Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20

Ten Southern California records and
two coast intercollegiate records went
by the boards when L. S. c, Occi-
dental, Whittier and Pomona met on
the Pomona college oval yesterday
afternoon. Not until the last lap Of the
relay had been run off was the out
come of the meet known, and by win
ming this event in minutes and 80 3-5
seconds the university clinched first
honors, with AZ points as total.
Occidental, a despised tailender by the
majority of the dopesters, was the big
surprise of the day, winning second
by a safe margin with Az points.
Pomona, by many expected to win the
meet, came in third with 371a points,
while Whittier was shut out without
point.
The winning of the meet came down
to the relay, to be decided between L.
S. c. and Occidental, the score then
standing, L. S. c. 40, Occidental 40la
and Pomona out of the race for first
and second places with but - points.
In this, the deciding event, if Occi-
dental had pulled a second and Po-
mona first, Occidental would have won
by a score of 43l5 to 43 for U. S. c.
AS early as the first lap, however, it
became apparent that the Tigers had
no show whatsoever, and the race re
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! Pomona and L. S. G. The first two
! Pomonans opened up a big gap between
/ themselves and the L. S. c. runners,
and for a time it looked an easy victory
| for the sagebrushers, but on the third
| lap Wallace of u. S. c.. made up the
distance between himself and the fly
! ing Lorbeer and this sent Sloane of
| Pomona and LennoX of U. 5. c. off
/ together
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home stretch neck and neck, and then
gradually, amidst the deafening
| shouts of the frenzied U. S. G. rooters,
Lennox forged ahead and beat Captain
| Sloane to the tape by six inches. 1t
was fitting climax to a meet full of
! the unexpected, and was run in the
new Southern California conference
time of 3 minutes and % 3-5 seconds.
! The day was full of surprises, and it
/ became almost an expectation before
! each event for a new record to be
made. Occidental was first in the
| number of first places scored with
seven. four of them by Thomson, who
! scored 241b points for his team; U. S.
! C. was second with five, and Pomona
| third with two. L. 5. c. came out at
the big end of the meet mainly through
| the second places she won, ana POMONA
was the only team to win all the points
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Throop's Star sprnter
| Throop, Thomson, Richardson, Fish
er, Trotter, Martin, Bradbeer and
Robertson were the bright individual
stars of the meet. Throop, the diminu-
tive U. S. c. sprinter created the early
sensation of the day when he ran the
century in 8 and 4-5 seconds, equaling
Charley Parsons record and making a
new conference record. Martin was a
good second, while Bradbeer and Spur
geon tied for the third point Martin
led for the first fifty yards, but was
overtaken at this point by Throop,
who opened the gap to a couple of
yards at the finish. Throop again
came into the limelight in the 22O-yard
dash, when he showed a clean pair of
heels to the field in the new coast time
of 81 and 3-5 seconds. Dan Kelly has
done better, but according to the classi-
fication in the dope book he is not al
lowed to hold the record.
Bradbeer practically an unknown in