Rowing and Track Athletics (extract)

Track Athletics Harvard second and C. J. Swan of Harvard third. The English hurdlers showed plainly enough that the previous intercollegiate contests had not been without their effect. Converse of Harvard won the event in I St seconds, but Garnier of Oxford, who was a close second, ran in almost American hurdling form, and E. All– cock of Cambridge was third. In the hundred the starter, by mistake, sent his men away from the wrong mark, so that they ran one hundred five yards, making their time for the even hun– dred probably a shade better than 10 flat. The time for the whole distance was 1og- seconds. N. H. Hargrave of Yale won, A. E. Hind of Cambridge was second, and J. E. Haigh of Har– vard was third. The other events resulted as follows: four-hundred-forty-yard dash, won by E. C. Rust of Harvard in 50 seconds, Dixon Board– man of Yale second, and R. W. Barclay of Cam– bridge third; running high jump, won by J. S. Spraker of Yale, 6 feet 1i inches, R. A. Kernan of Harvard second, 6 feet ! inch, S. Howard Smith of Cambridge third ; running broad jump, won by J. S. Spraker of Yale, 2 2 feet 4 inches, A. \V. Ristine of Harvard second, W. E. B. Henderson of Cambridge third. Throwing sixteen-pound hammer, won by \V. A. Boal of Harvard, I 36 feet 8 inches, E. E. B. May of Oxford second, and W. E. B. Henderson of Cambridge third.