Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-01

scored by Penn. The victory came by
the narrowest of margins, one and one
half points, and was not decided until
the last event on the program. when
Maxam flashed home second in the fur
long. In the meet Earl Thomson, the
Dartmouth timber topper, broke the
record for the 0-yard high hurdle by
skimmng over the sticks in ID 20
seconds.
Lever and SmalIey
Two Penn athletes turned in new
records in the annual indoor track meet
in Buffalo. Harold Lever, the New
York youth, wearing the Red and Blue,
broke the worlds indoor record for
sixty yards by covering the distance in
2-5 seconds. Everett Smalley, the
former Central High School boy, in the
same meet, established a new indoor
record for juniors in the seventy yard
hurdle race.
Cornell captured the college cross
country championship at New Haven
over the best college teams in the East
Penn finished away down the list. al
though several members of the Red and
Blue team did we'll individually. New :
ark Central High School captured the
intcrscholastic championship. West
Philadelphia High and Central High
finished we'll up in the final race. Fred
Faller. the Boston long distance star,
won the National A. A. U. cross
country championship after grueling
race. Lafayette was the winner in the
Middle States collegiate race. Romig,
of Penn State, surprised the college
world by winning the individual college
championship at New Haven.
In the international track and field
meet between athletes of Princeton rep
rcscnting this country and Of Oxford
and Cambridge wearing the colors Of
Great Britain. the Yanks triumphed.
50 90 81. OF the ten first places in
the meet, the Tiger athletes captured
six. This meet attracted considerable
attention because of its being held
shortly before the Olympic champion
ships and indicated at that time that
the United States had little to fear
over the final result at Antwerp.
Seven Records Fell
Seven national records fell by this
waysidc during the course of the year.
Aside from Levers establishing Of the
co yard record the 5000 meter run,
20 yard high hurdle. 1-milc indoor re-
lay, 44O-yard hurdles, Javclin throw
and the 5000 meter walk records were
clipped.
On February 10. in the Millrosc
games, Thomson, Of Dartmouth, broke
the 1O-yard indoor record in s 15 sec
onds. a short time later Carl Johnson
pushed Thomson's mark in the discard
out in the West when he covered the
timbers Is of n second better than
Thomson. Also in the Milrosc games
J. V. SChOlz, n wcsterncr, tied the
10 yard record at Is seconds. Pad
.lnpk p,tt fbn tinI thn Nynpll Z
record for 100 yards in 035 seconds.
Other track incidents that stand out
include the defeat of Cornell by Penn
on Franklin Field in a dual meet 20
to Al. 1t was the first Red and Blue
victory over the Ithacans in many
years. Rutgers won the Middle States
track and field championships by one
half point from Lafayette. Illinois won
the Western Conference track and field
championships with Michigan second.
On June 26, in the Olympic tryOuts
held in this city. Chicago, New Orleans
and Pasadena, some exceptional per
fornances we're recorded and made ap-
parent Americas victory at Antwerp.
On July 4 Brutus Hamilton. of the
University of Missouri, won the ma .
tional pcntathlon championship at
Brooklyn. defeating Bradley, the Penn
relay winner, pS u marrow lhurEln. ,olA
days later this same Hamilton, in win
ming the national decathlon champion
ship, established a new record.
In the final tryOuts for the Olympic
team in the Harvard Stadium at Cam
bridge. which was also the ddy Of the
national a. A. L. championships, the
Chicago Athletic Association won the
national championships. In tn IS meet
Sol Butler, of Dubuque University, cs-
tabishcd new American record in tho
running broad jump when he lcaped -
feet s inches.
On September % Lincoln. in New
York. established a new American jave-
lin record.
In the closing days of December, on
the Both, Cornell champions of the col
lcgcs lost a close and exciting cross
country race with the combined Oxford
! Cambridge team of barriers, 2G to 20.