Evening star., 1915-05-30
CORNELL IS VICTOR
Easily Best in Intercollegiate
Association Annual Games.
HARVARD IN SECOND PLACE
Yale Third, With Pennsylvania and
Princeton Tied for Fourth.
Two New Records.
HARVARD IN SECOND PLACE

PHILADELPHIA. May 2s.-The Cor.
nell University track and field team
won the fortieth annual games OF the
intercollegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America here this after
noon, scoring 4512 out of possible
1875 points.
Harvard was second with 26 points,
one more than the total scored by the
Yale athletes, with Pennsylvania and
Princeton tied for fourth place with 21
points each. Dartmouth and Michigan
divided fifth place honors with IA
points each. Columbia was sixth with
10, while Maine with 9. Pennsylvania
State 6. Johns Hopkins II, Massachu-
setts Tech and Bowdoin ! each COM
pleted the scoring colleges.
The caliber of the competing athletes
representing the twenty-odd institu-
tions of the association was shown by
the fact that two new records were es-
Ia ablsihed and third equaled. Wesley
NJ Oler of Yale cleared feet 4 y
inches in the running high jump after
great leaping duel with Alva w. Rich
ards of Cornell. the winner Of the
1912. Oler's feat displaced the asso-
citation record of feet 3A inches.
made by T. Mofit of Pennsylvania
eight years ago and the collegiate rec
ord of feet inches made by w. b.
Page of Pennsylvania in 1886. Rich
ards in winning second place with
feet 31a inches also surpassed Motifs
record.
Breaks Hammer Record.
To H. P. Bailey Of the University of
Maine, a new member of the associa-
ton, went the honor of breaking the
second record. Names husky collie
1,.
whistling out 1855 feet y inch in his
preliminary trial yesterday. winning
first place without further ado and add
ing 2A inches to the figures estab-
lished by John r. De Witt, the famous
Princeton foot ball player, in 1902. Ted
Meredith of Pennsylvania equaled the
association record of 48 seconds in
winning the 440-yard run and might
have bettered this time, made by C. D.
Reidpath of Syracuse in 1912, had he
been pushed hard at the finish.
Conditions, from a competitive stand.
point. were excellent. The University
of Pennsylvania track at Franklin
Field was fast and there was scarcely
a breath of wind to aid or retard the
runners. Gray clouds and the possi-
bility of rain kept the attendance down
to about 5000 spectators. who made up
in enthusiasm what they lacked in
numbers
Cornelrs victory was well received,
dictions. and the manner of winning left
no doubt that Trainer Jack Moakley
had sent an extremely versatile and
well balanced team to the starting line
Having won permanent possession of
the ]. c. A. A. A. A. trophy bowl last
year the Red and White athletes gained
the initial leg on the new cup by scor-
ing points in ten Of the thirteen events
on the program.
Although the Ithaca squad scored
close to 25 per cent Of the tota humber of
points. the Red and White flashed across
the finish line a first-place winner in
but one event. 1t was in second, third,
fourth and even fifth place in the va
rious cinder and turf competitions that
Cornell rolled up her winning points.
9ale's Only First.
The same applied to Harvard. which
won second place with five seconds,
one third, one fourth and one fifth.
Oilers victory in the high jump was
Yales only first, whereas Pennsylvania
gained Is of her q points by three
nrsts. Princeton picked UP ten points