Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-02
Maine Colleges
Shine at Indoor
IGames at Boston

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Paavo Nurmi, holder of "a worlds
running records, flashed ahead of his
| field to victory tonight In a two-mile
special at the Seth annual Boston
Athletic Association indoor games,
but failed for the second successive
night to set new indoor mark.
The meet, however, saw two
worlds marks shattered. Willie
Plant, New York, walked to a new
worlds 5000 metre indoor mark
when he defeated Ugo Frigerio, Ita!-
ian and Olympic champion, for the
second time within a week, and T..
E. (Laddie) Myers Of Chicago es-
tablished a new worlds indoor pole
vault record on a board floor.
Plant. in winning, clipped one and
one-fifth seconds from his own
worlds mark by covering the dis
lance in Il minutes 81 4-5 seconds.
Myers cleared the cross bar two
and three eighths inches higher than
| he did when he set a worlds record
for the pole vault indoors in 1923.
The new record II feet 10 and 5-S
inches.
Nurmi's race, scheduled to be a
handicap, was raced from scratch at
MS request. He led his two country
| men, llmar Prim, and Gunnar Mil
son, TO the finish by lap and half.
August Eager, the fourth starter.
dropped out before the end of the
first mile. The strain of constant
racing appeared TO have told on
Nurmi, for his time was more than
seven seconds slower than Joie Rays
world record for the distance. His
| time for the distance was 9 minutes
| Ii 10 seconds.
Dodge in Keith Event
Ray Dodge, Illinois A. c., defeated
a field of three in the Paul Keith 600
yard event. Jake" DriscolI, who
holds two legs on the trophy. lost
| his lead at the beginning of the last
| lap. Dodge won by 10 yards. Time,
1:24 %.
Andover, ancient rival of Exeter
Academy, scored a victory in its mile
relay when c. E. Borah. flashy
schoolboy Splinter, carried his team
from behind to win by many yards,
| Time, 3::;S 40.
Ray Wins Hunter Mile
| Joie Ray. veteran Chicago miller,
DOSSeSSOf.
| ship of the Hunter trophy by lead
ing ]. J. Connolly and LLOYD Hahn
! to the tape in an easy victory. Raw
| then drew ahead to win by 20 yards
| and clinch his third leg on the cup,
gaining permanent possession. Con-
molly was second and Hahn third.
| Time. 4:15 Is seconds (new Hunter
| mile record).
In winning, Ray broke the record
| for the Hunter Mile. 4 minutes IS
DO seconds, which he had himself
set by travelling the distance in
| minutes 10 1-5 seconds. This was
| three fifths of a second slower than
| the worlds record.
| Georgetown's great relay team
| scored an impressive victory over
Boston College in a two mile race.
| Brooks, lead-off man, was never
headed, and his lead was increased
to over half lap by his teammates
in their third triumph OF the season
| over Boston. Time 7.J6 1-5.
Major Jumps Highest
! Charles Major of Coburn Classical
! Institute, with a one inch handicap,
! won the high jump at 6 feet 1-5
inches. Leroy t. Brown of the Colo
| RADIO School of Mines, scratch man,
| ASopSd " iScL IL AilCIlSS.
| Loren Murchison of Newark A. c.
/ flashed to his fifth consecutive VIC
! tory in the 40 yard dash, opening
[ even of the program, nosing out AL
! Miller of Harvard at the tape.
! Murchison's time was 4 4-5 seconds.
Carl Christensen of Newark A. c.
led the four finalists in a punched
| finish in the 40 yard high hurdles.
| His time was 6 10 seconds. fifth of
a second behind the record. He was
! hard pressed by r. V. Merrick of
| the Boston A. A.
| Bates Defeats Amherst
| Bates defeated Amherst in the
| first relay Of the night, a one mile
| event. when Wilson and Archibald
! opened a quarter lap between them
and their opponents.
| II. II. Wardwell, running unat-
tached with so yard handicap,
won the one-mile run. Baldwin and
| Flanders of B. A. A. scratch men
in the field of 33 starters, were I'M
! able to place. Time 4.33 So.
| Maine Wins Relay
University of Maine led all Of the
| others in a three-cornered relay In
| which University of New Hampshire
was second and the Massachusetts
Aggies third. Time 3.37 seconds.
| Dartmouth led it's old southern
New England rival. Brown, through
! out their one-mile match relay, win
+, ming easily. Time 3.33 2-5.
Colby Victorious
! Colby narrowly won a mile relay
| from Boston University. Tufts was
third. Mastaglio, running fourth for
Boston University, opened UP mag
| pjE ~ nd
apparently hopeless gap. Time,
$40 So seconds.
| Bowdoin Conquers Yale
Bowdoin nosed out Yale in a nip
and tuck mile relay. c. Hamilton's
amazing sprint while running third
put the Bowdoin team ahead. Fos-
| ter, Bowdoin's No. 4 man, after
trailing momentarily in the last lap,
| slipped ahead on the last turn. Time
! : minutes, 33 40 seconds.
| Willie Plant of New York set a
new worlds record and scored his
second victory over Ugo Frigerio,
champion Of Italy, when he won the
three thousand metres walk. FRI
eerio finished third. unable to over
come 40 seconds handicap awarded
T.. G.. Wilson. of Boston. Plants
time was II minutes. So 3-5 seconds.
one and one fifth seconds faster than
his own 1922 record.
| Harvard romped away with a vic
tory in a one mile relay against M.
I. T. The Crimson took the lead at
the gun to win easily. Time 3.34 10.
Nurmi. in attempting to set a rec
ord for the distance here. attempted
what was considered an almost i'm
possible task. since the Boston track
is ~ laps to the mile. Rays record
was made on an eight lap track.
| Gunnar Nilsson. Finnish American.
ran second to Nurmi with Ilmar
prim. another countryman. third.
! 3. A. A. Victor