Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-16
Records Doomed to
Fall in State High
School Track Meet
BY HEzE CLARK.


The high school athletes who were the
winners Of first or second place in the
ten sectional track and field meets held
in the State Saturday will gather at
Franklin, May Fl, to contest for the State
Championship. From the reports Of the
performances in various sectionals, the
State record marks in many events
should be broken.
Never in the history ofstrack and field
athletics in indianapolis have high school
boys performed on a local track up to
the standard Of the point winners in the
urday. Manual, last years State cham
pions. In the meet at the fair grounds,
scored 5o15 points; Technical, %; No
blesville, IN; Shortridge, 8; Sheridan,
D, and Southport failed to score.
While there were number OF records
broken, these records will not be con-
sidered new State records, as they were
not made in the State meet, but they will
Gray. the little Technical star, stepped
his 100 yard dash in 10 1-5 SECONDS,
which is fast, but his record break king
performance came In the 220-yard dash.
Running the distance on a straight-away
track and knowing he had to beat some
Of the fastest dash men in the State, Gray
opened up and did the 220 in % seconds,
beating the State mark one second.
The Shortridge rooters had something
to yell for when Lotick ran The 440- yard
dash. The race was run on straight
away track, and Mills, the little speed
merchant from Noblesville touted as the
probable winner, stepped out In front.
At 300 yards he was still leading, but
then Lotick Of ShOrtridge, II. HarnesOn
of Manual and Carlisle of Technical
stepped ahead of Mills and finished in
order named. There were four watches
on the race and one Of the watches was
much slower than the other three, show
ing 81 1-5 seconds. The average time of
the four watches was 90 g-10 seconds,
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time of the race. This is better than
the State record.
While there was a stiff wind during
the early part Of the afternoon, this wind
and the 220-yard dash were called and
can not be considered as helping the
runners.
Gardner lived up to his reputation In
the half mile. The colored boy from
Manual kept close to the front until he
then stepped away from the other mid
die distance men, doing the half mile in
2 minutes AS seconds. which Is bet
ter than the State record.
Reports that II. Harmeson broke the
State pole vault record are untrue, for
that event went at a height Of 10 feet
inches. the two Harmesons tying for
first place, but II. Harmeson doing an
exhibition vault of il feet inches later.
However, even that mark lacks more
than 5 inches OF equaling Mitank's State
record made five years ago.
Prout OF Manual was forced to break
the low hurdle record TO defeat Parr.
the Sheridan star. Prout's time was
20 20 seconds.
An incident occurred in the first heat
of the 100-yard dash that all athletes
regret. Notham, the Sheridan star.
sprained his ankle. This boy probably
would have proven the high point win
ner IN the State meet II he had escaped
injury. All admit that he would have
set a new record In the running broad
jump, but for the sprained ankle. How
ever, this put him out Of tho coints and
he did not qualify In either the shot put
OF the running broad jump.
Three wonderful mile runners came to-
gether and Stewart Of Manual won in
( minutes, 46 seconds. Weidenhorns OF
Technical was a good second in the mile
and Phillips OF Manual was third. There
was a strong wind on the back stretch Of
the one mile track and this slowed the
runners probably five seconds.
Summers, the Manual star, won the
shot put with a mark OF Al feet 05t
inches