Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
OUTCOME IN DOUBT
UNTIL FINAL EVENT
Stanford Gives Close Battle
as Victors Set Five New
!. c. A. A. A. A. Marks.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadel-
~ phia, May 30.-The Trojans
of Southern California an
Swered Stanford's track and
field challenge today with a SEN
sational counter barrage of rec
ord performances and won the
intercollegiate AAAA champion
ships for the second straight year
in a dazzlingly close battle for
points.
Six record feats were achieved, five
of them by Southern California stars,
as the Trojans barely beat their Pacific
Coast rivals in as brilliant a succession
of performances as the classic 55-year-
old college meet has ever witnessed.
Southern California finished with the
victorious total of as 81 points, while
Stanford, giving battle every step and
inch of the route, amassed A 22-35
points. The scramble of fractions and
places was so close that the outcome
was undecided until Bill GRADER, Tro-
ian pole vaulter, ouSdid himself to lead
to new meet record Of IA feet q inch.
in the fifteenth and final event Of the
day.
Vic williams Sensational.
Graders record vault was the crown
ing climax Of probably the greatest ex-
hibition ever given by any team that
has won this blue ribbon event Of in
tercollegiate athletic competition.
Vic Williams, slim Trojan racer,
struck the most sensational blow for
his teams benefit when he turned the
tables on the brilliant Stanford sopho-
more, Ben Eastman, to win the 440-
yard run and equal Ted Meredith's Is
year-old world record of Ala seconds.
From there on Southern California s
stars conducted wholesale assault on
records. Frank Wykoff whipped Eddie
Tolan by inches in the 100-yard dash,
In 9.6 seconds. to equal his own meet
record: Dick Barber leaped to a new
l. C. A. A. A. A. broad jump mark of
Is feet 3ia inches, and Ernie Payne, in
the 220-yard low hurdles. raced to vic
tory in 1915 seconds, equalling the meet
record first set in 1898 by the late A..
C. Kraenzlein of Pennsylvania.
Win Six First Places.
All told, the athletes coached by
Dean Cromwell romped off with six
first places and scored points in 10 Of
the IS events. It was not only the Tro-
jams second straight victory in the
team championship, but their fourth
in seven years. They won previously
In 1925. 1925 and 1880.
Stanford. handicapped severely by
the loss of two brilliant performers in
Hec Dyer in the sprints and Capt.
Podge Smith in the hurdles, neverthe-
less gave Southern California q sensa.
tional battle In a meet that again saw
the East outclaSsed for the tenth time
In II years.
Stanford Tailed in IL events, ran
up a heavy total in the weights and
had the satisfaction of seeing their
youthful middle star, Eastman, come
back CALAMITY to capture the sSo-yard
run after barely being beaten by Will
liams by 2-yard margin in the
worlds record-equaling 440.
All the record laurels, as well as
most of the points, went to the Far
West. The only record stunt not ac-
counted for by Southern California
went to the credit of Kenneth
Churchill, University of California, in
, the javelin. He made SHOW" of his
inches, surprising his own I. c. A. A.
A. A. record by more than feet and
registering the best javelin toss ever
made in a college championship meet.
Pennsylvania Is Third.
Pennsylvania, due mainly to the
mighty efforts of Barney Berlinger, fin.
ished a distant third, with 81 points,
as the Quakers showed the way to
the rest of the Eastern talent. Ber-
linger. in his farewell to intercollegiate
competition, finished second in the pole
vault with Is feet, 8 inches, the best
he has ever done outdoors; scored Sec
IL d.
throw Of 1913 feet AZ inches, and was
nth in the shot put with Al feet
93s inches.
Cornell finished q close fourth with
1895 points, and Harvard took fifth
place with IS 81 points, due chiefly
to Red" Records brilliant victory in
the 120-yard high hurdles in 14.6 Sec
onds and Pen Hallowell's triumph in
the mile, where he staged a thrilling
finish to beat Carl Coan of Pennsyl-
vania, Arthur Martin Of Cornell and
1880 winner. Yale was sixth with 10
22.35 points, gaining its only individual
winner when Frank Conner retained
his title in the hammer throw.
Michigan's total of nine points, for
seventh place, were contributed en-
tirely by the colored sprint flash, Eddie
Tolan. He came with a rush in the
lUU IIlAG dlLIlOSL CduguI WykOlI, JI1S
defending champion, and then romped
of with the 220-yard dash in 2l.1 Sec
onds, beating Al Hables of Stanford
by five yards.
McCluskey Proves Game.
Vic Williamsr victory over Eastman
in the 440 with the greatest race of his
ca Ger was the biggest surprise of the
finals although the two Far Western
speedsters have been closely matched
all along.
Joe McCluskey. the Manchester
Comm boy running for Fordham,
turned In one Of the gamest perform
ances when he picked himself up out
of the cinders, where he was spilled In
q lam on the first turn, and raced on
to win the two-mile in 9:26.6
Point Scores.
The complete point scores:
Southern California, As 81.
stanford, A 22-35.
Pennsylvania, 81.
Cornell, 1925.
Harvard, is 3-Y.
Yale, IS 22-35.
Michigan, 8.
California, 6Hs.
Brown and Georgetown, 8 each.
Fordham and Columbia, eacn.
Dartmouth, 81.
Penn State and Bowdoir, 4 each.
william and Mary, 3.
princeton, 2 ST..
c. C. NJ Y, Michigan State ana
BOSTON College, 2 each.
Syracuse, Colgate ana Wiuiams' !