The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
Golden Bears Outscore
Best The East Has To
OfferInN ationalMeet
Brick Muller Captains Far
Western Outfit That Repeats
And Wins |. C. A. A. A. A.
Title Aqain

westerners, carrying the blue and
gold colors of the University of Cali
forna, today swept aside the best
: that the east could offer and cap
tured for the third successive year
the intercollegiate track and field
championship at the forty seventh
annual l. C. A. A. A. A. meet on
Franklin field.
The husky squad of 10 Golden.
Bears. captained by Brick Muller,
all-American football star, scored
3913 points, less than their winning
total of last year, but enough to win
deeisively over Princeton. which fin
ished second with 33 points.
Yale, which with Princeton shared
the hopes of the east. failed to come
up to the expectations in the decid-
ing events. and despite the large
number it qualified. the Blue collect
ed but % points. winning third place
by half point from Pennsylvania.
Cornell, by virtue of two sensa-
tional victories, one by Kirby in the
mile and the other by Love in the
22o-yard dash. landed fifth place.
Penn State and Syracuse tied for
sixth place with 10 points each.
Johns Hopkins finished eighth with
- and Dartmouth ninth with ~
points.
Ideal track and field conditions
prevailed for the finals of the two
day meet. but although sensational
performances threatened records in
several of the events no new marks
were established.
Fridays Records stand.
Two intercollegiate championship
records were set in the trials yes
terday, the javelin throw of l99 rect
hammer throw of Isl feet SIX inches
by Tootell of Bowdoin. Both stood
for first places in the finals today.
Thirty colleges. represented by
close to 900 athletes, competed for
the college track and field crown,
but due to elimnations yesterday
only "a were represented today and
of these but 10 placed men in the
finals.
performers scored enough points
alone for the Golden Bears to win.
The westerners tailed 36la points in
six field events, Becker earning 3
points and their only place on the
track with third place in the ~
yard hurdles. Saxby, California
only other track qualifier, failed to
score in the quarter mile.
Neufeldt Individual Star.
Bill Neufeldt, a brawny native
son" was the individual star of the
meet scoring IL points for Califor-
MIA with a first place in the discus,
second in the javelin and fourth IN
the 5hotput
Morris was the only other Califor-
= MAN to land in first place and he
was forced to share honors in the
pole vault with owens of Pennsyi-
vania. both clearing the bar at IL
feet inches iii.
places in both the high and broad
Jumps, while Witter landed second
place in the shotput
The meet was one of the few on
record which developed no double
three other stars stood out, each with
nine points They were Ralph Hill
giant Princetonian who won me
shotput and placed second IN tne
hammer throw; Allen Woouri ny,
crack Syracuse runner, victor in the
440 and second in the 220-yard dash
es. and j. Coard Taylor, another
princeton star, who won the Nv
ward hurdles and finished second IN
the quarter mile.
in several of the feature track events.
Al Leccney, of Lafayette, winner of
both the 100 and 200-yard sprints last
year. was badly beaten in both
events, Boots" Lever, Penn captain
flashing to the front in the century
in 93-5 seconds, while F. *. Lovejoy,
Cornell captain. surprised with
spectacular triumph in the furlong
Leconey was third in the 100, incnes
behind Clark, of John Hopkins. and
fourth in the 220, where he was also
beaten by Woodring and Clark.
1t was the last intercolle glate
championship race for both Lever and
Leconey and the little quaker's VIC
tory. the first he has scored over his
Iafayette rival was one of the out
standing performances of the meet
walter higgins, of Columbia. l922
two-mile titleholder, and victor in the
international race at that distance at
the Penn relays a month ago, was on
form and withdrew at the start OF me
last lap after he had fallen into the
ruck. Booth. of Johns Hopkins, a
dark horse" swept to the front In
the last lap to win 35 yards from Ell
mer Mclean. Penn star, who tired
after leading pack or ~ distance
runners for mile and three-quarters.
ANOTHER UPSET
JSirby's victory for Cornell in tne
mile was another upset, the lthlcan
finishing in the remarkably fast time
of four minutes II 40 SECONDS 70 ue
feat Jimmy Connolly of Georgetown
md Nal Douglas of Yale, the two
tavorites. ~,
Kirby. after laying back almost al
the way, shot out in front at the
gun for the last lap. Douglas cluhs
furlong but dropped back as Con
nolly made his last bid. The latter's
challenge, however, was not good
enough and Kirby widened his mar
pin to twenty yards as he spr1nted
down the finishing stretch
Allan Helffrich and S. Z. Enck or
Penn State. heroes of the woflo S
record breaking two-mile relay per
Torrance at the Penn carnival, IN
which oxford was beaten, staged u
pretty duel IN the half mile, the for-
mer winning by few feet in drlV-
Ing finish. NO,
Woodrine stood off a spirited chal-
l."cc by Taylor of Princeton to WIN
the quarter mile race in whach the
failure of Walter Koppich of Column
bia took place, was an outstanding
feature. .,
Princeton carried off honors in both
hurdle events and might have scored
more heavily in the 120-yard TIMBER
topping race had not Scattersood
been disqualified in the semi hnais
for knocking over three hurdles, art
err finishing second. Taylor repeated
his 1922 triumph in the 22O-yard low
hurdles, while Thompson led his field
In the 120-yard high hurdles.