The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-10
5 WATCHES Catch
BROWN-HAIRED BOY
IN 9 rs SECONDS
Officials Said There Could Be
No Question as to New
Worlds Record
BRACEY ENDS STEP BEHIND
Ohio State Wins Team Cham
pionship Through Simpson,
Rasmus, Rockaway
By CHARLES W. DUNKLEY

chicago, June ZUsye&T
old youth with q shock of brown hair
who started his brilliant career on
the cinder path by request, Saturday
became the fastest human Of the
ages.
He Is George Simpson. a 1.-the
spindle legged streak from Ohio State
university.
Competing with the fastest field
ever brought together in an American
meet, this smiling Buckeye streaked
down the 100 yard stretch in the ma
collegiate track and field
championship meet on Stagg field III
8 2-5 seconds, clipping one-fifth Of q
from the officially recognized
worlds mark.
Simpsons brilliant performance
aided by his teammates. enabled Ohio
State to triumph for the team cham
pionship honors.
The Buckeyes. winning 4 of the Il
events and placing in 2 others
amassed q total of SO points. with the
University Of Washington second
with Il.
Illinois. winner Of the Big Ten out
door championship, was third with
35h. the University Of Southern
California fourth with 80. and Stan.
ford. winner Of the intercollegiate
A. A. A. A. meet q week ago. fifth
with %. Forty-six Of the IS team,
broke into the scoring.
Beats Great Field
Simpson. in his startling victory
defeated the famous Claude Bracey
the Dixie flyer from Rice institute
and Eddie Tolan. sensational negr,
Splinter from the University Of Mich,
igan. who twice within two weeks hat
run the century in 8 5-l0 seconds.
Simpson beat Bracey to the tap
by = stride, In . heart breaking fin
ish. Tolan wa third. about six fee
behind Bracey. The Wolverine negr,
got away to q poor start, was trailinl
sixth ct the half way mark, but fin
ished with . remarkable burst o
speed.
Officials said there could be n,
question as to the acceptance o
Simpsons record. He was timed b,
five watches. Two Of the timer
caught him In Q $40 and three click
ed . 4-10. Engineers immediatel,
measured the track and found i
measured 100 yards and one incl,
Conditions were almost perfect 70
Simpsons record breaking perform
ance.
Also Wins Furlong
Simpson, who began his tracl
career as q boy in Columbus. whcl
the high school coach yanked him on
Of : crowd and told him to run, va
the highest individual point WHINE
Of the meet, scoring 20.
After his world record breaking
performance in the century he cam
back to defeat virtually the sam
field in winning the go yard dasl
In 20.8 seconds, setting q new NEE
record. This time Tolan finishes
second with Bracey third.
The Buckeyes won 4 Of the 1
events and placed in two others. tn
team added another worlds record 4
It's achievements when Pete Rasmu
in the preliminarics yesterday tosse,
the discus l59 feet IL inches. Thi
mark stood through the test Of tn
finals this afternoon.
Dick Rockaway. Ohio,s hurler va
second to Simpson as the Buckeye.
individual point winner. bagging l
by his victory in the 100 yard higl
hurdles and finishing second In tn
go yard low barriers.
Ujhelyi. the big football linemar
accounted for Ohio's additional
points by landing in fifth place In tn
hammer throw.
Steve Anderson Scores
Washington in ranking second I
Ohio Etate in the point scorinf
scored in s events with Stephen An
derson. leading his team with l
points by his tctory In the low hur
dies and third place in the higt
Genung Of Washington won the So
yard run. beating Virgil Gist OF Chi
cago. The Huskies rlso scored in tn
mile, the shot put and the discus.
Two Of the three meet record
smashed were accounted for by tw
Of Stanford's trio Of athletes. liar
low Rothert established q new NEE
record In the shot put with his toe
Of 50 feet 3 inches In the prelimiu
aries yesterday and r. w. Edmond
came back today to tie Tomm
Warne Of Northwestern for . ne
meet record in the pole vault with
leap Of - feet ~. inches.
Trailing the Hoosiers and Orego
we're 0klahoma with 10. the Oklaho
mn Baptists. Purdue. Southern Meth
odists. Wichita and Texas Christian
following With 3 each. The followiu
teams each scored 6 points. Cornell
Taxas A. T. NJ. Oregon Aggies. Den
ver. Colo. Aggies and wisconsin. I'll
remainder Of the points were scat
tered.