Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-30
MANY RECORDS
ARE FRACTURED
IN STATE MEET
Albuquerque Highs Wrest Cup
From Roswell, Which Pos
SesSed It Two Years. With
13-point Margin

Albuquerque high, taking first
place with So points In the finals of
the interscholastic track meet, held
at the university field yesterday aft
ernoon. In which ten state records
We're shattered. captured first honors
in the meet and the cup for this sea-
son Roswell winning the relay race
and cup. took second place with "a
points Alamogordo. third with IA
points. and Santa Re the cellar posi-
ton with ).
In spite of the stiff wind that was
blowing every interscholastic record
with the exception of that of the shot
put and the hop, step and Jump was
broken in the meet, OF the Albuquer-
que team Smauldng lowered four rec
ords CaIlSins one ana Kremis one. OF
the Roswell athletes. Johnson smash
ed two time marks and Mcconnell one.
Wohlcnberg Of Alamogordo. raised
the record IN the high jump Smauld =
ing was easily highest individual
point winner. taking five first places.
two seconds and one third. Johnson.
Of Roswell. made a remarkable show
ing in lowering the records of the
4A0- and Ss0-yard events and finish
Ing close second in the mile event.
Roswell won the mile relay race
with ease, lowering the time Of last
year TO 3 minutes IS 2-5 seconds. That
school won with the relay race the
cup given for that run.
The events connected with the
third annual track meet have been
most holly contested and exciting.
The basketball championship game
won BY Albuquerque over the Tucum-
earl five was not a certain victory
Cor the former team until the final
whistle blew. Tho question as to what
team would win the track meet was
no less uncertain until Calkins ana
Smaulding placed first and second re-
speclively in the running broad jump.
Albuquerque led off hy taking first
and third in the l00-yard dash. Ros-
well retaliated by winning like places
Ia the SS0-yard event The local high
then came hack with places ditto In
the shot put and low hurdles. The
Pecos valley athletes following by
taking all three places in the 44V-
yard dash. which. with previous sec
ond places won, placed them IN the
lead with 26 points To their ehief-op-
ponents' 81 From that time until
the jump events Roswell retained the
lead The last mentioned events gave
Albuquerque the certainty of victory
and Krcmis' winning the mile run
gave the team first place by u good
lead
Smaulding lowered the i00-yard
time, in the preliminaries. from 10 SIS
seconds ~ 10 1-5 seconds. the 100
ward high hurdles from Is 2-5 to
II as seconds; raised the pole vault
height from 10 feet 10 10 feet 20
inches and shortened the time of the
z20-yard dash from "a SO to % 80
seconds. In the running broad jump
Caikins of the local high went Fl feet
u inch against the old record of II
feet 10 4-5 inches Kfemis of the
same school sprung surprise by low
oring the mile time from minutes
L. AS seconds to minutes u sec
onds Roswell has good man in
Johnson. who lowered the 4lo-yard
record from 81 1-5 10 So seconds flat,
aud the half mile fiom minutes
is s.5 seconds TO : inmates l2 sec
onds. Mcconnell Of the same team
ran the 220-yard low hurdles In 81 4-5
seconds against the cid time OF - %
seconds. wohlenherg of Alamogordo.
IN the high jump, cleared the bamboo
at 5 feet ~ inches The high jump
record was previously ) feet 81
inches.
A banquet was given a the univer-
sity diuing hall last night 10 all the
visitors. on which occasion the ath-
letes broke train and enjoyed good
feed with ice cream and cake as
follow-np. Mr.. Weese. representing