Evening star., 1930-06-08
SETS WORLD MARK
IN NATIONAL MEET
Victory Aids Trojans to Win.
u. of Washington Team
in Second Place.
BY CHARLES w. DUNKLEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~H1CACO, June I.-MOVe over
"A for Frank Wykoff, another
Gallant Fox-and make room
smiling 20-year-old youngster
of the University of Southern California.
Travelling faster than any human be-
ing has galloped 100 yards before, Wy
koff eclipsed the world record for the
| century to thrill a crowd of 10000 to-
day when he won the event in the
national collegiate track and neld cham
pionships on Stagg Field in :O94.
Wykoff established his remarkable
record without the use of starting
blocks, wiping out the existing mark OF
:09.5 held by Eddie Tolan, the Uni
versity of Michigan's great colored
sprinter. The youth from the Pacific
Coast, with his boyiSh face and wavy
blonde hair, not only eclipsed the record,
but also defeated George Simpson, the
Buckeye bullet from Ohio State Uni
versity, who. year ago. raced to VIC
tory in :09.4, but whose world record
performance was rejected by the In
ternational Athletic Federation because
he made 1t with starting blocks.
Southern California Wins.
Wykoff's sensational victory was in
fornia carry off the team championship,
making the Trojans track and field
champions of the entire nation. The
/ Trojans, previous winners of the Eastern
intercollegiate and Pacific Coast titles,
annexed 81 27-70 points, with Wash
ington finishing second with 40, giving
the Pacific Coast runner-up laurels, too.
Iowa was third with 80 1T, with Ohio
State fourth, with 29 LILO and Sanford
fifth with %. Forty-tree teams broke
into the scoring In one of the most
spectacular meets ever held In the coun-
try.
Besides Wykoff's world record, an
other world mark was tied six records
for the meet were smashed and another
meet record was equaled. Only Of
the 15 records established in 8 pre-
vious N. C. A. A. meets survived the
days assaults, and most of them just
by bare fractions
Leads Whole Route.
Wykoff's achievement in cracking the
world mark for the century was 4
thriller. He was away winging, first out
Of his holes, and led every foot of the
race, with Simpson swapping at his
heels after the first 80 yards. With a
mighty drive at the tape, Wykoff's chest
broke the white string full 18 inches
ahead of Simpson. The Buckeye flyer,
/
year, made one Of the worst starts Of
his career and was last Of the eight
Sprinters of his mark He overhauled
all except Wykoff, who raced on to VIC
tory with the speed of a frightened
deer. Simpson. disappointed in defeat.
offered no alibis and blamed only him.
self for what he regarded as an in
excusably poor start.
Wykoff's victory resulted in a surpris-
ing defeat of Tolan, the world record
holder. Tolan finished fourth, about
inches back OF comparatively 'un-
known" Ed TOPPING Of Loyola Univer-
sity, New Orleans. The two Texas
tute and Cy Leland of Texas Christian,
finished fifth and sixth, respectively.
Does Not Use Blocks.
AS Wykoff did not use starting blocks.
officials of the meet said there was lit
tie doubt that his performance would
be accepted internationally as a world
record, since he had no wind advantage.
When the Sprinters bounded off their
marks there was hardly breeze stirring
in the stadium, and the track, rain
soaked for IL hours previously, had
dried out amazingly and was springy
and fast.
The spectators had hardly settled back
in their seats to watch the first event
Of the program, when q world record
was tied. Stephen Anderson of wash
ington, equaled the world mark when
he ran the 120-yard high hurdles In
0:14.4, to defeat Lee Sentman, the
hurdling wizard of Illinois, heretofore
undefeated this year They raced as a
bit too fast for Sentman and he falter-
ed over the last two barriers, allowing
the champion of the Far Northwest to
draw away and win by yard. Seminar,
however, got revenge in the 220-yard
low hurdles. which he won by three
yards to equal the meet record of 0:23.2.
Simpson Gets Revenge.
Another revenger was Simpson. The
Buckeye star, beaten in the century,
left no doubt as to his superiority in
the 220-yard dash. He won by at least
ond slower than the world record but
tenth faster than the former N c.
A. A. record which he established a
year ago. Cy Leland of Texas Christian
was second, while Tolan, farmer of
North Carolina, and East and Root Of
Chicago, crossed the line in that order
in blanket finish. In addition to
Simpsons performance in the furlong,
new meet records were established, 800
yard run, two-mile, pole vault, discus
throw and shotput.
Orval Martin, Purdue's great middle
distance runner, wound up his collie
giate career by winning the SS0-yard
event in 1:541, clipping a tenth of q
second on the meet record. He sprinted
away to win by 10 yards, with Dale
Let's of Chicago in second place
| Paul Jessup, six-foot seven-inch foot
ball center from the University Of
Washington, set a new meet record for
| the discus with q toss of 100 feet 93a
inches. Eric Krenz of Stanford holder
of the world record of 1853 feet S24
inches, could do no better than second
place with throw of 15S feet 65e
| inches.
Harold Manning of Wichita, Kansas
College, accounted for a record in the
2-mile run when he sprinted virtually
all the way to set a mark of 9:1S.1-
ten and seventeenth seconds better
than the old record made by David Alb
bott of Illinois in 1923. Manning
popped out Of the pack of "a two laps
from the finish and won by Is yards,
ahead Of Brocksmith of Indiana, the
Big Ten champion.
The record-breaking toss of 81 feet
124 inches, made by Harlow Rothert Of
Stanford in the shotput yesterday,
stood up today as new N. G. A. A.
mark To wind up the record breaking
in sensational style. Tommy Warne OF
Northwestern added another new meet
mark to the list with leap of Is feet
97s inches. to better his own mark by
an inch. He followed this with an at
tempt to break the world record, but
failed