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...favorites to win the team title were Columbia, which last won the outdoor I. C. 4-A in 1879, and Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain Benjamin Washington Johnson and Pitt's tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already...
...I.C.A.A.A.A. meet that saw Ben Johnson of Columbia the first of the century to win three events--the 100, 220, and broad jump--and Pitt's ace John Woodruff capture both the half and the mile, Harvard gained only eight and a half points...
Evidently Harvard and Yale reached their peaks in last week's dual meet, for while the Crimson participators turned in a worse than average performance to gain 11th place in the team scoring Yale could muster only four and a half more for eighth place. Pitt and Columbia, the two favorites, battled it out to the last event, from the results of which Pitt became the champion by half a point...
...Gardner, Kans., Mrs. Harry Eyerly reported the theft of four chickens, one of which "always lays a double-yolked egg." Soon afterwards Sheriff Emmett Pitt stopped James Burtis at Olathe with eight hens in his automobile, arrested him when he found a double-yolked egg on the back seat...
With stars assembling from all over the country the greatest interest will be aroused in the team competition in which Columbia, Yale and Pitt will be satisfied with nothing less than the championship...