Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-05-24
TRACK TEAMS FROM
FAR WEST ENTERED
IN HARVARD MEET.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
TO TRY FOR FIRST PLACE IN
EVENTS TO BE HELD MAY &c
AND 27.

San Francisco, May 2%.-From the
far west two college track teams, rep.
resentng Stanford university and the
University Of California are going TO
the national championship meet of
the intercollegiate association q Am
ateur Athletes Of America at Harvard
university May % and q to fight for
first place and also TO run off the tie
in which their 1922 big meet at Der
kelley resulted
Stanford men think that the sever
al stars on their team will bring
enough first place points at Harvard
10 win the meet, while California sup
porters believe their we'll balanced
tenn win repeat its performance Of
last year when IL won the Harvard
meet and the national title In the
big meet here Stanford took ten
first places but the large number OF
California second and third place
points tied the contest.
Hartranft a Star.
One star Of the Harvard meet this
year probably will be Glenn lIartrauft
OF Stanford, WHO this year has put
the shot 80 feet and SOS Of an inch,
run the 100 yard dash in 10 Is sec
unds and hurled the discus l47 feet
He is expected to win the shot and
discus
Another Stanford star may be Nor.
Tis Kirksey, who last year wen the
10 Ia
100 yard dash Last year when Kirk
sey was in good shape he ran sec
ond only to Paddock, world champ
Jon Splinter
This spring his legs have been both
erinE him. Helping Krksey will be
Eddie Sudden, another Splinter, who
won the two dash events in the meet
against California.
Williamson, Cardinal quarter mil.
or, who defeated OXy HENDERSON,
CalifC? mia national champion hopes
10 bring back the title in that event
His best time this year is 30 3-5 see
Cuds.
In the javelin throw Stanford will
be represented by Captain Flint Han
ner, who has hurled the spear poo
feet in practice but whose mark Of
1877 feet inch is the Pacific ass0cia-
ton record
Lane Falk, a point winner in the
Harvard meet last year, will run the
hurdles for Stanford
California Strong.
On the California team will be
several men who won the national
intercollegiate titles in their events
at Harvard last year
Leading the team will be Captain
Bob Hutchinson Splinter, who does
the 100 in 10 fat and the 220 in u 80,
Hendrixson, the national quarter mile
champion for two years; Dick Den
ton and Charles Dorr, distance men;
Red Norris Joint holder Of the pole
vault championship, who has vault
cd II feet and . inches this year;
Brick Miller Joint holder of the high
jump title and Olympic team mem
Der; Jack Merchant, versatile star.
who throws the hammer III feet Az
inches. broad jumps % feet 10 inches,
puts the shot A feet inches, throws
the jayelin 1865 feet and the discus
1876 feet. In 1920 Merchant was the
national Intercollegiate champion in
the hammer throw.
In all. California expects to send
fifteen men, the largest team ever
sent from the west to the national
meet. On the California team only
ore point winner at Harvard last
year will be missing He is Sprott,
half miller. Stanford is sending ten
men having left the coast on May
10
Walter Christie a veteran coach,
is director of the California team,
while Dink Templeton, former Cardi-
nal star, is coach Of the Stanford
team.