Evening star., 1924-06-01

I where Owens was victorious wit
Sheriff. tied for second. but YaI.
spread its strength through hume
Gus events. The Blue scored onis
one first place when Bill Comins car
tured the broad jump with a reco-d
breaking leap, but piled other point.
IN both dashes. the quarter mile ~
mile runs. low hurdles, hamm.
throw. pole vault and javelin.
Two Marks for Hartranft
Stanford battled valiantIy but los
its sturdy fight when only three q
the Scarlet's nine quaIifiers score
| IN the track events. Hartranft. how
ever. more than came up to expect
tions with his mighty work in th.-
discus and shot put, where, in a bat
tie OF giants, he shattered both II.
championship and collegiate record
with heave of 49 feet, 5:s inches
only a 4 inch beyond the best tos.
OF Ralph Hills, Princeton star. wIIu
won the event in 1928.
Penn states small but powerfu
squad gave the other leaders scar
and accounted for three first places
tieing Pennsylvania for first honory
IN TINS respect. but the Nitanny Lio,3
| stars wilted toward the close undo.
| terrlhc competitive pace. Alan He'll
rich. captain and star of the team
won the quarter mile title but failed
to gain his goal of double triumph
when his closing challenge lacked
Just a few yards of catching "Soapy
| waters. Harvard crack, who woa
the half mile with one of the bess
track performances of the meet
Piling up other points for Penn
State were Charley Moore, victor IN
the l20-yard high hurdles. anc
and Schuyler Enck. who won the nli!t.
run after d stirring battle with Ton
CaVanaugh of Boston College.
i California U. Trails.
| The two remaining far westerncrs
We're never serious contenderS, Cali
| fornia flashing the only trace of its
| title form when its captain. Bill Neu
! feldt. and q. F. Dodsou. tailed seven
points in the javelin. The champions
scored in only two other events. the
| broad jump and discus. while south
| ern California. with Bud Houser. a.
| an outstanding star. did it's best WORK
! in the discus and shot-put.
Hartranft and Hill, each with ten
| points as a. result of their double
victories, were the individual stars o.
the meet, in which only three of the
seven 1928 title-holders on hand re
tanned their laurels. Verne Booth,
rangy Johns Hopkins star, success
| fully fought off challenges by Tibbets
| of Harvard, Kirby of Cornell and
Lermond of Boston College to retain
| his two mile crown: CominS remained
the broad jump king, and Owens OBJ
| Idlneu exclusive ute 10 the pOiy'
| vault laurels which he shared last
year with Norris of California.
| Kirby did not race in defense OF
| the mile title he won a year ago,
while Helffrich exchanged his half
mile crown for quarter mile honors.
and Hills lost his shot put champion
| ship by marrow margin to Hartranft,
who also displaced defending
| championship, Neufeldt, in the discus
| throw: Upsets were sprtnkled
throughout the finals, but the most
startling occurred in the sprints,
where Hills victories. both gained
with brilliant closing spurts. over
| threw Bowman of Syracuse, the 100
yard faForitc, who lost to the Quaker
! by inches, and Clarke Of Johns Hop
kins, furlong ace. who did no better
! than third.
/ Hurdle Event to Hans of e. L.
! An unheraIded tinlber-topper. Haa >
! of Georgetown. OUTRAGED strong
| field in the 220-yard low hurdles,
while Gibson OF Princeton upset far
western hopes with a victory in the
/ iavelin. Hartranft, in fact, was the
only western star able to break
through for first honors the remain
| ing thirteen being captured by the
| casts formidable array
Two of the three record breaking
performances today eclipsed marks
set in the qualifying trials Yesterday.
| In the broad jump CominS, after leap
| ing "a feet 6-16 inches yesterday.
made "a feet inches today to clinch
| his right 70 displace the mark Of "a
| feet 4 inches made by A. G. Kraenz-
| lien of Pennsylvania in 1899. The
| discus toss of Arthur of Stanford yes
| terday-1J4 feet SiS inches-was s
| beaten by Hartranft's heave Of 15s
feet inches today, but because of
the high wind prevailing both days
the achievement may not be accepted
officially. All 5-point scorers in the
discus bettered the former mark Of
140 feet Is inch made by Uartranft
| in, 1922
Hartranft's shot-put mark broke
the 12-year-old meet record Of As feet
| log inches. held by Beatty of C,nlurn-