d a tiresome succession of trial heats was
avoided. How much better it would be if the Interscholastics could be
conducted on some such plan next year. The programme was a compromise,
and a very good compromise at that. The mile walk and the Junior 220
were omitted, and the bicycle race was made two miles instead of one
mile. The latter change was commendable, because the inter-collegiate
event is two miles, and so it is in almost all of the other
interscholastic programmes of the country. The long distance makes a
better race, and the fact that New-Yorkers won every place in the event
proves pretty conclusively that the N.Y.I.S.A.A. riders can cover that
distance as well as they have been doing the mile.

The Long-Islanders started out with a spurt, and earned 22 of their 33
points in the first four numbers on the card. Stevens, the B.L.S.
sprinter, was responsible for 10 of these, and he showed himself a
strong runner. He is tall and slim, somewhat resembling Sherrill in his
build, and will no doubt equal Sherrill's and the other champions' time
before he retires from the track. He ran a dead heat with Hall in the
first 100, doing 10-3/5, and on the run off he was victorious by about a
foot in 10-4/5. Hall is not strong after his first dash, and seldom does
himself justice in the finals. I believe that if he would train hard,
however, he could get staying power that would enable him to do as well
in the third heat as he now does at his first trial. Whether under any
circumstances he could defeat Stevens is a question, for the
Long-Islander showed his mettle by following up his first hard victory,
and winning the 220 in the record time of 22-4/5 seconds. He could have
done even better if he had known he was so close to these figures.

Fisher, of Harvard School, who holds the scholastic record of 52-1/5
sec. in the 440, was counted on by the New-Yorkers to take that event.
Fisher has been training for it all spring, but since his injury last
year he has not been able to get into very fit condition. He started off
at a rapid gait and held the lead for about 300 yards, when his wind
gave out, and Jewell, who did so much for Adelphi, in Brooklyn, the
previous week, passed him easily, and came in an easy winner, with
Fisher a weary third. His time, 54-1/5, was 1-2/5 seconds better than
his winning time at the L.I.I.S.A.A. games. Meehan again had an easy
victory in the half-mile, running as strong and pretty a race as he did