Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-23
OXY LOSES TO
u. S. c. SQUAD
ZONE MAN" TEAM FAILS WHEN
STAR FALLS DOWN
Slow Time Results in Majority Of
Events, Only Record to GO
Being That of Rich
ardson

The track and field artists of U. S.
c. had no trouble in defeating the
Occidental team yesterday afternoon
on the Bovard oval, although some of
the events were closely contested to
the finish. AS the meet progressed it
became plainly evident that a one
man team such as Occidental sent out
against the Boyardians could not hope
to get within striking distance of their
more experienced and better balanced
opponents. u. S. c, showed some Won
derful form in the sprints and distance
runs, carrying off most of the honors
in these events, while the Highland
Parkers annexed most of the places IN
the middle distance runs.
Thomson, the giant all around ath-
lete Of Occidental, was not in his usual
form, and annexed but two first places,
the high stick event and the broad
jump. Throop and Richardson of u.
S. c. stood out conspicuously by their
great work for their team, the former
winning both the century and the fur
long in fair time, while the latter
broke the Southern California record
in the pole vault, formerly held by
Charlie Richardson, his brother, by
beautiful vault of eleven feet nine
and one-half inches. His work was
the prettiest of the day and brought
the rooters to their feet. u. S. c. won
all three places in this event, Occi-
dental not having man who could
clear the cross bar at nine and one
half feet.
Bird Returns to Track
For the first time in two years Bird,
the crack quarter miller of OXy, ap-
peared on the path, and with Baer
easily outdistanced Wallace, U. S. C.'s
only hope, in the 440. By his work
yesterday Bird showed that he has
completely returned to form, and
should have no difficulty in winning
in the conference meet.
In the high hurdles Lennox, captain
of the u. S. c. squad got poor start
and dropped out, leaving the race to
Thomson, who finished practically
alone. Goodsell and Wieman fought it
out to the finish for second and third
places, the former winning out by
inches.
Capt. Lennox retrieved himself in
the low hurdles and won easily over
the Occidental captain. The latter
stumbled and almost fell at the very
start of the race. The shotput, which
had been looked forward to as the best
event of the day, between thomson
of Occidental and Trotter of u. S. c.,
did not bring out any phenomenal
work on the part of either, Trotter
winning by using the shot he was ac-
customed to using, Thomson being
forced to use the same, as his weight
was found to be a little bit under
weight Trotter was not able TO ap-
proach Thomson's record Of 43 feet
1112 inches.
Robertson surprised the dopesters by
winning the half mile from Cover the
veteran U. S. c. middle distance run
ner. and i. cidentally broke his college
record. Cover led all the way up to
the last fifty yards, when Robertson
let out a kink that landed him win
ner by two yards. Although Throop
won both of the short sprints han
Oily, the time was slow, owing to the
cold day and the rather heavy track
Results of Meet
Mile run-Hali, L. s. c., won Masser. U.
S. C.. second; Richardson, o, third. Time,
446 80.
100 yard dash-Throop, L. s. C., won; Mar
TIM Z. S c.. second; Bradbeer o, third.
Time. 10 2-5
Hammer throw-Richardson, U. $. C., won;
Thomson o. second; Comkiaw, U. s. c.
third Distance, 121 feet, inches.
12o-yard high hurdles-Thomson o. won;
Goodseil, U. S. C., second Wieman o, third.
Time, 16 10.
44o-yard dash-Baer o. won; Bird o. second;
Wallace, U. S. c., third. Time, So 1-5.
Pole vault-Rlchardson. U. S, C.. won;
wirsching, U. s. C., second; Hall, U. s. c.,
third. Height. II feet 9A inches
22O-yard dash--Throop. U. s. c., won; Mar
tin. Z. S. c., second; Bradbeer o. third. Time,
% 2-5.
22O-yard low hurdes-Lennox, u s. c.,
won: Thomson o. second; Stein, U. S. c.,
third. Time. 20 So.
High jump-wieman o. and walberg U. S.
c. tie for first; Thomson o and Baker, U. $.
c., tie for third Height, feet IA, 4,inches.
ssO-yard run-Robertson o. won; Cover, U.
S. c.. second; Walton, U. S. c., third. Time,
203 40
shot put-Trotter, u $. c.. won; Thomson
o, second; Richardson, third. Distance, 4s
feet "a inches.
2.mlle run-Whalen, U. S. c., won; Taft,