Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
WIN -FOUR F|RSTS,
TIE FOR ANOTHER
Hall of victors and Keller
of Ohio State Star in
Double Triumphs.
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


TAGG FIELD, Chicago, June
6.-Bronzed athletes of the
~ University of Southern Cali
fornia swept into the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa-
ton track and field championship
today with a record smashing to-
tai of II IT points.
The Trojans, victorious in all their
track and field battles this season, won
overwhelmingly. Their nearest rival
was Ohio State, which scored 81 IT
points, with Illinois third with %, Iowa
fourth with 26 IT, and Indiana fifth
with IS.
Wisconsin was sixth with 1884. Mich
igan had 20 for seventh, while Iowa
State and Miami University, oxford,
Ohio, finished in tie for eighth with
16 points each. Forty-four of the 80
universities and colleges from 90 States
scored in the table of points.
The Californians, winners OF the
championship a year ago. hung up a
new high point record today, eclipsing
the previous record Of 70 points estab-
lished by Leland Stanford in 1929. The
Trojans scored in IL Of the IS events,
winning four championships and tieing
for another.
Two Records Broken.
The meet resulted in two record
breaking performances despite wretched
conditions The cinder path was heavy
due to an all-night rain, and the field
was soggy and slippery. All afternoon
a mist and fog hung over Staff Field.
Cal -. ~
pionships in the 100-yard dash and the
440-yard dash, on the track; the shot
put and discus in the field, and tied for
the pole vault in the air.
Frank Wykoff, the Trojan Splinter,
who twice has unofficially run the 100
yard dash in :09.4, conquered his Negro
rival, Eddie Tolan of Michigan, worlds
100-yard dash champion. in thrilling
finish, beating him to the tape in :096.
Wykoff's chest hit the tape only a few
inches ahead Of the flying Tolan.
Vic Williams, intercollegiate quarter.
mile champion. who last week tied Ted
Meredith's world record of :47.4, ran
clever race to win the event for South
ern California. He stayed back until
the stretch, then slipped up the inside
and. with burst of speed, caught and
versity to win by four yards in :48.3.
Bob Hall was a double winner for the
Trojans, with victories in the shot put
and discus. William GRADER, who
cleared IA feet y inch to win
the pole vault in the l. C. "A meet
last week, gained Southern CALIFORNIA;
share OF championship in this event.
He tied with Tommy Warne of North
western, and Verne McDernont of Hi
nois, In clearing the bar at Is feet 10
5-16 inches. to eclipse Warne's cid N.
c. A. A. record of Is feet 97s inches,
hung UP last year.
After trailing Wykoff in the century,
Tolan came back to run away from his
field in the 220-yard dash. The VOL
VERNE won the event 4 yards ahead Of
Peyton Glass of Oklahoma Aggies. To-
lan's time was 21.5 seconds.
Split Individual HonOrs.
Individual honors were divided be-
tween Jack Keller, Ohio States blond
hurdler, and Hall, Trojan weightman.
each of whom won two championships.
Keller won the 120-yard high hur-
dies in 14.6 seconds, and scored a lucky
triumph in the 220-yard low hurdles
when Ernie Payne. Trojan star. STUN
face forward on the cinders. Keller
beat Bill Carls, another Trojan, in 1913
seconds
Hall captured two titles for Southern
California with victories in the shot
put and discus throw. He tossed the
shot 40 feet inches. In the discus he
won with heave of 152 feet IL inches.
Dale Let's, University of Chicago,
Big Ten half-miler champion, smashed
the N. c. A. A. record for the event in
the most thrilling distance race of the
day. His time, :53.5. clipped six-tenths
of second off the record set by Orval
Martin of Purdue year ago. Let's
ran his first quarter in 81 seconds.
Chamberlain Repeats.
Clark Chamberlain of Michigan State
College, who won the 1880 intercolle-
gate croSS-country title raced to an
impressively easy triumph in the Emile.
His time was 9:23
Kenneth Churchill of the University
of California. Americas premier jave-
lin thrower, was in class by himself,
hinging the spear 215 feet, nearly Is
feet better than the effort of o. e. Nell
son Of Iowa, who finished second Ivan
Dykeman of Colorado Aggies, was al
most as superior in the hammer throw,
hurting the missile 1872 feet ~ inches.
Ed Gordon. Iowa Negro. retained his
broad jump title with a leap of "a feet
II y inches. with L. E. Boyle, lone Uni
verslty OF Pennsylvania entrant, second.
IA inches behind. Darrell Jones of
Ball State Teachers, Muncie, Ind, be-
came the new high jumping champion
when he achieved feet 81 inches.