Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-05-27
IS
LEADER IN 4eTH
INTERCOLLEGIATE
TRACK CONTEST
Western School Qualities
Most Men Among Thirty
Colleges in Yearly Battle
at Harvard Stadium.
CORNELL GETS SECOND;
PRINCETON IS THIRD
LeC0ney Of Lafayette Ties
100 Yard College Record
With Time of 9 AS Sec
ondS in Trial Heat.
nv Tho Assnciated Prss.A

Cambridge, Mass, May 26-Sun-
Drowned athletes from the Pacific
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 fifteen stars for the semi
finals and finals tomorrow. Their
greatest rival, the Stanford unlver-
sity combination, finished in fourth
place with ten survivors, the two
far western institutions thus ac-
counting for 20 of the los places
left after the wedding out process.
Sandwiched in between California
and Stanford We're Cornell. many
times winner Of the intercollegiate
championship. and Princeton, Sc
iected by many experts as prob
able victor this year. The Ithaca
athletes under the coaching of
Moakley, finished second in 20
days preliminaries with 13 quail
ifiers and Princeton was third with
eleven. Following Stanford came
Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale and
Penn State, in the order named,
with eight, seven. six and six sur
vivors respectively. A dozen other
colleges also qualified representa-
tiyes.
The outstanding star of the az
ternoon's competition was J. W.
Merchant, a senior of California
and a member of the American
Olympic team OF two years ago.
Tho California hercules not only
established record OF III feet.
. inches in the 16 pound hammer
throw TO lead the field OF quail
ifiers, but also fought his way iM
the finals of three other eyenA
These were the shot put. javelfn
throw and running broad jump
Merchants hammer throw broke
the former record made by TT. +.
Bailey, Of the University of Maine.
who did 1856 feet "a inches at the
intercollegiate games in PhiladeI-
phia in 1915,
On the strength of the Calf
fornians performance this after
noon, experts predict tonight that
he might also break the collegiate
record Of 175 feet 10 inches made
by K Shattnck of California at
Berkeley in 1918 In case he should
be hard pushed in the finals to-
morrow.
One record was equalled whcn
j. A. Leconey of Lafayette, easily
won his heat IN the 100 yard sprint
in . $40 seconds, thus placing
himself in the select AS second
class consisting Of Wefers, Craig
and Patterson. With the timers u.s.
ing the new tentn seconN watches
1t Is quite possible that Leconcy
will better today's time and the
record in case of hard fight for
place tomorrow.
or the Is events contested this
afternoon, California placed one
or more men in ten, failing otflv
in the 100 yards, the $50 Yards
and the 220 yard low hurdles.
Stanford was somewhat of a dis
appointment to her supporters,
but the Palo Alto combination ran
into some hard luck and lost plaoe
in severa, events in which they
were thought sure to advance.
Williamson was shut out in the
d40 yard run by the narrowest
margin and Falk pulled tendon
in the 220 yard hurdles. Muller OF
California, the famous "brick" OF
football fame. also suffered "
qualify in the broad jump by II
scant inch after competing and
winning places in other events.
Cornell showed strongest among
the eastern coptenders and was
considered still in the running. Tho
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