The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-07
BROWN VICTOR over
COLUMBIA IN MEET
First Dual Games Defeat in
Four Years for Home Team
-ScOrc 81 1-2 to 80 ~.
LITTAUER BADLY MISSED

The absence OF Nanny Littauer.
Columbia's giant fullback ana weight
thrower. and the illness ~ Bill vollmer.
star hurdler. gave Brown an opening
through which II wedgcd a victory on
South Field yesterday afternoon in the
first dual track meet 81 the year. The
fnal score was Brown 64ta points,
Columbia t2h points. II was the nrst
defeat Of a Columbia track team In a
spring dual meet In four years.
What happened to Littauer nobody
knows. He was seen last at noon and
was not missed until 1t came time for
him to throw the discus. put the shot
and compete in the running broad jump.
The discus looked his for sure, as Il. II.
Nichols OF Brown won II with III feet
n inch, ten feet short Of Littauer's per-
formances or his OF days.
" littauer was conspicuous by his alb
sencc another football star was equally
prominent by his presence. lie was f..
y. Pollard. the negro. Pollard won the
low and high hurdles, topping tho high
timbers In the fast time IT Is LIS seconds
and the low sticks In 25 As seconds. Bill
Nolliner was supposed to oppose him in
the hurdles. but was too III to enter the
meet.
Black and white. two sprintcrs. not q
beverage. were expected TO furnish the
excitement I'm the sprints. Tom Black,
however. was not running to the form
that got him the 100 meter title IN
Franc three years ago and was eaten
by Maynard l.. White, the former Stuy-
Sesant High School crack. and Capt.
Harvftt In the century dash. Harvitt
squared accounts by taking the furlong
event IN 90 seconds.
Tho feature race was the two mile
run. In which J. II. Vreeland Of Column
bta and p. II. Keough Of Brown ran a
dead heat for second place. vreelAnd
set the pace for the first mile. when
NJ. Gertz OF Columbia. the eventual win
ner. took up the pace. keough sprinted
past Nreelard and II looked as n the
latter would finish among the also rams.
Two hundred yards from the tape.
Enough. he took a new lease Of life and
started after the leaders.
keoigh could not pick IN anything on
ierta, but Vreeland cut down the fifteen
yard lead the Brown distance man had
on him and raced neck and neck with
him for the last hundred yards. They
finished Ak one man. i've yards behind
,iertz. who had not run himself out.
Nreeland had given up his last ounce Of
strength To beat keough and as n result
could not enter the mile run.
The summaries:
40 Yard High Iiuriies-won BY r. u
Pollard. Brown second. j r.. Isaaos.
Brown third. II II. cassidy. Columbia.
Time, 10 Id seconds
100 YARD ns,hIwor by NJ r Witt.
third, I. f. Back. Columbia. Time. o:-i
seconds.
Brown; sesond. r +. shepard Columbia;
third. C. u schirman. Columbia. Time
I ininutes 40 Is seconds.
Columbia. second, J. =. Hal!cran. Brown,
third. W. Aibrecht. Brown. Time, 81 Is
Two Mile Run-won by NJ. Gertz. col.
umbia, second. dead heat between J. -
vreeland, Columbia. and p II. keoush,
$50 YARD Low murticsEwon BY r u
20 ard. brown. second. !. r. I-aacs
Rr'"n MIRA II II cassidy. columbia
No. ,fard PAY lyon NSy,A., Hsryi,'
'hird l. - Hal.oran. rr'"n limo. a
H.i' Nile Run Won by +. whs'an, Go.
C'p -s.hnman. columbia. 'T.ine. : minute:
S,>,ten found shot rui Won by C. r.
,nches SECOND, Il II. Nich1l., Broon.. Win
Is feet o. inchcs ihirt A schultz
Hirh Junp-Won ~ Il \ schultz. Co
llmlia. with 3 feet 5 iuches, srconi G.
nll'f tINN0t WIN u lt'' " 'l'Ni = 'nlli
tie between T. Howell. RroNu. and - G.
Ames. Brown, ~ = feet 4 inches
broad lImp-Won by i. +. 'ssArs,
Brown, with II feet -, inches. second,
!. g V Hu.ch. Columbia, with 30 feet So
!n.h"s ,hirt. u \, senu1te' columbus WITH
;. Vault Won tg . ,nes. Brown
with 10 f'o' second. Y Mol,c,, columbia.
Win g Fec; Il inches, third, tie uCtNsen
g Il ~ harrison, Rrown. and !. =. Brad
icy. Columbia. at q feet,
Discus ThroW-Nun by X ". Nichols
Brown. vi'h III feet y inch, NJ Fernuw,
Brown, second, with fo1 feet II inches
,hiri, 9 r Armstrong, Columbia, with Zoe
feet . inches.