South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-17
WALSH PLACES IN
44O TRIAL EVENT
AT CHICAGO MEET
NOtre Dame Stars Regarded
as Dark Horses of COllegi-
ate Meet Today.

stage BTIUD. Chicago. JUne,16.
With more than 900 athletets the
cream Of Americas college athletic
world entered. the natiOlal collegL-
ate track field meet Will be held on
Stagg field here tomorrow, with indi-
cations favorlng a shattering OF rec
ory5s.
The crack California team, which
won the eastern intercollegiate meet,
and Illinois. the winner Of the west
ern conference championship. are
regarded as davorites. while We
braska, winner OF the Missouri Val
ey conference title. Penn state, No
tire Dame. Iowa, Wisconsin and Min
nesota are expected to be dangerous
contenders for second honors. There
will be So universities and colleges
represented.
Walsh Land Third
A special one-mile match between
Joie Ray Of the Illinois Athletic
club. and Ray Watson. formerly Of
the Kansas Agg1es. win be staged to-
morrow as an added attraction.
Trial heats were run off in the
4G0-yard run and half-nile events
this afternoon 20 reduce the field for
the finals tomorrow.
Cochran, a rangy performer from
the Mississippi A and NJ. made the
fastest time il tho 40, breaking the
tape En- so As. Walsh Of Notre
Dame was third In the second hea:
Of the 40.
Larry Brown OF Pennsylvania win
ner Of the half-mIie IN the eastern
intercollegiate meet, in 1856 2-5, won
his qualifying heat in this event in
200 TO. Capt. Yates. Illinois. beat
out Helfrich OF Penn state in the
first heat
y. ID. Dark Horse.
Notre Dame. regarded as the
dark horse" Of the meet, viii make a
Hayes, the speed merchant who hung
Hayes. thespeed merchant who hung
up a Big Ten record this year.
Hayes IS also a. strong entry in the
furlong. Gus Desch, another Notre
Dame star. holds the championship
on the 220-yard hurdles and Is IA
vored 20 repeat.
Jack Merchant the effulgent
weight man Of the California team,
IA regarded as s. sure winner Of the
tionaI collegiate record. Merchant
tossed the hammer III feet inches
IN the meet at Harvard. shattering
tho eastern record, formerly held BY
Bailey. OF Maine.
Merchants mark In the hammer Is
far and away better than any per-
Torrance In the Middle West this
year. Sam. Hill. OF illinois. who won
the championship of the Big Ten at
Iowa City this year, took the event
with a toss OF 1877 fet Captain
Charlie Redmon, Of the Maroon
team who won the event in the ma
tional meet on Stagg Field last year,
has failed 20 show his usual form
and was unable TO place in the Big
Ten meet this year.
Merchant also is expected to
prove formidable entry in the shot
put. as he - able 20 shove the 16-
pound pellet more than As feet con-
sistently. Only one college weight
man has been able to show better
form in the shot put than Merchant.
and he is another "rative som
Hartranft, Of Stanford. Hartranft.
winner of the event at the Harvard
meet with a heave of IS feet
inches. is not entered in the meet to-
day, a fact which viii work to great
advantage TO the lads from Eerkley
Iowa State College is expected TO
score heavily through the services Of
TWO great runners-Lloyd Rathbun
and Arthur VOTERS. Wolters is
crack performer in both the quarter
q d the half and captured both Of
these events in the Iowa City meet.
Rathbun's mark Of 9.27 in the two
mile looks 10 be a little the best OF a
classy field. which includes wharton.
The great distance iran from Iu,n-
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