Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-29
Two Worlds
Records Tumble
at Stagg Field
Bud Houser Breaks Shot.
Put Mark aud Dowding
Be,ters Broad Jump
Record.
NJ The Associated rsvss.

Chicago. May 2s.-Two worlds
in,ersebolasiic records fell in the
national track and field meet for high
schools and academies at the Uni
versi,y OF Chicago Saturday in which
Cedar Rapids, Ia. carried off high
honors with - points in the high
school section, and Shaltuek school
of Faribaul,. MIMI, ran away with
IS points for first place in the
academies division. The meet at
,raeted more than 1000 youthful
athletes from IA schools in Is
states.
Clarence (Bud) llouser. a deeply
tanned youth from OXnard. Cal,
broke the l2-pound shot put record
with a heave OF So feet: won the dis
Gus. captured third place IN the ham
mer and fourth IN the jayelin and,
single handed. placed his school Sec
ond with II points. Houser shat
tered a record which had stood for
10 years. bettering the mark OF Arlie
NJ. Mucks OF Oshkosh, Wis, by
three inches.
Sets New Record.
The second new intcrscholastic
record was established by William
Dowding of St. John Military acad-
emy, Delafeld. Wis, when he leapcd
% feet, 8 l-2 inches in the running
broad jump. The former record OF
23 feet, 7 IA inches, was made by
p. G. Stiles in 1912.
Dowding. beside his record-break-
ing broad jump, won second in both
tRe 100 and 220-yard dashes. con-
tributing Is points TO his schools
total OF "a IL, putting his team
mates in third place. Culver Mill
,ary academy OF Culver, Ind. barely
won second place from ST. John
with SO l-2 points. ,,
Joe Dicenzo, from Toluca Qll.),
High school, sprinted the century in
10 seconds flat, winning by inches
from Hershel Smith OF San Fernan-
do. Cal, who. later nosed out the
Illinois lad in the 220-yard event. Di-
cenzo has been credited with running
the l00-yord event in :O9 As.
Nebraskan Second.
Willie Kerr, captain OF the Hunting
ton Beach, (Cal), team, put up the
best performance in the high school
880-yard events, when he won the
first OF the two races in 2:02 SIS. lie
started in tenth position, workedhis
way to the lead in the last half lap
and broke the tape 10 yards ahead
OF Franck of Tobias, Neb. Congdon
of Manual Training High, Kansas
City, Mo-, captured the other high
school $50 in 2:O3 is and Richard
son, the Culver half-miler, won the
Academy race in 2:Ol.
The low hurdles high school races
went to Marks of Wabash, Ind, in
rs is, three-fifths Of second faster
than the time of Naegeli of Pillsbury,
in the same event for academies.
Both won by about three yards.
Franck Wins Place.
Thirty-one starters faced the bar
rier in the mile run for high schools.
Cox of Rochester, N. Y, breaking
the tape in 4:35 after a Furnishing
race. Kerr, the California lad, who
won the $50, found the pace too stiff
for him and he quit in the stretch.
Franck, the Nebraska boy, who got
second in the half, also won second
in the mile.
Another Californian, Edward
Shaw of Monrovia, won the first
quarter-mile high school race in
81 3-5, the fastest quarter of the
meet.
The famous relay team of Wash
ington High school Of Cedar Rap
ids, again won the relay this year,
beating out three Chicago teams in
2:3l. The distance was three-quar-
tiers of mile. -