Evening star., 1923-04-01

NndI nulllDeG.
Various indoor track meets were
favored by bumper attendance and
more than one college and university
will be able to report handsome
balance of basket ball receipts when
the annual budgets are compiled. IN
the realm of eastern intercollegiate
basket ball the season was not only
marked by keen interest. but by play
of the highest excellence. Yale,
coached by Fogarty, a University of
Pennsylvania importation, won the
championship of the Intercollegiate
Basket Ball League, with six games
won and two lost. and Princeton and
Cornell were tied for second place.
Big Ten CUNTS in Tie.
In the western conference the race
ended with Wisconsin and Iowa TIED
for first place, each having won
eleven games and lost one, with
Michigan third. with eight won and
four lost. Mississippi A; and NJ. won
the southern tourney, which included
thirty institutions of Dixie. with
Chattanooga second.
In water polo Princeton's team won
the intercollegiate title for the tenth
time in twelve years. The eastern
intercollegiate swimming champion
ship was won by Yale in the Prince
ton tank The gymnastic champion
ship was won by the Navy a I Annap-
olic and the intercollegiate wrestling
title went TO Cornell at Cornell.
Records Are Smashed.
In track, outstanding performances
were many. Joie Ray broke world
indoor records in the 5000 meters,
the 1000 meter and the Emile run
Willie Ritola of the Finnish -Amerl-
can A. =. broke the world indoor and
ering HanneS Kolehmainei's "a min
utes and is is seconds for indoors
and AL ShrubbS time Of IA minutes
and II 3-5 seconds, which the great
English middle-distance runner
achieved on the cinderpath some
years ago Ritola did the distance in
"A minutes and 16 1-5 seconds.
At the annual indoor meet of the
New York Athletic Club in the
22d Regiment armory Ralph q. Hills
the Princeton foot ball player, put the
16pound shot forty-eight feet nine
inches. thus beating Pat McDonald's
world indoor record heave of forty
seven feet and one-half inch
In Intercollegiate indoor track
meets Michigan won the conference
title and Pennsylvania the eastern
honors. Reinke of Michigan hung up
new conference record in the half
mile run when he travelled the dis
tance in l minute and SO seconds
This was two -fffths of a second better
than the previous mark.
Marks Go at Buffalo.
Joie Ray achieved his new 2-mile
record at the national indoor meet
OF the A A. L. held at Buffalo. He
reduced Harry Smiths time of min
Utes and Ia second made some years
ago and also beat the Kankakee fly
ers Emile indoor record of 3 min min :
was Q minutes and 10 20 seconds.
At this meet the Illinois a. {. team,
of which Ray was member, smash
ed all records in the Is miles med
and 80 % seconds. The former
time of 7.43 was held by Georgetown
University. The A. a. L. champion
ship record of S4-5 seconds for the
70-yard high hurdles was equaled by
Anderson Of the Illinois A. c. The
meet was won by the Illinois A. c.
with 46 points, with the Chicago A.
e. second.
n. Y, won the international ice skat-
ing championship with a total of
90 points in the three-day competi-
ton. Yale won the indoor polo cham
pionship and Harvard won the inter.
collegiate hockey championship.
Mrs 4. l.. Cole of Boston won the
national indoor singles tennis cham
plonship for women at Brookline;
Burnham Dell defeated w. T. Tilden
and Miss Brenda Hedstron of Buff
falo for the indoor championship in
mixed doubles.
In racquets, Clarence Pell, cham
piOn since 1914, relinquished his title
10 Stanley q. Mortimer for many
years his doubles partner. jay Gould
retained his court tennis title and he
and Joseph w. Wear successfully de-
Tended their doubles title in court
tennis against Schuyler Cutting and
Suydam Cutting. Walter Kinsell re-
tanned his professional champion
ship title in squash. r. L. Fink of
the Crescent A. c., Brooklyn, won the
amateur squash title.
In swimming, Johnny Weismuller,
champion swimmer of the Illinois A.
G, broke his own world record for
the quarter mile swim by Il seconds,
doing the dash in 4 minutes and So
seconds.
Walter Hagen won the Florida
West Coast golf championship and
did one round of 1S holes in sixty
two, believed to be an American rec
ord in tournament play.
1922