Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-01
ENGLAND s BEST
RUNNER BEATEN
BY AN AMERICAN
E. T. Nightingale Defeats E.
A. Montague, the British
Sprinter, in Track Meet
Held at Philadelphia.


Philadelphia, April 30.--A new
worlds record, the defeat Of Eng
lands best collegiate distance run
Cambridge, lett at the post in the
star race and winning of the penta-
thlon by Bradley of the lnl-
versity of Kansas, were the out
standing features of the opening
day of the University of Pennsyl-
Vania relay carnival here today.
presence of the English university .
combined track team gave an in-
ternatiOnal aspect to the game and
but Tor a heavy rain and the un-
fortunate fiaSco which ruined the
distance medley championsh p
race, the initial day of the meet
would have gone down in athletic
history as one of the most success
tul in the long carnival record.
Fast Field of Rum, rs.
The fastest field OF varsity dis
tance runners that the country
could boast faced the starter IN
the three-mile international inter
collegiate race arranged for the
special benefit of l.. A. Montague
of OXFORD university, winner of this
event in the OXford-Cambridge
tbdl lllCtI III lAOuNipl Otl vi al tll = :
when he did Haas 3-5. Today h.
was easily defeated bv T.. n, Night
ingale of New Hampshire State col
lege by more tnan forty yards IN
1856. Montague, who ran second
in Is minutes, PA seconds, fin
ished some thirty yards ahead of
w. X. MacMahon. Massachusetts
Tech, after a grueiling race.
b. G. d. Rudd. the Rhodes
scholar from Soo ta Africa, who
gave such a sensational all-around
athletic performance for oxford
in the recent dual pames between
the British universities in London.
did not appear for the 440-yard low
hurdles in which it was expected he
would prove a worthy opponent for
the American collegians. That he
would have had to travel at a ter
rifle pace to win was proved when
j. M. Watt of Cornell won almost
as he willed in a new worlds rec
ord time of 54 1-5 seconds, displac-
ing the former time of 54 3-5 made
by Harry Hillman of the New York
A. G, in 1904, Coughlin of the Uni
versitv of the South, was second
and H Gish, Nebraska, third, fin
ishing well in the rear of the fly
ing hurdler from the shores of
Cayuga lake.
Spectators Disappointed.
The keenest disappointment came
to the five thousand spectators who
had braved the downpour when
the oxford Cambridge team, as
well as several others, did not ap-
pear for the distance medley relay
championship race. No explana-
tion was given. After a gruelling
neck and neck race, Pennsylvania
state nosed out the Yale quartette
with Syracuse and Georgetown fin
ishing in that order. well in the
rear. AS soon as the runners fin
ished, the spectators began to sprint
for shelter. but were stopped by
the announcement that oxford
Cambridge. Chicago and the Penn
sylvania teams had not been sum
to the starting line, although
ready, and would run a special race
over the same distance.
AS the water-soaked spectators
returned to their seats there came
a second statement that the race
would not be held owing to the
condition of the track. In the
dressing rooms the three teams
which had been left out of the race
were, still puzzling over the mix-up
Whlch cost them chance at the
championship. According to the
best explanation given, all three
combinations were ready to go to
the. starting line when told to re-
main under cover until called.
They waited for some time and
when finally a messenger was sent
to find the cause of the delay the
race had been started.
The victory of Bradley in thePen-
tatnlon came as a surprise to
eastern followers of athletics, his
victory over Rartels being one of
the sensational upsets of the day.
Bradley scored 13 points. Bartels,
OF Pennsylvania, who won the
pentathlon in 1918, finished second
with Is points; Hamilton. Missouri.
third, 10; Yount, Redlands Univer-
sltv of California, fourth, 81; Ham
mond. Kansas. fifth, 23 and Cam.
New York university. sixth. 26
points.
Performed Consistently.
Bradley performed consistently
despite the fact that he did not
win one of the five events making
up the pentathlon. He finished sec
ond in the broad jump, iavelin
throw and 200-meter race third in
the discus throw and fourth in the
$500 meter run.
Bartels won the iavelin and 200
meter events. finished second In
the 1900 meter fifth in the broad
jumD and sixth in the discus throw.
Yount won the broad jump and
the 1.500-meter race and Cam got
first place in the discus throw.
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