Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14
MRS. RUTH MARTINEZ.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
y TAGG FIELD, CHICAGO, June
l3.-Amsden Oliver, the long.
lean hurdle star from Roosevelt
High, Dayton, Ohio, and q two
man track team representing Maine
Township High, Desplaines. Ill, divided
top honors today in the twenty-seventh
renewal Of the University of Chicago
national interscholastic track and field
championships.
THE two-n1an team. Bob Kennicott
and March Miller, popped up from
nowhere to win the meet by amasslns
81 points between them. Oliver set a
new world prep record for the 220-yard
low hurdles, winning the event with
ease in 235 seconds
The team championship battle pro-
vided almost nothing but upsets. Fort
Collins, Colo Oak Park of Chicago,
Huntington, w. Va. and Dupont Man
lal of Louisville, Ky. were expected TO
fight it out for the title, but the Louis
vile team was the only favorite to land
in the first three Dupont racked up p
points to tie with Wyandotte High,
kansas City. for second place, with
oliver giving his school third place
with 20 points.
Is Great Performance.
divers performances in both hur-
dies were as good as anything seen IN
the meet in recent years. TIE lanky
Negro took the highs by big yards
in 1873, excellent time for the rain
soaked track The situation was about
the same in the low hurdles, eXccps
that he heightened his winning margin
to yards. The old prep 22o-yard nur-
die mark was 23.8 seconds, set by James
Payne of San Bernardino. Calf, Ill
1926. The former Stage meet record was
set in 1929 by Jack Keller, the OHIO
State University sensation. who won
both the highs and lows in the N. G. a.
A. championships last week.
Desplaine's points were gathered by
Kennecott, who won the 220-yard dash
in 22.1 seconds, along, with picking up
q third in the century and a sixth IN
one Of the three quarter mile races 1or
II points. Miller finished seconc in an
other section of the 440-yard dash, and
took a third in the first 880-yard run
race for the other IA points.
One defending champion was de-
thrcned when James Owen, a sopho-
more from Maplewood, Md, High, won
the I00-yard dash in 1912 seconds. In
the race was Randall Herman of Oak
Park of Chicago, the 1880 winner, but
he was able to do no better than fifth.
Two Defend Titles.
Tim Quinn of Ludington, Mich,
High, successfully defended his 88O-
yard championship, winning the Sec
ond section of the race in 1877: 4, two
tenthS of second slower than his Stagg
meet record set last year.
Elwyn Dees of Lorraine, Kans, also
YVES a successful defender of honorS
won last year. The Kansas giant tossed
the 12-pound shot Sc feet inches to
Sam "Slats" Hardin Of Greenwood
Miss, won a section Of the quarter mile
in so seconds fat, the fastest time OF
the day. He came right out OF ms sue
cessfuI 440-yard race to finish nth In
the record 220-yard low hurdle race.
Dale Smith of Pretty Prairie, Kans..
and Jack Savage of Mount Vernon, Ill,
won the mile race sections in almost
the same time Smith won the f1rSt
race in 4i292, while Savage defeated a
teanlmate, Carruthers, in 4:29S.
other individual title winners were
Vincent Murphy of Cathedral Latin
High, Cleveland, who took the high
Jump with a leap of 6 feet Il inch;
william De Morris of Pineville, Greg,
who threw the javelin 179 feet 2la
inches, o. D. Hunnici1t of Cottonplant,
Ark, whose effort of % feet S12 inches
was good enough to win the running
broad jump; j. C. Petty of kaufman,
Texas, who threw the discus 135 feet
ga inches, and Ralph White of ELS
worth, Kans., winner of the pole vault
at IL feet 73+ inches.
w SSe% Tri E third, Kennecott, Des PLANES,
Ill MAINE Townships fourth. Ballantant,
S STRR. M; nslSss Moore, Atlanta. Ia. iTsch
2so-YARD DASH-won by Kennicott. pes
PLANES. ILL.,; second. Quinlan, Winnetka,
III; third, owen. Maplewood, Mo-; fourth.
Berlin. Wis; sixFn. zinkiL Oak Park, Ill.
4naee-YXRb DAsH-First race, won by
Crowell Oregon, ILL.,; second. Tenhassn.
Kansas City, kans. (Wyandotte); third,
Smith, Greeley. Colo; fourth, Pence, Keota.
lowe; nth. Frsese, Tol edo; Ohio s, tscost)'
Hardin SI Ae dPeenxood, Miss; second. Miller.
Kans.; fourth. Stiles: Platteville. Wis: fifth,
sixth ifSo' Bury, Benton Harbof. Mich. Time,
44o-YARD DAsH-Third race. won by
Ward, Weatherford. Okla: second. Brother!
sen Aneelo Tex; third. Wo,fe. rsorristowr
Tenn; fourth, Emery. Grand Rapids, Mich.