New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
DREW SHOWS SPEED
 AT INDOOR MEET
Champion Sprinter Wins Special EYelt-Peln. Beats Harvard

Hartford, Feb. 22.-The big crowd that packed it's way into the state armory last evening witnessed one Of the best indoor athletic meets that has ever been held under the auspices of the Second Division of the Naval Battalion. Every event was marked with exciting incidents and close finishes were as a rule, the outcome.
 Special interest was manifested in the 75 yards dash which introduced Howard Drew, the wonderful colored sprinter Of Springfield, Mass, com pcting under the colors of the Univer- sity of Southern California. Fitted fgainst the flier was Morse of Brook lvn. O'Hara of M. l. T., Teschner of Harvard, Treadway of Yale, and Farwell of Yale. At the sound of Starter McHughs "gat" the sprinters were off like flash, with the cham rion leading. Morse in second posi- iion pushed him for fifty yards, but Drew by a brilliant burst of speed opened up a three yard gap, and finished the distance ahead of Morse. . Treadway handed the Crimson lad a surprise when he raced across the tape several feet ahead of him for third place The watches clicked the time at 4-5 seconds.
 The second event of interest was the mile relay between the crack V. | of P. and Harvard teams. The Grim son boys sustained a setback at the outset when Teschner slipped, giving Dorsey a slight lead, which the liar ward runners were unable to make up, and when it came to the final pair, ! Meredith and Bingham, the crowd was excited to a fever pitch. Ihe Crimson captain made a gallant try to 1 overtake his rival, but Ted In ms us11al graceful and easy stride man. aged to keep two yard distance m front of his opponent, winning thg honors for his team for the second successive year.
 The Catholic University, minus two
 If it's star men, went down before the M. I. T. four in the mile relay ana
 Dartmouth exhibiting some fine work
 managed to nose out the fleet BroWn
 rniIers in the match relay.
 Bowdoin had a rather easy time In disposing of Worcester Tech in theF relay and the Amherst Williams re- Iav for the same distance was one of she most exciting of the evening, the latter collegians winning after dis playing wonderful speed. Wesleyan nilers found the pace set by the N. Y, tJT. men too fast and lost despite the splendid attempt to overcome a lead by Knipe.
 White of Brown won the 75 yards Intercollegiate dash in whirlWind
 fashion, defeating Treadway of Yale and OHara of M. I. T., who finished
 in the order named.
 Minot of Harvard won the 300 Yards inter r-collegiate event and Scudder of U. of P., and Riddle of Harvard ran a dead heat in the 500 yards dash. On the toss-up ScuddeE won.
 A new sprinting marvel was dis covered in Talmadge of Sufield, who cleaned up the nter-scholastic sprints in easy fashion, doing the distance in
 tight seconds, which is stepping some for a school boy. He also as- sisted his school in the relay against
 Williston when running as anchor man he ran away from his opponent, winning in easy fashion.
 Hobbs of Dartmouth won the 75 wards hurdle in fast time. The in- ter-sch plastic relay was won by Hart ford, Springfield finishing second and I New Haven third.