The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-17

Stanford and California will dump
Intercollegiate.
OF the Eastern leaders Yale looms
mp as the team that may make
iltrouhle for the Golden Bears ana
a&he Palo Altoans. The Ellis gave
Princeton one more licking In the
mud last Saturday, showirfe several
sdptop performances In the opera
ton. Bayes Norton ran two clinlx.
ing races in the spirits; the Blue
Nuarter-miIers, Gage, Chapman, and
Geilfuss. came through as usual,
and win Comins laid out one OF the
best broadjumping performances Of
the year when he leaped twenty.
three feet seven and thrae.uuarter
inches in the mud.
Eddie Bench got the javelin out
ATS feet, and Sylvan Scholpp cleared
close to twelve feet in the vault.
Nal Douglas 4:S0 for the mile was
also q very creditable effort under
The conditions. These performances
rate at about twenty-five points in
She intercollegiate games.
Princeton showed one possible
OlIegiate winner at New
Hay en- last Saturday-GeOrg Scat
tergO0d, in the shutOut, would
figure to win his event under
ordinary circumstances, but not
with Glen Hartranft, the STAN
FORD giant, In there against him.
Gates should place in the hammer
thrOw. but the Tigers. stop right
there.
Pennsylvania team, which lost
close decision to Cornell at Ithaca
I 1Ast Saturday, can hardly figure
among the leaders at the inter.
collegiate games. Lawson Robert.
son has mighty capable Splinter
IN Hill, a corking broad jumper in
captain Rose, and two star vaulters
IN Owen and Sheriff. and that's all
M the Quakers ring up more than
uIteen points at Cambridge they
s5W1n be doing mighty well.
linen there's Cornell. Jack Moak.
] ley, AZ usual, has a fine dual meet
team. More than likely Cornell
: could defeat either Stanford or
California in a team to team test.
out In q scramble. for points among
some twenty teams half of which
number some topline performers
on their rosters, the Ithacans win
hardly be in the running.
Unless MDakley hasssomethine I'M
his sieve In the way Of new stars
under cover, Cornell has but one
potential intercollegiate winner on
her team. Eddie Girby in the mile
run. Kirby won this event last
year in the climbing time Of AIT as.
Harvard's team is showing nm
stronger this spring because Of
the acquisition Of "Soapy'' Wat.
tiers and w. Il. Tibbetts, the fresh
man middle distance stars OF last
:. year.
- Waters will start in the mile and
1tbbetts in the two miles at the
'intercollegiates." The Crimson also
has two clever field performers in
Charley Eastman, who is putting
the shot forty-seven feet, and Y. 6,
carpenter, who has been throwing
; khe discus in great style this spring.
Harvard appears to be hopeless as
ian intercollegiate game prospect,
''thowever, because, like Yale, Penn
ethnd Cornell. she has not enough
y stars to pile up points.
= Harvard's runners in the everts
above the quarter mile made a re-
nnarkable showing in the Crimson
"a. /. T. dual meet last Saturday.
In three events Give places count
1ng) the half mile, mile and two
mile, Farrells runners scored no
less than thirteen places.
l,.a In the two longer races the Cam
bridge collegians made clean sweeps,
scoring fifteen points in each event.
This feat was surprising in view If
the factv that M. I. T. Is usually
fairly strong in distance talent.
a. Williams College has two very
capable young sprinters in Miller
md Dodge, who may upset the
plans of some of the intercollegiate
A. A. A. A. point contenders. The
Puppies star speed boys are not
new to intercollegiate competition.
They reached the semi.finals of
both the 100" and "furlong" at
The I.-C. A. A. A. A. games last
spring and Miller was placed In the
S0.yard dash at the 1924 indoor Sin.
tercollegiates.'
Miller won the hundred at the
hWilliams-Amherst dual meet. in
the mud, last Saturday in 10 sec.
pnds. He is reported to have i'm.
proved two yards since last spring.
:" II Cliff Argue, the Occidental
3 College sprint star, achieves his
ambition of making the American
/, Olympic team he will be one OF the
most-traveled athletes Of the year.
Argue has already journeyed more
than 5000 miles in quest Of athletic
fame since January from Los
Angeles to Philadelphia and return,
plus couple of swings up and
down the Pacific coast.