The Washington herald., 1918-06-02
BEST
| IN TRACK MEET
Ithacans Capture Intercol-
legiate Track Meet at
Franklin Field.

Philadelphia, June 1.-Running and
vaulting true to form. Cornell won the
first wartime intercollegiate track and
field championship held on Franklin
Field today with the huge total OF
last year but in 1915 and also 1915 the
Ithacans carried of the title.
Next to Coach Jack Monkeys Cor
nellians came Pitt with thirty points.
This was the first year of intercolle-
giate competition for the Western
Pennsylvanians and they did remark
ably well with small squad. The
i've leading scorers were. Cornell. n
points; Pitt. 80 points; yarmouth. rs
points; Princeton. 10 points; Penn, 1S
points.
Cornell won by reason Of its all
round superiority as q team. That
has long been Jack Monkeys special
ty picking UP points here and there
is what has brought many a track
title to the Red and White, and 1t
worked out again Saturday in three
events: two-mile run. 22o-yard hurdles
and broad jump the Ithacans amased
the splendid total Of thirty-one points.
which in itself was enough to win the
meet. OF the thirteen events on the
program. Monkeys team scored in
eight. There were no particular Cor
nell stars aside from Ivan Dresser.
the long-legged two-miler who won
the two-mile run, but all the other
lads from the shore Of Lake Cayuga
tackled on a few points here and there
and like SNOWFALL that Is rolled
down a hill their points grew bigger
and bigger with every count.
At one time yarmouth and Pitt
were ahead OF the Comedians but
that was before the latter piled up
its points in the two-mile and broad
jump.
Dresser and. three of his pals
picked up twelve of the fifteen
points in the two-mile race. 1t was
simply a procession for the sturdy
Dresser. and he won with more
than 10 yards to spare. When
coach Moakley saw that he had
such a run away lead he called to
him to ease up on the last tap and
the time for the distance was nine
minutes forty-two and four-ffths
seconds.
1t was thought that Dresser
would try for Hoffmire's intercol-
legiate record of nine minutes
twenty-three and four-fifths seconds
but the fact that he had no oppo-
sition after the first quarter mile
prevented any near record time.
Macmahon. of NJ. I. T., was the
only outsider able to cut in on Cor
nell in the two-mile run. He pick
ed up a third place being beaten
out for second honors by Peck in
the last 120 yards. Spear and Nell
back, other Ithacans. came in fourth
and fifth, respectively. Viverite and
Waas. were PENIS only entries In
this race. but the pace was too
much for them.
There were fifteen starters in all.
One of the real upsets of the after
noon was in the mile, when Coach
Bruce, of Lafayette, flashed Kleins-
pehn on the big universities and
the upstate lads won out by a sensa-
tional spurt in the last ninety yards.
Kleinspehn, who is a product of Read
ing High School, did not look for
midable until the last lap. when he
went after Halfacre, of NJ. /. T.. and
caught him in the home stretch. Had
Frank Shea, Pitts famous quarter
miller. been challenged he might have
hung up a new worlds record.
As it was, he won from Murray, of
Dartmouth, by seventy yards, and
the timers got him in II 3-5 seconds,
which Is only one-fifth of a second
slower than Ted Meredith did at
Cambridge in 1916. Shea led all the
way and after the first 100 yards
left his field far in the rear. He
went down the home stretch like
bullet and with any kind of COM
petition might have Topped the other
fifth of a second off the mark and
now be on equal footing with the
former Pennsylvania captain.