The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-25
TIMES MAN
 SEES ENGLAND
 TAKE BEATING
Writes Colorful Story of Big Track Meet Tn liar
 yard Stadium.
(By Times Staff writer.)

Boston, July a4.-The thousands of people who witnessed the fifth inter national meeting between the track teams of Harvard and Yale and OK ford and Cambridge saw one of the most thrilling meetings that has ever taken place in the Harvard Stadium. An afternoon of splendid competition with plenty of upsets reached its eli max at the end of the day when New Gourdin, the wonderful Harvard star, hurled himself through the air for broad jump that broke every existing mark.
 The day of the races was ideal. weather warm enough to enable the athletes to get properly nmoered ana not too hot to make It dlfncuit 70 run An unexpectedly large crowd attend ed, in which there were great pro portion of women whose light sum mer attire made the big horseshoe dition the stadium was decked Tn American and British flags with the big center box partfcularly gay III honor of the distinguished guests. eyidentiv eager to see the Britiehers. and indeed they did give a. very df1, ferent appearance from the uSuai American. Instead of coming out Tn heavy sweaters with a big letter on the front, the men from across the ocean wore gay blazers of either ngnt or dark blue, the Oxford and Gam bridge colorS <
 
 the American combination when F.. O. Gourdin managed to stave oH Ine dush of Abharams of Cambridge iong enough to win the hundred yard oasn h11 i6ches Then Fiske Brown. also of Harvard surprised everyone uy throwing the hammer just 1ncnes Le than 16O feet, defeating the 1aNori.e N Nokes of Cambridge, Who seehisa se,,eI e foot circle from which the throW lS made in this country, as a nine Io3' circle is always used in Englano. fer that an American victory "aS eIred as these were two of the events thet had usually oeen
 ceded to the foreigners
 a New Worlds Record
 The big event or the Ths ra Harvard marvel had already shattered the tercolIegiate mark this year, Courdin has come close 10 1ne oos. eted twenty-five 1ooI ois Safnre the Faces began and asked him whether his trip out to the champlonSiIip F games at Los Angeles, from when ne recently returned, had sti11eneo m, m sane trouble in running, after the long train trip, but that he was al the top of his jumping form ana thought that he was going to 20 p tv we'll When the broad jumpers were called out he warmed up ana sa measured the distance to the take or with unusual care. Then, as !e crowd uuieted down to absolute stiil- ness in aticipation, he carefully pos ed himself and started down the runway Teeth clenched. arms ana legs swinging high, every musc!e strained, tn great negro sprinteo ms utmost struck the ~take off in per feet style and practically shot into the, just giving his body an addeo twist as he was about to lana. In stead of the usual applause there ArS1@ h e waited for the judges, knowing that the distance had been unusual. Ned wa Walked aS back anS looked at the happy smile spread over his face: How far, Ned" some one called out as he walked back to the bench. "I think it's a pretty good one," he said Then Johnnie Hallahan, the Iron | lunged announcer, made a superflu- ous m otion for silence and called out:
 ''Mr. Gourdin's jump was 25 feet, inches, esta blshing a new world s made by Peter O'Connor twenty years ago. The last part of the statement was completely lost in the uproar that | broke forth as the crowd. realized that 1t had seen athletic history made; 1 Hats went up in the air, shouts and i applause thUndered out while those near rushed forward to shake the | hand of the Harvard boy who had | realized him am b1t1On ana now wore the crown for holding all college, na- | tiona1, and international records for | broad jumping.
 Americans Far Superior.
 | The other events of the day wen1 almost entirely to the Yankee ath- letes. Dick Iandon of Yale, won the high jump at feet 3 inches, witt | George Krogness econd. Krogness running in beautiful form, took the hurdles in easy fashion and was alst third in the broad jump: Nal Doug
 las, a Yale freshman, ran a beautiful race to win the two mile event witt plenty to spare. while 'ATarzan" Tol
 bert of Harvard had little trouble il
 Yale, showed the form that he hai
 not exhibited in a long time whel
 he outsprinted Captain Rudd of tn
 British combination in a thrillini
 sprint for the tape in the half mile | Rudd. the lion hearted South Africal
 runner. understook too much for on
 afternoon in an effort to bring hi
 team to the front He got off to
 poor start in the 100 yard dash an'
 finished last. but he came back a lit
 tie later and ran a splendid race t
 win the quarter mile in fast time When he tried to run his third even
 into the stretch. but the Yale fife
 could not be denied on Saturday an when he challenged the English vet
 eran was unable to hold the terribl 7 pace to the finish line, losing by a feN yards. The other event that tn
 visitors captured was the mile TUT
 which Stallard of Cambridge wo
 v-ith little trouble after O'Connel
 the game little Harvard captain
 hurt a nerve in his leg and had t
 drop out half way through. Tn l final score was Harvard Yale 8; OS
 ford-Cambridge ?.
 Wonderful Spirit Shown.
 It was a real delight to see the fin
 ni,-if hI- the contestants