The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17
MICHIGAN TRACK MENCOPNATIONAL. MEET AT CHICAGO.
Mississippi A. & M. Men Star Among The Dixie
 Entrants

CHICAGO, June 16.--tBy Associated Press.)-Seventeen men from the Uni versity of Michigan nailed the leaders flag to theirN mas sthead today by scooping the championship track and field games of the National Collegiate Athletic associa- tion from fighting array of picked men from 62 institutions. representing every section of America.
 The Wolverine stars. with 31 points, far outdistanced the field often leaving dust in the eyes of competitors with teams twice her size pitted against her. Leland Stanford with another band of IF athletes. followed Michigan in the scram- bie for points with 14R, taking second position by slim margin of half point
 The University of Iowa and Johns Hopkins tied for third place with 14 mark with 13la. The University of Illinois and Mississippi A. & M... tied for sixes with 1S each. and the University of Cali fornia was number eight with 12 Nine and ten. eleventh and twelfth were Chi cago. Kansas State Agricultural college, college, with II 1-10, S12, and s in points.
 A new world record, and six new marks for the \. C. A. A. games was the total for the meet Walter Brook ms star hurdler of the University of Iowa, set a new world record of 239 seconds for the -220-yard low hurdles around one turn, bettering by three tenths of q second his own old world mark of PAP seconds. Within half hour, the brilliant Hawkeye clipped another three-tenths from the best time, negotiating the finals in 23.6 seconds, but the mark will not be recognized because one of the bar riers was upset.
 The national collegiate games rec ords which fell were in the broad jump, pole vault hammer throw. shot put and half-mile run. and 220 low hurdles. One of the surprises of the meet was the showing made by Johns Hopkins university, which tied with Iowa for third place. l.. Clarke, indi vidual point winner of the competi- tion, who tied the N. C. A. A. record in the 100yard dash, running it in 9.9 seconds, was largely. responsible for the showing of the Baltimore squad.
 Mississippi Stars Show.
 The 440-yard run was a thrilling race, with the finish so close that some difficulty Wa. experienced by the judges in determining the stand ings. Cochran of Mississippi A. x M. won. He was far In front of the field for most of the turn. but his start was most too fast and in the last quarter he was hard pressed by Smith, of, Kalamazoo State Normal.
 Notre Dame got five of her seven and one-tenth points through the brilliant work of Lieb in the discus event, His throw of 143 feet inches was close to ten feet better than the best performance of the season in the other three big meets. He holds the games record at IA feet 22 inches made in 1922.
 Gatchell of Mississippi A. & NJ. outdistanced the winner of the West ern conference event in his fight for second place.
 Enck of Penn State was the pace maker for the mile run, which he won by some three yards. Robbins, of Wabash, and Brandes of Hamilton college, were surprises in second and third place, respectively, out of field of more than score of start CTS, including the pick of the Big Ten and Missouri Valley schools. Poor of Kansas, belied his name but continued true to form by winning the high jump at six feet one men. His Missouri Valley record of SIX feet four inches. made at Ames this year. made him favorite in the event. His height was two inches peter than that of the five men tied for second.
 Riley, Kansas Aggies, Leistner CT Stanford, and Taylor of GrinneIl. were closely punched in the l2O-yard high hurdles. Riley's time Is only eieht-tenths of a second from the worlds record established by Ear Thomson. of Dartmouth In the east ern meet In 1920.
 Taylor won long applause in the tho first heat of the 220 low hurdles when he finished hard on the heels of Walter Brookins in the latter world record execution.