Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-31
Line Sports NeDs and Comment
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Leads in Valley
Conference Meet

Ames. May 31.-In a meet featured
by the shattering Of six conference
records. Missouri University captured
premier honors in the thirteenth an
nual Missouri valley conference track
C. assic here Saturday.
Missouri gathered a total of S3
points, for which jackson School,
stellar Splinter, and his right bower.
Nassengale. were chiefly Responsible.
Iowa State was runner UP In the
meet with 29h points, while Kansas
State was third with 20 l-3. Nebras-
kl pressed the Kansans closely for
third place and finished with 26h
points. Other point winners were:
Grinnell t2A, Kansas University
7-12, Oklahoma University SIS
Southwestern College I. DcS Moine5
College 5, Washington University o,
American School of Osteopathy 3. and
Drake 1.
Johnston Runs Great Race.
Among the outstanding events on
the program were the half mile race,
tiif hiilt ltlsiN anu tIt tWo-iihiS o'''
Johnston, of Des Moines College.
set new record Of 1856 2-5 In the
half mile. with the prettiest run OF
the afternoon. Led for a lap and a
quarter by Webb and Higgins OF
Iowa State the little Tiger PAGER ran
out around the pace-setters about
$50 yards from the finish and sprint
ell for more than 800 yards. finishing
about three yards ahead Of Webb of
Iowa State. who pressed him closely
at the finish. The old record OF 1855
was held by Bonnet of Leland STAN
ford.
Ames took the mile relay when
L odwick. running third for Iowa
state. galloped his quarter In 40 1-5.
and not only made up distance of
nearly ten feet between he and the
N'ebraskap. who had led the field up
to- that time, but gave VOTERS
la-foot lead with which to start the
Anal lap. McMahon ran a whale of
a race for the Cornhuskers in the last
lap Of the mile, but could not quite
orertake VOTERS. who crossed the
tape just a few inches ahead of him.
Watson Breaks Record.
Watson of the Kansas Angles nip
ped a fifth Of a second from the two
mile record OF Durey of Des Moines
College. when he did the distance In
Q; AS. He took the lead early In
tfe event. and held It until the last
lap. when Massey OF Kansas Univer-
sity passed him. only to fall back to
third place at the finish.
Scholx trotted away to a new rec
ord in the 220-yard dash, setting a
mark OF I'll 3-6 to replace the long
standing record of Barancik Of Chi
cago University. The Chicago run
ner's record was :214-s.
Another Maroon record Of some
years standing was knocked slim-
merins when MissoVri's half-mile re-
lay team did the distance In 1928 rs,
and. in capturing the event, won the
meet. Aissourrs relay quartet was
made up Of Roney, Maxwell, Messen-
guile and Scholz.
Kroner Sets Discus Mark.
It wrested q victory from the fast
Grinnell four when Messengale ran
away from Mlnty OF Grinnell In the
third lap. Paullu ran fine race In
the last lap. but was unable to make
any Roadway against the speedy
Scholz. Nebraska was third and the
Kansas Angles fourth in the event.
The new record Of 1895 replaces
tive Chicago record Of 1885.
Kremer Of washington, younsster
o.. slight build but with a powerful
whip. tossed the discus for $50 feet
5 inches. setting a new record in that
event. The previous mark Of 12S
feet 6h inches was held by Bohm Of
the School Of Osteopathy.
Dale of Nebraska heaved the 1s-
pound shot for ~ feet 5M inches, a
nav record in the valley meet. Howe
Of Washington had held the shot
putting honors with a distance OF ~
feet az inches.
Scholz of Missouri was the indi-
v.dual star of the meet, with nrsts in
the 1907 and the 220. He also did
notable work in the relays.