The next meet in which the University competed was the Penn Relay Carnival. Following the custom set up last year Coach Bingham decided to make entries only in the special events and accordingly did not send any relay teams to the games. Captain Brown and Marshall were chosen to represent the University in the hammer-throw. Marshall did not place, but Brown won second to Baker of Princeton, whom he subsequently defeated both in the Princeton and Intercollegiate meets.
On May 6 the Crimson smashed through to a complete victory over M. I. T. at Technology Field. The University men captured 11 out of 15 possible firsts, winning both sprints, both hurdles, the mile and half-mile, both weight events, the shot-put, and discus and javelin throws. Considered by many track followers before the struggle as exceedingly likely to be defeated, Coach Bingham's men rolled up a total of 84 points to the Engineers' 51. It was a surprising triumph, not because the Crimson won, but because in winning it showed an almost unbelievable improvement over its spring trip records and a latent power which only a few had dreamed it possessed.
It was a week later that Coach Bingham's runners swept over Yale for a 70 13-15 to 64 2-15 triumph, the first track victory over the Blue in seven years. The meet, held in the Stadium, was even closer than last year's. But this time the Crimson held the balance of power. Before the struggle metropolitan newspapers were running such headlines as, "Harvard has a chance, but it is a slim one". That was the general concensus of opinion previous to the meet.
"Green Material" Wins Out
Five men who had already won their "H's" and 16 otheres classed at the beginning of the season as "green material" turned the trick for the Crimson. As in the football game last fall the University went into the contest as the underdog and fighting as it had seldom fought before, emerged victorious. In the final analysis it was the wonderful driving finishes of the Crimson runners at the tape which sent the Elis down to defeat.
Burke was the outstanding performer for the Crimson, capturing both the mile and 880-yard runs from two of the best runners who ever were the Blue. In the mile he broke the University record of 4 minutes, 23 2-5 seconds and established a new one of 4 minutes, 19 4-5 seconds.
The final dual meet was that with the Tiger track team at the Palmer Stadium, Princeton, the following Saturday. The Orange and Black gave the University one of the worst beatings it has ever experienced, taking 11 first places and running up a score of 95 1-2 to 39 1-2. The Princeton team, said to be the best ever turned out at the New Jersey college, was not up against the same opposition Yale had met the week before. The Crimson team acted as if it had worn itself out completely against the Blue, Burke lost the mile and Hauers and Whitney the hurdles; and so it went all along the line. The Tigers, however, would have been victorious had Coach Bingham's men even more formidable than they were against Yale.
Captain Brown's Record With Hammer
The one redeeming feature of the meet was Captain Brown's 166 feet 4 inch winning heave in the hammer-throw. This broke the dual meet record and established a new University mark for the event, outdoing also by four feet the record throw of 162 feet 4 1-2 inches made by Theodore Cobb '12 in 1912.
The Intercollegiate meet, held last Saturday in the Stadium, is still recent history. California repeated its last year's victory and won with 40 1-2 points. But the University, lacking such stars as Gourdin, Harwood, Krogness, and O'Connell had to be content with sixth place with 14 points. Princeton was second with 31; but the Crimson outscored Yale, which came ninth with 8 1-2 points.
The winning of the high hurdles by Hauera was the feature of the meet from the Crimson standpoint. Miller also registered a surprise by taking third in the discus. He did not place in the Yale meet, but his work last Saturday entitles him to an "H"