New-York tribune., 1919-04-28
East Showed
Way to West
I'm Penn Games
q II a kers. Cornell and
Princeton Promise Fight
for College Track Title
By A. c. Cavagnaro

their Western rivals in the champion
+ ship and other principal events that
made up the programme of the two
day relay carnival of the University of
Pennsylvania. On tie opening days
festivities the Eastern men scored 81
points. to is for the invading contln-
gent in the six open races held. How
ever, it was on Saturday, the last day,
that the East truly showed its super,i,-
ority by collecting 951 1a points to "a "a
for the West. The combined total gave
the men east of the Mississippi River
g 1853 points to 3912 points for the
West.
Although many scheduled compctl-
tors were not on hand, the games
showed that the track teams of the
various colleges were keen to renew
strife on the cinder path. The contests
also tended to bring out many "un-
knowns," who will make their presence
felt as the season wears on.
The University of Chicago track team
was the only successful Western candi-
date in the championship relays. The
Windy City representatives showed
fine group of middle distance runners
in winning the sprint medley relay, at
one mile, and also the Meadowbrook
Challenge Cup, at two miles. However,
in each victory the running of McCosh
was an outstanding feature, while Speer
for the team.
Penn Wins Twice
Penn shared the honors with Chi
cago in the title relay race with vic
tories in both the American sprint
championship at one mile and the Mike
Murphy Challenge Trophy. The men
composing both winning teams was
made up Of Creed Raymond, Frank
Davis, Elmer Smith and Martin Gus
tafson, and as each of these athletes
will be available for several years
more, they promise to bring more ath-
letic honor upon the Quaker institu-
tion Gustafson and Raymond ran re-
markably we'll on both days, and, Judg-
ing by their spectacular perform
ances, they are sure to be strong con-
tenders for intercollegiate champion
ship honors next month.
One of the biggest surprises of the
meeting was the unexpectedly strong
team that Princeton sent to the games:
Nothing remarkable was heralded
about the possibility of the Tiger ath-
letes, but they We're prominent con-
testants on each day The first up
set that the New Jersey men sprang
was to furnish the winner in the shot
put in Haisey, and later. place LouTle
second to the remarkable Sol Butler
in the running broad jump. Carl Erd-
man had o close shave IN defeating
Walker Smith in the hurdle race, but
judging by the performance ErdmaR
again will bring hack the intereol-
ieeiata title to Tigertown,
Ivan Dresser Fan his. expeeted gaed
raee in the fsur-mile relay fer eerneil
but be VII haye 70 brush Yp he speed
considerably Il he expects TO retain his
championship, During We eeafse el
The relays seyefal ether colleges
showed u number er distance ineh
whom Dresser must reckon with In the
coming intercollegiate contests.
breekley, OF Harvard, retained his
form IN lighting out tie with Myers,
of Dartmouth. In the pole vault. In
which each scaled the cross piece at
q height of 12 feet. The performance
of each athlete was the more com
mendable in view of the culd weather
that prevailed and stifened muscles.
Both these boys, along with Landers
and Newsletter, Of Pennsylvania, prom
ise to engage in a stiff fight at Cam
bridge next month.
Butler Wonder
Sol Butler, the Dubuque College ne
gro, and Bill Bartels, the rangy Penn
ed as possessing an unusual amount of
- stamina. When it is considered that
both completed the gruelling five-event
pentathlon test on Friday and then
competed on Saturday to share in the
= victories of the day is a comeback
feat that few athletes can equal. But
1er proved himself the more iron man
by winning the 100-yard dash against
an especially fast field after captur-
that skaters the equilibrium of a
sprinter, with record leap Of over
% feet. Bartels came back on Satur-
day to win the discus and also take
second place in the javelin.
While not another Howard Drew,
2 Butler can be classed as among the
best sprinters in the country. He has
proved his quality in past Penn relay
games, not to mention championship
meetings in both the East and West
Lawson Robertson, the Pennsyl-
= vania coach. is slowly building up a
+. championship track team that should
- go a long way to help him win the
! honors in the Harvard stadium. Kay
mond, Landers, Newsletter, Davis,
Hampton, Smith, Frazier and Gustaf-
son, form collection Of athletes who
should at least capture several titles.
So There are several more in the fold who
~ lays who should also win points for
the team.
Finley Still Great
New York University alumni and
undergraduates must know Of the re-
"a markable running Of their team in the
Middle States Conference sectional
championship relay race, in which thew
finished second to Rutgers. The Rari.
tan men won this event in 3 minutcs
oo seconds, the second fastest time re-
turned In relay race during the two
day carnival and which shattered the
- CID record And it was only the super.
human running OF old Hal Finley in
sne nnai 44O yards, that enabled the
Violet to take second honors. onj,
-~ three yards back. When Finley who !,
supposed 10 be troubled by an old foot
injury, took tha baton from his team
- mate, he was some twenty-five wards II
the wake Of De Witt, q Rutgers. ane
y Earl kunkle, Of Lafayette, who wer,
: speeding along in advance of him.
- Undaunted by the almost impossibl,
distance TO bridge, Finley went afte,
MS rivals with determination. He fair
,~ ly ate up the ground in speedine
around the track and rapidly closed IN,
gap. In short order he was within
reaching diatance Of Kunke and anal.
" passed him down the homegtretcb
tlniey dug his spikes into tbe
sss eindeTs the harder as De Wit Sas
= faeln2 only 10 yards in front 81 h,1o
and was fairly running over Do VIZ