Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-26

Sn1teton, - a IOTmeT Lewiston
High school and Hebron Academy
athlete.
go that it has been won by any other
athlete than a University of Penn
sylvania man. Howard Berry cap
tured it three times and Johnny"
Bartels won it last year.
Legendre scored IA points; Bartels
was second with 20. The others who
finished we're Lewis of Missouri, q
points: Butler, Dubuque. 20: Eek
berg, Dartmouth. %. and Ensign.
Ohio-Wesleyan. IS. There were more
than a dozen starters.
Legendre won the 200-metre race
and finished second in the broad
jump, discus throw and 1500-metres
race and seventh in the javelin throw.
Bartels was last in the broad, first in
the javelin and discus throw, fourth
in the 2O0.metres and fifth in the
15O0-metres event.
incidentally three pentathelon rec
ords made on Franklin field were
broken. Butler broke the broad jump
figures and Bartels made new marks
in the javelin and discus throwing.
Chicago won the distance medley
relay American championship in the
last few yards of the race through
the great running of McCosh. Prince
ton led in the last relay to within
100 yards Of the finish when McCosh
by a mighty sprint passed McCul-
Tough, anchor-man for the Jersey
team.
The sprint medley relay cha M
ship Of America was won he
University of Pennsylvania Sc
team Of sprinters led virtuali ne
way.
Landers of Pennsylvania won the
running hop. skip and jump. His
teammate, Frazier, captured the 440-
yard hurdles event, and Emery of
Pennsylvania State College was first
in the Sc pound weight throw.
The thirty events on the program,
many Of them for local and suburban
schools, were run under almost win
try conditions. The temperature was
unusually low for this season Of the
year and a gale of wind SO strong
that it knocked down some Of the
hurdles, swept the field, accompanied
by frequent snowsqualls, chilling
spectators and contestants. The three
new records were made with the wind
at the back of the performers.
The feature events Of tomorrow's
races are the one, two and four-mile
relay national championships.
Running broad jump (Eentathe-
lon): Won by S. Butler. Dubuque.
distance % feet. II IA inches, break
ing Pennsylvania Pentathelon record
Of g feet, 2 1-2 inches made by
Worthington of Dartmouth in 1915;
second, r. Legendre. Georgetown. 20
feet. II rs inches: third. E, Gilfllan.
Notre Dame. 20 feet, ga inches;
fourth, c. L. Lewis. Missouri, 20
feet, SIS inches; fifth, E. Eckberg.
Dartmouth, 10 feet. 7-s inches.
Running hop. step and jump: won
by S. Landers, Pennsylvania, dis
lance Al feet, IL inch: second. F..
Gourdin. Harvard, AZ feet, 8 inches:
third, S. Friedman, Pennsylvania,
AZ feet, 6 inches.
American college championship
sprint medley relay race: first and
second men ran 226 yards. third man
$40 yards. fourth man $50 yards) won
Smith. Gustafson); second. Penn
sylvania States (Taylor. Hooker,
Demming. ORR: third, Dartmouth
Davis. Carlo. Mario. Coakley) !:
fourth. Lehigh (Shultz. Pengelly.
Doane, Grace): Time 1888 2-5.
56-lb. weight: Won by Emorey,
Pennsylvania States. distance %
feet. is inch; second. Bevan. Dart
mouth, % feet, II inches: third, Weld,
Dartmouth, Dartmouth, 10 feet, 10 IA
inches.
Throwing javelin Pentathelon) ::
Won by J. Bartels, Pennsylvania,
15s feet. 5 IA inches. breaking Penn
sylvania Pentathelon record of 1853
feet, 6 ga inches made by Berry.
Pennsylvania, in 1905; second, En-
DRY, Penn. States, ISL feet. IL inch:
third. Ensign. Ohio wesleyan. IA
feet, s IA inches: fourth, Lewis,
Missouri. 40 feet, 8 inches; fifth, Gil
10, Colgate. 40 feet, 1 inches.
American college championship
distance medley relay race: (quar-
ter half. thtee-quarters. mile, Won
by Chicago >(Harris. speer. Moore.
McCosh): second. Princeton; third.
Iowa: fourth Syracuse. Time
1915 As.
Discus throw: (Pentathelon) Won
by Bartels. Penn. 120 feet, IL
inches. breaking Pennsylvania PEN
tathelon record Of 113 feet, 10 IL
inches. made by Bartels in 1918: Sec
ond, Legendre. Georgetown; third.
Lewis. Missouri: fourth. Clio, Col
gate; fifth. Eckberg. Dartmouth.
1900 metre race: (Pentathelon) Won
by Eckberg. Dartmouth. time ASP
rs: second. Legendre. Georgetown:
thEd, Lewis, Missouri; fourth, En-