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...Captain Overton of Yale duplicated his feat of a week ago, and again broke a world's record when he covered the 1,000-yard title race in two minutes 14 seconds, thereby lowering the record of Kiviat, made in 1914, by 1 2-5 seconds. Kelly of Holy Cross and McDonald of the Irish-American A. C., also established records in their respective events. The former did the 300 in 31 2-5 seconds, and the latter heaved the 16-pound shot 42 feet 7 1-2 inches...
...Captain Overton of Yale will defend his title in the 1,000-yard race...
...world's indoor records were broken by the competitors in the races. Captain Overton of Yale broke the indoor record of four minutes 18 and 1-5 seconds in winning the mile race in four minutes 16 seconds, and W. T. Hobbs of Dartmouth lowered by one-fifth of a second the record for the 50-yard high hurdles, when he covered the distance in six and four-fifths seconds. Overton ran the latter half of his race faster than the first, the time by quarters reading...
...mile run J. D. Hutchinson '19 placed third, in a good field, finishing behind Captain Overton and Read of Yale...
...Foremost among these is the final race of the evening, the long distance relay with Yale in which each runner covers 780 yards. Yale has a strong team and is out to make up for last year's race which was won by the University when Captain Bingham beat Overton to the last corner and won by a yard. Coach Donovan has not yet decided finally who the fourth man, on the University team will be. J. Coggeshall '18, J. W. Feeney '18, H. W. Minot '17 and either J. D. Hutchinson '19 or A. R. Bancroft '17 will...