The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
California Athletes
 Win Intercollegiate
 at Haruard Euents
By Associated Press

Cambridge, Mass. May 27.-Athletic honors winged westward across the continent today, when the University of California team again won the Forty sixth annual track and field championship games of the intercol- legiate assoefation of amateur ath- letes of America. with score of 4Oia points. Competing in the liar ward stadium against 30 colleges, in- cluding their greatest rival, Stan ford university. the well-balanced combination from Berkeley rolled up total of 9ls points larger than that scored by Princeton, in second place. and IA more than Stanford, which finished third.
 Cornell, nine times winner of the titular games, was fourth with 21 # points, and the University of Pennsyl- vania, also nlne-time victor. was fifth with 16 points. Following the Quakers came Harvard, with 14 Pennsylvania State. Il; Lafayette. 10; Yale, SiE Columbia, $; Dartmouth, 7ia and nine other colleges with scattering totals.
 The caliber of the competition in which California won the champion ship honors for the second consecu-
 
 that three intercollegiate records were broken and two others estab- lished in new events.
 Breaks Hammer Throw Record
 In yesterdays preliminaries, J. w. Merchant of California sent out the 16-pound hammer IT feet 2 inches, adding six feet 1A inches to the previous record heave of H. P. Bailey of University of Maine, in 1915. This afternoon G. Hartranft, the Stanford giant, won the discus event, new to these games, with toss of 140 feet h inch. c. F. Bronder of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, also made a high figure in the javeline throw. the second added event, with a fling of 1S5 feet S5s inches,
 J. E. Lecmey of Lafayette clipped tenth of second from the 100- yard dash time of g 4-5 seconds held jointly by Wefers, Craig and Patter- son. Roy Brown of Dartmouth com- pleted the record d-breaking by leap of feet As inches in the high jump, displacng he former record of 6 feet Az inches made by Wesley Oler of Yale, in 1915.
 Merchant a Star
 Merchant, in addition to his record breaking throw in the hammer, stood out as the chief individual point winner of the meet and an invaluab @ member of the California team. The sun-tanned young giant accumulated total of 13 points. with first place in the hammer second In the shot, fourth in the javeline and fourth in the running broad jump. Glenn Hart rantf, the Stanford Hercules. and j. A. Leconey the Lafayette flash, rank ed next as individual scorers, with 10 points each. Hartranft won both the rscus and Leconey the 100 and 220 yard dashcs. Brick" Muller gar nered 6ia points for California with a second in the discus and tie for second in the high jump. Robert Leg endre of Georgetown was another | high scorer. with 6 points, winning the discus and taking fourth in the broad jump.
 Weather conditions were not idea ' for competition and as a result ol | violent exertion in the chilling wind both Princeton and Syracuse lost sure point winners when (. R. McKim oi -the former university pulled tendor in the second emi-final of the 22l I yard dash and Allen Woodring, Syra- cuse, sprinting star, suffered a like injury in the final of the 100