Evening star., 1924-06-15
TRIUMPHS IN FIVE MEETS:
WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Tarheels Also Establish Eight New Records for
University-Coach Fetzer Builds Remarkable
Team Out of Green Material
BY II. c. BYRD.

BY II.
~LOSING of the scholastic yea
a few days ago marked the w
in track and field athletics Il
Four victories in dual meets, on
state championships and eight new
of accomplishments that few southel
North Cardinals first meet wa
Clemson. The Tarheels won by 7o1
The following week the squad j
took Virginia Polytechnic Institute
meet the next week at Columbia,
victory, Georgia finishing second an
Next a dual meet with Georgia
was won, rs % to 35 1-3, and a week
later decisive trimming was hand
ed North Carolina State College at
Raleigh by SO 1-6 to AZ 5-6. In the
state championship meet at Raleigh
Carolina was victor by a big margin,
scoring 1914 points against SIX for
North Carolina State, 2l$s for Davidson,
lax for Wake Forest and ga for
Trinity. In an invitation meet at
the University of Virginia, the Tar
heels also made an excellent show
Ing
Set Some New Marks.
The new records established for
the university compare favorably
with the best marks set in meets
in other sections. In the 12o-yard
of obs 3-5 and in the 22o-yard low
hurdles the same man covered the
distance in 0.25 fiat. Both these hurdle
marks would win in the great majority
of meets.
The new record in the mile was
set by Ransom, who did the four
quarters In 4.30 2-5. Parker's record
for the SsO-yard run is l.59 S-5. while
Fordham threw the discus for rec
ord for 127 feet 9 inches. and Aber-.
nathy the, javelin for a mark OF
$50 feet.
Carolina in track during the past
season is decidedly unusual, espe-
cially when it is considered that pre-
viously the university had done very
little in this branch of sport. How
ever, there is one good reason for
the success of the squad, although
the person responsible probably
disclaim the credit that is his due.
That reason Is Bob FetZer and the
interest he has taken in track and
athletics, has charge of all sports at
North Carolina. assists his brother IN
coaching foot ball and himself
handles the track squad.
Real Accomp piishmert.
= sFetzer's accomplishment with the
SQUAD at North Carolina Is al! the
more creditable when II is considered d
that he had practically no experienced
material in the persons or FORMER
high school stars and that he de.
veloped the sam from squad OF
men out of the North Carolina high
schools. where there is very little
interest in track and field sports.
With the start he got this year
Fetzer probably will make an even
more brilliant record next spring. he
and who does not build especially
for the moment. Incidentally, North
Carolinas fine record seems 10 nave
proved a stimulus to track ana neio
sports in all sections of that state
and before long the high schools VIII
be giving real attention to that
branch of athletics, according to those
interested.
Washington newspapers have writ
ten much in the last few years
of the prowess of C. Cullen, Navy foot
ball and lacrosse star, but be 1t mere
with understood that Carl is not the
only member of the family who has
brother John recently was elected
captain of the tennis team at Holy
Cross. John also won his letter last
fall on the cross-country team ana IN
the most dependable men in the col
lege. Like Carl, John is graduate
of Central High School, where as
student he was well known and liked.
Ed Pugh attained an honor in ath-
letics at the University of. Maryland
this year that has been accorded to
no other Marylander in years. He
was elected to the captancy In two
major sports, foot ball and track. 1t
has been the custom at College Park
not to elect man 20 be captain in
more than one sport, but Pugh has
been such an outstanding factor in
the foot ball and track squad that he
attained the unusual distinction of
being elected unanimously to head
both next season.
And those elections were not mere
1y unanimous by courtesy, for not a
man was put up against him In either
and that means something, too,
when all the fraternity rivalries that
crop out in college elections of any
kind are considered.
Pugh not only is a good foot ball
player and good track man, but Is
the finest type Of athlete that one can
find in college athletics.
Failure of Bohannon of Virginia
and Ascher of Georgetown to qualify
in the 400-meter Olympic trial at Bos-
ton should not be taken as any dis
paragement of their capabilities. AS
a matter of fact in a race in which
the best quarter-nilers in the world
are entered, the least thing would
throw a man OFF his stride and change
him from an almost certain winner to
last place.
University of Maryland will ar
range a more comprehensive basket
ball schedule for next season than it
played last. The schedule will be
opened early in December with CO.
1umbia University at New York. A
game also is listed with Princeton at
College Park. The Marylanders exA
pect to play the best quints from
north as well as south of the Mason
Dixon line.
Georgetown during the past spring
failed to reach the heights in base
ball that 1t enjoyed the three or four
years before. The Blue and Gray
started with what appeared to be fine
material, but hit some rough spots
where least expected. The track team,
though, more than made up for any
deficiencies of the ball team, making
the most brilliant record of all Blue
and Gray squads.
CREWS ARE SPEEDY