The New York herald., 1922-05-14
BILLIE BURKE Big
HELP TO CRIMSON
Wins Both the Mile and Half
Mile Runs From Eli
Stars.
SETS NEW DUAL RECORD
Whitney Breaks High Hurdle
Mark by Doing Distance
in Is 2-5 Seconds.

Special Dispatch 10 THE Nnw York HERALD
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. May 13.-Hirvard
showing the Bingham spirit. with a lit
tie of the Farrell pep, upset the general
calculations this afternoon in the sta
dunn by defeating Yale 20 1915 to
81 2-15. in the dual track meet. The
Crimson team started the meet as the
under dog. but showed 1t in no wise.
having its victory tucked away, with
still one more event TO hear from.
Harvard took eight first places and
ted for another. when Capt. Gardner of
Yale and Harrie Davis were deadlocked
in the pole vault. Yale took six firsts.
There we're only two double winners.
Billie Burke of Harvard and Doc Jor-
dan Of Yale.
Burke's victories were of the sersa-
tional type, and to them in great part
can be attributed the splendid Harvard
victory outside of the general spirit or
''heads up" OF the Crimson camp.
Burke. after beating Nal Douglas.
yale's young miller, and establishing a
new dual record of minutes 19 4-5 sec
onds for the course, stepped out in the
half mile little more than an hour later.
and took the measure of Tommie Camp
bell, the Yale half miller, a fine enough
accomplishment for any runner in one
afternoon.
Burke a Double Winner.
Burke allowed the Yale field OF Doug
las and Wilson to pace him almost
three-quarters of the way in the mile
and then ran second to Wilson. who had
gone in the lead at the last lap.
Two hundred yards from home the
Harvard man timed his burst of speed
nicely and crossed the tape ten yards
ahead of Wilson, who was half that dis
tance ahead of Douglas. In the $50
Burke trailed Campbell all the way until
the last yard, when he won by lurching
over the line half a foot to the good.
The time was :57 LIS. quite COM
pelling victory after the hard mile the
Crimson star had previously won
In addition to the mile record. new
mark was established In the 100 yard
hurdles. when Dick Whitney of Har-
ward. by winning In Is 2-5 seconds.
shaved one-fifth of second off the old
mark. made by Rice of Harvard In 1915.
The former mile mark was made by
Poucher of Yale " 1914.
Jordan OF Yale. the other double WIN
ner. threw the shot 43 feet 6A inches
and the discus 124 feet ~ inches. Capt.
Brown OF Harvard. who won the ham,
mer throw with lift of i54 feet 3&
inches. was second to Jordan In the shot,
The summaries:
MILE RUN-won by Burke. Harvard; sec
ord ~ Wilson. Yale: third. Douglas.
YAM Time, 4 minutes 10 As seconds.
New dual record. Former record. minutes
23 seconds. made by r. w. Poucher. Yale.
40 YARD DAsH-won by chapYan. Yale;
second. Merrill. Harvard; third. J. Wilson.
100 YARD HIGH HURDLEs-won by Whit
ney Harvard; second. Hauers. Harvard;
third. Huffman. Yale. Time. 10 20 SECONDS:
seconds. made by p. NJ. Rice. Harvard In
SHOT Pur-won by Jordan. Yale. with
put OF 43 feet 6% inches: second. Brown.
f'i-d Roltwood. Yale 20 feet 50. inches.
100 YARD DASH--Won by Ruenak. Yale;
second. reldr~an. Yale: third. Chase. Har-
Two MILE RIrN-won by vanderpyl. Yale;
second. G. y. Hilles. Yale: third. Lund.
Harvard Time q minutes 40 20 seconds.
Ri-NNING HIGH JUMP-Gerould and
Murray. Harvard. height, feet 9ss inches;
AZ q Yale bcIght 4 feet t. Y inches: u.r
yard. distance 161 feet 1lik inchss; second.
storrs,- Yale. distance 15s feet Z inches;
third. Into; Yale; distance io1 feet inches incnss,
Davis, Harvard. and Gardner. yale
height, y feet third tie b between zee psss Grss-
900 YARD HURDLEs-won by r. +. Thayer.
Harvard; second. g. II. Hauers, Harvard;
third. +. Smith. Yale. Time. 20 20 sec
onds.
$50 YARD RuN-won by j. w. Burke. Har-
ward: second, r. Campbell. Yale: third.
c. Newhall. Yale. Time. I minute 81 10
RIiNSiNG BROAD JuMP-won by C.
Renacher. Yale with 81 feet ~ inches:
second. Y. jenkins. Harvard. 81 feet
inches third. II. Page, Harvard, II feet
2it inches.
900 YARD DASH-Dead heat for first place
between Chase. Harvard. and Feldman,
Yale; tliird. Wansker. Harvard. Time,
81 4-5 seconds
HAMMER THROw-won by Brown. Har-
ward distance ia feet 81. inches. second,
Cruckshank. Yale. 14i feet inches; third,
Marshall. Harvard. r33 feet ga inches.
DISCUS THROW-won by Jordan. Yale. 1ei
feet 81. inches: second. Carpenter. Har-
ward. i2i feet ~ inches: third. Davis,
Yale. III feet ~ inches