Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-26
SKIES CLEAR, TRACK
FAST FOR BIG MEET
Speedy Times Expected In Trial
Heats Of intercollegiate
Title Games Today
CALIFORNIA IS. FAvoRlTE
By ROBERT w. MAXWELL

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Cambridge, Mass, May 26.-Fase
times are expected in the trial heats OK
the annual intercollegiate champion.
ships here this afternoon.
The rain Of yesterday was followed
by bright sunshine today and the track
at the Harvard Stadium was in splen.
did condition.
The meeting today will be an inter.
sectional battle between the best in the
East and the University Of California
and Leland Stanford.
California won the title last year and
Is favored to repeat, although there are
many who support Stanford The two
Pacific Coast institutions tied in a 70.
cent dual meet.
Fifteen events are on tho program
this year for the first time in history
This 10 due to the addition Of the jave.
lin and the discus throws to the usual
list Of thirteen.
Thirty Teams Entered
Two hundred and twenty. FIVE points
will be divided among the colleges
thirty OF which are entered. Princeton,
Cornell and Pennsylvania seem to have
the best chance of the Eastern colleges.
For the other teams entered, 1t seems to
be a case Of battling for honors below
fifth place.
The meet first was held in 1879, and
the University of California was the
first institution to come on west Of
Michigan to show superior form in the
different events. Besides the California
athletes this year there also will be q
contingent of stars from Leland Stan.
ford University.
Leland looms as dark horse for this
big meet, because of the fact of it's
brilliant showing against California
three weeks ago, when the Golden Bears
we're held to a tie score, each with
| sixty one points. in a dual meet. As
result the games at the Harvard Sta
dium not only will decide the 1922 in.
tercollegiate champion but also will give
the two Western colleges a chance to
break their deadlock.
Harvard Leads
Harvard, according to statistics, has
earned more laurels than any other col.
lege in the country since the advent Of
these intercollegiate games. However,
kin recent years the Crimson has been
given a close battle. In thirteen diff
ferent and distinct years athletes have
annexed the title for Johnny Harvard.
This record OF the Crimson shows
four more victories than Penn. Cornell
and Yale, these colleges being in dead.
lock for second place with niItc cham
pionships. Columbia has come through
with colors flying, as they say here In
Boston, three times. while Princeton
has won twice and Michigan and Cali.
fornia each has scored one triumph.
Other dope that We were able to CLEAN
was as follows:
Yale leads in the greatest number Of
points scored, Harvard having attained
the largest number Of championships
by bolstering its first places with an
overwhelming lead in second and third
places. Cornell, which has been q con-
sistent winner in recent years, mum.
bers $40, trailing the Penn, which has
accumulated 64S.
Since 1890 Yale has won only three
times and Harvard twice, both institu-
tions losing their mastery over the
event after more or less alternating
the championship for the sixteen years
from 1880.
Penn Won in 1920
Yale last won in 1904, and HaP-
wards most recent victory was in 1909.
Penn's triumph in 1920 broke Cor
nell's string Of five consecutive cham.
pionships excepting 1917 when the war
prevented a meet. Harvard was the
winner for seven successive years from
1880 to 1885.
The record of points since the first
championship meet which was won iby
Princeton in 1876 follows, fractionsto Of
ponts being disregarded: