Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-17


years. The old record. liz second
Jordan of New York city.
Another world record foil when the
crack girls tea"s of the Mea don,hroo'-
Athletic Club. Philadelphia vanquished
It's rivals. tn" City Bank Club % New
hP Tb IN ma quar t; match r-lnr
seconds lettering by four-ffthss of a
last year by the Va!cour Club.
DriscolI in Great Finish.
A word record for 400 meters was
established by Jake Dris~o'l Boston A
A. flyer, who came from behind to score
a sensational victory over three rivals.
including j. Coard Taylor, former
Y aine trsGk star star ana Tom Campbell. ex-
Driscolls time was so Is seconds for
the distance, which was run for the
first time indoors under. official sane
ton.
Still another world record was estab-
lished by SCHUYLER Euck, brilliant Penn
State middle distance runner who de-
half-mile champion, and Larry Brown,
former Pennsylvania crack. in an 500
meter special. Enck beat Watson by
five yards in driving finish, with
Brown distanced.
The victor's time, ia As, puts a
new mark on the record books for the
distance, run for the first time indoors.
Ray Runs Brilliantly.
Joie Ray, Chicago distance star,
scored brilliant triumph in captur-
ing the 00O-meter Olympic special,
but he failed in a valiant attempt to
lower his own world record for the
distance.
Ray broke the tape forty-three
1rI in, % ~
Johns Hopkins, intercollegiate cross
country champion, with Johnny Ro-
mig of Penn State third.
Ray opened up big gap on his six
rivals early in the race and was never
seriously threatened. despite spurts
by Romig. Booth and Abel Kiviat. ri
val of Rays ten years ago. who was
forced to quit. The doughty little
western flyer however, was not up to
record breaking form, slowing up
considerably in the last half mile and
being clicked in S.3S As, seven and
three fifths seconds behind the world
mark he set in the same race year
ago.
Virginia Beats Princeton.
Virginia scored a spectacular vic
tory over Princeton in a one-mile
match relay. The rival quarter milers
were nip and tuck all the way. brill
liant closing squirt by the Virginia
captain, Bohannon, enabling him to
break the tape five yards in front of
his Tiger rival, HitZrot. The time
was 3.29 rs.
Robert McAllister. New >York's
flying cop" who was beaten by
by Loren Murchison of Newark, the
national champion, bettered record
time in an earlier sprint, but it was
not allowed. McAllister, running in
the 150-yard event, was clocked In
121-5 seconds at the 125-yard mark,
but under the rules no records are
allowed at Intern ediate distances in
a. race less than 220 yards. His time.
however. was fifth of a second
faster than the 1@5-yard record made
by c.. H. Sheriff. in 1889.
Murchison equalled his own indoor
mark of 10 seconds in breaking the
tape first in the century dash.
5o-YARD DAsH-won by Loren Murchison,
Newark A. c.; second; Harold B. Lever, In
New. York; third, Cadet R. l. Dean, West
By ss5s4s R4SM qssE
a eii1a l. E 7assiehs aaslsad Ems
Ola Is. =
Victor Woa y eI aSas SeW F York c.; third
nesIas Hf.isafsis siT
Won by Elmer Mctane, University of Penn.
sylvania (sorstch) second. Frank Hagan.
Yonkers High School (75 yards; third, Ray
rs asi Is "'" 1'' - y
oNE.MrIE HAN p1cAP SECOND D1vI-
SIoN)-Won by john Theobald, Columbia (6o
yards) second, Pit Kennedy; Knights Of
New YETI S gork kaIssc 'h ss4s. X
1i 4ce:1 ( e Il. OILY mp1c srEc1n-woa BY
James W. Driscou Boston A. c.; second. ].
~. Toxylor Naw Work A third. Thomas
Campbell New York A. C.; fourth w. ].
44o.YARD GIRLf' MATCH RELAY-won
by Meadow Brook dlub. Philadelphia Frances
Ruppert. Christinel Joseph, Grace Drittler.
Madeline Adams; second. City Bank Club;
New York. TimA, o.S4 90. NEW world
'e soY1RD HIGH HuRDLEs-won by Carl
C. r Barkes' west Point; third, H. H. Meyer.
Newark A. c. Tribe. o.lo s-5 equals world
res soo METER III r PoIYeMfG sPEciALwon by
SCHUYLER Enck, PENN State; second. Ray Wat
Son illinois A C.: third Larry Brown. Penn
A. C., Philadelphia Time, 154 IS (world
oNE.M1LE MATcH RELAY-won by Uni.
versity of Virginia (Castleman. Irvine, Talbot
and Bohannan); sAoond, Princeton. Time,
az sSooo.mErER OLYMPIC spEc1AL-won by
Joie w. Raw. Illindis A. c.; second, Verne
Booth, Johns HopS rs: third. John Romis,
fi INHrs ERGO f MEDLEY RELAY
GAO wards oe0 yardk, $50 yards, mile)-Won
by Columbia (Peters, Starkey. Moore. Schmidt !;
second. New York University; third, Lehigh.
eos YARDS (Metropoltan senior relay
chamnionship)-Won by New York Athletic
Club; second, Loughlih Lyceufn; third, Newark
Athletic Club. Time, 2.I5.