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A RECORD OF EVENTS IN SPORTS
For the Month of May, 1915
May 1:Golf, Walter Hagen won the Panama Pacific Exposition open championship with 286 for 72 holes; J. C. Parrish, jr., beat M. E. Risley, 4 up and 3 to play, in the final round of the Atlantic City tournament; Yale beat Williams, S matches to 1; Pennsylvania beat Princeton, 5 matches to 4. Lawn Tennis, College dual meets, Princeton 3, Cornell 3; Harvard 6. Amherst o; Annapolis 3, Lehigh 3; Williams 4, Columbia 2. Trap Snooting, G. L. Lyon, New York Athletic Club, won tne amateur championship, at Travers Island, with 192 out of 200 targets. College Rowing, First and second Pennsylvania eights beat first and second Annapolis eights, and Annapolis Plebes beat Pennsylvania freshmen, at Annapolis. College Baseball, Columbia 6, Wesleyan 1; Pennsylvania 7, Princeton 5; Harvard 6, Amherst o; Yale 6. Virginia 2; Brown 5, Holy Cross 2; West Point n, Georgetown 4; Pennsylvania State 4, Lafayette 2; Annapolis 20, Dickinson o.
May 3:College Baseball, Pennsylvania State 4, Dartmouth 1.
May 4:College Baseball, Harvard 5, Colby 1; Tufts 7, Holy Cross 2; Pennsylvania State 1, Vermont 0.
May 5:College Baseball, Columbia 5, Lafayette 2 j Williams 3, Yale 2; West Point 9. Pennsylvania State 4; Pennsylvania 3, Swarthmore 1; Annapolis 7, Pittsburgh 2.
May 6:College Baseball, Pennsylvania State, 2. Princeton 1; Yale 5. Lafayette 2; Harvard 14, Vermont 2; Syracuse o, Michigan o.
May 7:Golf, Heinrich Schmidt beat M. A. McLaughlin, 3 up and 2 to play in final round, Panama-Pacific Exposition, handicap tournament. College Lawn Tennis, Columbia 5, Lafayette 1; Cornell 4, Williams 2; Wesleyan
5. Trinity 1. College Baseball, Brown 7, Dartmouth 3; Syracuse 4, Michigan Aggies 3; Wesleyan 8, Williams 4.
May 8:College Rowing, Princeton beat Columbia, 1 ½ lengths, with Pennsylvania 3d, by 2 feet, for the Child's cup on Lake Carnegie. College Baseball, Columbia 6, Fordham 2; Annapolis 4, Catholic University 2; Tufts 8, Brown o; Harvard 5, Holy Cross 3; West Point 9, Washington and Lee 5; Georgetown 5, Pennsylvania 3; Cornell 8, Princeton 3; Michigan 2, Syracuse 2; Yale 2, Vermont o. College Lawn Tennis, Princeton 5, Pennsylvania 1; Harvard 9, Dartmouth 1; Annapolis 5, Virginia 1; Williams 3, Yale 3; Cornell 6, Amherst o; Columbia 6, Lehigh o.
May JO:College Baseball, Notre Dame 5, Cornell 2; Brown 11, Dartmouth 1. College Lawn Tennis, Dartmouth 4, Holy Cross 2; Springfield 5, Tufts 1.
May 12:Golf, Francis Ouimet beat B. W. Corkran, 4 up and 3 to play, in the final round of the Baltimore Country Club tournament. Lawn Tennis, Yale beat Columbia, 4 matches to o. College Baseball, Dartmouth 3, Yale 1; West Point 5, Holy Cross 2; Williams 10, Princeton 3; Harvard 6, Pennsylvania 5.
May 13:College Lawn Tennis, Princeton 6. Pittsburgh o. College Baseball, Cornell 2, Columbia o; Princeton 6, Notre Dame 5; New York University 10, College of the City of New York 2; Dartmouth 3. Wesleyan o.
May 14:Lawn Tennis, Women's Metropolitan championship finals. Miss Molla Bjurstedt beat Mrs. Barger Wallach, 6-3. 6-1; Mrs. R. A. Pope and Mrs. Marshall McLean beat Miss Bjurstedt and Miss Ballin, 6-2. 6-1; Trinity beat Brown, 4 matches to 2. College Baseball, Harvard 10, Boston 0; Tufts 4, Dartmouth 2.
May 13:College Lawn Tennis, Pennsylvania s, Annapolis 1; New York University 6, Stevens 0; Lehigh 4, Pennsylvania State 2; Yale 5, Amherst 1; Cornell 6, Harvard 3; Williams 6, Dartmouth o; Wesleyan 6, Brown o. Golf, P. V. G. Carter beat M. R. Marsten, 8 up and 6 to play, in the Oakland Golf Club tournament finals; Francis Ouimet beat T. M. Claflin, s up and 4 to play, in the Brookline Country Club tournament finals; Yale beat Princeton 5 to 4. College Baseball, Columbia 18, Seventh Regiment s; Cornell 2, Michigan 1; Yale 8. Holy Cross o; Dartmouth 7, Williams 4; Princeton 8, Pennsylvania 5; Brown 3, Amherst o; Trinity 2, Wesleyan 0; Lafayette 3, Lehigh 1; Fordham 16, West Point 3; Annapolis 5, Notre Dame 3.
May 17:College Baseball, Fordham 13, Dartmouth 3.
May 18:Polo, Point Judith beat Philadelphia Freebooters, 7¼ to 61/2 goals in Hunt Club cup finals at Bryn Mawr tournament. Fencing, Crescent Athletic Club beat Yale, 5 bouts to 4. in duelling swords. College Baseball, Rutgers 7, Dartmouth 4; Syracuse 9, Michigan 3.
May 19:College Lawn Tennis, Princeton 7. Yale 2; New York University 6, College of the City of New York o. Golf, Interscholastic championship finals, F. K. Robeson, Pawling, beat Simpson Dean, Lawrenceville, 5 up and 3 to play in the final round; Francis Ouimet was beaten 77 to 79 in play off for the gold medal of the Brookline Country Club meet. College Baseball, New York University 7, Mt. St. Joseph's 6; Brown 8, Yale 7; Princeton 5. Dartmouth 3; Michigan 2, Cornell o; West Point 4, St. John's 0; Harvard 2, Holy Cross 1; Pennsylvania 3, Villa Nova 2; Annapolis 5, Catholic University 4; Andover 6, Harvard freshmen 4.
May 20:College Lawn Tennis, New England Intercollegiate championship singles finals. C. P. Cutler. Williams, beat S. A. Edsall, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2; doubles finals Cutler and R. S. Maynard beat J. E. Stewart and D. E. Woodbridge, 6-2. 6-2, 6-2. College Baseball, Amherst 12, Williams 6; Cornell 5, Michigan 2.
May 21:College Baseball, Wesleyan 7, Dartmouth 4. Lawn Tennis, Brookline Club tournament finals', Miss Evelyn Sears beat Miss Eleanora Sears, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2; Miss Evelyn Sears and Miss Margaret Curtis beat Miss Eleanora Sears and Miss Marion Fenno, 6-3. 6-3; Miss Fenno and N. W. Niles beat Miss Edith Rotch and A. S. Dabney, 6-4, 6-3.
May 22:College Rowing, Harvard beat Cornell at Ithaca in two miles 'varsity eights race, by ¾ length, in 10:41 2-5, and Cornell freshmen beat Harvard freshmen by 1½ lengths; in the American Henley regatta at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania beat the Union Boat Club and Harvard, second crew, in the first eights; and Harvard and Princeton in the junior eights; and the Syracuse freshmen beat the Cornell freshmen. Golf, M. R. Marsten beat W. J. Travis, by default, in the Garden City tournament finals; Jesse Guilford beat Paul Tewssbury, 5 up and 3 to play in the Woodland Golf Club tournament finals. College Baseball, Amherst 5, Wesleyan 4; Yale freshmen 4, Princeton freshmen o; Williams 8, Bates 4; Pennsylvania freshmen 7, Cornell freshmen 5; Annapolis 6, Georgetown 2; Cornell x, Yale o; Springfield 7, West Point 6; Brown 3, Tufts 2. College Lawn Tennis, Cornell 5, Yale 4; Union 4, Rutgers 2; Colgate 4, Syracuse 2; Dartmouth 6, Vermont o.
May 23:Lawn Tennis, Sleepy Hollow Country Club invitation tournament finals, Robert Le Roy and Dean Mathey beat F. B. Alexander and H. H. Hackett, 7-5, 6-8, 6-0; round robin invitation tournament finals at Tuxedo, N. W. Niles and A. S. Dabney beat T. R. Pell and B. S. Prentice, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5; women's invitation tournament finals at Pelham Country Club, Miss Molla Bjurstedt and Miss Clare Cassell beat Mrs. A. G. Miles and Miss Edna Wildey, 6-2, 8-10. 6-2.
May 25:College Baseball, Harvard 4, Princeton 2.
May 26:Lawn Tennis, Metropolitan championship, mixed doubles finals, Miss Molla Bjurstedt and J. F. Inman beat Mrs. Marshall McLean and Dean Mathey, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Fencing, New York Athletic Club championship winners, Sherman Hall, foils and sabres; W. L. Bowman, duelling swords. College Baseball, Brown 9, Princeton o; West Point 8, Villa Nova 0; Pennsylvania 6, Lafayette 1; Annapolis 5, Mt. St. Joseph's 4.
May 27:Lawn Tennis, Longwood 6, Harvard 3. College Baseball, Dartmouth 9, Boston College 2. Lawn Tennis, Baltimore Country Club, challenge round, T. R. Pell beat J. C. Colston, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3; Pennsylvania University 6, Dartmouth o. Women's tournament, Morristown Field Club, singles finals, Miss Clare Cassell beat Mrs. Frederick Schmitz, 7-5, 6-3. College Baseball, Tufts 12, Dartmouth 7.
May 28:Golf, Women's Metropolitan championship finals. Miss Lillian B. Hyde beat Mrs. Joseph Davis, 4 up and 3 to play; Women's Philadelphia championship finals, Mrs. R. H. Barlow beat Miss Katherine Davis, 4 up and 2 to play; Boston Women's Championship finals, Miss Vera Ramsay, England, beat Miss Margaret Curtis, 7 up and 6 to play.
May 2Q:College Golf, Harvard 5, Yale 1. College Baseball, Fordham 7, Columbia o; Exeter 11, Dartmouth 2; West Point 6, Annapolis S'. Brown 7, Harvard 3; Princeton 2, Yale 1; Lehigh 3, Lafayette 2; Cornell 6, Pennsylvania O. Lawn Tennis, Mixed doubles finals, Morristown Field Club, Mrs. Marshall McLean and S. Young beat Miss Molla Bjurstedt and H. Schnitzel. 3-6, 6-3. 6-4; New York Lawn Tennis Club singles finals. Dr. William Rosenbaum beat V. B. Ward, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5; Manhattan doubles championship, A. H. Man and Cedric Major beat W. H. Wood and J. H. Steinkampf, 6-2, 6-1. 6-3; Annapolis beat Johns Hopkins, 6 to 2; Williams beat Amherst, 4 to 2; Harvard beat Yale, 8 to 1. Intercollegiate Athletic Championships, point scores: Cornell 45½. Harvard 26, Yale 25, Pennsylvania 21, Princeton 21, Michigan 14, Dartmouth 14, Columbia 10, Maine 9. Pennsylvania State 6, Johns Hopkins 11/2, Massachusetts "Tech" 1, Bowdoin 1. Individual winners H. S. Smith, Michigan, 100 yards in 10 seconds, and 220 yards in 22 seconds; L. E. Grubb, Cornell, 120-yard hurdles, in is 3-5 seconds; H. S. Smith, Harvard, 220-yard hurdles, in 25 seconds; J. E. Meredith, Pennsylvania, 440yard run, in 48 seconds, and half-mile run. in 1:54 2-5; L. D. McKenzie, Princeton, one-mile run, in 4:22 4-5; D. F. Potter, Cornell, two-mile run, in 9:27 1-5; L. A..Whitney, Dartmonth, putting the shot, with 47 feet 4¾ inches; H. P. Bailey, Maine, throwing the hammer, with 165 feet ¾ inch; W. M. Oler, Yale, running high jump, with 6 feet4Y1 inches; H. T. Worthington, Dartmouth, running broad jump, with 23 feet 9¾ inches, and pole vault, L. Carter, Yale, M. L. Greeley. Jr., Harvard, and J. K. Foss, Cornell, tied at 12 feet.
May 31:College Baseball, Columbia 5, Hawaii 4; Harvard 11, Brown 10; Dartmouth 1, Holy Cross o; West Point 15, Seventh Regiment 8; Yale 22, Cornell s; Yale freshmen 7. Harvard freshmen 3. Lawn Tennis, Massachusetts State doubles championship finals, H. C. Johnson and I. C. Wright beat J. W. Foster and C. W. Currier, 6-0, 7-9. 3-6, 6-3. 6-2; Elizabeth Town & Country Club doubles finals. Dean Mathey and W. M. Hall beat Harold Throckmorton and Lindsay Dunham, 4-6. 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Golf, Tuxedo Club finals, G. W. White beat Paul Moore, 9 up and 7 to play.
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