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Show PENNSYLVANIA WINS TRACK Hurdle Records Go by the Boards; California Schools Show World of Class PHILADELPHIA, May 29. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania won the eastern intercollegiate track and field championship, honors this afternoon in the forty-fourth titular titu-lar meet of the I. C. A. A. A. A., after one of the closest contests ever staged in the history of the association, which dates back to 1876. The Quakers' points totaled 30, with Princeton one and one-half points behind. Dartmouth was a close third! with 24 and Cornell, 20. California1 finished In fifth place with 18 points' and Stanford sixth with 15. One world record was broken and more than 10,000 spectators were kept in a condition of breathless excitement as first one team and then' another wont to tho front in the battlo for points and places in the 13 events which composed the program. So close did the scores become as the meet approached Its close that first place hinged upon the placing of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Princeton athlotes in the final event, the deciding heat of the 220'Vards dash. Thousands of spectators specta-tors deserted the stands to gather at the finish line In order to witness the concluding feature of the games. Brown of Princeton won by a dash but Maxam, Pennsylvania, spurted into second place which was sufficient to clinch victory for Pennsylvania. Tho now world record established In tho 120-yard high hurdle went to tho credit of E. J. Thompson, the flier from Dartmouth, who shot over the ten 3 foot hurdles in the amazing time of 14 2-5 seconds, thus displacing the 14 4-5 record made by Robert Simpson, University of Missouri, iff the western conference games at Ev-anston, Ev-anston, 111., June 3, 1916. The Dartmouth Dart-mouth hurdler, who will compete for Canada in the Olympic games a(t Antwerp, Ant-werp, was expected to perform equally as well in the 220 low hurdle race, but W. B. Wells of Stanford university sprang a surprise by defeating him for first place over the longer distance and heartened numbers of the American Ameri-can Olympic committee who witnessed the feat with the hope that the Canadians Cana-dians will not be unbeatable at the Belgium International games. In many respects the performance of tho Californians was the most remarkable re-markable of the day. Stanford sent three men to the meet and California five and these eight, between them rolled up a total of 33 points which would have been sufficient to have won tho championship had they been competing tor either one or the other of the two far western universities. This splendid showing was made notwithstanding the fact that Kirksey, Stanford sprinter, who suffered a muscle mus-cle strain yesterday, was shut out of the 100 and did not compete in the 220 dash although he had been selected select-ed by the experts to win both events. An analysis of the various events shows that Pennsylvania placed athletes ath-letes in the 13 events as follows: Two firsts, three seconds, two thirds and two and a half fifths; Princeton won second placo with two firsts, one second, two thirds, threo fourths, and three fifths; Dartmouth won two firsts, two seconds, and two thirds; Cornoll, two secondB, two thirds, two fourths and two fifths; California two firsts, two thirds, two and a half fifths, and Stanford one first, one second and two thirds. High Jump Won by R. W. Landon. Yale, height 6 feet four Inches, breaking break-ing tho intercollegiate record of 6 feet 3Vi inches mado by T. Moffit, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, at Cambridge, Mass., in 1907; I second, R. L. Tompleton, Stanford, 6 feet 3 Inches; third, J. A. Ramsey, Cornoll, 6 feet 1 Inch; fourth, tie between be-tween R. H. Clark, Amherst, and W. jB. Hampton, Pennsylvania, at 6 feet. ! 120-yard hurdles Final won by J. Thomson, Dartmouth; second, W. j Smith, Cornell; third, C. R. Erdman, Princeton; fourth, G. A. Trowbridge, Princeton; fifth. W. E. MaBsey, Princeton. Prince-ton. Time 14 2-5 seconds, a new world's record. Old record 14 4-5 seconds sec-onds held by Sampson of Missouri, j 100-yard dash Final won by R. E. Brown, Princeton; second, E. L. Gorar-din, Gorar-din, Harvard; third, W. B. Wells, California; Cali-fornia; fourth, D. H. JDowItt, Rutger's; , fifth, R. D. Clark, Princeton. Time 10 1-5 seconds. 220-yard hurdles Won by W. B. Wells, Stanford; second, E. J. Thomson, Thom-son, Dartmouth; third, W. Smith, Cornell; Cor-nell; fourth, J. M. Watt. Cornell; fifth, E. B. Bickford, Cornell. Time 34 4-5. 220-yard dash Won by.R. E. Brown, Princeton; second, R. S. Maxam, .Pennsylvania; third, O. O. Hendrix-son, Hendrix-son, California; fourth, R. D. Clark, Princeton; fifth.. Frank Shea, Pitts, burg. Time 21 4-5. I Half-mile run Won by E. W. Eby, Pennsylvania; second, K. A. Maver, Cornoll; third, A. B. Sprott, California; Califor-nia; fourth, F. L. Murrey, Princeton; fifth, L. A. Brown, Pennsylvania. Time 1:5S. I Hammer throw Won by J. W. Mar- chant, California, distance 159 feet 2 Inches; second, C. J. Danrow, Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts Tech, 154 feet; third, L. H. Weld, Dartmouth, 146 foot 5 inches; fourth, B. S. Cubbage, Penn State. 143 feet 6V inches; fifth, T. C. Spoors, Princeton, 141 feet 2 inches, 440-yard dash Won by O. O. Hen-drlckson, Hen-drlckson, California; second, R, S. Maxam, Pennsylvania; third, E. B. Eby, Pennsylvania; fourth, C. F. John, Cornell; fifth, J. W. Driscoll, Boston college. Time 48 3-5 seconds. |
