Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-28
CALIFORNIA TEAM
winner ON TRACK
Western Athletes Distance Ri.
walls in National Intercol-
legiate Meet.
SCORE 40 10 POINTS.
Princeton Is Second, Stanford
Third and Cornell Is
Fourth.
[By AssocIa tie d Press.l

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. May Pr
Athletic honors winged westward
across the continent today when the
University OF California team again
won the forty-sfxth annual track and
field championship games OF the In
'ercollegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America, with score of
4oI-2 points. Competing In the Har-
ward Stadium against thirty colleges.
Including their greatest rival. stan
| ford University, the welI-baIanced
combination from Berkeley rolled up
total nine and one-half points
larger than that scored by Princeton
In second place. and fourteen more
than Stanford. which Finished third
Cornell. nine times winner of the
titular games, WAS fourth. with
= lI2 points. and the University, of
Pennsylvania, also a nine-time victor
was fifth. with u6 points. Follow
Ing the Quakera came Harvard; with
~; Penn State. IL; Lafayette. 10;
Yale, SIP; Columbia s; Dartmouth.
Itl-g, and nine other colleges with
scattering total.
The caliber of tho competition in;
which California won the champion
ship honors for the second consecu-
tive season IL indicated by the fact
that three intercollegiate records
"
lished In new events.
In yesterdays preliminaries j. w.
Merchant. of California, sent out the
sixtecn-pound hammer III feet 2
inches. adding feet Ia inches 10
the previous record heave OF II. =.
Bailey, of University OF Maine. in
1915. This afternoon G.. Hartranft.
the Stanford giant, won the discus
event, newsto these games. with a.
toss Of 40 feet LIS inch. c.. f..
Bronder. of the University. of Penn
syivania,S also set high figure in
the tayelin throw. the second added
event, with fling OF 1s5 feet S6-s
Inches
a tenth of a second from the 90
yard dRshttime OF 94-5 seconds, held
Jointly by Wefers, Craig and Pat
terson. Roy Brown, of Dartmouth,
completed the record breaking, by a
leap of s feet SIS Inches In the
high Jump. displacing the former.
record OF feet 41-2 inches. made
by Wesley oler. of Yale. In 1915.
Merchant, inEadditIon to his record-
breaking throw In the hammer. stood
as the chief individual point winner
Of the. meet and AN Invaluable mem
ber5 ofsthes California team. The sun
tanned young giant accumulated II
total. of 13 points. with first place in
the hammer. second In the shot,
fourth in the javeiin and; fourth in
the running broad jump. Glenn Hart
ranft. the Stanford hercules, and ].
a. Laconey. the Lafayette flash.
ranked next as individual scorers
with ten points each. Hartranft won
both the discus and shot, and I.e-
foney the 100 and a20-yard dashes.
Brick" Muller garnered 61-2 points
for California with second in the
discus. and a2tie for second in the
high jump. Robert LeGendre, OF
Georgetown. was. another high scor-
err with s points, winning the broad
jump and taking fourth in the dis
cus 10y.
Weather conditions were not ideal
for competition, and. as result OF
yiolent2exertion in the chilling wind,
both Princeton and Syracuse lost
sure point winners when C. r.. Nc
kim. of the former University, pull
ed a tendon in8the second semi-finaI
of the 220-yard dash. and Allen
Woodring. Syracuse sprinting star,
suffered. A Ike injury in the final of
the hundred.
NJ. l.. Shields, OF Penn State. won
the mile-run in minutes 1910
seconds. NJ. Dougras. Yale, second.
With a heaveSof As feet 61-8 inchesf
G.. H8rtrant, of Stanford took the
shot put from j. w. Merchant, of
California. j,i4 fs5
j. ,Driseoll. Boston College, won the
440-yard dash in 40 $40 seconds. w.
r. Stevenson, Princeton, was. second.
G. II, Hauers. of Harvard. won the
l2Q-yard high hurdles In Is $40 sec
onds. HI. D. Thompson, Princeton,
+ Continued on Fourth PaEe.) 80