The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
Spindle Legged Youth
Leads Chicago Athletes
To Win In Prep Games
Almost Unaided Lanky Good
willie Leads School To Vic
tory, Breaking Records

stage FIELD. CHICAGO. ILL.,. May
26.-(By Associated Press,) A
blonde. spindle-legged youth named
Eugene Goodwillie, regarded by his
admirers as the only rival to Charlie
Paddock. the worlds fastest human,
today raced into the athletic Hall
of Fame when he established new
American record in the 220yard
dash, tied the record for the 100-yard
event and, practically unaided, won
the nineteenth annual national inter-
scholastic track meet for University
High school of Chicago.
University High. with total of
20 points, captured the honors In the
high school division of the meet.
while st. Johns Military academy of
Delafield, Wis, won in the academy
section with total of 60 points.
Hollywood. Cal, was second in the
high school division with II points;
points; Huntington Beach, Cal, was
fourth with. 10; Wilson. Kan, fifth
with 111a points, while Oklahoma
CITY, Okla, Sacramento. Cal, and Red
Bluff, Cal, were tied for sixth
place with 10 points each.
Second place honors in the acad-
envy division went to Lake Forest
academy of Lake Forest. Ill. with
491a points, with Allen academy of
Bryan, Texas, third. with 3512
More Than so Competed.
The meet, conducted under the aus
pieces of the University of Chicago,
drew record breaking list of more
than $50 school boy athletes from
more than 80 states, from California
to Maine. making the event the
greatest interscholastic meet ever
staged in America
In addition to establishing two
new American interscholastic rec
ords for the meet were shattered.
Goodwillie, the 17-year- old flying
marvel. ran the 220-yard dash in
212-5, the fastest time the event
has been run on a curved track. The
best previous time was made on a
can record for the century, when he
broke the tape five yards ahead of
Joe Dicenzo, one of the fastest stars
in the west. in As, within one-fifth
of a second of the worlds record
Jointly held by Paddock and others.
Goodwillie's admirers claim he pos
sibly could have shattered the worlds
record today II he had been forced to
extend himself to his greatest speed.
Hamm of Lonoke, Ark, smashed
the American interscholastic record
20 feet S1a inches. Ham outdis-
tanced his opponents early in the
event, but continued until the rec
ord cracked.
CuIiforninns Show Well.
Bronze skinned athletes from CAL
ifornia made an impressive showing
in the meet. more than 200 of them
placing in one or more OF the events.
Morton Kaer of Red Bluff, who was
picked as a certain winner. did not
capture any first places, but won
two seconds and a fourth. He took
second in the broad jump and In the
220 low hurdles. and was fourth in
the 120-yard high hurdles.
interscholastic champion in the pole
vault, with a record of IL feet II rs
inches, easily won his event with
leap of ~ feet inches. He tried to
make 10 feet and cleared the bar
nicely, but struck it with his hand as
he was going down and Jared 1T off
the support.
Krentz, stockton. Cal. won the dis
Gus throw. tossing tn missile 1913 feet
inches, while Coggeshell of Sacra-
mento captured first place in the high
jump with leap of 5 feet IL inches.
Spencer of Modesto. Cal. took the
220-y yard low hurdles in "a As. The
100 high hurdles went to Nichols of
Huntington Beach, Cal. in Is 40. The
coast relay teams--Hollywood and
Pasadena--scored fifth and third
places, respectively, in the relay
races.
O O O
Individual Stars.
Individual stars were numerous in
the days competition, but the best of
them undoubtedly was the lanky
Goodwill and kuck of Wilson, Kan.
the highest individual point winner.
Kuck amassed a totoal of liz points.
winning first in the shot put. second
in the javelin, and tieing for third in
the discus. Goodwille contributed
10 points to his teams total by cap
turing two firsts besides his remark
able running in the relay. which went
to University High.
One Of the most thrilling races OF
the day was the one-mile run. which
went 70 Phillips of Rushville. Ind,
who broke the tape ahead of so start
ers in 4:30 So Stevens of Santa
Barbara. Cal. threw a shoe and con-
tinued to run for half a mile until his
coach forced him to drop out of the
race. Phillips won in the last three