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Show mm sx Joie Ray Clips Four Sec- ends From His Own Mile Mark. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13. The New York Athletic club won the annual senior track and field championship of the National Na-tional Amateur Athletic union at Franklin Frank-lin field, here today with a team score of 46 points. The Chicago A. C. was second with 40 points and the Illinois A. C. was third with 26. Fourth place went to the Boston A. A. with 21. Two national A. A. L'. records were broken. In the one-mile run Joie Ray of the Illinois A. C. bettered his own record of 4 minutes and 18 2-5 seconds, made in 1917, by four seconds. Eddie Fall of the Chicago A. A., who finished second to Ray, five yards behind, also broke the former mark. Fall's time was 4 minutes and 15 seconds. The other new record was established jn the runir.g high jump. In this event John Murphy of the Multnomah A. A. C. of Portland, Ore., cleared, the bar at 6 feet 3 3-16 inches, beating the former mark by 3-16 of an inch. . While the team showing of the New York A. C. was the feature of the meet, the work of Joie Ray bordered on the sensational. Following his victory in the mile, he came hack and won the half-mile in 1:56, only two seconds behind the National Na-tional A. A. U. record. Later he ran anchor an-chor on the Illinois A. C. four-mile relay team, which easily won first place. His time in this race was 4:34. In the course of the met eleven champions cham-pions were dethroned. Those who competed com-peted today and lost their titles are Earl Thompson, in the 120-yard high hurdles: C. Hause, 440-yard hurdles; Richard F. .Kemer, three-mile walk; C. Buck, pole vault; Matt McGrath. sixteen-pound hammer ham-mer and fifty-six-pound weight throw; D. Polttzer, running broad jump; D. F. Ahearn, hop, step and jump; Loren Murchinson. 220-yard dash; Jo Loomis, 220-yard low hurdles, and E. Mulier, discus throw. t |