New Britain herald., 1930-05-16
Bl CLAIRE BU RCkN MA service sports Writer

MA service sports Writer
 p-a0d-coming experts With an ear 10 the ground during the carly spring track and field contests dc clare they can hear a noise like rec ord smashing. an ominous. runbliuE sound that seems unusually strong in the mjddlr west and of volume almost Ieatening m tho var west. Furthermore. they prophecy that the hlc smash ~iu he loudest May g. and @I r hon the l. C. A games are staged at Cambridge and June and [ when the x. C. 4. 4. contests are held in Chicago
 They would have us believe that these explosions nlll topple TO less than five records in the lrtercolle- ejate event and perhaps an even half dozen in ths Chicago affalr.
 From my perch, it sounds like the horde that includes the clans of TempletOn. Cromwell and Christie. 'rekktng eastward from Stanford, Southern California and California will Hreak havoc and destruction on !. C. A marks in the In9 yard dash, 2-1 yard low hurdles. shot put dis GUS and lavsIn throw. Likewise I have q feeling that these same clans, with the assistance Of athletes in the middle west region, 2iIl on- joy doing things to National Cole { g]ate records in the 221. the half and mile run, pole vault, shot put and discus.
 { Without going into a trance I can sae Frank Wykof c. |. S. C. and Hec Dyer of Stanford, battling down the stretch with Daln.' Of Holy Cross and Macdonald Of Yale, setting up . q uev record Of 9.6 or maybe 9.5, Or even A seconds for the cen -1~y. can sec thjs Wykof-Dyor teud that began feT weeks ago i in the Tro an-Cardinal duel meet, aN'andlng ID Camhridge. ! o nipe out inc l. C. IA mark Of a.7 seconds first made by Al Laconev O La Fayetta tn 1892 and equaIeI ty Henry Russell Of Cornell in 1926.
 Sld kleselhorsr of Yale won the low hurdles last year In @3.3 sac. ords. but his achievement nas dis counted because Of wind. \. C kraenzIein Of Pennsylvania set rn' record or PA seconds &2 years agc but IL ought 10 tumble before the 1880 talent that includes this samt KIeselhorst. in addition 10 Payne O Sogtrorn California, StoIlverck 0 Colgate and pogolotti Of California winners Of second, third and fourtl last year. And f that weren't sU1i ! clent. Southern California also ha Carls and Welsh and Stanford cal add Smith 10 the attacking forces
 A couple Of Cjifornia boys Cur tiaa and Churchill. are threatenin: dire happenings to the javelin mark Several times thrs year their throR have measured 9ha and 2io feet whlla tho record Creth Hines 0 Georgetown made in 1927 vas onl -a- feet : 5-5 inches.
 Slanfords s captain, r. C. " krenz young man with initial hko q British baron and muscles Ilk a Greek god, will consider his Whol trip shot f he doesn't sail the discu al least lf0 feet at both the Can
 bridge and Chicago gatherings. 4 a sophomore in 1923. Krenz estab lished the present ]. (. A mark 0 i5f feet Il inches. Pete Rasmu of Ohio State set the N. C. 4. 4 record at 153 feet 7-8 inches las ysar. some of Krcnz's 1880 tosss have bettcred no'n marks by nor than ra feet. while one throw froI ln-foot circle instead Of the GUS 'omary 7t- foot ring, measured l7
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 Both krcnz and Harlow Ro,her expect 10 do better than 5o feet inches in tho shot put, which har pens to bc inc record Rotherts es 2 abolished for each set Of contest!
 Rothert is the most consistent Of th two Cardinals, his heavies this yea
 averaging near 52 feet.
 Under ordinary coalitions rec
 ord Of 20.8 seconds for the 20 var dash might be expected 10 Hlthstan
 all assaults. But times are not ol
 dinary when sprint fields includ George Simpson Of Ohio State; C Leland, Texas Christian; Claud
 Bracey Rice; Eddie Tolan. Mich
 gan, and Wykoff and Dyer from th | west That's why Simpsons mar in the x. f. A. A. lurlong IS Hkci
 to fall,
 Johnny Siiti@ of Illinois won th National Collegiate half mile in l'G in the record time Of ':542. Tn SSo field at Chicago this year cn : braces s host of sittgs. Just a fc of them are Martin Of Purdue; Let | Of Chicago; GoIdsworthy Of Wiscor , sin; Ed Genung, the Washingto runner who won the half last yea 2 in 1:55; McGeagh and Burke ( } Southern California; Wilson an
 Little, Notre Dame and the Waite
 brothers Of Marquette.
 5 The mile record of 4:17,6 made