Arizona republican., 1922-05-27
FIFTEEN CALIFORNIA STARS
QUALIFY IN INTERCOLLEGIATE
ATHLETIC GAMES At HARVARD
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CAMBRIDGE. Mass. May &c. -
sun Drowned athletes from the Pac-
ific coast gained a formidable lead
in the preliminaries of the intercol-
legiate championship games today
when the University of California
team, winners Of the 1921 meet,
qualified 10 stars for the semi finals
and finals tomorrow. Their greatest
rivals, the Stanford university com-
bination, finished in fourth place with
10 survivors. the two far western
| institutions thus accounting for %
| of the los places left after the
wedding out process.
| Sandwiched in between California
and Stanford were Cornell, many
+! times winner of the intercollegiate
championship, and Princeton. select
ed by many experts as a probable
victor this year. The Ithaca athletes
under the coaching of Jack Moakley,
finished second in today's prelimi-
naries with 13 qualifiers and Prince
ton was third with IL. Following
Stanford came PENNSYLVANIA, Har-
ward. Yale and Penn States, in the
order named, with s, z, 6 and sur
yivors respectively. A dozen other
| colleges also qualified representa-
| tives
| The outstanding star of the after
! moons competition was j. w. Mer-
| chant. a senior of California and a
| member of the American Olympic
| team of two years ago. The Califor-
! MIA Hercules not only established a
/ new intercollegiate record of III feet,
| 2 inches, in the 16-pound hammer
I throw to lead the field of qualifiers,
! but also fought his way into the
! finals of three other events. These
We're the shot pvt, javelin throw and
running broad jump.
On the strength Of the Californian s
performance this afternoon experts
| predict tonight that he might also
| break the collegiate record of 17G
feet 6 inches made by Lee Talbot
Penn state, in 1910, in case he should
be hard pushed in the finals tomor-
row.
One record was equalled when ]
A Leconey of Lafayette easily wor
his heat in the 100-yard sprint il
9 $40 seconds, thus placing himself
in the select 3 4-5-second class CON
sisting of Wefers, Craig and Patter-
son. With the timers using the new
tenth second watches it is quite pos
sible that Leconey will better today:
time and the record in case of hare
fight for place tomorrow.
OF the Is events contested this af-
ternoon California placed one or more
men in 10. failing only in the 100
yard, the SS0-yard and the 220-yarc
low hurdles. Stanford was some
| what of a disappointment TO her sup
| porters, but the Palo Alto combina'
ton ran into some hard luck and los
places in several events in which the.
were thought sure to advance.
Williams was shut out in the 440
yard run by the narrowest margin
and Falk pulled a tendon in the 220
, yard hurdles Muller of California
the famous Brick of football fame
also suffered streak of hard luck
: falling TO qualify in the broad juml
by a scant inch after competing ant
winning places in other events.
J Cornell showed strongest among th
J Eastern contenders and was consid
l / cred still in the running. The Moak
ley Coached athletes placed in min
3 of the 13 events being weakest in tn
: field contests
81 Qualifying colleges With number 0
t entrants for finals Saturday are:
California. Is: Cornell. 13; Prince
: ton, II = Stanford 10; University 0
J, | Pennsylvania, s.: Harvard, e Yale, 6
: Penn State. s.; Dartmouth. 5; Colgate
4 Columbia, Georgetown. Syracuse.
E each: Boston. Lafayette Rutger:
: in, Brown and New York University
i in. Brown AMI New York University
/ each.