Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-16
COLLEGETRACK
STARS IN BIG
NATIONALM MEET
California and Illinois Teams
Expected to Put Up Battle
for First HOnOrs.
PRELIMINARIES TODAY

CHICAGO, June 16.-AthIetes who will
compete in the annual intercollegiate
track and field championships at Stage
Field we're to get their first workouts
late today when preliminary races in the
40 yard dash and the hair mile were TO
be run. A meeting was to BE held TINS
afternoon to decide if preliminary races
are necessary in other events. II they
are needed these heats will be run early
tomorrow.
In order to speed up the meet minimum
distances have been established in field
events as follows:
Shotput, IS feet; discus, us feet; Jave-
lin, 80 feet and running broad jump,
20 feet.
Pole vault competition will start at ten
feet and the high jump at i've feet.
Scores Of the athletes who will com
pete worked out on Stagg field Thursday
and impressive performances were re
corded, indicating fast time in many
events tomorrow.
Track stars from all sections of the
country, including several Olympic ana
national champions, will compete IN the
annual meet.
The University of Illinois and the Uni
ye-sity OF California, represented by two
OF the greatest track squads ever de-
Yeloped IL this country, are taYorites in
the meet.
The prowess Of the Illinois entries was
evidenced by the decisive manner in which
they won the championship of the W est
C4.y some weeks ago.
CALIFORNIA BEST
IN WEIGHT EVENTS.
California, winner of the Eastern In
tercOllegiatC at Harvard, has an outfit Of
bTOLzeu giants VINO are expected to score
heaviest III the weight events. Lack of
sprlnterS Of sufficient class to cope with
the crack performers entered in the big
classic Is a weakness which may cost the
Bears the national title,
Jack Merchant tie effulgent weight
man OF the California team, Is regarded
as a sure winner OF the hammer throw
as he holds the national collegiate record.
Merchant also is expected TO prove
Formidable entry in the shot put, as he
IS able 10 shove the sixteen pound pellet
more than forty-hve feet consistently.
Milton Angler, Illinois star who holds
the national record IN the Jayealn throw.
looks a sure point winner. although he
viii face some hard opposition from Hon
man of Michigan, and BrUnder OF Penn.
Norris, the great pOIe-Vauiter o. the
California team, looks 10 be the best Of
a large field Of entries. Norris won the
Eastern classic with g mark Of twelve
feet nine inches which is d better
record than that Of any performer on the
Big Ten circuit this year.
LEGESDRE FAYORITE
IN BROAD JUMP.
IN the running broad jump Bob lie
gendre OF q sOrEetOWu rules "a strong
fayorite. Legeudre, who set n mark of
twenty-three feet seven and one-eighth
inches in the Harvard meet. should not
have much trouble in winning from
Harold Osborne, the great aN-rOund star
Of the Illinois team
Osborne. national champion in the
high jump. is also slated 10 encounter
trouble in defending his title against
the fast coming Murphy Of Notre Dame
Murphy tied Osborne il the Big Ten
meet at Iowa City. both Of the stars
clearing the bar at six feet five and one
half inches.
Iowa state College IS expected to score
heavily through the services Of Two great
runncrs-LIoyd Ratnbun and Arthur
Walters. VOTERS is a crack performer
in both the quarter and the half ana
captured both of these events in the
Iowa City meet. Rath5un's mark of
927 in the tWo-mile looks 10 be a little
the best of a classy field, which includes
Wharton, the great distance man from
Illinois.
Notre Dame. regarded as the dark
horse" Of the meet. viii make strong
bid for the dashes with BIZ Hayes. the
speed merchant who hung M new Big
Ten record this year. Hayes IS also d
strong entry in the furlong. Gus pesch,
another Notre Dame star holds the cham
pionship on the 20-yard hurdles and Is
favored to repeat