Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
HARVARD IS THIRD
IN L.C.A.A.A.A. MEET
AII-Round Strength of South
ern CaIifornianS Beats
Cardinal Stars.
BY ALAN GOULD,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Y HARVARD STADIUM, Cam
- bridge, Mass, May 3l.-The
superior all-around strength Of
Southern CALIFORNIA; Trojans
triumphed over the individual brilliance
of Stanford'S Cardinals, defending title
holders, today and swept them to VIC
tory in the fifty-fourth intercollegiate
A. A. A. A. track and field champion
ships, q sensational battle featured by
the greatest collection Of performances
in the history of the classic.
Three records were shattered and a
fourth equaled in the two-day struggle
as the two Pacific Coast rivals staged
a spectacular fight for team honors.
TrOjans Win IL Of Is.
Scoring In IL Of the Is finals, the
stalwart band of 16 Southern Cali
fornians rolled up the impressive total
give the Trojans an 8-point margin
over Sanford, which finished second
with 1914 points as the Cardinals
yielded the crown they had worn for
the past three years in a row. Harvard
finished a good third with 231h points,
Michigan fourth with 14H, as the
Wolverines participated for the first
time since 1919, and Yale NTH with
1924.
Krenz and Harlow Rothert in rare
form, furnished most Of the record
breaking thrills. The Cardinals also led
in first places, collecting four titles,
while Southern California bagged only
two right down the line. However, the
Trojans had too much all-around
strength and they clinched the meet
with finishing burst as Bill Carls and
Ed Payne ran one-two in the finals OF
the 220-yard low hurdles.
ROthert Beats Record.
Rothert's marvellous heave Of So feet,
IA inch in the shotput trials, beat
his own former meet mark, also sur
passing the American record. Mean
while he was joined by his team cap
tain, Eric Krenz, in a record-breaking
farewell to /. C. A. A. A. A. competi-
ton as Krenz hurled the discus to
new meet mark Of 100 feet, ga inches.
The third record to fall was in the
javelin throw, Kenneth Churchill of
the University of California breaking
sive day with . toss Of 212 feet, 5
inches.
In the Eastern sweep Of running
events, from the 440-yard run to the
Emile race, George Bullwinkle, a one
man team from the College of the City
of New York, was q dramatic figure as
he bid CALAMITY for double victory.
Bullwinkle, 1.-THE, long-striding youth,
raced his field groggy to win the one
mile run in the sterling time of ABA.
Bullwinkle, tallying eight points for
G. G. New York, proved himself the
eighth best team" in the meet, tying
Colgate, and leading Cornell, Penn
State, New York University and Cali
fornia in the scoring column.
Hagen Takes 2-MiIe.
Another sensational finish carried Joe
Hagen, spindle legged little Columbia
runner, to victory in the 2-mile run.
The winners time was 9:268.
Yale's two favorites. Charley Engle
in the 440-yard and Frank Conner in
the hammer throw, triumphed impress
sively in 48.2 seconds.
Conner won the hammer throw with
a great heave of lit feet, 1924 inches.
Arnold West, Stanford's fourth cham
pion, outleaped Sol Furth of New York
University by less than half an inch to
win the broad Jump, at "a feet, tx
inches. In the high Jump, first place
went to william O'Connor Of Column
bia at 6 feet, inches.
The complete scores:
Southern California, 4414; Stanford,
36A; Harvard, 23h; Michigan, 14A;
Yale, 1874; Columbia, 10; Pennsyl-
vania, az; c. c. New York and Col
gate, 8 each; Cornell, ~; Penn State,
New York University, California and
Bates, each; Dartmouth, 5h; Maine
and Syracuse, each; Holy Gross and
Princeton, 3 each; Brown and Michigan
State, 2 each.