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championship race. A year ago ne was
| unknown.
! Hardly a foot separated McAllister and
! Leconey, the second place winner. a
blanket would have easily covered tho
first five runners, in fact IL was due .
lot to the heavy track that made Mcai-
lister the winner. He could plow through
the slow going better than could Lee
coney However his time of 10 nat
on this track would have been equal TO
as seconds on fast track. time that
would have been the equal OF any done
by Leconey in the past.
Bob won his heat as well as the final
In the heat with him was Murchison or
l. A. C. and Farrell of the New YORK
A. c. Murchison claimed a foul was
committed by both Farrell and McAllis-
ter in that they crossed into his lane.
The judges in a decision gave Murchison
THIRD, and this put Lever. unattached,
out of the final.
Earl Thompson and Boots" Lever
had to go before the a. A. U. officials
before they could enter the meet Thomp-
son was entered for the Los Angeles A.
c. and Lever for the New York A. c.,
but II was claimed that neither had
lived in those districts long enough to
establish residence TO conform with the
rules AS result OF the conference be-
tween the officials both men had TO COM
pete unattached. In the case of Lever
il did not make any difference to his
team. He was eliminated in the first
heat of the. 100 yards. Thompson. how
ever, scored first place in the high hur-
cles and these five points were lost.
Thompson's BIunder.
Thompson after his win In the high
hurdles came out for the low hurdles.
He ran in the first heat the second
place man. running the fastest was to
go to the final heat Earl forgot about
this ruling and when he had second
place cinched, loafed In. He was the
slowest second place man and did not
qualify. In this he lost chance to
score two firsts along with McGrath
and Hubbard.
Al Leconey of Lafayette and the
Meadowbrook Club of Philadelphia,
after losing in the 100 yards to McAllis-
ter, came out and ran cracking good
220 dash. He led all the way IN the
final. He won by a full two yards.
Alan Helfrich of the New York A. c.
far outclassed the field in the half mile.
Alan ran along with the pack for the
first quarter He then increased his
pace 50 that. with a furlong to go. he
had fifteen yards. In the last 100 yards
he uncorked a sprint that carried him
home fully twenty-five yards ahead of
Tom Campbell of Yale, and Ray was
third. Mike Devanney of the Millrose
put up good battle in the half at the
900 yards mark, but could not hold onto
them in the last sprint and finished
fourth.
The five mile run proved dual be-
tween Earl Johnson, the Pittsburgh dis
lance star, and Ritola of the Finnish
American Club. This pair ran together
all the way until the last 200 yards.
Johnson then staged sprint that car
ried him out about fifteen yards to the
good which he held to the tape. II was
the first five mile race that has been run
so close in many q day.
The teams finished in the following
order: New York A. c., AZ: Illinois A. c..
IS; Boston A. A., IT Chicago A. A., 16 +:
Los Angeles A. c., IL Meadow Brook
Club. 8 Multnomah A. c.. 8 Princeton,
q Edgar Thomson Works A. A. and
Morningside A. c., each; Finnish
! American A. c., Iowa University and
Yale. tied with 3. The summarizes:
TRACK EVENTS.
| 100 YARD DAsH-won by Robert McAilister.
unattached. New York: Alfred Leconey
Il