ia and State |
|College. Crim, who ran anchor for Cornell over the |
|last 538 yards, beat Scudder, of Penn, by an inch, |
|the Quaker falling under the tape exhausted. In this|
|event Cornell hung up a new record for the |
|collegiate indoor meets by covering the three laps |
|in four minutes, twenty seconds, two seconds better |
|than last year, when Penn won. |
| |
|In the six-lap relay race, where each of the men ran|
|1056 yards, Yale romped home an easy winner, John |
|Overton beating Marion Shields, of Penn State, with |
|yards to spare. Pennsylvania, the third team |
|entered, finished in that position. |
| |
|Yale sent an army of star timber-toppers down for |
|the fifty-yard high hurdle event. John V. Farwell, |
|captain of the Eli's track team, equaled the |
|American amateur indoor record by covering the |
|distance in seven seconds. |
| |
|Richards, of Cornell, won individual honors in the |
|sixteen-pound shot-put with a throw of 42 feet, |
|8-3/10 inches, while Cornell's team average was 40 |
|feet, 2-3/10 inches. |
| |
|The Cornell entries in the late events swept |
|everything before them. Coach Jack Moakley's |
|long-distance runners won the twelve-lap relay in |
|the fast time of 22 minutes, 7-2/5 seconds, beating |
|last year's record of 23 minutes, 13-4/5 seconds. |
|The Ithacans also cleaned up in the running broad |
|jump with a team average of 20 feet, 9 and 1/16 |
|inches. Culbertson carried off the individual honors|
|with a leap of 21 feet, 3 and 3/4 inches. |
| |
|The graduate relay race proved the most interesting |
|event on the card. When the anchor men of Penn, |
|Dartmouth, and Cornell started on the last four laps|
|Riley, of Dartmouth, was leading "Ted" Meredith by |
|fifteen yards, with Caldwell, the former Ithacan, |
|trailing five yards in the rear of Meredith. Penn's |
|former captain br