Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
BY TED VOSBURGH.

N YEW YORK, July 20.-Breaking
M the spell that for eight years
has held them powerless to
defeat their English cousins on
track and field, the capable
athletes of Princeton and Cornell rose
in their might TO-DAY and overwhelmed
oxford and Cambridge by score Of
nine first places to three.
Ben Hedges of Plainfield, N. j.,
Princeton captain-elect, romped to VIC
tory in all of the II events except the
1O0-yard dash and quarter mile and
half-mile runs.
These three classic cinder path
events went to the oxford and Cam
bridge forces, but their men were de-
feated in the field events and were
beaten even in the hurdle races, where
the English had hoped to make their
finest showing.
But for a bad header taken by r. M.
N. Tisdall of Cambridge as he leaped
the final barrier five yards ahead of
the field, the invaders might have
taken the 220-yard low hurdles, as it
was John Lincoln of Princeton. who
up TO that moment had looked like
nothing more than good runner-up.
went on to win while Tisdall struggled
to his feet and smiled gamely.
Hedges cleared feet 2 inches in
the high jump, half an inch better
than the mark set by C. T. Van
Greisel of Cambridge in 1925. An
other Princeton athlete. John E. Gore,
covered the mile in the new record
time of minutes % seconds nat,
four fifths of q second faster than II.
Gfo1lord of Capnhridpa Travelled in
1921.
Orson c. Beaman of Cornell won the
two-mile run in 1885, lettering the
1925 mark of T. G. Fooks of Cambridge
by full IL seconds. Tom Hampson of
oxford beat out Bob Garland of Prince
ton by feet, giving his team one rec
ord to take back to England, his bril-
liant 1855 slicing four-flfths of a sec
ond off the half-mile running mark,
1921, the year these institutions first
met on the track.
OF the IL events Princeton won S;
Cornell, A; Cambridge, 2, and Oxford, /.
The margin of the American victory in
this last appearance of the English team
here this season was even more decisive
than that inflicted last week by Harvard
and Yale, who won by score of 812
to 312.
Two thousand persons witnessed the
meet, which was staged in quiet grove
on the shore of Long Island Sound.
Despite a painful heel injury Hedges
won first places in the high hurdles and
high jump, placed second in the pole
vault and was close third in the
broad jump.
Summaries:
100-YARD DASH-Won by Corth wilkinson
t tOamo thf seSonS. b: H Hand Princs-
es0-YARD DASH-Won by Ben H. Hand
t tprince ton second; R Teigh.Wood OK
corth wilkinson (cambridse). Time, 22ss
iSo-YARp RUN-won by r. W. Tchitche-
tOxfordI; third, C. e. Baker Icornein
fourth. A. D. Keown princeton. Time, 1885
ss0-YARD RUN-won by Thomas Hamp-
son Oxford; second, R. L. Garland prince
toni: third, s. A. Elmer (CornelD; fourth, J.
N Mason (Cambridge). Time, l minute Sc
sesSSas Esw nss. TseGrd By John Gore
(Princeton): second G, E. G. Green Cam
bridget; third. H. ?. Dawson (Princetonl:
onrs az q sesonds New meet record
TWO-MILE RUN-Won by o. c.. Beaman
(CornelD second, j. M. Humphrey Oxford;
third. Sam r. Levering tCornelO fourth: D.
NJ. Wilson cambridge Time, s:s34s. New
mfss e- YARD HIGH HURDLEs-won by Ben
Hedges, jr .tPrincetonl: second, r: 81; O..
n msfpef foG GRl0Ta T. Mann tcam6ridse5 T@e,
i' ssso ssfSaHS Low HURDLEs-won by John
Lincoln tPrinceton); second. Boyer
r. N. TisdsII lCambridge, fell and failed to
inish Time ASS seconds
HIGH JUMr-Won by Ben-Hedses Prince.