
intercollegiate marks.
Washington Schools Do Well
Washington colleges and schools
made a record approac hed by no other
city in the country Three relay VIC
tories and three second places went to
the credit of the fleet runners from the
nations capital. A great victory was
SdlHtu ny lIt MARY rama -ASTltulIuldl
College in the contest for the southern
colleges. This team clearly outfooted
Gallaudet College, Delaware College.
Villa Nova, Crsinus and Lebanon Val
ley. which finished in order.
=. Morris started the running for the
Aggies and at the outset. having the
pole. took the lead. He was patted
hard. but managed to Keep his place
until l., Pennington. IT., relieved him.
The second Maryland man passed ii
q * Grace added ,1Nan-
ta2e. The latter opened the lead up to
fifteen yards The time was 3.3. 40.
Central Wins Championship.
Washington Central High School
gained a noteworthy victory when it
captured the high school one-mile re
lay championship of America. The run
ners from the District of Columbia set
a mark of S.3i only 3-5 seconds be
hind the record for the championship
class. Their opponents were Newark
Central High School. Morris High
School of New York. Philadelphia Cen
trail High. Brooklyn Manual Training.
Lynn. Mass. High School and Bloom
field y. j.. High School.
Capt. W. Gates started the running
for the Washington team and at once
opened up gap that put the Washing
tonians in the role of pacemakers,
Strive as they would, the other teams
could mol cut GOWN the ledd l.. II ant,
A. Hill and W. Milstead holding it in
turn to the end
St. Adams Wins Race.
Tie victory of the ST. Adams School
of Washington. III a preparatory school
class. was one that required consIdera-
BILE courage AS well as speed. The
Washing tonians had the worst of the
draw and were on the outside with SIN
other teams nearer the pole. Hauser,
the first runner, was elboWed and al
most thrown. but he gamely fought his
way up to the front. Carrsr. WHO fo.-
lowed, was still on the outside and had
to run wide to get to the front. Rose.
the third man. put the team ahead ana
Brewer made the lead safe.
The last of the college relay events
before the championships had the
Catholic University OF Washington as
a contestant. Dickinson college won
the honor with the Washington team
second.
In the high jump Richards of Cor
nell, the olympic champion. leaped 8
feet inches to win the event from
Oler of Yale. who did feet inches
Richards jump bettered the intercol-
legiate record by three-quarters of an
inch. After winning the event Rich
ards tried for record and jumped "
feet inches or two inches less than
the world, American and collegiate
versity.
While the east won the three big
American championships. the west
showed up well in the sprints and field
sports. taking five of the eight con-
tests in this class. Drew of Southern
California won the I00-yard dash. la
doing this he was compelled to run in
a preliminary heat, and III a semi-final.
and in all three of his sprints his time
was the same 10 seconds. nota BILE
performance for one afternoon.
Kelley Takes Hurdles.
Kelley of Southern California. the
world record holder, won the l20-yard
hurdles, which was run on the grass.
in easy fashion. James of Northwestern
University landed first in the broad
lump and Bachman of Notre Dame cap
tured first place in the discus throw
These, with Phillips victory in the
iavelin event, gave the west five firsts.
The east captured the high jump.
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