Harris. Patterson. Moore.
The field-meetings of the New York and Brooklyn Interscholastic leagues were held a week ago Saturday, the former on the Berkeley Oval and the latter at Eastern Park. In many respects the Brooklyn athletes' performances surpassed those of the New-Yorkers, and in point of record-smashing the Long-Islanders were far ahead. Only three New York Interscholastic figures were lowered, whereas in Brooklyn nine out of fourteen were upset.
There was a number of surprises at the New York meeting. The first was Irwin-Martin's defeat by Washburn in the quarter-mile run. Martin started off badly, setting too hot a pace, and took the lead for the first quarter of a lap. Then Hipple and Washburn broke away from the bunch, and when three-quarters of the distance had been covered Washburn forged ahead of the Berkeley man, with Hipple close behind him, leaving Martin in third place. In this way the three raced down the stretch, and crossed the line in that order. This hard race took a good deal of the starch out of Hipple, so that when it came to the half-mile he was not fresh enough to do any record-breaking. He ran well, however, and came close to the mark; Draper of Cutler's ran a beautiful race in this event, leading most of the way, and took second, beating Bedford.
C. W. YOUNG PUTTING THE SHOT.
The half-mile tired Bedford for the mile, and Hipple had very little speed and endurance left in him after the gallant work he had already done. Nevertheless, both of these Barnard runners toed the scratch with a large field, and started off pluckily. They staid behind from the start, and it was soon evident that Bedford could do nothing. Turner of Cutler's and Clark of Condon's took the lead, and ran beautifully. Hipple, after trying to urge his schoolmate on for a couple of laps, left Bedford, and worked his way slowly and laboriously to the front. But he could not do anything against the fresh leaders, and deserves great credit for taking the place he did, especially as Turner broke the interscholastic record for the distance. In spite of being the last man, Bedford ran pluckily, and did not leave the cinder path until he had crossed the finish and covered the distance. The quality which led him to do this is called "sand," and if every athlete would follow Bedford's example in the many hopeless races that they are forced to run, and "stick to their colors," it would raise the standard of performance in a great many cases.
Both of the senior sprints went to Moore of Barnard, and both of the junior sprints went to Leech of Cutler's. These two men are very fast. If they had not had to face an unfavorable wind, they would doubtless have made better time; as it is, the performances are not to be ashamed of. Both Moore and Leech had an easy time of it in their heats, outclassing all their opponents. They seemed to be aware of their superiority—too much aware of it, I am afraid, because Moore especially lost a fraction of his speed by continually looking back. This is a very bad habit to get into, and no matter how slow the other men are, there is no excuse for the leading sprinter to look back.