Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-31
Broad Jump Discus Marks Betered Stadium
YALE, LEADS IN
ATHLETES QUALIFIED
FOR MEET TODAY

Cambridge, Mass. May 3O-(By
A. P. yale, chief hope of the east,
led Leland Stanford. favorite of the
far west, by narrow margin today
in the qualifying tests at Harvard
Stadium for the intercollegiate track
and field championships, marked by
the shattering of two meet records.
The Blues well-balanced squad
accounted for IA places in the fl
nails tomorrow. one more than the
total collected by Stanfords much
smaller but equally brilliant team.
Not far behind were Pennsylvania
and California, three-time cham
pions, with 10 qualifiers each, while
Princeton, with nine, and Southern
California with eight places COM
pleted a half dozen contenders, three
from the far west and three from
the east. who promise an epic inter
sectional battle tomorrow for the
4Sth l. c. A. A. A. A. crown.
Altogether. 10 colleges out of a
field of 81 gained qualifying places
in the preliminaries held for IL of
the 10 title events. Only contestants
in the mile and two mile runs, dis
lance features of tomorrow's pro-
gram, were not required to compete
i'll the elimination trials.
The record breaking perform
ances that provided the chief sem
sation today were hung up by Bill
Comins. Yale star and 1923 cham
pion, who shattered the % year old
broad jump record, while six far
westerners provided a brilliant spec
. tacle when all eclipsed the discus
throwing mark. Because of the high
wind that swept the field, however,
no new record may be allowed in
the latter event.
Comins, with leap of a feet,
o-16 inches, set aside the record
of "a feet, 4 IL inches made by AL
vim c. Craenzlein of Pennsylvania.
which has stood the test of time
since 1899. The discus throwers
were led by an unheralded star, Ar
thur of Stanford. with 154 feet, II
inches. more than IA feet better
than the mark. of $40 feet, is inch,
set in 1922 by Hartranft of Stan
ford, who was second today
At the completion of the discus
test, Gustavus r. Kirby of New
York, chairman of the advisory COM
mittee of the /. c. A. A. A. A, an
nounced that he personally would
not recommend acceptance of the
new mark as a record. Final deci-
sion, however, he said. would be
left in the organizations executive
committee.
The result of the first skirmish for
advantage today, while seeming to
| bear out the general belief that the
title contest rests chiefly between
Stanford and Yale, also emphasized
the uncertainty Of the final out
| come. Neither of these two teams.
| it appeared. have any decisive adj
vantage over their four closest RI
| vals-Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cal
ifornia and Southern California
any one of which, with the benefit
| OF few breaks, might gather in
| the premier laurels.
| Yale and Stanford each won nine
or their qualifying places in the
! track events, where both will en-
counter the keenest sort of compe-
tition tomorrow to score. stanford's
cause suffered something of a set
back when her captain, Van Judah,
was shut out in the quarter-nile
trials but the Palo Alto squad Off
| set this loss through the unexpected
~ brilliant work of Arthur in lead
| ing the discus tossers. Thus, with
| Hartranft second in this event, first
IN the shot put today, Stanford has a
prospect of tallying IA points in
these two field events alone.
/ Yale, however. has first place in
the broad jump virtually clinched by
Comins and several other field
cracks to help out the track team
The Blue placed two men today in
! each of the dashes, the quarter mile
| 40 yard high hurdles, and pole
! vault and one each in the hammer
J throw. broad jump and javelin throw.
Stanford's places included three in
| the half mile run, two each in the
go yard dash and discus. and one
each in the 100 yard dash, quarter
mile, high and low hurdles, shot put
and high jump.
| California, with three men each
in the discus and javelin. has pros
pect of from Is to 20 points in these
| two events alone. The Golden
| Bears, with Barber, a sprinter. as
their only track qualifier, pin their
hopes once more on the field events,
with their husky captain, Bill Neu-
| feldt, starring as a survivor in three
events-the discus, javelin and shot
! put.
pennsylvania places chief reliance
in three high jumpers and two pole
vault qualifiers. and Princeton upon
trio of hammer tossers, including
Hills, who also took second place in
| the shotput today. Southern Cali
fornia has field aces in Houser, An
| derson and hurdling star in Dye,
| while Penn State and Harvard, with
strong track forces. promise to be
deciding factors in the finals tomor-
row.
| Outside Of Van Judah's failure to
qualify, the only outstanding upsets
! were in the sprints, where McKim of
Princeton failed to place in the high
| jumps, in which Robusch, Pittsburgh
STAIR. did not qualify.
The complete qualifying record fol-
lows:
L die ........ II
Stanford ....... .....,........... IL
SdiiiOf uld ........... ~
pennsylvania ..... 10
lI lHlCeto1 .......- '.s......
| Southern California .............. &
Penn State ................... Z
harvard ................. z
Dartmouth ................... 6
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