Evening star., 1922-05-28

10 lHeSe games Wltn toss OF li0
feet x inch. G. L. Bronder of the
University of Pennsylvania also set
! high figure in the javelin throw, the
second a<Ied event, with a fling of
1s5 feet SIS inches.
lie Coney Sets Century Mark.
lie Coney of Lafayette clipped a
tenth of second from the 1OO-yard
dash time of 9 As seconds, held jointly
| by Wefers, Craig and Patterson. Roy
Brown of Dartmouth completed the
record brea king by a leap of feet
As inches in the high jump, displac-
| ing the former record of feet 4 x
inches. made by Wesley Oler of Yale
in 1915.
Merchant, in addition to his record
| breaking throw in the hammer, stood
out IS the chief individual point win
ner of the meet and an invaluable
member of the California team. The
sun-tannel young giant accumulated
total of 13 points, with first place
in the hammer. second in the shot.
fourth in thei javelin and fourth in
the running broad jump. Glenn Hart
ranft, the Stanford Hercules, and lie
Coney ranked next as individual
scorers, with 10 points each. Hart
ranft won both the discus and shot
and LIE Coney the 100 and 220 yard
. dashes. Brick" Muller garnered 6ie
points for California, with a second
in the discus and tie for second in
the high jump. Robert lie Gendre OF
Georgetown was another high scorer.
with points, winning the discus and
taking fifth in the broad jump.
Victory of Bears Acclaimed.
b, The s>.ond victory in two years
| by the \'den Bears was greeted
with loud acclaim by a loyal cheering
| section of Csliforniaus. which. u not
large. r,2eered in real collegiate fash
ion. and by majority OF the $4,000
This applause was echoed when ii
was learned that California, as a dou-
BILE winner, undoubtedly would return
in 1928 to defend her honors won
against the eastern intercollegiate
| coach and trainer for the visitors,
said that the Bears would almost GER
tafnly come across the continent
again next May. While the team
would lose several of its star per-
formers. including Merchant. other
high-class track and field men were
in the making at Berkeley. he said.
to make California a factor another
year. Christie added that his team
scored two more points today than
| that six points were lost in events
| counted upon to swell the Gold and
! Blue total.
Weather conditions were not ideal
| for competition. and as result of
violent eNertion in the chilling wind
| both Princeton and Syracuse lost sure
point winners when C. r. McKim of
| the former university pulled a tendon
| in the second semi-final of the 220-
yard dash, and Allen Woodring. SYRIA
| cuSe sprnting star, suffered like
! injury in the final of the hundred.
/ Neither accident had any vital bear
ing on the result. although the loss
! of McKim cut down the Tigers to-
! ~.
struggle to lack the closeness of
| California's' 1921 victory, when the
westerners won with 2Ii2 points to
| Harvard's 81.
In the discus and javelin. the new
| events. California scored twelve of
| the thirty points. max ing their actual
performance virtually the same this
year as last.
Bears I'm Nearly All Events.
! In winning California placed one or
| more men in nine of the fifteen events.
/ The only events in which the Bears
Were not represented when the final
points were counted were runs-the
100 and 22o yard dashes, the half mile
and the mile, and the 120 and 22o
yards hurdles.
Princeton. which holds the honor
| of having won the first meet of the
| l. c. A. A A A, held in 1876. in plac-
| ing second today. scored points in
| eight of the fifteen contests. With
McKim out of the 220-yard dash, the
! Tigers also failed to score in the
mile shot two mile. high jump. jave-
lin and discus Stanford placed in
\ both dashes. javelin, 220-yard hur-
dies, shot discus and pole vault
| In the swiftly changing competition
| of the afternoon all but one of tie
| title holders of last year went down
/ to defeat before the greater speed
stamina or skill of younger rivals.
| Jimmy Connolly of Georgetown was
run off his feet in the mile and forced
! to drop out before the finish: Kirk
sey of Stanford was forced to take
! Leconeys dust in the hundred; Wood
ring of Syracuse was unable to re-
| peat in the 220 on account of a pulled
tendon; Hendrixson, 1921 champion in
the quarter, was third today to Jake
| Driscoll of Boston College; r. E.
! Brown of Cornell, in the two-mile.
was unplaced, where a year ago he
/ was the winner.
Brick Muller, California, joint
holder of the high jump championship
last season with L.andon of Yale. fin
! ished in tie for second with three
other jumpers.
4 A. G.. Norris of California, who last
year finished in a three-man tie for
first place in the pole vault, was the
only champion to figure in top place
again. winning the vaulting event
with a clear vault of u feet 9 inches.
which was three inches higher than
his nearest competitor