New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-06
canals TraverS Island
Track Mark at New York
a. c. Spring Games
WESLEY OLER CLEARS
BAR AT 6 Fl. 5ia IN.
vale Captain Forced to Better
Intercollegiate Mark to
Shake of Schoolboy.

D'e- r., iitttNN
..,- WHO mas been chosen cap
- = ,be Ysle trsc, team for next
~ .,,4s6 che horors a. the spring
year. - no New NorA Athletic Club
se1- 80 Island yesterday.
gs.sr won ;he Ha.'-ml'e run from
- -acrc his re.c INTO inc GROUND
80 beautifully timed sprint IN the
S.U-gsb'e tine 90 minute - sec
''t@' 70 establishes new mark for
.-af.. and equals the record
~, r. Meanwhile over the old
'1- esav hao. in 1898. OlcT
60 tho bar go thc running high
A.. s.. fec. l-c inches. and Won
.-.i> re~. from Bur, an Slclcn, Of
,t.,,s-.c Preparatory School. who
80 zee. inches and had nan
- inches This was the best
,-er made a. Travers Island IN
~. ,,-pe,,on. according TO the on
p..,, Won aGd,tooa, honors IN the
.. -e's. race. for e was due IN
- measure 90 has phenomenal
,r,-re that tho Mercury foo'efs XII
- o,o- ell. r. h-Amor'Cac team.
Tg,-.,c third. re co; OF some teo
,,,5s bthrl hc-h'e Hrshon, ana
.s,r ssr6 stern chase. q chase that
s.s 81 ,b, ra-aec alter his effort N
-. t,'. mile. closed all but yard.
ii WIsie. :rc Yale eycr. ran anchor
,' he ~ - ,o,'o As an opuonent.
nm. WIZ ~ .,r,,r NJ sand. He
na''5'ee ~. -, IN runner and then
'''ec- w by TWO OF three
P...'I go M
az -. .ro -Tr.vc,s Island
ny - VIA. justified. !
n,s."'. r-s~,,. 5.o-. while from
- It.ro Sound a breeze
.or,7,,.~- the hect. More
49,. '.l.,'..,,.t .~cc'a.ors welcomed
~. ..1' -, Ivy p. v..re.s The gan,es. and
Sc. =, .s,- n Sal thar .ot d single sea,
va. vacsnt. A.ory the curve Of the
"a. the spec.a,o,s were banked three
s,,, :, wss an enthusiastic gather
80 ~ .oo and no, without cause. There
-, f,,sbcs close enough 70 stir the
49, ~ ,bs most aDathetic.
NJ. Va, o-Ir outdid the fonde (
.,rSc,e-,o.s o. his friends. but even
.urnr,sed himself. When the race va,
over he came over 20 we PiVS9 -
and tod friend that had ne known
10 was running so close 70 record
20 10 could have thrown ht'!e
more powe- NO his sprint and run a
full second faster He also comp.alneu
that he had run around ms hela' IN
,..,d o. sitting through ard say ne
.,nr,d R.. had ne elected 20 this
80, cour.e there is some doubt that
+. would have gotten through.
Thirty-seyen men faced the star'er
y the half nile. and every one OF
hem y seemed. had the record pee
buzzing in hi, brain. They went Out
burning the track q Z = were ~
ward scampcr. instead Of Iour-lut
long rur. Baker did some pret'! .a'l
scamper.ng himself. and the Watches
,i,ksd as hc vni~.ed past the quarter
n s. seconds on the bell lap Bake
made his famous sprint. and. running
around MS field. that match.ess stree
q his moving along m irlcuohieSS
STYLE. he swept all before NM n
James. o. the Nonawa A. c. was me
sV man 10 SuIrenCer, ana bdheI
rppet him only thirty yards from the
tape.
Oilers e.-ucg'e IN he high lump was
70 les, heroic tnan Bakers in nc half
vi, The 81. captain never leaDed IN
- L.. ~ Sicfe, .i-rDlv re-
otIef loIh' uut al. q.
fused 20 BE- shaken OF. ] nat elSht-lHc''
i,,dican WAS anparc9tlv an insur.
. 1902 "S - "pF3' .rJ when Van
rolntab.e uorrlcf, anu VIZ"
f.onned on. =. : Zoe. inches he called
~ .,Loe % hca.
ioi cap o' .fct iNOhcS ~
Tin. The bar was set az that nelgnt
ana 'iel SeeIt" ~ 'i u" -
,.dEes measured the mar Win tc-
80 - .o..,1 .L.. g.. ,vas Foet x 1 ?
.'Pe aHu 'Vu"N 1"~' ~ 7.
inches above the .ake-ON board. II
~, an - L;cLo, ,bar Oler had
~" '.O" "'e N;a.o
taped IN winning me lnIerCoHee a'e