Evening star., 1926-03-07

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points, tailed in six of the nine events
including brilliant victories in the
Emile run by Willard Tibbetts and in
| the mile by "Soapy" Waters, who
beat out his teammate. Red" Hag-
gerty, in stirring duel.
Georgetown had the most individual
stars. taking three first places out
right and tying for another. but the
costly break in the 1.mile relay and
| failure of the teams 2-mile relay quar-
| tet to score at all kept the point tally
| down to 251s points.
Pennsylvania third place total
was 231s points. while Penn State
with Is, and Princeton. with IA. took
fourth and fifth places.
The 2-mile relay title. which George
| town won last year in worlds record
time. passed to Boston College after
stirring race in which Columbia
and Syracuse finished second and
third.
Two Recent Feats.
|. Two record performances marked
the meet, Frank Hussey, Boston Col
lege sprinter. equalling the ~indoor
mark of Z 1-10 seconds in the 70-yard
dash trial. only to lose out to Henry
Russell of Cornell in the final heat
in sensational upset. while Tibbets
carried Harvard's colors to victory
| i'm the 2-mile run in the new record
time of minutes, 80 $40 seconds.
Tibbets himself helf the previous
| mark, 9:32 6-10 seconds in the winning
the event of last year.
Three champions retained their
| titles, although Norton Georgetown s
versatile star. was forced to share his
| high jump laurelS this time with
| Moody of Dartmouth. Dowding of
| Georgetown. i'll the broad jump. and
| Tibbetts in the tWo-mile race. were
| the other champions to keep their
| crowns.
Two other titleholders met uneX-
pected setbacks. AL (TruclD Miller of
Harvard trailing both Russell and
| HusSey in the 10-yard DASH while
Charley Moore of Penn State could do
no better than third behind Ray Hass
OF Georgetown and Ray Wolf of Penn
sylvania, in the 70-yard high hurdles.
Tibbets was extended to the limit
to win the distance race again how.
ever. for James Louecks. his Syracuse
| rival, was at his heels throughout
closing sprint and was beaten by
barely yards. The race was Il dupli-
cation of the duel between Tibbets
and Louecks in the cross countr.;
championship last November.
Spill Fatal to G. L.
| The mile relay which furnished
the closing thrill and upset George.
! town hopes. found Holy Cross and
| Cornell Offering bitter opposition to
f, the Washington team.
Cornell set the pace for the first
| lap, but q brilliant quarter mile by
| Vernon Ascher for Georgetown. who
| was clocked in close to 40 seconds.
put his team i'll front at the end OF
the second leg.
Eddie Swinburne. third runner for
Georgetown, kept in front and had
a 5-yard advantage over his nearest
rival when he handed the baton to
! Burgess. The latter eibowed Mulvi.
hill of Holy Cross as they jockeyed
at the marks then stumbled rs he
got away.
In the meantime. Mulvihi'I and
/ GoodWillis, Cornell's third man. had
! relieved their team mates and in the
resulting jam. Burgess spraWled To
| the track. He scrambled up, but
| fell again as he started to run. BY
/ the time he was under way once
more all his rivals had passed him
and he was hopelessly distanced 80.
| yards behind the leader. Goodwillis
| held the van until the last turn when
| Mulvihill came up with n rush that
| carried him TO the front by yards
/ The complete team scores follow;
| Harvard. 2S points: Georgetown. % l.