Evening star., 1932-05-18
STARS GALORE VIE
IN ANNUAL GAMES
Variety of Aces to Compete
Friday and Saturday in
Wildcat Stadium.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

AGO, May 18.-The
thirty-second annual West
" ern Conference track and
field meet at Northwestern
University's Stadium, Friday and
Saturday, is expected to produce
at least 10 performers capable of
winning places on the United
States Olympic team.
Seldom has the Big Ten ever
presented such an array of talent
and it is certain to be better rep
resented in this years Olympaid
than in 1928, when Bill Droege-
mueller, a Northwestern pole
valuter, and George Baird, a
quarter miller, from Iowa, were
the only Western Conference un-
dergraduates to perform at Am
Sterdam.
Outstanding among the conference
track and field stars are: Henry Brock
smith, Bryce Beeeher and Noble Bid
dinger of Indiana; Jack Keller, Don
Bennett and John WonsowitZ of Ohio
State, Edwin Russell and Don Rem
wick of Michigan, George Sailing and
Elmo Nelson of Iowa, Clarence Mum of
Minnesota, Ted Shaw of Wisconsin and
John Brooks of Chicago.
DROCKSMITH is one Of the best
- middle distance runners ever de-
veloped in the corn lands. So
far this year he has broken both the
conference indoor mile and 2-mile
records, in 4:12.5 and 9:18.4. respec-
lively, and in the Drake relays cracked
the 20-year-old national collegiate 2
mile mark in 9:l7.8.
Beecher won the pole vault in the
Big Ten indoor meet with leap OF
13 feet inches and later tied with
Wonsowitz at 13 feet inches in the
Penn relays. Hess of Minnesota is an
other fine vaulter, although not quite
up to the class of the Hoosier and
Buckeye Biddinger the other Indiana
star, hurled the hammer 152 feet 8
inches to win at Drake.
THE two Dons, Bennett of Ohio and
i Renwick of Michigan are proving
worthy successors to those other
eddie Tolan. Bennett is a powerful
1lnner and is expected to win both
he 100 and 200 yard dashes in the
Big Ten meet, with Renwick as his
outstanding rival.
One of the features of the Big Ten
meet will be the hurdle races between
Keller Of Ohio and Sailing of Iowa. The
'athelike Keller is regarded as the out
standing hurdler of the country, but
Sailing's performances this Spring
stamp him as one of the best. Keller,
who has been nipping at the world rec
ord = two seasons, won over the tim
ber5 the Penn relays. while Sailing
was class of the field at Drake.
~ 60 has a sophomore brilliant
~ u John Brooks, who established
new broad jump record for the
Drake relays when he sailed "a feet
s3s inches. In addition to being star
Jumper. Brooks also Is a fine Sprinter
and hT~dler Elmo Nelson of Iowa took
second place in the N. c. A. A. games
last year when he fired the javelin 201
feet. while Shaw of Wisconsin has made
feet, 3f16 inches in the high jump.
Mum, the Minnesota foot ball star, has
done 48 feet, 9i2 inches with the shot
and has been training diligently to bet
ter that mark. Munn'S chances Of
landing on the olympic team are per-
haps the least of any of the Big Ten
stars. -ince Leland Stanford alone has
sever weight throwers who are su-
perior the Gopher. Russell of Mich
igan Is the outstanding quarter-miler
in the Big Ten and should win that
event without any difficulty. The VOL
VERNE has been a consistent performer
for two seasons and should make
strong bid in the final tryouts at Palo
Alto in July